Winter is a season of
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Rodic Consultants PVT. LTD. EMPLOYEE TIMES
January 2015 (5th Edition)
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Let our
New Years resolution be this:
We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity,
in the finest sense of the word
Happy New Year to Rodic Family
This January issue of Rodic Newsletter Employee
Times comes to you with happy, peaceful &
prosperous year 2015 from the CMD & the Editor.
The Year 2015, Horoscope year of the wood sheep,
Goat, Ram.
In fact it can be said that in the first half of 2015 the
processes that have been in place for the past years
will be over and in the second half of 2015 both
political and economic situation will be void of turmoil
and conflicts.
Closer to the summer months, when positive events
will start overshadowing negatives ones, people will
finally be able to sigh with relief and restore their
faith in the future, but one thing is for sure: the
events that 2015 has in store will prove unforgettable!
Unbelievable striking events are ahead we just need
to be patient enough to wait for them to happen
I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of Rodic
Family to express gratitude to our Honble Chairman
& Managing Director Mr. Raj Kumar to initiate a
noble cause for the rehabilitation and resettlement of
Jammu and Kashmir's flood victims & to all of us, as
we came forward to make it a success.
As the Editor of the Employee Times, I am really
touched by the contributions that we have received
from Rodic family members, especially from our
Jammu & Kashmir Region.
In 5th Edition of Employee Times, the highlight is
on our landmark projects & their value to their
society, in addition to accolade & achievements of
family member with their contributions.
New Year Resolution, in which a person makes a
promise to do an act of self-improvement or sets
individual goal for the betterment.
So I urge our Rodic family members to do it & make
this year 2015 a better spell in life.
I would again urge from our rodic family members to
keep on sending us their contributions & sharing their
creativity & thought to make it a success.
Once again Wishing Happy New Year to you & to
your family.
Editor: Aakaar Amit
Team Member : Meenakshi Rawat
Suman Guha
Mithun Dolui
Design By: Suman Guha
Accolades
On behalf of Rodic Family, I am taking this opportunity
to convey our best wishes to Mr. B P Singh for his
achievements & contributions in the field of civil
engineering to the society.
Mr. B P Singh, received Rajiv Gandhi Excellence
Award in the year 2009, for the life time
achievement in the field civil engineering from Dr.
Equibal Singh, the then governor of Puducherry.
Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award:
The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award is the
national quality award given by the Bureau of Indian
Standards to Indian organizations that show
excellence in their performance. The award aims to
promote quality services to the consumers and to give
special recognition to organizations that contribute
significantly towards the quality movement of India
and is similar to other national quality awards
worldwide like the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award of the United States, European Quality Award
of the European Union and the Deming Prize of Japan.
Mr. B P Singh, received Bharat Jyoti Award in the
year 2008, for the life time achievement in the field
civil engineering from Dr. Bhishma Narain Singh,
the then governor of Tamil Nadu.
Bharat Jyoti Award, is also called "Glory of India
Award"
This award is an initiative by The India International
Friendship Society (IIFS) which is a private voluntary
organisation based in New Delhi, India whose stated
aim is to strengthen the ties between India and its
expatriate community in hopes of using the resources
and potential of these expatriates to benefit India.
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
Landmark Projects & Significances
New Projects !
Project Name : Authoritys Engineer for
Supervision of Improvement/Widening to Two Laning
with paved shoulder of Agartalla-Udaipur Section
from Km.6.8 to Km.55.000 on NH-44 in the State of
Tripura Under SARDP-NE Phase A on EPC
Project Cost : INR 303 Crore
Total Project Length : 48.36 Km
Duration : 78 Months (Including
defect liability period
of 48)
Client : Ministry of Road
Transport & Highways
Location : Tripura State
Project Name : Authoritys Engineer for
Supervision of Re-alignment and improvement to 2-lane
with paved shoulders of NH-38 By passing Digboi, Powai,
Margherita and Ledo towns in between Km. 20.00 to Km.
52.00 in Assam under SARDP-NE Phase `A Project on EPC.
Project Cost : INR 251.69 Crore
Total Project Length : 29.361 Km
Duration : 84 Months (Including
Defect Liability Period of
48)
Client : Ministry of Road Transport
& Highways
Location : Assam State
Banihal Tunnel (Banihal-Qazigund)- Jammu & Kashmir
Banihal-Qazigund road tunnel worked has started in 2011 to widen NH 1A to four lanes. It is a double tube tunnel
consisting of two parallel tunnels - one for each direction of travel. Each tunnel is 7 meter wide tunnel and has two
lanes of road. The two tunnels are interconnected by a passage every 500 meters for maintenance and emergency
evacuation.
The tunnel will have forced ventilation for extracting smoke and stale air and infusing fresh air. It will have state of the
art monitoring and control systems for security.
The new tunnel's average elevation at 1,790 m (5,870 ft.) is 400 meter lower than the existing Jawahar tunnel's
elevation and would reduce the road distance between Banihal and Qazigund by 16 km & in addition it has been
referred as all-weather road that wont just shorten the Jammu-Srinagar drive but it will keep the valley accessible
even during peak snowfall.
Jawahar tunnel is a road tunnel in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in the Pir panjal range which bifurcates
Jammu & Srinagar. This tunnel is named after the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru & its operational
since 22 December 1956. The length of tunnel is 2.85 km (1.77 mi), its elevation is 2,194 m (7,198 ft.) and it has one
lane road in either direction. It is situated between Banihl and Qazigund on NH 1A that has been renumbered NH 44,
which caters to trucks which ply on the Srinagar-Jammu highway every day, carrying farm produce from the Valley.
