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Republic day
celebration: Sun City World School, Gurgaon
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It
was an afternoon of patriotism, fun and music. At the suncity world
school, the republic day was celebrated with lots of enthusiasm,
dedication and frolic. The event was graced by congress MP navin jindal,
His highness Arvind singh Mewar of Udaipur and Sh. L N Goel of Zee
network. The event was attended by lots of student’s there families.
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Gurgaon News: More Cops,
better policing
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Haryana
chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced that 4,000 police
constables would soon be recruited in the state. The chief minister, who was
interacting with a delegation of the disbanded Haryana Industrial Security
Force, said that as they were already trained, they would be given weight age
in the recruitment of police force.
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Haryana
delegation reaps Rs.2200 crore investment
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A
High Powered official-cum-business delegation led by Chief Minister Haryana,
Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda visited Korea & Japan from 26th Nov., 2005 to
4th Dec., 2005. The prime objective of the visit was to market Haryana as an
ideal destination for investment with some of the high profile Korean and
Japanese Companies.
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IT corridor in Panchkula & IMT Manesar
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HSIDC
has acquired 97 acres of prime land from HUDA for the development
of an IT Corridor in Panchkula. The proposed corridor shall be
located along the picturesque backdrop of Shivalik range facing
the golf course developed by HUDA in Sector 22 of Panchkula. This
IT corridor will be developed on campus planning norms as
envisaged in the new industrial policy.
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Rs. Five
crore term loan for Katyani Images
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M/s
Katyani Images (India) Pvt. Ltd.has been sanctioned a term loan of
Rs.500 lakh by the Corporation for part financing their new unit for
embroidery and under garments at IMT Manesar. Katyani Images is an
existing company engaged in the manufacturing of sweaters, T-shirts,
embroidered fabrics and laces. Presently, the company is having two
manufacturing facilities at New Delhi and U.V. Gurgaon.
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Gurgaon News:
Gail INKS MoU
With HSIDC for Natural Gas |
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Gas
Authority of India (GAIL) and HSIDC have signed a Gas Cooperation
Memorandum of Understanding (GCMoU) for assessment of demand potential
for developing a supply and distribution network of natural gas and
allied products in the State of Haryana and also to utilise GAIL’s
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Gurgaon News:
RIL signs
MoU with HSIDC
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HSIDC
and Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), the largest private sector
enterprise in the country have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
to set up a world class Special Economic Zone over an area of 25,000
acres in Haryana with a capital cost of more than Rs.25,000 crore. The
MoU was signed on 12th December ‘05 in the presence of Chief Minister
Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Chairman of RIL, Mr. Mukesh D.Ambani.
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Gurgaon News: Hooda to ensure fair canal water distribution
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In
a major decision, the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
has ordered a survey of distribution of canal water in the state
with a view to ensuring equitable distribution in all districts.
After the survey, the total availability of water and requirements
of different districts will be re-examined and the share of each
district fixed.
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Haryana
has low percentage of birth, death registration
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Haryana
was still lagging behind many other states in the matter of
registration of births and deaths, stating this the Haryana Census
Commissioner, Mr Sunil Gulati, said here that the percentage of
the registration of births and deaths in the state had been
hovering between 70 and 75 per cent for the past several years,
while it had reached hundred per cent in some other states,
including Kerala, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi,
Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
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Gurgaon News:
BPL relocates CTV manufacturing plant from Gurgaon to
Noida |
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BPL
Limited has relocated its colour television manufacturing facility
at Gurgaon to its other existing plant at Noida. The shifted plant
has already commenced operations. BPL's Gurgaon facility had a
capacity of 500 CTVs per day.
Closing down of the Gurgaon facility is part of the company's
overall plan to cut cost and economise its operations by
relocating plants.Apart from this, the company has cut down its
personnel cost and there has been a freeze on recruitment for the
past one and a half year.
