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Anilbhai lives in Seawind, an 8-floor building in Cuffe Parade. It is where Mukeshbhai is shifting out of.Singha wrote:do you know what kind of property Ratan tata and Anil ambani lives in ?
Is there a helicopter shuttle service between Colaba/Nariman point kind of areas to the airport ? . How do these fat cats get to the airport?. I am sure they fly every other day. It is a hellish drive through some incredibly dense traffic. Somehow I don't envisage them taking the Mumbai suburban trains, squished like sardines and without air conditioning.BhairavP wrote:Anilbhai lives in Seawind, an 8-floor building in Cuffe Parade. It is where Mukeshbhai is shifting out of.Singha wrote:do you know what kind of property Ratan tata and Anil ambani lives in ?
Ratan Tata lives in Bakhtawar building, Colaba.. v.close to Seawind. A duplex apartment.
Trust the pure fool to know what's going down well (or up for the matter) with the public. And trust a UK newspaper to feret out Pure fool from whatever hole he usually stays in for the quote!Praful Bidwai, a newspaper columnist, said the divide between rich and poor was obscene. "Mr Ambani is building an edifice to his own ego," he said. "It will not go down well with the public. There is growing anger about such absurd spending."
It is a deliberate strategy of Gora journalists to quote only the Indian leftist activists as "experts" on any situation in the country. This is because these people can be relied upon to give anti-India and anti-BJP quotes and also pass sarcastic remarks about India's growth and achievements. Actually, the way these stories are done by Western editors, they seem to be an edifice to their own bloated White egos.Trust the pure fool to know what's going down well (or up for the matter) with the public. And trust a UK newspaper to feret out Pure fool from whatever hole he usually stays in for the quote!
Sanjay,sanjaychoudhry wrote: Actually, the way these stories are done by Western editors, they seem to be an edifice to their own bloated White egos.
Yeah.. that's the one. What's your email ID? Have some stuff to share which I would rather not blurt out on a public forum.Singha wrote:oh so they still occupy same building. I have seen it , has a spiral car ramp
upto 3rd floor doesnt it ? in those days 1995 such car ramps were a novelty
because multi storeyed parking was quite rare in India.
Mailed. Singhaji.. will mail in detail tomorrow.Rohit_K wrote:BhairavP, Can you please email me at rohitk105 at gmail dot com? There's something I need to talk to you about.
They're in love with Chinese goods, aren't they?The contract, worth Rs 604 crore, was won after the firm outbid two other consortia — Alstom Transport SA, France, with Alstom Projects India Ltd. And Rotem Company, Korea, with Bharat Earth Movers Ltd.
MUMBAI: The Reliance Energy Limited-led consortium's bid to construct the Mumbai TransHarbour Link (MTHL) between Sewree and Nhava may be scrapped by the cabinet subcommittee on infrastructure headed by chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday.
According to a source in the state secretariat, the subcommittee may ask the nodal agency, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), to complete the project on its own with financial assistance from multinational banks.
For this purpose, the government is likely to ask the MSRDC to form a separate special purpose vehicle, like the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) for the metro railway project in the city.
The promise made by the Anil Ambani-led consortium, that it would build the 22km sea link and recover its costs in just under 10 years, had raised eyebrows in the government after experts and engineers termed it 'unrealistic'.
The Himachal Government has given out a mega contract for road construction worth Rs.1365.435 crore to a Chinese construction company. More than 400 km of State highways and main district roads are to be upgraded and periodic maintenance of 2,000 km of road done under this project.
I dont know how to say it politely so here is THE ****** HAVE LOST THEIR MIND GIVING CONTRACT IN BORDER STATE FOR ROADS TO CHINESEbala wrote:Another mindless/spineless order to Tibet Stomping CCCP Goons Inc. for what ? When did they become the PWD for India?
Chinese company gets Himachal road contract
The Himachal Government has given out a mega contract for road construction worth Rs.1365.435 crore to a Chinese construction company. More than 400 km of State highways and main district roads are to be upgraded and periodic maintenance of 2,000 km of road done under this project.