In winter, the road is shut down by snow. During the rains, too, it gets clogged, especially the stretches near Jammu,
so by construction of this new tunnel this problem will be reduced considerably
Driving is perilous on the existing highway, which criss-crosses the Pir Panjal range, negotiating a huge variation in
altitudes
Jammu & Udhampur (By Pass)-Jammu & Kashmir
Four Laning of Jammu - Udhampur section of NH-1A, from km 15.00 (on Jammu Bypass) to km 67.00 Jammu &
Udhampur is an important part of Road infrastructure development between Jammu & Srinagar, it constitute of 47
major & minor bridges besides 4 tunnels to avoid all the blind curves , to make it a safer for driving & reducing
travelling time on this section.
This is a major section of road which connects Jammu to Srinagar for transportation of goods & acts as a lifeline
between the two.
Additionally to avoid parking of passenger buses on the main highway, the lay-bys for buses & trucks would be larger
than the same for buses in order to accommodate more load carriers in the event of blockade of highway during winter
and rainy seasons.
Green field (Bakhtiyarpur-Tajpur Bridge)- Bihar
The Bakhtiyarpur- Tajpur, four Lane Bridge, currently under construction, will span the river Ganges, connecting
Bakhtiyarpur in Patna and Tajpur in Samastipur coming up around 50km east of Gandhi Setu. Its construction is likely to
be over in 2015.
Its a 5.5km-long-Road Bridge & 43 Kms of Greenfield, which will be a boon for the people of Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur,
Chhapra, Siwan and other districts of north Bihar once it is completed & will reduce the load on Mahatma Gandhi Setu
and also reduce the traffic in the capital city of Patna.
Mahatma Gandhi Setu, (also called Gandhi Setu or Ganga Setu) is a bridge over the river Ganges connecting Patna in the
south to Hajipur in the north of Bihar and it is one of the longest river bridges in India. It was inaugurated in May 1982,
which is till now the major bridge which connects north to central Bihar.
Due to over load of traffic flow on Gandhi Setu, connectivity of north to central Bihar remains disturbed , so
construction of Bakhtiyarpur- Tajpur will decongest the load on Gandhi Setu & even it will improve connectivity till
Jharkhand by further shortening the travel distance from central Bihar.
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley
Projects on the move
Shared By: S P Kapoor-Team Leader, J&K
Parnai HEP, J&K
Chief Minister of Manipur - Formal
flagging off the project Manipur ADB
Parnai HEP, J&K
Parnai HEP, J&K
Shared By: S P Kapoor-Team Leader, J&K
Shared By: Oken Elangba QS, Manipur
ManipurADB
Shared By: Oken Elangba QS, Manipur
Shared By: Dibakar Adigiri, Computer Operator,
West Bengal
Package-4, West Bengal Package-4, West Bengal
Shared By: Dibakar Adigiri, Computer Operator,
West Bengal
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley
Projects on the move
Shared By: Mr. Asif Iqbal - ABE, Varanasi
Shared By: Jayanta Singha, Com. Operator, WB Pck-3 Shared By: Jayanta Singha, Com. Operator, WB Pck-3
Shared By: Ajay Kr. Singh, Exe. Admin, Patna RO
Elevated Corridor Project
(AIIMs to Digha)
Package-3, West Bengal Package-3, West Bengal
Varanasi - Aurangabad
Elevated Corridor Project
(AIIMs to Digha)
Shared By: Ajay Kr. Singh, Exe. Admin, Patna RO
Package-3, West Bengal
Shared By: Jayanta Singha, Com. Operator, WB Pck-3
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
OCCASION
Diwali Puja celebrations at our Corporate
office Gurgaon office on 22nd October
2014. Photo Shared by Surender Sharma
Ms. Runumoni Sarma from Guwahati
Office Wedlock on 27th Nov 2014 Photo Shared by Prandhar Talukdar, Guwahati RO
Mr. Ashwini Kumar from Ranchi Office
Wedlock with Kajal on18th Nov 2014 Photo Shared by Bimal Dip, Office Manager,
Ranchi Office
Mr. Anshuman
Krishanu
Birthday
Celebration
On
10th Nov
2014
at
our
Corporate
Office,
Gurgaon
Photo Shared by Rajiv Ranjan ( HO)
Our New Family Members
S.N Location Employee Name Designation
1 Corporate Office Manmender Singh Executive - Accounts
2 Meghalaya Akhilesh Kumar Rai Deputy Team Leader
3 Assam ADB Arvind Kumar ARE cum DTL
4 Assam ADB Uma Shankar Quantity Surveyor
5 Era Sahil Manhas Design Support Engineer
6 Corporate Office Vinay Kumar Deputy Manager-Design
7 Corporate Office Manoj Singh DGM - Contract
8 Goa Kundapur Divij M Gotadike Assistant Highway Engineer
