'People in eastern India lack awareness about US scholarships'
Most people in eastern India are unaware of the existing US scholarships, and hence they are lagging behind the rest of the country in terms of getting grants, a US education official said Friday.
"Eastern India is lagging behind compared to the rest of the country in terms of applying for scholarships to US...and this is not because, it lacks merit, but due to unawareness," Sunrit Mullick, regional officer of United States-India Educational Foundation (USEFI), Kolkata, told reporters at a press conference at American Center here. "To solve this problem, we are stressing to promote 'Fulbright-Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships and Grants' in this part of India, including West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Manipur," he added. Mullick said, as per the new agreement of the Fulbright Scholarships signed by US Ambassador David C. Mulford and India's Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on July 4, 2008, both countries are implementing the programme as full partners. "That means, now more students from India can apply for this scholarship every year. In fact, the number of students going to the US has been almost doubled," he said, noting that there were only 16 students from the eastern region out of the 113 students selected for scholarship across India for the year 2009-10.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Vigilance Awareness Week at Gail India
Vigilance Awareness Week at Gail India
Predictive, preventive rather than punitive vigilance was the theme that emerged at the launch of Vigilance Awareness Week at GAIL today.Speaking on the occasion, Dr. U D Choubey said that in today's world of liberalization, globalization and emphasis on sound corporate governance, evidence of transparent and fair systems were of considerable value in the marketplace. He cited the example of the MoU signed by GAIL with Transparency International India and the image of good governance it provided. Vigilance, he said could provide valuable guidance in the matter of good systems. He also added that GAIL was the first Company to have an e-tendering system. GAIL also regularly conducts customer interaction programmes during the Vigilance Awareness Week, which is attended by the Chief Vigilance Officer along with GAIL management to ensure transparency and fairness in dealing with customers.The view also found a place in the welcome remarks of Mr. Arvind Jadhav, Chief Vigilance Officer. He called for a holistic approach to Vigilance in the day to day working of the organization and its various departments and greater emphasis on the preventive and predictive aspects.Presenting his views on the occasion, Shri. M R Hingnikar, Director (HR) said, "Vigilance Department plays the role of a third eye in the organization and makes us more accountable for spending public money." He said that if the preventive and predictive vigilance are to work together, it will give more reliability to the organization in evolving a dynamic work culture.A need to review systems and processes to bring about a convergence between the needs of speed in commercial dealings without losing emphasis on values and ethics was also highlighted by Shri. Santosh Kumar, Director (Projects) and Shri. A K Purwaha, Director (BD).GAIL (India) Ltd has drawn up a growth strategy which shall steer it to revenues of Rs 50,000 Crore plus by 2011 from a revenue of Rs 16,047 crore in the year 2006-07. GAIL is moving ahead in a time bound manner to complete the 8 new gas pipelines in two phases, targeting 100% completion by 2011. These will form part of an integrated gas grid in the country. The new pipelines are expected to increase GAIL's Natural Gas Transmission capacity to around 300 MMSCMD and almost double GAIL's existing trunk pipeline network to nearly 12,000 Km. GAIL has recently approached the Government with firm plans for granting approval to pursue city gas projects in 230 cities across the country. In the area of Petrochemicals also, GAIL proposes to add significant capacities through new plants in partnership with public / private sector, both in India and abroad. One of these, the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd in Assam, has been formed as a subsidiary of GAIL with 70% equity stake. GAIL is also expanding the capacity of the Pata Petrochemical plant to 410,000 TPA from the present 310,000 TPA.
