Though the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has allocated Rs 300 crore for cleaning the Hussainsagar lake, the authorities do not have machinery to clean the algae. They are depending on workers to clean it. Infested with water-hyacinths and aquatic weeds, the lake not only emanates a terrible odour, but has also turned into a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
However, the HMDA authorities squarely blame the algae. Mr Chandra Mohan Reddy, OSD for the Buddha Poornima Project, HMDA says, “The foul smell is due to the sudden bloom of the blue-green algae in the lake water. We are cleaning the lake water on alternate days. The workers have started the cleaning process that includes a simple skimming operation to remove the algae.”
“It may take more than two years to complete the Hussainsagar cleaning project. Till then, we are taking care of untreated sewage coming from nalas for better maintenance. Also, we are going to manually remove the hyacinth and other floating garbage from the lake as we don’t have specialised machinery,” he added
The senior environmental engineer, Mr Rajendar Reddy, said, “Some blue-green algae produce toxins that could pose health risk to people when they are exposed to them in large quantities.”
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Former firemen in big demand
Many builders in the city are employing retired fire officers for designing fire safety measures and for maintenance of equipment as there is a shortage of fire engineers in the city.
According to the National Building Code, every commercial complex such as malls should have a fire safety manager or a fire officer.
“There are very few colleges which offer courses on fire-engineering. Even the few graduates from the National Fire Service Colleges prefer to work in the private sector due to higher salaries,” said an official.
The National Fire Service College at Nagpur is the only institute in the country offering a bachelor course in engineering (fire) and it has an annual intake of only 30 students. There are, however, some institutes which offer diploma or certificate courses in fire safety.
In the city many buildings provide fire safety equipment but they do not have experts to help in case a situation arises.
“According to the statistics of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and the state fire and emergency department, more than 300 buildings in the city lack adequate means of access, escape routes and other fire safety norms,” said Mr P.V. Ramana, the regional fire officer.
According to the National Building Code, every commercial complex such as malls should have a fire safety manager or a fire officer.
“There are very few colleges which offer courses on fire-engineering. Even the few graduates from the National Fire Service Colleges prefer to work in the private sector due to higher salaries,” said an official.
The National Fire Service College at Nagpur is the only institute in the country offering a bachelor course in engineering (fire) and it has an annual intake of only 30 students. There are, however, some institutes which offer diploma or certificate courses in fire safety.
In the city many buildings provide fire safety equipment but they do not have experts to help in case a situation arises.
“According to the statistics of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and the state fire and emergency department, more than 300 buildings in the city lack adequate means of access, escape routes and other fire safety norms,” said Mr P.V. Ramana, the regional fire officer.
Historical sites go ‘missing’ in city
Officials of the state archaeology and museum department are not able to trace some of the listed archaeology sites in the city.
Searches in recent times by the officials revealed that many of these sites have been encroached upon and commercial establishments built in their places.
The officials said some sites date back to 1678 AD and 11th century. “In Kukatpally there are some megalithic burials listed in our records, but we can’t find them now,” officials said. They were also not able to trace Akkana Madanna temple in Kukatpally, neolithic site in Begumpet, fortification and Baradari in Malkajgiri.
“To prevent further encroachments, we have begun documenting each and every site which falls under the purview of the department,” said an official.
Searches in recent times by the officials revealed that many of these sites have been encroached upon and commercial establishments built in their places.
The officials said some sites date back to 1678 AD and 11th century. “In Kukatpally there are some megalithic burials listed in our records, but we can’t find them now,” officials said. They were also not able to trace Akkana Madanna temple in Kukatpally, neolithic site in Begumpet, fortification and Baradari in Malkajgiri.
“To prevent further encroachments, we have begun documenting each and every site which falls under the purview of the department,” said an official.
Colony shocked as tar burnt near LPG depot
Families residing near the Hindustan Petroleum gas godown in Mahendra Hills are literally living on a tinder box.The godown stocks over 1,000 gas cylinders at any given time and the workers are often careless and callous.
The other day, local residents were shocked to see them burning a huge fire near the cylinders apparently to melt tar.If something untoward happens, there is enough fuel in the godown to blow up the entire area.There is no fire fighting equipment in the godown except for two small fire extinguishers.
“Last month, we woke up one morning to a pungent smell coming out of the gas godown,” said Ms Shalini Saincher, a resident of Mahendra Hills.“We contacted the manager, who came and found that there was a problem with one of thecylinders.”Residents also complain that the loading and unloading of the gas cylinders causes much noise pollution in the area.
“We have been doing this business for more than half a century and if houses have come up alongside, we cannot be held responsible,” said an HP official. “We follow all safety measures as stipulated by HP.”Mr Mohan Reddy, assistant district fire officer, said his department would inspect the godown and take action if the owner was found to be violating the Fire Act.