9 Corporate Office Abhinav Kaushal Executive - HR
10 Anishabad Aurangabad MD Enamullah Cad Cum Computer Operator
11 Bihar ADB Shashi Bhushan Sharma ARE - Bridge
"Facts are the enemy of truth." - Don Quixote
Many Many Happy Returns of the Day !!! Following members celebrate their Birth Day in coming months. We wish them
health, wealth and prosperity in the years to come
S. No. Date Employee Name Location
1 01-Jan Sairem Nabakumar Singh Arunachal Bridge
2 01-Jan Dimpy Buragohain Assam-ADB
3 01-Jan Ajit Anand DFCC Sasaram
4 01-Jan Shashank Shekhar Rai Mohania-Ara
5 01-Jan Sanjay Prakash Bihar ADB
6 01-Jan Ashutosh Pandey DFCC Sasaram
7 01-Jan Ganesh Pandey Mohania-Ara
8 01-Jan Santosh Kumar Keshri Siwan Siswan
9 01-Jan Sant Kumar Singh Dumka
10 01-Jan Binod Kumar Jha Jamtara
11 01-Jan Imran Hussain Assam - World Bank
12 01-Jan Jintu Bhuyan Assam - World Bank
13 01-Jan Akhilesh Kumar Rai Meghalaya-ADB
14 01-Jan R K Surjit Singh Manipur ADB
15 01-Jan Brajesh Kumar Greenfield
16 02-Jan Rupak Das Guwahati
17 02-Jan Arun Kumar DFCC Sasaram
18 02-Jan Ranveer Kumar Bharti Bihar ADB
19 02-Jan Kumar Raman Rosra - SH88
20 02-Jan Lalit Narayan Gurgaon
21 02-Jan Dijen Singh Manipur ADB
22 02-Jan Vijay Kumar Raiganj-Dalkhola
23 02-Jan Paritosh Halder Bahrampore Farakka
24 02-Jan Vinod Kumar Varanasi - Aurangabad
25 03-Jan Subodh Kumar Goit Bihar ADB
26 03-Jan Manik Mishra Dumka
27 03-Jan Prashant Kumar Jamtara
28 04-Jan Nabi Rasool Ansari DFCC Sasaram
29 04-Jan Dibyendu Bhattacharya Raiganj-Dalkhola
30 05-Jan Arun Kumar Greenfield
31 05-Jan Suprakash Choudhury AIIMS DIGHA
32 05-Jan Birendra Kumar Jha Ranchi, Team Leader Office
33 08-Jan Yashwant Kumar AIIMS DIGHA
34 08-Jan Kush Kumar Sharma Rosra - SH88
35 08-Jan MD Enamullah Anishabad Aurangabad
36 08-Jan Shashi Bhushan Sharma Bihar ADB
37 08-Jan Amanjyot Singh Parnai - Hydro Power
38 10-Jan Srikant Kumar Gangapath
39 10-Jan Satyendra Nath Kapoor Ranchi Office
40 10-Jan Pradeep Mallah Delhi - Agra
41 10-Jan Kuldip Singh Parnai - Hydro Power
42 11-Jan Upendra Singh Rosra - SH88
43 11-Jan Rohit Raghav Delhi - Agra
44 11-Jan Vivek Kohli Banihal Quazigund
45 15-Jan Nachiketa Kumar Singh Anishabad Aurangabad
46 15-Jan Debnarayan Paul Ranchi, Team Leader Office
47 17-Jan Bivash Sarkar Assam - World Bank
48 17-Jan Shiv Jee Sharma Meghalaya-ADB
49 17-Jan Farooq Ahmad Mintoo Kalnai
50 18-Jan Alok Kumar Jha Siwan Siswan
51 19-Jan Nipun Kohli Parnai - Hydro Power
52 20-Jan Amit Kumar Gupta Anishabad Aurangabad
53 20-Jan Neeraj Kumar AIIMS DIGHA
54 20-Jan Manoj Singh Gurgaon
55 21-Jan Satish Kumar Rakesh Varanasi - Aurangabad
56 21-Jan Rajeev Kumar Varanasi - Aurangabad
57 22-Jan Shyam Bihari Singh Assam - World Bank
58 23-Jan Subodh Kumar Garg Agra -Aligarh
59 23-Jan Ajit Kumar Swain Parnai - Hydro Power
60 24-Jan Anand Prakash Singh Rosra - SH88
61 25-Jan Vikash Ranjan Anishabad Aurangabad
62 25-Jan Bikash Kumar Singh Mohania-Ara
63 25-Jan Manoj Kumar Gurgaon
64 25-Jan Binod Kumar Jowai
65 26-Jan Sunil Kumar Rai Varanasi - Aurangabad
66 27-Jan Ramesh Kumar Singh Patna
67 27-Jan Biswajit Mahanta Bahrampore Farakka
68 28-Jan Suman Pasricha Gurgaon
S. No. Date Employee Name Location
69 28-Jan Biresh Kumar Deepak Sahibganj
70 01-Feb Runu moni Devi Assam - World Bank
71 01-Feb Vinod Kumar Sahibganj
72 01-Feb Rahul Kumar Ranchi, Team Leader Office
73 01-Feb Yensenbam Mahendra Singh Manipur ADB
74 01-Feb R K Johnson Singh Manipur ADB
75 01-Feb Jai Prakash Jain Delhi - Agra
76 01-Feb Ajay Kumar Singh Assam - World Bank
77 02-Feb Dinesh Kumar DFCC Sasaram
78 02-Feb Haobam Vendru Meghalaya-ADB
79 05-Feb Baban Kumar Varanasi - Aurangabad
80 06-Feb Meenakshi Rawat Gurgaon
81 06-Feb Sona Chakroborty Farakka Raignaj
82 07-Feb Pranav Kumar Assam - World Bank
83 07-Feb Praveen Kumar Dumka
84 07-Feb Oken Elangba Manipur ADB
85 10-Feb Ankit Kumar Singh Greenfield
86 12-Feb Asit kumar Mandal Farakka Raignaj
87 13-Feb Indrajeet Tiwari DFCC Sasaram
88 13-Feb Vijay Kumar Pandey Bihar ADB
89 13-Feb Manik Gupta Era Project
90 15-Feb Sanjay Kumar Gupta DFCC Sasaram
91 15-Feb Nirmal Halder Bahrampore Farakka
92 18-Feb Raju Kanu Meghalaya-ADB
93 20-Feb Santosh Kumar Bihar ADB
94 20-Feb Shashi Kishore Tomar Anishabad Aurangabad
95 20-Feb Ashutosh Kumar Pandey Assam-ADB
96 21-Feb Anil Chandra Suman Rosra - SH88
97 22-Feb Sanjay Goenka Greenfield
98 22-Feb Zahoor Ahmad Chat Parnai - Hydro Power
99 23-Feb Nalin Kumar Assam - World Bank
