THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, February 18, 2012
: The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will from now on give a new applicant power connection within 30 days of request.
The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission on Friday passed an order stipulating this condition on the KSEB. The order comes in the wake of specific complaints of delay in giving power connection, brought to the notice of the commission through consumer petitions.
In a press note, the commission said it had directed the KSEB to simplify procedures for giving power connection. The KSEB should give receipts on receiving applications. If there were deficiencies in the applications, the applicants should be informed about the defects within one week of submitting applications.
The KSEB should also inform applicants within a week about the time needed for providing the connection, the nature of work to be done and the anticipated expense.
The rates fixed by the commission to secure connection should be displayed at the board offices. BPL applicants seeking connected loads below 500 watts and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe applicants seeking connected loads below 1,000 watts have been exempted from connection fee.
If the estimated cost for the connection is much higher than the stipulated rates, the consumers should be permitted to remit the expenses in 60 monthly instalments. The board was bound to provide the services demanded by the consumers. In the event of any difficulty in providing the services within the prescribed time, the board should explain the reasons to the consumers, said the directive. If the board fails to perform such duties, consumers can move the complaint redressal cell or the ombudsman for compensation, the press release said.
Regulatory commission sets time limit for KSEB following several complaints.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Indian IT companies employ over 1 lakh in US: Nirupama Rao
PTI | Feb 18, 2012, 12.39PM IST
WASHINGTON: Indian companies have invested more than $26 billion in the US in the last five years and the IT companies employ more than one lakh people in that country, New Delhi's top diplomat in Washington has said.
"Indian companies are now contributing strongly to local State economies in the US with a presence in 43 states and having invested over $26 billion in the last five years in several key areas of the economy, in manufacturing as also in services," the Indian Ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, said yesterday.
India's IT industry has in particular been a strong player in establishing value based mutually beneficial partnerships, Rao said in her address to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, India-South Asia Programme.
"As per our estimates, Indian IT companies employ over 100,000 people in the US and the Indian IT industry supports over 280,000 jobs indirectly out of which about 200,000 are with US residents," she said.
Rao said the steady growth of the Indian economy has not only helped improve the living standards of own people, but has also opened up new opportunities to expand mutually beneficial economic and commercial ties with the US.
"Two-way trade in goods and services continues to grow steadily reaching over $100 billion last year. The US businesses are becoming strong partners in India's economic growth story; and Indian businesses are creating value, wealth and jobs in the United States," she said.
In order to continue on the high growth trajectory, India will need to invest more than $1 trillion in the coming years in building a world class infrastructure that could cater to the demands of a billion plus population and ensure the availability of clean sources of energy, including nuclear energy, to fuel such growth.
Noting that the Civil Nuclear Initiative that has become a symbol of India-US transformed relationship and was welcomed by both sides; she said there are immense opportunities for US companies in this sector and Indian and US companies are already engaged in a discussion to take cooperation forward in this crucial sector.
On its part, the Government of India is committed to providing a level playing field for all its international partners, she reiterated.
WASHINGTON: Indian companies have invested more than $26 billion in the US in the last five years and the IT companies employ more than one lakh people in that country, New Delhi's top diplomat in Washington has said.
"Indian companies are now contributing strongly to local State economies in the US with a presence in 43 states and having invested over $26 billion in the last five years in several key areas of the economy, in manufacturing as also in services," the Indian Ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, said yesterday.
India's IT industry has in particular been a strong player in establishing value based mutually beneficial partnerships, Rao said in her address to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, India-South Asia Programme.
"As per our estimates, Indian IT companies employ over 100,000 people in the US and the Indian IT industry supports over 280,000 jobs indirectly out of which about 200,000 are with US residents," she said.
Rao said the steady growth of the Indian economy has not only helped improve the living standards of own people, but has also opened up new opportunities to expand mutually beneficial economic and commercial ties with the US.
"Two-way trade in goods and services continues to grow steadily reaching over $100 billion last year. The US businesses are becoming strong partners in India's economic growth story; and Indian businesses are creating value, wealth and jobs in the United States," she said.
In order to continue on the high growth trajectory, India will need to invest more than $1 trillion in the coming years in building a world class infrastructure that could cater to the demands of a billion plus population and ensure the availability of clean sources of energy, including nuclear energy, to fuel such growth.
Noting that the Civil Nuclear Initiative that has become a symbol of India-US transformed relationship and was welcomed by both sides; she said there are immense opportunities for US companies in this sector and Indian and US companies are already engaged in a discussion to take cooperation forward in this crucial sector.
On its part, the Government of India is committed to providing a level playing field for all its international partners, she reiterated.