The other day, local residents were shocked to see them burning a huge fire near the cylinders apparently to melt tar.If something untoward happens, there is enough fuel in the godown to blow up the entire area.There is no fire fighting equipment in the godown except for two small fire extinguishers.
“Last month, we woke up one morning to a pungent smell coming out of the gas godown,” said Ms Shalini Saincher, a resident of Mahendra Hills.“We contacted the manager, who came and found that there was a problem with one of thecylinders.”Residents also complain that the loading and unloading of the gas cylinders causes much noise pollution in the area.
“We have been doing this business for more than half a century and if houses have come up alongside, we cannot be held responsible,” said an HP official. “We follow all safety measures as stipulated by HP.”Mr Mohan Reddy, assistant district fire officer, said his department would inspect the godown and take action if the owner was found to be violating the Fire Act.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Nearhop!!!!!!!!!!
Just one click and everything is now in your mobile phone from restaurants phone numbers to 3-D games. Then why not city bus or local train routes? Nearhop has developed a mobile application that can be downloaded and installed onto your mobile. You need to have a mobile phone with JVM (Java Virtual Machine). So you can see the city bus routes on your mobile phones at any time or any place with absolutely free of cost. Initially it has been started for city bus routes.
You can download all the ways to reach from one place to another in city using bus routes. Download the navigator of city. Using the navigator you can see the city bus route numbers on your mobile. Just install it on your mobile. Your mobile does not need any internet connection for using the navigator. Nearhop provides all these downloads to its beloved customers for free.
www.nearhop.com is India’s first travel engine with biggest database. You can find all the buses/flights/trains departing from arriving to your city. It provides you city bus and local train routes for major cities in India. You can also book Air Tickets, Bus Tickets, and Train Tickets at service provider's site.
Installing your midlet via the web is very easy. Your phone needs to be a java enabled phone. Firstly, download a .jar file from the web onto your PC. Secondly, upload the midlet onto you mobile phone. Once you've found the .jar file, just download it somewhere onto your PC. There are several options of transferring the files from your PC to phone like explicit physical connection via USB cable, Direct Infrared connection and Direct Bluetooth connection.
“You can easily download bus, train routes and flight routes in your mobile within seconds. In last three weeks more than 500 people have downloaded the intercity bus routes. The mobile application consists simple user interface where the user needs to enter the source and destination places in the city. If the two places are connected by a train or bus, the corresponding route numbers will be displayed,” says Venkata Rao Chimata, CEO, nearhop.com.
“Its very easy and quick way to download information from the website. I am in search of job and daily I need to travel to so many places in the city for interviews. It’s very useful for me I just need to click on the options on my phone and gets to know about the bus routes,” says Sushobita Btech student, Dilsukhnagar.
“I came to know this from one of my friend and it’s really time saving. You can see the city bus routes on your mobile phones at any time or any place with absolutely free of cost. The best part of it is you don’t even need a net connection for using the navigator,” says Rita Choudhary, MNC Employee.
Anubha k Singh
You can download all the ways to reach from one place to another in city using bus routes. Download the navigator of city. Using the navigator you can see the city bus route numbers on your mobile. Just install it on your mobile. Your mobile does not need any internet connection for using the navigator. Nearhop provides all these downloads to its beloved customers for free.
www.nearhop.com is India’s first travel engine with biggest database. You can find all the buses/flights/trains departing from arriving to your city. It provides you city bus and local train routes for major cities in India. You can also book Air Tickets, Bus Tickets, and Train Tickets at service provider's site.
Installing your midlet via the web is very easy. Your phone needs to be a java enabled phone. Firstly, download a .jar file from the web onto your PC. Secondly, upload the midlet onto you mobile phone. Once you've found the .jar file, just download it somewhere onto your PC. There are several options of transferring the files from your PC to phone like explicit physical connection via USB cable, Direct Infrared connection and Direct Bluetooth connection.
“You can easily download bus, train routes and flight routes in your mobile within seconds. In last three weeks more than 500 people have downloaded the intercity bus routes. The mobile application consists simple user interface where the user needs to enter the source and destination places in the city. If the two places are connected by a train or bus, the corresponding route numbers will be displayed,” says Venkata Rao Chimata, CEO, nearhop.com.
“Its very easy and quick way to download information from the website. I am in search of job and daily I need to travel to so many places in the city for interviews. It’s very useful for me I just need to click on the options on my phone and gets to know about the bus routes,” says Sushobita Btech student, Dilsukhnagar.
“I came to know this from one of my friend and it’s really time saving. You can see the city bus routes on your mobile phones at any time or any place with absolutely free of cost. The best part of it is you don’t even need a net connection for using the navigator,” says Rita Choudhary, MNC Employee.