100 24-Feb Abhishek Kumar Singh Gurgaon
101 24-Feb Amita Shuban Bhat Jammu
102 25-Feb Sanjeev Ranjan DFCC Sasaram
103 26-Feb Sudeep Dey Assam - World Bank
104 27-Feb Harish Kant Srivastava Farakka Raignaj
105 28-Feb Deepak Kumar Gangapath
106 28-Feb Dibyendu Das Assam - World Bank
107 01-Mar Abdul Maquib Arunachal Bridge
108 01-Mar Bhairob Deori Arunachal Bridge
109 01-Mar Manoj Kumar Das Assam - World Bank
110 01-Mar Sanjay Kumar Suman Bihar ADB
111 01-Mar Santosh Kumar Sudhanshu Rosra - SH88
112 01-Mar Amit Kumar Dutta Rosra - SH88
113 01-Mar MD Arshad Nadeem Anishabad Aurangabad
114 01-Mar B Khonilal Sharma Gurgaon
115 01-Mar Abhinav Naman Greenfield
116 01-Mar Sunil Kumar Bahrampore Farakka
117 01-Mar Anurag Priyadarshi Bahrampore Farakka
118 02-Mar Unit Kumar Jha AIIMS DIGHA
119 02-Mar Ajay Kumar Dutta Patna
120 02-Mar Surya Vijay Pratap Delhi - Agra
121 04-Mar Satyajit Mitra Farakka Raignaj
122 04-Mar Hari Chand Arora Gurgaon
123 05-Mar Sunil Kumar Bihar ADB
124 05-Mar Satish Kumar Delhi - Agra
125 09-Mar Sanjay Kumar Singh Rosra - SH88
126 09-Mar Gagan Sharma Banihal Quazigund
127 12-Mar Mohammad Faisal Delhi - Agra
128 15-Mar Vishnu Kumar Bihar ADB
129 15-Mar Manmender Singh Gurgaon
130 20-Mar Rakesh Chand Mishra Assam-ADB
131 23-Mar Pankaj Sehgal Gurgaon
132 25-Mar Santosh Kumar Yadav Ranchi, Team Leader Office
133 25-Mar Soubam Runic Amar Manipur ADB
134 27-Mar Autar Krishen Koul Kalnai
135 30-Mar Varun Raina Kalnai
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley
Highlights
CA Manmender Singh, Executive Accounts - HO
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." - H. H. Munro (Saki)
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In 196364, he visited NASA's Langley Research Center
in Hampton Virginia, Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland and Wallops Flight Facility
situated at Eastern Shore of Virginia. During the
period between the 1970s and 1990s, Kalam made an
effort to develop the Polar SLV and SLV-III projects,
both of which proved to be success.
Kalam was invited by Raja Ramanna to witness the
country's first nuclear test Smiling Buddha as the
representative of TBRL, even though he had not
participated in the development, test site
preparation and weapon designing. In the 1970s, a
landmark was achieved by ISRO when the locally built
Rohini-1 was launched into space, using the SLV
rocket. In the 1970s, Kalam also directed two
projects, namely, Project Devil and Project Valiant,
which sought to develop ballistic missiles from the
technology of the successful SLV programme. Despite
the disapproval of Union Cabinet, Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi allotted secret funds for these
aerospace projects through her discretionary powers
under Kalam's directorship. Kalam played an integral
role convincing the Union Cabinet to conceal the true
nature of these classified aerospace projects. His
research and educational leadership brought him
great laurels and prestige in 1980s, which prompted
the government to initiate an advanced missile
program under his directorship. Kalam and Dr. V. S.
Arunachalam, metallurgist and scientific adviser to
the Defense Minister, worked on the suggestion by
the then Defense Minister, R. Venkataraman on a
proposal for simultaneous development of a quiver of
missiles instead of taking planned missiles one after
another. R Venkatraman was instrumental in getting
the cabinet approval for allocating 3.88 billion rupees
for the mission, named Integrated Guided Missile
Development Program (I.G.M.D.P) and appointed
Kalam as the chief executive. Kalam played a major
part in developing many missiles under the mission
including Agni, an intermediate range ballistic missile
and Prithvi, the tactical surface-to-surface missile,
although the projects have been criticised for
mismanagement and cost and time overruns. He was
the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister and
the Secretary of Defence Research and Development
Organisation from July 1992 to December 1999. The
Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted during this
period where he played an intensive political and
technological role. Kalam served as the Chief Project
Coordinator, along with R. Chidambaram during the
testing phase. Photos and snapshots of him taken by
the media elevated Kalam as the country's top
nuclear scientist.