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Gurgaon News: Launch of prime residential projects |
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TOTAL of 550,000 sq.ft. of grade A office supply with added to the
stock in the National Capital Region (NCR) during the fourth quarter
of 2004. The net absorption during this period was estimated at
875,000 sq. ft. While no new construction activity was observed in
the Central Business District, a net absorption of 46,000 sq. ft.
was recorded in Grade... |
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Top Notch Call Center in talks
to buy foreign call center |
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Wipro
Spectramind a business process outsourcing company, is in talks with
eTelecare, a Philippine based call center company. If these talks
are successful this will be the first acquisition of a foreign call
center by an Indian company.Spectramind, a 100% subsidiary of
software major Wipro,is interested in the acquisition in order to
derisk its business from a customer perspective, especially from
geo-political tensions in India. |
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Gurgaon News: Interaction With
The Future |
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Unitech
in its endeavor to serve the society has ventured into providing
quality primary and higher education. Shikshantar School, in South
City Gurgaon, is promoted by Unitech South City Educational
Charitable Trust (USECT), the social and cultural development
division of Unitech. |
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Gurgaon’s
rocketing realty reality is not a slave to upmarket satellites of
New Gurgaon now. Citizens are looking past the millennium town now,
moreover according to industry connoisseurs, the subsequent
destination for realty investors is the Gurgaon-Sohna road, on the
Delhi-Jaipur highway.
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Gurgaon News: Why it is wise to invest in real
estate
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Investment
in real estate has become lucrative in view of the continued
demand-supply mismatch and cumulative yield on investment across
the city. Moreover the federal government has been consecutively
encouraging people to invest in housing through fiscal sops and
the efforts have started yielding results with more number of
people entering housing as an investment option.
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Gurgaon News: Haryana Govt's Decision
To Implement Automatic Tax
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Welcoming
the Haryana government's decision to set up Automatic Tax Collection
Centres on the borders of all interstate highways, PHDCCI President
Sushma Berlia has said the move will lead to higher revenue
collection in 2005-06 "The measure would check evasion of
passenger and goods tax and would thereby lead to higher revenue
collection which is projected at Rs 650 crore in 2005-06," she
said.
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Gurgaon News: HARYANA ANNUAL PLAN 2005-06 FINALIZED
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Annual
Plan size for Haryana for the year 2005-06 was approved today at a
meeting between the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Shri
Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Shri Bhupinder Singh
Hooda. The Plan outlay for 2005-06 was agreed at Rs.3000 crore. This
includes onetime additional Central assistance of Rs.25 crore
provided for specific projects of special interest to the State.
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`BPO industry
should meet customers' expectations' |
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Kochi , Jan 8
THE strategies drawn for the Indian BPO industry is often specific
to the day and is in response to the changing demands from various
geographical locations of the world, Professor Harsh Bhargav of IBS
Hyderabad said.
Speaking at the National Conference on `India - The Processing
Office to the World', organised by the ICFAI Business School, Kochi,
he cited the instances of floods, earthquakes and other natural
disasters, and how the BPO industry kept on working even in the face
of these calamities.
The calamities have also brought to the fore, the need for the
customer services industry to react fast. There is also a need to
develop the overall quality of service as well as the need to meet
the expectations and perceptions of customers on different
parameters.
The theme behind the conference was to create the awareness that BPO
business is not confined to call centres, but extends to back office
opportunities in valuation, credit rating, insurance claims,
processing, mutual funds, mortgage, education, printing, publishing,
employee compensation and other welfare measures.
The conference was of the view that the sunrise industry of BPO in
India has to be academically supported for addressing the shortage
of middle level managers and also in reducing the levels of
attrition. In his felicitation address, Mr Priyaranjan Jha,
Vice-President of GENPACT said that misconception about BPO as a
call centre needs to be dispelled and the industry needs to
rediscover itself.
Mr Andrew Winston, Head of IT Infrastructure at HCL Technologies
dealt at length on the requirements for developing IT
infrastructure, on optimising and redesigning of infrastructure to
reduce cost and provided an insight on data security and disaster
management recovery.
He also spoke about the challenges related to managing
infrastructure.
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2 Haryana trucks
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The ABSU wants a judicial probe into the incident and
exemplary punishment to the “culprits” who indulged in “molestation
and later opened fire”.
“We want maximum security for the train passengers. We want women
protected, not from thugs but from the security forces. Such
incidents are happening regularly,” Narzary said.
Another powerful tribal political group, the Bodo People’s
Progressive Front (BPPF), has called for a 12-hour general strike in
Assam on Monday in protest against the killings.
The ABSU organised a public cremation of the three victims even as
the security forces were put on maximum alert to prevent any
untoward incident.