IIT alumni dominate global Indian tech influencers list
TNN | Feb 18, 2012, 01.33PM IST
Alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) dominate the list of Top 20 Global Indian technology influencers list
The tech journal, Dataquest's list of Top 20 Global Indian technology influencers is dominated by alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
The list is also dominated by multiple Indians from search giant, Google (Amit Singhal, Google fellow; Nikesh Arora, chief business officer and Sundar Pichai, senior VP, Chrome) and Hewlett Packard (Prith Banerjee, senior VP research and director, HP Labs and Vyomesh Joshi, executive VP, printing imaging). Also in the list are those charged with building the technology roadmaps for the world's top software companies: Vishal Sikka, Chief Technologist of SAP; Thomas Kurian, in charge of the product roadmap of Oracle and Satya Nadella, the president of Microsoft's servers and tools business, and US government's first federal CTO Aneesh Chopra (who stepped down on February 8), McKinsey consultant Dilip Wagle, and blogger Om Malik of GigaOM.
Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco, is the only woman on this list.
Most of those on the list are engineers, with a majority from the IITs (Madras, Kharagpur,Kanpur and Roorkee), and other colleges like IT BHU, MS University, Osmania, and Manipal University.
IBM, which employs more people in India than in the US, does not have any Indian executive in the list.
Top 20 tech influencers list (In alphabetical order):
1 Abhijit Talwalkar, CEO, LSI
2 Amit Singhal, Google fellow, Google
3 Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO,US Government
4 Arvind Sodhani, EVP president, Intel Capital, Intel
5 Dilip Wagle, director, McKinsey Co
6 Nikesh Arora, chief business officer, Google
7 Om Malik, blogger, investor, GigaOM
8 Padmasree Warrior, SVP, Engg CTO, Cisco
9 Prabhakar Raghavan, chief strategy officer, executive vice president Yahoo! Labs
10 Prith Banerjee, SVP, research, and director, HP Labs Hewlett-Packard
11 Sanjay K Jha, chairman CEO. Motorola Mobility
12 Satya Nadella, president, servers tools business, Microsoft
13 Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe
14 Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome Google
15 Thomas Kurian, EVP, product development, Oracle
16 Vinod Khosla, founder, Khosla Ventures
17 Vishal Sikka, CTO member, exec board, SAP
18 Vivek Kundra, EVP, emerging markets, Salesforce.com
19 Vivek Ranadive, CEO, TIBCO
20 Vyomesh Joshi, EVP, printing imaging, Hewlett-Packard
Alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) dominate the list of Top 20 Global Indian technology influencers list
The tech journal, Dataquest's list of Top 20 Global Indian technology influencers is dominated by alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
The list is also dominated by multiple Indians from search giant, Google (Amit Singhal, Google fellow; Nikesh Arora, chief business officer and Sundar Pichai, senior VP, Chrome) and Hewlett Packard (Prith Banerjee, senior VP research and director, HP Labs and Vyomesh Joshi, executive VP, printing imaging). Also in the list are those charged with building the technology roadmaps for the world's top software companies: Vishal Sikka, Chief Technologist of SAP; Thomas Kurian, in charge of the product roadmap of Oracle and Satya Nadella, the president of Microsoft's servers and tools business, and US government's first federal CTO Aneesh Chopra (who stepped down on February 8), McKinsey consultant Dilip Wagle, and blogger Om Malik of GigaOM.
Padmasree Warrior, CTO, Cisco, is the only woman on this list.
Most of those on the list are engineers, with a majority from the IITs (Madras, Kharagpur,Kanpur and Roorkee), and other colleges like IT BHU, MS University, Osmania, and Manipal University.
IBM, which employs more people in India than in the US, does not have any Indian executive in the list.
Top 20 tech influencers list (In alphabetical order):
1 Abhijit Talwalkar, CEO, LSI
2 Amit Singhal, Google fellow, Google
3 Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO,US Government
4 Arvind Sodhani, EVP president, Intel Capital, Intel
5 Dilip Wagle, director, McKinsey Co
6 Nikesh Arora, chief business officer, Google
7 Om Malik, blogger, investor, GigaOM
8 Padmasree Warrior, SVP, Engg CTO, Cisco
9 Prabhakar Raghavan, chief strategy officer, executive vice president Yahoo! Labs
10 Prith Banerjee, SVP, research, and director, HP Labs Hewlett-Packard
11 Sanjay K Jha, chairman CEO. Motorola Mobility
12 Satya Nadella, president, servers tools business, Microsoft
13 Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe
14 Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome Google
15 Thomas Kurian, EVP, product development, Oracle
16 Vinod Khosla, founder, Khosla Ventures
17 Vishal Sikka, CTO member, exec board, SAP
18 Vivek Kundra, EVP, emerging markets, Salesforce.com
19 Vivek Ranadive, CEO, TIBCO
20 Vyomesh Joshi, EVP, printing imaging, Hewlett-Packard
Indian-born Kamal Bawa wins award for sustainability work
IANS | Feb 18, 2012, 11.03PM IS
WASHINGTON: Kamal Bawa, an Indian-born professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is the 2012 winner of the Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's first major international award for work on sustainability.