In 1998, along with cardiologist Dr. Soma Raju, Kalam
developed a low cost Coronary stent. It was named as
"Kalam-Raju Stent" honouring them. In 2012, the duo,
designed a rugged tablet PC for health care in rural areas, which was named as "Kalam-Raju Tablet".
Presidency Kalam served as the
11th President of India,
succeeding K. R.
Narayanan. He won the
2002 presidential
election with an electoral vote of 922,884, surpassing
107,366 votes won by Lakshmi Sahgal. He served from
25 July 2002 to 25 July 2007.
On 10 June 2002, the National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) which was in power at the time, expressed to
the leader of opposition, Indian National Congress
president Sonia Gandhi that they would propose
Kalam for the post of President. The Samajwadi Party
and the Nationalist Congress Party backed his
candidacy. After the Samajwadi Party announced its
support for him, Narayanan chose not to seek a
second term in office, leaving the field clear for
Kalam.
I am really overwhelmed. Everywhere both in
Internet and in other media, I have been asked for a
message. I was thinking what message I can give to
the people of the country at this juncture. - Kalam
responding to the announcement of his candidature
by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
On 18 June, Kalam filed his nomination papers in the
Parliament of India, accompanied by Vajpayee and his
senior Cabinet colleagues.
The polling for the presidential election began on 15
July 2002 in the Parliament and the state assemblies
with media claiming that the election was a one-sided
affair and Kalam's victory was a foregone conclusion.
The counting was held on 18 July. Kalam won the
presidential election in a highly one-sided contest. He
became the 11th president of the Republic of India.
He moved into the Rashtrapati Bhavan after he was
sworn in on 25 July. Kalam was the third President of
India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna,
India's highest civilian honour, before becoming the
President. Dr. Sarvapali Radhakrishnan (1954) and Dr.
Zakir Hussain (1963) were the earlier recipients of
Bharat Ratna who later became the President of
India. He was also the first scientist and the first
bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Kalam is criticised for inaction as a President in
deciding the fate of 20 out of the 21 mercy petitions.
Article 72 of the Constitution of India empowers the
President of India to grant pardon, suspend and remit
death sentences and commute the death sentence of
convicts on death row. Kalam acted on only one
mercy plea in his 5-year tenure as a President,
rejecting the plea of rapist Dhananjoy Chatterjee,
who was hanged thereafter. The most important of
the 20 pleas is thought to be that of Afzal Guru, a
Kashmiri terrorist who was convicted of conspiracy in
the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament
and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of
India in 2004.
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante
God has bestowed us with infinite bounties to make our life comfortable on this planet. He has provided us
natural resources everywhere, above the Earths Surface, on the Earths surface and below the Earths surface
as well. These natural resources are either biotic (e.g. Forests, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Land, Aquatic life,
Animals, Water, air etc.) or abiotic (e.g. Metallic / Non-metallic Minerals like Copper, Iron , Magnesium,
Uranium, Sulphur, Bauxite, Gems, Marble etc.). All these natural resources are important to sustain life
(aquatic, human, animal, plant etc.) on our planet and God has emphasized on humans (custodians of natural
resources) through various religious teachings, that he has created all these resources for our comfort and has
strictly commanded us to make judicious use of them for our benefit & sustenance only and not for our
destruction. In Quran (Holy Book of Muslims), it has been specifically mentioned that God has created this
universe with infinite stars, planets, skies, our earth (with natural resources of land, oceans, mountains, Air,
forests, water, food, fruits, minerals etc.) etc. in our cosmos and has maintained a balance in them, which are
moving in fixed orbits and any tampering with this natural balance or their misuse will lead to our destruction.
Unfortunately, we have been callous with these natural resources, by our continuous anthropogenic
interferences in the ecological balance maintained by God around us. All these natural resources are finite in
nature but our demands for these natural resources are infinite and growing at a rapid speed with the increase
in population, unplanned developmental race and mad increase in our living standards, putting huge stress on
these limited resources. Our great leader Mahatma Gandhi Ji, had rightly stated that our Earth can meet the
needs of all but to the greed of none. We have over exploited these resources because of our greed towards
rapid development and by remaining insensitive towards their conservation by way of judicious use and proper
management, for our posterity. To every action there is an equal & opposite reaction. By our unmindful
exploitation of our natural resources, we are killing the nature, which in return says that if you kill me today, I
will kill your posterity tomorrow. When our body doesnt accept any outside interference with it, how will the
natural ecology around us accept it.
Air, water & food are three most vital ingredients for our survival in terms of their criticality. On an average we
can survive without Air for about 3 Minutes, without water for 3 days & without food for 3 weeks. With the
increase in greenhouse gases around us, coupled with random deforestation and changes in land use patterns,
we have started facing the brunt of reaction from nature by way of climatological changes like: rise in
atmospheric temperatures (0.4C in India over 1901-2000), receding Glaciers, rise in sea water levels, Irregular
precipitation patterns with large disparity in spatial distribution / time / concentration (shorter high intensity
periods followed with longer low intensity / dry spells), droughts, landslides, heavy siltation in our water
bodies & flood basins, unprecedented severe cloud bursts, flash floods etc. causing colossal damages to life and
property on earth, latest examples in our country being cloud bursts in Ladakh (2010), Flash floods in
Uttarakhand (2013) and recent flash floods in Kashmir (9/2014). The recent devastation by floods in Kashmir has
been mostly man made due to deforestation, changes in land use by way of encroachments and urbanization in
all River / water bodies, wet lands and flood basins, which would otherwise act like natural flood sponges by
way of absorbing the flood waters, helping in dampening the flood peaks and subsequently releasing the same
slowly during dry periods, keeping the ground water fully charged all the time and also meeting water
requirements during lean seasons.