Anubha k Singh
Installing the CNG kit in place of Petrol?
What are you planning to do? Installing the CNG kit in place of Petrol. Just check about the availability of CNG bunks in your area and then proceed. There are very less CNG bunks to cater to thousands of CNG borne vehicles in the city which is major cause of problem for the city people .The long queue outside CNG bunks in the city is daily routine for the vehicle users.
“I regret on the day when I have converted my car into CNG. Initially I thought it’s a good idea and it’s going to help me in all ways but I was very wrong. I don’t know why the government is keeping quiet on this topic why are they not opening more CNG bunks in the city for easy accessible of CNG gas. Every alternate day I have to stand in queue at least for an hour and on Sundays it has been never less than two hours standing in queue. I can’t again convert my vehicle into diesel from CNG will cost me more plus it’s not good for life of my vehicle.” says, Navneet Goyal, Goyal Trading Company.
“It’s a regular problem for us there are very less CNG bunks in the city and standing in a queue for more than an hour is irritating. Before implementing a rule government should lay the infrastructure. Some of the bunks are equipped with just one tank. We have to stand in a queue, until the tank is refilled. Bunks should have atleast two tanks” says Harish Patel, Shri Vishwakarma Timber Deepo.
“I converted my Esteem into CNG from diesel last three months back but this month again I have to convert my vehicle into Diesel just because of the long queue in CNG bunks. There are very less number of CNG bunks in the city and due to that I used to stand for more than a hour every alternate day to fill tank and I used to get late for my office. Now I am planning to buy a new car but not atleast CNG fitted cars” says Saurabh lahoti, Director Shrinath Rotopack pvt ltd.
“Now a day almost all the cars are coming up with CNG fitted. Since 2007 number of CNG fitted cars have been going on increasing but there’s no increase in number of CNG bunks in the city. I usually travel to Vijaywada side there are lots of CNG bunks over there I don’t what our state government is doing why are they not opening CNG bunks in the city. Every Sunday I need to stand in queue not less than 2 hours to fill CNG gas in my vehicle government would have first laid the infrastructure and then would have implemented the CNG kit plan.” Says Sanjay, student, Amity University.
“Earlier many customers use to convert their vehicles into CNG but now there are many people who come to convert their CNG fitted vehicle into Diesel or Petrol. The major problem for that is less number of CNG bunks in the city. Many people do their vehicle gas conversion in just a span of two or three months which is not good for their vehicle but they do that because of the CNG bunks problem in the city.” Says, Mohammed Safi, Perfect Motors, SSV Car Gas Conversion.
“Due to area problems and safety norms by government there are very less CNG bunks in the city. Present bunks are the earlier ones but to open a new bunk we need an open space area which is not easily possible due to development programs in the city. At present the CNG pipeline is only till Vijay Wada and some areas of Hyderabad. Reliance is planning to open more pipelines and then we can have sufficient number of CNG bunks in the city says”, Prabhakar Reddy, President AP petroleum Dealers Association.
Anubha k Singh.
“I regret on the day when I have converted my car into CNG. Initially I thought it’s a good idea and it’s going to help me in all ways but I was very wrong. I don’t know why the government is keeping quiet on this topic why are they not opening more CNG bunks in the city for easy accessible of CNG gas. Every alternate day I have to stand in queue at least for an hour and on Sundays it has been never less than two hours standing in queue. I can’t again convert my vehicle into diesel from CNG will cost me more plus it’s not good for life of my vehicle.” says, Navneet Goyal, Goyal Trading Company.
“It’s a regular problem for us there are very less CNG bunks in the city and standing in a queue for more than an hour is irritating. Before implementing a rule government should lay the infrastructure. Some of the bunks are equipped with just one tank. We have to stand in a queue, until the tank is refilled. Bunks should have atleast two tanks” says Harish Patel, Shri Vishwakarma Timber Deepo.
“I converted my Esteem into CNG from diesel last three months back but this month again I have to convert my vehicle into Diesel just because of the long queue in CNG bunks. There are very less number of CNG bunks in the city and due to that I used to stand for more than a hour every alternate day to fill tank and I used to get late for my office. Now I am planning to buy a new car but not atleast CNG fitted cars” says Saurabh lahoti, Director Shrinath Rotopack pvt ltd.
“Now a day almost all the cars are coming up with CNG fitted. Since 2007 number of CNG fitted cars have been going on increasing but there’s no increase in number of CNG bunks in the city. I usually travel to Vijaywada side there are lots of CNG bunks over there I don’t what our state government is doing why are they not opening CNG bunks in the city. Every Sunday I need to stand in queue not less than 2 hours to fill CNG gas in my vehicle government would have first laid the infrastructure and then would have implemented the CNG kit plan.” Says Sanjay, student, Amity University.