A Haryana policeman was also killed in the mob violence and three
more of their colleagues were injured in the attack. Violence broke
out when a Haryana police contingent sexually assaulted three tribal
Bodo girls inside a running train.
A group of Bodo students that had boarded the train at Gossaigaon
mobilised ABSU activists over mobile phones about the incident.
Hundreds of local persons halted the train at the nearby Salakati
station and went on rampage trying to free the girls from the
clutches of the policemen who were reported to be in inebriated
state, witnesses said.
Sensing trouble, the Haryana Police team opened fire, killing three
Bodo students who were trying to get down from the train.
A contingent of the Assam Police that reached the spot tried to
pacify people, but a bullet fired from inside the train by Haryana
policemen wounded the officer-in-charge of the Salakati police
station.
The Haryana Police team was on way to Karbi Anglong district in
Assam to undergo a training course with the Assam Rifles. — IANS,
PTI
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HUDA officers
weary of confirming auction of land |
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Yoginder Gupta
Tribune News Service |
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Following
the open reluctance shown by senior officers of the Haryana Urban
Development Authority (HUDA) to confirm the auction of prime land in
Gurgaon, the political leadership in the state has now turned to a
relatively junior officer to do its bidding.
HUDA had
put to auction several prime properties, including an over 9.5 acre
site for a commercial tower in Sector 29 of Gurgaon on May 24 last.
The auction was publicised only a few days before the auction date.
The reserve price of the commercial tower site was fixed at Rs
106.65 crore, which came to about Rs 17,455 per sq mt The highest
bid for the site was Rs 111.10 crore.
Interestingly, in the same sector the reserve price of certain
properties was fixed between about Rs 34,000 per sq mt and over Rs
43,000 per sq mt. Of course, the properties, the reserve price of
which was fixed at over Rs 43,000 per sq mt were later withdrawn
from the auction.
The
Congress MLA, Mr Karan Singh Dalal, alleges that these high priced
properties were withdrawn from the auction because the lower reserve
price of the commericial tower site could not be justified.
However,
the HUDA officers say the reserve price is fixed according to an
approved formula which takes into account the priced fetched by a
similar property in the auctions conducted earlier. The reserve
price of the commercial tower site was fixed on the basis of an
auction conducted in the nineties. But they admit that the highest
bid received for the commercial tower site was much below the market
price. No wonder, senior HUDA officers are reluctant to touch the
relevant file even with a barge-pole.
After the
auction, certain complaints were received by various authorities
alleging that the auction was virtually hijacked by certain
musclemen. The Administrator, HUDA, Gurgaon, Dr Prem Chand Verma,
and the Estate Officer, HUDA, Gurgaon, also wrote to the higher
authorities that the final bid for the commercial tower site was
much below the market price.
Incidentally, Dr Verma is an Indian Revenue Service officer, who
came to Haryana on deputation and was given the Gurgaon assignment
during the present regime.
According
to informed sources, the senior officers decided that an inquiry
should be conducted into the complaints. The inquiry was entrusted
to the DC, Gurgaon. Somehow, it was further entrusted to the
Additional DC, Gurgaon, Mr Balraj Singh.
The
sources say, Mr Balraj Singh in his report held that the
complainants were non-existent. He also held on the basis of video
recording of the auction that no musclemen had hijacked it. However,
he also admitted that the final bid was much less than the market
price.
The
government, instead of rejecting the bid, left the matter to be
decided by the Administrator, HUDA, Gurgaon. Dr Verma proceeded on
long leave. The charge of his post was given to Mr Balraj Singh, who
obviously would not have confirmed the auction since he had held in
his inquiry report that the bid was below the market price. Then he
also proceeded on leave. Dr Verma, meanwhile, has gone on a training
of his parent department. The government gave the additional charge
of the Administrator to the SDM, Gurgaon, for a few days, because Dr
Verma is likely to return from his training in the beginning of
September.
Mr Dalal
alleges that the SDM, who is relatively a junior officer to hold the
post of Administrator, on which an IAS officer is appointed, has
been given the additional charge so that the political leadership
can pressurise him to confirm the auction.
It is
believed that the person, who bided for the property belonged to
Sirsa district, was a front man for the real buyer, who was once
close to a former Chief Minister of Haryana.
Mr Dalal
also claims that even the head office of HUDA had admitted
indirectly in a letter of June 6, 2004, that the reserve price was
wrongly calculated.
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