Climatological changes predicted by the year 2100 for India, are increase in rainfall by 15-20% with short
durations of high intensity, warming over land but more pronounced effect in North India (which has main
Indian Himalayan glaciers), warming relatively greater in winter (causing quick melting of snow) and post mon-
soon season, increase in mean annual temperature by 3C to 6C etc. Nature is warning us every now and then
through its destructive forces but we humans remain unmoved and unconcerned. We cannot stop the
occurrence of these natural forces like storms, cyclones, cloudbursts, Floods, earthquakes etc. but we can
control their destructive potential by proper management & preventive measures taken before, during and
after their occurrence. Due to denudation and loss of green cover around us, the rate of water percolation into
soil has reduced, resulting in large scale soil erosion, siltation and flash floods with huge reduction in time of
concentration. If our such insensitivity towards over exploitation and interference in nature continues
unchecked, our posterity will curse us tomorrow, as it is our earnest duty & responsibility to secure the safety
of our posterity by conserving with efficient management & judicious use, the resources God has bestowed
upon us.
As per UN estimates , about 70 % of earths surface is covered with 1400 million cubic km of water, which is
sufficient to cover it with a water cushion of 3000 m depth but 97.5 % of this water is not fit for human use and
just 2.5 % of this huge water reserve is present as fresh water, out of which 99% is not fit for human
consumption, thereby leaving just 1% of fresh water reserves (i.e.: 0.025% of total Global water) fit for our
consumption , which too is being polluted by us unabatedly by solid, liquid and gaseous wastes, thus making this
limited fresh water further unfit for human consumption. We have water everywhere but only little drops to
drink. The distribution of this fresh water is graphically depicted as under:
Water Tanks and Not Battle Tanks
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach
All ancient human civilizations developed near natural fresh
water bodies like springs, ponds, lakes, rivers etc. The
population spread to other outer areas only with the
development of artificial water conveyance systems like
canals, dugwells, piped supplies etc. India has a total
geographical area of 32,87,263 sq km (2.42 % of worlds
geographical area), when as per census 2011, it was having
a decadal population growth of 17.64 % with population of
1,21,01,93,422 souls (17.2 % of worlds population) which is
2nd highest next to China and the projected population for
2016, 2021 & 2026 are 1,26,90,00,000 / 1,33,97,00,000 & 1,39,98,00,000 souls respectively and by 2050 India
will be Worlds most populated Country. India has annual water availability of 1869.35 Km, which is just 4% of
Worlds fresh water reserves. India has a forest cover of 69.09 Million Ha (21.02% of Indias Geographical area)
at a per capita forest availability of 0.6 Ha against 1.9 Ha of World average. Indias per capita food grain
availability at present is 525 gms/day only, as compared to China (980 gms) & USA (2850 gms/day), which is still
going to reduce drastically with time, leading to severe food crises in future India.
As per the estimates of MoWR (GoI), our per capita water
availability is reducing at an alarming rate as graphically
represented in the figure. Our enormous population with
limited per Capita land holding and water & food availability
has put tremendous stress on our land and water, resulting
in large scale changes in land use patterns and water crises
starting at micro village levels and extending to macro interstate and international levels.
India is an agrarian country with high water consumption
having 92 % of its water consumption on agriculture when
about 68% of its area is still drought prone. The irrigated
land is projected to increase from 380 Sq. Km (1974) to
1050 Sq. Km (2025) which will put additional huge stress on
our water reserves. Lot of water is used & wasted by us at
home, mostly in our bath rooms & laundry (about 85 %) as
shown in figure. Water on Earth is available in different
forms, though total quantum remaining almost constant but
it changes its form with time and spatial distribution and is in motion through hydrological cycle, as shown here:
Shower & Bath,
35%
Toilet & Flushing,
30%
Laundry, 20%
Kitchen &
Drinking, 10%
Cleaning, 5%
Indoor Home Water Consumption
The main source of our fresh water in India is through
rainfall with average annual rainfall of about 1,200 mm,
which is abundant by any Global standards, but it has huge
variation and great disparity in terms of quantum and
spatial distribution, with Cherrapunji receiving about
12,000 mm (Worlds wettest place) and Ladakh and
Rajasthan receiving meager below 100 mm of rainfall.