Predictive, preventive rather than punitive vigilance was the theme that emerged at the launch of Vigilance Awareness Week at GAIL today.Speaking on the occasion, Dr. U D Choubey said that in today's world of liberalization, globalization and emphasis on sound corporate governance, evidence of transparent and fair systems were of considerable value in the marketplace. He cited the example of the MoU signed by GAIL with Transparency International India and the image of good governance it provided. Vigilance, he said could provide valuable guidance in the matter of good systems. He also added that GAIL was the first Company to have an e-tendering system. GAIL also regularly conducts customer interaction programmes during the Vigilance Awareness Week, which is attended by the Chief Vigilance Officer along with GAIL management to ensure transparency and fairness in dealing with customers.The view also found a place in the welcome remarks of Mr. Arvind Jadhav, Chief Vigilance Officer. He called for a holistic approach to Vigilance in the day to day working of the organization and its various departments and greater emphasis on the preventive and predictive aspects.Presenting his views on the occasion, Shri. M R Hingnikar, Director (HR) said, "Vigilance Department plays the role of a third eye in the organization and makes us more accountable for spending public money." He said that if the preventive and predictive vigilance are to work together, it will give more reliability to the organization in evolving a dynamic work culture.A need to review systems and processes to bring about a convergence between the needs of speed in commercial dealings without losing emphasis on values and ethics was also highlighted by Shri. Santosh Kumar, Director (Projects) and Shri. A K Purwaha, Director (BD).GAIL (India) Ltd has drawn up a growth strategy which shall steer it to revenues of Rs 50,000 Crore plus by 2011 from a revenue of Rs 16,047 crore in the year 2006-07. GAIL is moving ahead in a time bound manner to complete the 8 new gas pipelines in two phases, targeting 100% completion by 2011. These will form part of an integrated gas grid in the country. The new pipelines are expected to increase GAIL's Natural Gas Transmission capacity to around 300 MMSCMD and almost double GAIL's existing trunk pipeline network to nearly 12,000 Km. GAIL has recently approached the Government with firm plans for granting approval to pursue city gas projects in 230 cities across the country. In the area of Petrochemicals also, GAIL proposes to add significant capacities through new plants in partnership with public / private sector, both in India and abroad. One of these, the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd in Assam, has been formed as a subsidiary of GAIL with 70% equity stake. GAIL is also expanding the capacity of the Pata Petrochemical plant to 410,000 TPA from the present 310,000 TPA.
Bihar Invents New Ways To Spread AIDS Awareness
Bihar has invented a new way to spread HIV/AIDS awareness which in turn would rehabilitate beggars in return and help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS: pay beggars to sing songs and enact plays to raise awareness of the deadly virus. The authorities have reportedly trained an estimated 100,000 homeless in ...http://indiastandard.com
awareness condoms pre-marital sex youths
A new study has found that while pre-marital sex is rising among youth in rural India where it exceeds rates in the urban areas, there is a persisting lack of awareness of even the basic facts of sexual health. Government health programmes need to address this anomaly, health experts warn. Read source article...
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Keywords: awareness condoms pre-marital sex youths
'Y2K awareness low in India'
'Y2K awareness low in India'
Awareness of the Y2K -- the year 2000 problem -- was lowest in Asia. And that included India, though Japan, which started off with computers early and still use these antiquated machines, is at worst risk, according to David Buckle, Hindustan Lever Limited director, finance.
He referred to the Gartner group's findings from 6,000 companies and government agencies and said the figure of 20 per cent, set for those firms
T O D A Y
• Silicon shift• Bharti sales up• Pagers go vernacular• 'India not ready for Y2K' unlikely to take any action had been revised to 60 per cent. This, though more than 37 per cent have already faced Y2K-related problems, he said.
Though India's software manpower was among the best, there was little awareness about the problem, said Buckle, which could badly affect some companies.
He called for government initiative in this respect, citing the example of Malaysia which had also set up a Web site for the purpose.
HLL itself is to meet its mother company Unilever's deadline of October to have all its systems Y2K complaint.
Tough companies could make themselves secure internally, they could not be sure if external supports to had been secured from Y2K-related failure, Buckle warned.
Awareness of the Y2K -- the year 2000 problem -- was lowest in Asia. And that included India, though Japan, which started off with computers early and still use these antiquated machines, is at worst risk, according to David Buckle, Hindustan Lever Limited director, finance.
He referred to the Gartner group's findings from 6,000 companies and government agencies and said the figure of 20 per cent, set for those firms
T O D A Y
• Silicon shift• Bharti sales up• Pagers go vernacular• 'India not ready for Y2K' unlikely to take any action had been revised to 60 per cent. This, though more than 37 per cent have already faced Y2K-related problems, he said.
Though India's software manpower was among the best, there was little awareness about the problem, said Buckle, which could badly affect some companies.
He called for government initiative in this respect, citing the example of Malaysia which had also set up a Web site for the purpose.
HLL itself is to meet its mother company Unilever's deadline of October to have all its systems Y2K complaint.
Tough companies could make themselves secure internally, they could not be sure if external supports to had been secured from Y2K-related failure, Buckle warned.
AIDS awareness
Accelerate interventions to address multiple partners
New data based on a survey conducted between June 2008 and March 2009 in South Africa underscores the need to accelerate targeted interventions to discourage multiple partners and intergenerational sex to reduce the number of new HIV infections. The study which was carried out by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) with about 21,000 individuals shows that the number of youth using condoms has increased, with 87% percent of males and 73% of females reporting condom use at last sex.
New data based on a survey conducted between June 2008 and March 2009 in South Africa underscores the need to accelerate targeted interventions to discourage multiple partners and intergenerational sex to reduce the number of new HIV infections. The study which was carried out by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) with about 21,000 individuals shows that the number of youth using condoms has increased, with 87% percent of males and 73% of females reporting condom use at last sex.
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