It was Reliance Infra and not Maharashtra Govt which gave the contract.bart wrote:It is ironic that while the Chinese themselves buy German, French and Japanese trains, MAH govt wants to buy Chinese trains.
Katare,Suspecting qualities of Chinese trains based on your experience of Chinese light-bulbs and shoes is not creditable.
Agreed.Chinese competition is very important in making sure that our infrastructure and industrial capacity is built at cheapest cost possible. I am pretty sure next time Indian bidders would come back with better-cost models.
“While Chinese presence in India in other sectors is not unknown, their entry as workers into the construction industry signals a serious shortage in the domestic market.”
Hyderabad, June 15 If you see a group of Chinese nationals laying a telecom cable or working on road-widening, don’t be surprised.
Of late, the construction boom in India is luring skilled and semi-skilled construction workers from China.
They are already working in some pockets of the country including Andhra Pradesh and Bihar and there could be more in north and eastern India, according to the information available with the National Academy of Construction (NAC) here.
“We were quite surprised when we came to know that Chinese workers are coming to India. There are also requests that some of them should be trained at our academy,” Mr V. Prabhu, Additional Director General, NAC, told Business Line here.
The Chinese workers are being brought to India by overseas labour contractors in teams and about 300 of them are working in some parts of Andhra Pradesh on cable-laying for a private telecom company.
“They are brought to India on the promise of providing food and shelter for a fixed period of time and wages do not differ much from their Indian counterparts (Rs 150-200 a day),” Mr Prabhu said.
“The mismatch between the demand and supply of the construction workers in different parts of the country and the seasonal unemployment in China could be behind the presence of Chinese workers in India,” he added.
What brings the Chinese workers to India is their experience in infrastructure works, according to an official of Reliance Industries Ltd which currently employs over 1,000 Chinese in its 1,440-km East West Gas Pipeline (from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Baruch in Gujarat) project.
“We have over 1,000 Chinese working at different levels from manual labour to entry level technical supervisors. They have experience in grounding mega infrastructure projects,” the RIL official said.
While Chinese presence in India in other sectors is not unknown, their entry as workers into the construction industry signals a serious shortage in the domestic market, said Mr S. Chandrasekhar, Director, International Infrastructure Consultants Pvt Ltd, Chennai.
As most of the Indian manual workers display unwillingness to migrate to other parts from their place, training institutes should be set up across the country to train and create awareness among them, he said.
their entry as workers into the construction industry signals a serious shortage in the domestic market, said Mr S. Chandrasekhar, Director, International Infrastructure Consultants Pvt Ltd, Chennai.
The mismatch between the demand and supply of the construction workers in different parts of the country and the seasonal unemployment in China could be behind the presence of Chinese workers in India,”
They have experience in grounding mega infrastructure projects,” the RIL official said
The reason is sociological - ever since Indian society created social classes based on categories of work ( menial, religious etc.), physical labour has been looked down upon. Only the economically deprived sections will do it - as they have no other option. This bias is deep-rooted and will not go away easily.rachel wrote:As with many items involving India vs China, this latest tidbit makes me ashamed. China has a higher per capita income than India, yet Chinese workers are willing to travel to Africa and India to do back-breaking manual labor... and by contrast, Indian workers (who cannot possibly have the excuse of being rich like European or some Arab sheikhdom counter-parts ) hesitate to work on projects in their own country?
A nation with as much poverty as India .. using basic unskilled labor from China?
It really seems that the Chinese are more enterprising and ambitious than Indian workers. Why???
Having completed barely a month in office, BJP's Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa already sounds uncannily like his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi, stressing on nothing other than development as his high priority agenda for the state.
If he begins a conversation with the media it will be about his developmental projects and his targets. He waxed eloquent how he snatched some time off his three-day visit here to look at the Gurgaon SEZ and rattled off the number of new airports for which he had already laid foundation in Hassan, Shimoga and Gulbarga within 15 days of taking office.