About 90 % of this rain fall occurs relatively in brief deluges
in monsoon months and even during monsoons most of this rainfall (about 80 %) occurs within two months only, with
maximum of it flowing waste & unutilized as surface run off. As per estimates of MOWR, India has a total
annual average runoff of 1869.35 BCM but only 690 BCM (about 37%) of it can be actually utilized because of
less storage sites and high intensity rains in shorter duration. As per these estimates, India has a total ground
water replenishible reserve of 433 BCM with net available storage of 398 BCM, out of which 245 BCM is
withdrawn annually mainly for irrigation (222 BCM) and an additional storage of 36.4 BCM can be recharged in
the ground by artificial recharge methods in the identified suitable area of 4,48,760 sq.km (13.65% of Indias
Geographical Area). Ground water in India is very critical as it accounts for about 65 % of irrigation and 85 % of
drinking water supplies. India is also over exploiting ground water in a number of states as extraction is
exceeding its replenishment within a given area over a given period of time. This over drawing of ground water
has resulted in rapid depletion in ground water table even by more than 50 m at places, turning ground water
brackish and inducing ingress of sea water into ground water near sea shores and it is estimated that in next 20
years 65 % of our ground water sources will be in critical stage of degradation. As per sample studies conducted
by MoWR, sharp fall in ground water levels have been observed in most of the tube wells of number of states as shown hereunder:
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant
Looking at the facts and figures given here-in-above,
we need to earnestly and seriously analyze, as to
where do we stand with rest of the World, with
respect to per capita land, water & food availability
and what will be our future in case the trend
continues unabated & uncontrolled. Are not we
ourselves leading future life towards an imminent
disaster? However, it is better late than never and it
is still in our control, if we act now, lest everything
will blow out of control. We need to ponder where we
are erring and earnestly start remedial control
measures right from grass root Individual level and at
Community, State, National and International levels
for controlling population explosion, making judicious
use of water & natural resources, reducing wastages &
Pollution, efficient water management and
conservation. To ensure availability of water for our
posterity, the withdrawal of fresh water from our
Tube Wells Showing Sharp Fall In Ground Water Levels
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
76% 72% 71% 69% 66% 65% 64% 62%
ecosystem has not to exceed its natural replenishment rate. We have to launch integrated water resources
management strategy at all levels of usage right from individual levels to local communities and extended from
micro water sheds to macro water sheds and further to the whole catchment. Frame policies for integrated
conjunctive use & management of surface / ground water, reuse of waste waters and inter basin water usage
for its conservation and flood mitigation.
We firstly need to reduce our water requirements in irrigation sector, which accounts for about 92 % of our
water consumption, by way of:
Introducing hybrid high yield but low water consuming plants which are resilient to water shortages and
adaptable to brackish water, especially in paddy & sugar cane cultivation.
Multiple cropping patterns.
Modernize the farming procedures /techniques / methodologies including sprinkler, drip & fuming watering
systems.
Reduce evaporation losses in fields by latest technologies and protective sprays.
Reduce wastage & water losses in field channels & in fields.
In our homes we need to make judicious use of water consumption especially in Bath Rooms & Laundries by way
of:
Introducing efficient low water consuming flushing systems and washing machines.
Improvise our bathing & other usage methods / habits.
Reduce wastages due to human habitual factors and leakages.
Introduce recycled water for flushing, washing, gardening etc.
Control the water polluting factors.
At the Government level, we will have to launch stringent laws and ensure their strict implementation
against:
Pollution (solid, liquid & Gaseous).
Changes in building & land use laws.
Encourage vertical expansion to reduce land requirements.
Make recycling processes mandatory to ensure zero discharge plants, industries, commercial / Government
/ community establishments.
Massive afforestation, catchment development works and biotic remedial measures for increasing green
cover to control soil erosion, landslides, siltation problems, flash floods, green house effects etc.
Make water conservation & rain water harvesting mandatory while issuing building permissions & launching
massive awareness programs & including it as a regular subject at school level curriculum.
Control population growth through people friendly policies and lucrative incentives for small family. Our first and foremost important duty is to mandatorily go for water conservation by way of rain water
harvesting at Individual levels and collectively at Community, State and National Levels. The rains which flow
waste as surface run off need to be conserved by implementing the principle of tap it where it falls and
make the gushing water to run , running water to walk , walking water to sleep and sleeping water to seep
into ground. Rains provide us the purest & precious form of water and need to be collected for our use. At
our homes, offices, schools & other building establishments, we need to go for roof top rain water harvesting by
collecting rainwater into above / underground small tanks, which can be reused directly or used for charging
the ground water through various low cost techniques. At community & village levels we can store rain water in
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
small artificial tanks, local natural depressions, underground wells / tanks for our domestic, agricultural and
other uses including ground water replenishment. Other low cost simple techniques like bunding, terracing,
trenching, pits (around large trees) etc. can be implemented for rain water harvesting.
Such highly low cost techniques have shown extremely encouraging results throughout the world with ground
water table in tube wells increasing by even more than 30m in chronic areas of India, increasing their yield and
sustainability. Rain water collection in artificial tanks and natural depressions was the main source of water for
earlier civilizations to meet their domestic, agricultural and other water demands but with our development
and advent of new techniques for water conveyance / harnessing systems like gravity / lift canal systems, tube
wells etc., we forgot rain water conservation through such low cost tanks and other proven methods, which has
now brought us at the present state of water & food crises. Our National policy of Security of Food & Water for
all will prove to be a hoax, if we do not go for rain water harvesting and efficient water management
techniques. It is the need of the hour to launch efficient robust awareness programs for rain water harvesting
and water conservation through print & electronic media, seminars, debates, tours & trainings and above all
introduce it in the regular curriculum at school level.
As per studies conducted by UN, due to water crises Interstate, National & International water disputes will
cause serious conflicts mostly in areas with low precipitation (major deserts) or high population density (e.g.