Bawa will receive the Gunnerus Gold Medal and the award of 1 million Norwegian Kronor (about $190,000) at a ceremony in Trondheim, Norway, the university said citing a Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) announcement.
Bawa, also a faculty fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability, home of the Global Environmental Governance Project, is known for his research on population biology in rainforest areas. His span of work includes biological discoveries made in Central America, the Western Ghats, and the Himalayas in India.
He is also noted for founding, and serving as president, of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), a non-profit conservation and development research think tank in Bangalore.
"I am very pleased over the recognition that our work has received," Bawa was quoted as saying in an interview with a Norwegian newspaper.
"In January, 2011, a University of Pennsylvania study ranked ATREE #19 among the environmental think tanks in the world, and implicitly #1 in Asia, and now the Gunnerus Award--I am naturallyvery happy."
Until recently, Bawa held the Ruffolo Giorgio Fellowship in Sustainability Science and Bullard Fellowship at Harvard University.
The Gunnerus award is the first major international prize for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally, and will be awarded every two years.
The award is named after DKNVS' founder, Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718-1773), and is the result of collaboration between DKNVS, Sparebank1, SMN, and the society Technoport.
WASHINGTON: Kamal Bawa, an Indian-born professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is the 2012 winner of the Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's first major international award for work on sustainability.
Bawa will receive the Gunnerus Gold Medal and the award of 1 million Norwegian Kronor (about $190,000) at a ceremony in Trondheim, Norway, the university said citing a Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) announcement.
Bawa, also a faculty fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability, home of the Global Environmental Governance Project, is known for his research on population biology in rainforest areas. His span of work includes biological discoveries made in Central America, the Western Ghats, and the Himalayas in India.
He is also noted for founding, and serving as president, of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), a non-profit conservation and development research think tank in Bangalore.
"I am very pleased over the recognition that our work has received," Bawa was quoted as saying in an interview with a Norwegian newspaper.
"In January, 2011, a University of Pennsylvania study ranked ATREE #19 among the environmental think tanks in the world, and implicitly #1 in Asia, and now the Gunnerus Award--I am naturallyvery happy."
Until recently, Bawa held the Ruffolo Giorgio Fellowship in Sustainability Science and Bullard Fellowship at Harvard University.
The Gunnerus award is the first major international prize for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally, and will be awarded every two years.
The award is named after DKNVS' founder, Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718-1773), and is the result of collaboration between DKNVS, Sparebank1, SMN, and the society Technoport.
Sunshine sectors
Feb 18, 2012, 01.25PM IST
Pervin Malhotra, career counsellor talks to Aaditi Isaac about making a career in recession proof sectors
Q-Post recession and the slowdown, what kind of a career should a student look for?
No job is secure. For some, recession just becomes an excuse for attrition in a company. If there is a recession, which by the way, happens cyclically, that means that a company will still hire people because people will retire, but not that many as they would need when there is a boom. In such a scenario, students must look for making a career in the areas that they are passionate about. There are some sectors that are resilient to the effect of recession and slowdown.
Q- Could you name a few sectors that are resilient to the effects of recession and slowdown?
Education, infrastructure, defence, pharmaceuticals and healthcare are some of the recession proof sectors.
Q-What is the need for specialisation in different areas?
There is a need for super specialists across the board. Students who do their specialisation/super specialisation get many opportunities and they are almost immediately absorbed into the workforce. Specialists in any area, not just doctors but even business are in great demand.
Q- What is your advice to students who will be entering the industry?
Students who will be making a career need to understand that making a career is a long-term investment and so they must not look what the jobs because they will fade away. It is better to make a career and do something that one loves doing. Skills such as multi-tasking, proactiveness, willingness to get out of the comfort zone are prized qualities that the employer wants.
Courtesy: Myeducationtimes.com
Pervin Malhotra, career counsellor talks to Aaditi Isaac about making a career in recession proof sectors
Q-Post recession and the slowdown, what kind of a career should a student look for?
No job is secure. For some, recession just becomes an excuse for attrition in a company. If there is a recession, which by the way, happens cyclically, that means that a company will still hire people because people will retire, but not that many as they would need when there is a boom. In such a scenario, students must look for making a career in the areas that they are passionate about. There are some sectors that are resilient to the effect of recession and slowdown.
Q- Could you name a few sectors that are resilient to the effects of recession and slowdown?
Education, infrastructure, defence, pharmaceuticals and healthcare are some of the recession proof sectors.
Q-What is the need for specialisation in different areas?
There is a need for super specialists across the board. Students who do their specialisation/super specialisation get many opportunities and they are almost immediately absorbed into the workforce. Specialists in any area, not just doctors but even business are in great demand.
Q- What is your advice to students who will be entering the industry?
Students who will be making a career need to understand that making a career is a long-term investment and so they must not look what the jobs because they will fade away. It is better to make a career and do something that one loves doing. Skills such as multi-tasking, proactiveness, willingness to get out of the comfort zone are prized qualities that the employer wants.
Courtesy: Myeducationtimes.com
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