While Yeddyurappa dismissed any parallel with Modi saying he is following the "Atal Bihari Vajpayee model", he agreed that "Gujarat has done well" and also revealed that his industry minister was in Gujarat on Thursday, with his team, to draw from the state's experience.
Asserting that his target is to take Karnataka from the 7th position on the economic map to the top, the CM said that his target is to turn Bangalore into an international city benchmarked on all prescribed standards.
Confirming that he will soon take a decision in keeping with the court's directives to start work on the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC), Yeddyurappa said talks are on with civil aviation minister Praful Patel.
http://howrah.org/india_news/17873.htmlExpansion of airports soon
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday unveiled ambitious plans to develop airports across the state, in order to make the state an ideal investment and tourism destination. Mr Yeddyurappa said his ambition is to raise the ranking of Karnataka from the 7th position to the 1st ranking state in the country.
Asserting that civil aviation would receive top-most priority, Mr Yeddyurappa said that he had laid the foundation stones for Gulbarga and Shimoga Airports. For the proposed Hassan Airport, he said, bids have been invited.
As far as the Bijapur Airport was concerned, while the Indian Air Force planes operate from there, efforts are being made to operate even civilian planes from the Bijapur Airport.
The Karnataka government has offered land free of cost to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and is even prepared to sanction Rs 3 crores for the construction of a new airport terminal. In Hubli, Belgaum and Mangalore, where airports already exist, the Karnataka government plans to expand these airports.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Inf ... 182431.cmsKarnataka to reboot, targets Rs 1,20,000-cr IT revenues by 2011
Top software industry leaders have presented a blueprint to the BJP government in Karnataka for the revitalisation of the information technology and biotech industries in the state to more than double revenue from the sectors to Rs 1,20,000 crore by 2011.
One of the key components of the blueprint is the creation of four new hubs of 500 acres each around Bangalore exclusively for companies in the IT, BT and health sectors, with industry and government jointly buying land from farmers at market rates.
Access to land in and around Bangalore for expansion, along with the city’s well-documented infrastructure crisis, have been long-standing concerns for IT companies. Applications for land allotment by top names such as Infosys and Wipro have been hanging fire even as they step up investments at locations outside Karnataka.
Karnataka’s leadership in the IT sector appears to be under serious threat, with software exports from the state growing by just 11% during 2007-08, compared to Andhra Pradesh’s 41%, Tamil Nadu 37% and the national average of 29%.
Bangalore’s technology sector employs some 6 lakh people, nearly a tenth of the city’s total population.
The revitalisation blueprint, a copy of which is with ET, envisages an autonomous empowered authority to give all permissions and approvals for what it calls the ‘IT-BT-Health cities.’
Nordic countries have these kind of clustered cities that fuels innovation. In these cities universities are sort of mega uni's in which different departments collaborate together to create unique product. The whole process is first facilitated by organizing a course one on the line of new product development or venture creation. Where students from different departments marketing/sales/industrial design/IT..etc come together to create something or take their ideas forward. They refine their ideas in these courses and later on university incubator steps in and help them to take the idea to market.Elaborating on the project, Jain said: "The knowledge city will be divided in four districts: IT, University, Airport and Biotech."
One of the greatest hurdles for Indian consturction industry is the lack of trained semi skilled labour. (Carpenters, masons, etc). There is a total lack of training infrastructure for these skilles. In Germany it takes up to 5 years to become a craftsman. 2-3 years of training then apprentership. That is the reason for the lack of quality construction.rachel wrote:As with many items involving India vs China, this latest tidbit makes me ashamed. China has a higher per capita income than India, yet Chinese workers are willing to travel to Africa and India to do back-breaking manual labor... and by contrast, Indian workers (who cannot possibly have the excuse of being rich like European or some Arab sheikhdom counter-parts ) hesitate to work on projects in their own country?
A nation with as much poverty as India .. using basic unskilled labor from China?
It really seems that the Chinese are more enterprising and ambitious than Indian workers. Why???