India) or both. According to a 2006 report by the UNDP, in 2005, 700 million people (11% of the Worlds
Population) lived under water crises with a per capita water supply below 1700 Cu.m /year (India = 1720.29
Cu.m/year). The report predicts that by 2025 more than 3 billion people (about 40% of the Worlds population)
will live in water stressed areas mostly from China and India. It has also been projected that in next two
decades the Global water demand will be 17% more than the resources available. The water crises will also
affect the food production, making us unable to feed our ever growing population.
Future Wars are projected to be fought not for territorial disputes but for conflicts with water crises and its
pollution, being question of basic sustenance of human life on earth. It has been reported that historic &
future areas of water conflict include the Middle East (Euphrates and Tigris River conflict among Turkey, Syria
and Iraq; Jordan River conflict among Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories), Africa (Nile River
conflict among Egypt, Ethopia & Sudan), Central Asia (Aral Sea conflict among Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Krygyzstan), and South Asia (Indus River Conflict between India & Pakistan). It is
also expected that conflict between India & China on Brahamputra River can also erupt as a new dispute.
To avert future Water Wars, we need to adopt long term conservation & sustainability approaches to extend our
fresh water reserves. It is for us to decide, whether we have to pave way to facilitate future wars on water
disputes and acquire huge warfare equipment at the cost of our development & destruction or we need to rise
to the occasion, feel our legitimate responsibilities, both individually as well as collectively and initiate earnest
steps for judicious use and conservation of water for our posterity to survive peacefully on this beautiful
planet, God has created for our comfort. It is now a wakeup call for we all and we are left with no alternative
but to sincerely resolve at National & International level, that We need Water Tanks not Battle Tanks for
the survival of life on this planet.
Zahoor Ahmad Chat (Tech. Head Hydro), Jammu
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau
Agar Boroie Firdous Janat Zameen Astt, Wo Hami Astt, Hami Astt, Hami Astt.
If there is Heaven on Earth It is Here, It is Here, It is Here
The above verse is said by a Persian Poet Firdousi for Kashmir Valley, Its scenic beauty, green
pastures, plains, hills, long pine trees, blue water lakes, snow bound mountains, silver waterfalls etc.
But torrential rains followed by floods of Sept. 2014, although it came after a century, made
people cry and die, within hours the Heaven turned Havoc, every one eagerly waiting for help to leave his
shelter/home, which had turned into death trap, to run for safety. Buildings /houses collapsed and dashed to
ground, everywhere was a sight of ruins, people / families cry.
Nothing but memories remain, Vallities have again started collecting their ruins, going to work, life now coming
to normal. Heaven will regain its pristine glory, let us all unite, cooperate and contribute, and rebuild it again,
Make Kashmir, Make India is the Sprit
Prithi Pal Singh, Electrical and Control Engineer, Parnai HEP, J&K
Wounded Valley
Arham Chopra,
Son of Mr. Shagun
Chopra ,GM
(Jammu- RO),
won 1st Prize in
Fancy Dress
Competition ,
played a
character of
Pita hua Pati in
the year 2013
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Creativity & Talent Hunt!
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott
Aayush Raj, Son of Honble CMD Mr. Raj
Kumar, student of Amity School, Noida is one
of the 3 meritorious students of class VIII of
Uttar Pradesh. To get the "Vashisht Ratnam
award with a cash amount of Rs.4800 by the
Uttar Pradesh government for excellent
academic performance securing more than 96
% marks in all the academic years till now.
Anish Raj, Son of our Honble CMD Mr. Raj Kumar, participated in
under 8 boys, quads & won Gold in both 300 mt. (time trial) and
500 mt. rink race with lowest time of 44.20 seconds beating his
competitor with a marvelous 4.32 seconds gap at the event held
at DPSG International Dasna, Ghaziabad ( Uttar Pradesh), in CBSE
East Zone skating Championship.
This event was organized by Ministry of Sports, Govt. of India on
13th to 15th Oct 2014.
AWARD
Anish Raj, Son of our Honble CMD Mr. Raj Kumar, participated in the
national skating championship 2014-15, organized by Ministry of Sports and
Youth Affairs, Govt. of India, at South Point school, Sonepat (Haryana), he
is the youngest skater in India to win both Gold and One of the 5 Indian
skaters to get maximum medals in both 300 and 500 mt. races in quads
category. He beated his competitor from Mangalore with a gap of 1.78
seconds & only the student from Uttar Pradesh being facilitated by the
Chief Minister of State with Chacha Nehru award of the year 2014-15 for
academics and extra-curricular activities.
Chandra Prakash Asst. Manager Contracts (HO)
Nothing succeeds like success. However, in present competitive world
the contours of success have become unlimited due to elastic and
expanding human world. All that is needed is urge and inquisitiveness to
know the unknown which is possible by developing the scientific
temper. We are living in the world of symbiosis where economies are
becoming interdependent, cultures are synthesizing and various facets
of life have got new meaning and message due to advent of science and
technology.
To conquer our within and outside, we need innovation and persuasion.
After all success is not end of human endeavors but a stage in it.
Tabeen Sahar Kakroo
Electrical Engineer, Jammu RO
Creativity & Talent Hunt!
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Accountant, Jammu RO
Art by Suman Guha, Exe
(BD), HO
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.
If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them
in your lifetime. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.
A person's height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother. If a part of your body "falls asleep", you can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.
There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - Food, attractive people and danger Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side
Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odour. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.
There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.
People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don't. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.
A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!!
Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 liters of water!! Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!
Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.
Asif Iqbal, Asst. Bridge Engineer, NH-2, Varanasi
Jammu Udhampur Project