“Earlier many customers use to convert their vehicles into CNG but now there are many people who come to convert their CNG fitted vehicle into Diesel or Petrol. The major problem for that is less number of CNG bunks in the city. Many people do their vehicle gas conversion in just a span of two or three months which is not good for their vehicle but they do that because of the CNG bunks problem in the city.” Says, Mohammed Safi, Perfect Motors, SSV Car Gas Conversion.
“Due to area problems and safety norms by government there are very less CNG bunks in the city. Present bunks are the earlier ones but to open a new bunk we need an open space area which is not easily possible due to development programs in the city. At present the CNG pipeline is only till Vijay Wada and some areas of Hyderabad. Reliance is planning to open more pipelines and then we can have sufficient number of CNG bunks in the city says”, Prabhakar Reddy, President AP petroleum Dealers Association.
Anubha k Singh.
Hacking on High!!!!!!!!!!
Hacking into an email account is becoming a common practice in city especially among the kids. With young kids becoming Internet savvy in the rapidly emerging world of computer technology, misuse of Internet has also taken an upward curve. One such misuse of technology is hacking the email ids. There are many such kids who learn hacking and do it for fun sake without knowing the harm of that.
They are unaware of the implications of their illegal activities or unconcerned about the consequences of their actions. The hacking tools used by them can be easily found or downloaded from the Internet. Most of the time they do hacking just for fun and craze for learning new technologies to compete their friends.
“You can easily hack any email id especially Yahoo messenger, Gmail, Rediffmail and all other famous sites. It doesn’t need any special classes or more of your time to learn hacking. I hacked one of my friend’s ids through software given by him. You just need to download the software and you got to create a fake website. Follow the steps and your work is over. I was very keen to learn hacking as one of my ID was hacked by my friend and I was furious to learn the process of hacking to take a revenge on my freind,”says Shruthi, Naryana Concept School.
“For me it was very easy to learn hacking. I was just going through my orkut profile and I found a link of hacking Email Ids in one of my friend’s profile. So I tried it and I was succeeded. I just did it once and it was a fun to learn hacking in just few minutes. I had tried it three to four times on one of my friends id to prank on him,” says, Anish, DRS School.
“A friend of mine found out about the hacking process by way of a family member. Initially I was afraid but later on my friend said there’s nothing to lose in learning the process so lets just try it and if it works its a bumper! I had tried it thrice and there has only been one incident that it didn't work for us and that was because the person had some sort of protection installed on all of their passwords. We usually keep competion among our friends to see who can hack ids faster than else, says Ankita, Krishnaveni School.
As parents, we're far less savvy than our kids when it comes to the Internet and electronic gadgets. It's almost impossible for us to know if our kids are doing homework, harmlessly socializing, being victimized or victimizing others. We want to believe the best about our kids, but maybe we need to make more of an effort to see what's going on.
Anubha k Singh
They are unaware of the implications of their illegal activities or unconcerned about the consequences of their actions. The hacking tools used by them can be easily found or downloaded from the Internet. Most of the time they do hacking just for fun and craze for learning new technologies to compete their friends.
“You can easily hack any email id especially Yahoo messenger, Gmail, Rediffmail and all other famous sites. It doesn’t need any special classes or more of your time to learn hacking. I hacked one of my friend’s ids through software given by him. You just need to download the software and you got to create a fake website. Follow the steps and your work is over. I was very keen to learn hacking as one of my ID was hacked by my friend and I was furious to learn the process of hacking to take a revenge on my freind,”says Shruthi, Naryana Concept School.
“For me it was very easy to learn hacking. I was just going through my orkut profile and I found a link of hacking Email Ids in one of my friend’s profile. So I tried it and I was succeeded. I just did it once and it was a fun to learn hacking in just few minutes. I had tried it three to four times on one of my friends id to prank on him,” says, Anish, DRS School.
“A friend of mine found out about the hacking process by way of a family member. Initially I was afraid but later on my friend said there’s nothing to lose in learning the process so lets just try it and if it works its a bumper! I had tried it thrice and there has only been one incident that it didn't work for us and that was because the person had some sort of protection installed on all of their passwords. We usually keep competion among our friends to see who can hack ids faster than else, says Ankita, Krishnaveni School.
As parents, we're far less savvy than our kids when it comes to the Internet and electronic gadgets. It's almost impossible for us to know if our kids are doing homework, harmlessly socializing, being victimized or victimizing others. We want to believe the best about our kids, but maybe we need to make more of an effort to see what's going on.
Anubha k Singh
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