New Commissioner for people-friendly approach

TIRUCHI: Assuring transparent administration and a people-friendly approach, the new City Police Commissioner E.Ma.Masanamuthu, who took charge on Wednesday, said the public were free to contact him at any time to get their grievances redressed.

“The public can contact me by dialling 9840433005. The identity of callers will be kept confidential,” he said, adding that the callers could even confine themselves to passing on information without identifying themselves.

Spelling out priorities, Mr. Masanamuthu said the City Police while focussing efforts on law and order and crime prevention, would be well prepared for providing VIP bandobust in the city where, he observed, political parties and people converged for holding conferences and processions owing to its convenient location in the State.

Medical check up

By March, the entire strength of City Police right from constables to Commissioner would have gone through medical check up to deal with ailments like blood pressure, diabetes and heart complications that have become common for police personnel due to enormous stress and strain.

The initiative will be complemented with yoga training, Mr.Masanamuthu said.

As for grave crimes, station-level officers would be told that registering a case is as much important as its disposal, he said, and warned tough action against rowdy elements and anti-socials. “There will be no mercy on them.”

The Commissioner also expressed his interest in strengthening community policing concept and was hopeful of getting the 250 vacancies in the City Police unit filled after six months when the thousands of constable and sub-inspector trainees will pass out.

The new Deputy Commissioner of Police – Law and Order, S.Jayapandian took charge subsequently replacing Rupesh Kumar Meena, who has been transferred as Superintendent of Police, Perambalur district.

The new Deputy Commissioner – Crime and Traffic S. Ramaiyan took charge earlier this week.

BHEL likely to achieve over Rs 12,750 cr turnover

Power plant equipment major BHEL's unit here is poised to surpass Rs 12,750 crore turnover at the end of this fiscal, a senior executive of the PSU said here.

"This fiscal we will end with a turnover exceeding Rs 12,750 crore as against Rs 10,008 crore achieved during the previous fiscal.

We are maintaining a growth rate of 34 per cent year on year. We are hopeful of achieving a turnover of Rs 16,200 crore in 2011-12, A V Krishnan, Executive Director , BHEL, told PTI here.

The achievement is the result of the recent capacity augmentation at the unit here, he said.

BHEL had already accrued a fat order book to the tune of Rs 38,000 crore here as of December 1, 2010 and many more orders were in the pipeline

The Q4 for the PSU was a busy one. The BHEL unit here would dispatch 3 lakh metric tonnes of power plant components within two months, Krishnan said.

The BHEL was ready with technologies like higher capacity (600-880 mw) thermal power plant through super critical boilers, nuclear steam generators, integrated gasification combined cycle systems, higher capacity piping systems and super critical valves, he said.

"The company has already initiated improvement programmes like sequential dispatches, standardisation, reduction of cost of operations and wastage materials", he said.

Source : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/7417835.cms

Tiruchi marathon: Participants go the extra mile to grab slots

TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi marathon on Sunday saw participants giving their best in the quest for glory.


Organised by the Tiruchi-unit of Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT), the district-level marathon attracted about 1500 participants.


Mayor S. Sujatha flagged off the marathon from the Anna Stadium here.


For men and women (open category), the race was held for 21 km and 10 km respectively.


Men and women (below 20 years of age) covered a distance of 10 km and 5 km respectively. For boys and girls (below 16 years of age) the race was for 5 km.


“The response for the marathon was very good. More than winning, the spirit of participation is what that counts,” said P. Kalaiselvan, District Sports Officer.


Winners


Open category: Men: 1. N. Prabhu (Home Guard), 2. K. Suresh (TNSP), 3. P. Gopi (Customs); Women: M. Vidhya (Thottiyam), 2. R. Nachiar (Crawford), 3. B. Ramya (UDV Higher Secondary School).


Under-20 age category: Men: I. Albert Raj (St. Joseph's College), 2. S. Palaniappan (St. Joseph's College), 3. R. Anburaj (E.R. HSS); Women: 1. T. Maria Philomena Rani (Holy Cross HSS), 2. S. Mythili (Srirangam Girls HSS), 3. T. Rahini (Srirangam Girls HSS).


Under-16 age category: Boys: 1. A. Prabhakaran (Tiruchi Sports Hostel), 2. R. Rajarajan (UDV HSS), 3. S. Vignesh (UDV HSS); Girls: 1. T. Akilandeswari (Boiler Plant Girls HSS), 2. J. Anjana (Periyar Maniammai Girls HSS), 3. S. Kamali (Periyar Maniammai Girls HSS).


Thomas Gnanaraj, joint secretary, Tamil Nadu Basketball Association and S. Panneerselvam, Regional Senior Manager, Tiruchi-unit of SDAT gave away the prizes.


The top ten finishers in each category have qualified to take part in the Chennai marathon.

National College to offer diploma course in Factory Management

National College has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the BHEL Small and Medium Industries Association (BHELSIA) to offer a diploma course in Factory Management.

The MoU was signed here on Friday by K. Anbarasu, principal, National College, and Rajappa Rajkumar, president, BHELSIA, in the presence of A.V. Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi complex. The course content includes three major components – office management, labour laws, and English proficiency.

The course was intended to tide over the manpower shortage faced by the member units of BHELSIA and the industry at large. Faculty members of the college, and experts from the industry would handle the classes.

Inaugurating the programme, Mr. Krishnan said that apart from producing trained managers for the industry, the course would help in fostering budding entrepreneurs. While production was the core activity of any company, labour, office, inventory, and safety managements have to be handled properly to ensure the success of business.

The industry in Tiruchi, which has emerged as hub of power plant equipment manufacturing in the country, required trained technical and managerial manpower to meet the changing business environment, and the course would help meet the demand, he observed.

Mr.Rajkumar said given the BHEL's rising output and growth rate, the ancillary units were facing shortage of manpower, both technical and managerial. As of now, the ancillary units required about 6,000 additional trained manpower. The BHELSIA was addressing the issue by conducting such programmes in collaboration with educational institutions, he added.

Mr. Anbarasu said this was the second MoU signed between the college and BHELSIA. The college was already offering a diploma course in fabrication engineering under the previous MoU. Though the diploma in fabrication engineering was started under the self-financing stream, the University Grants Commission has approved it as a career oriented programme and granted Rs.10 lakh for conducting it. The college was hopeful of getting the UGC approval for the factory management course too, he said.

V. Selvaraj, Joint Chief Inspector of Factories, and K. Raghunathan, college secretary, spoke.

Rs.5.15-crore additional fund for roads scheme

TIRUCHI: The State government has sanctioned an additional allocation of Rs.5.15 crore to the Tiruchi Corporation under the Special Roads Scheme 2010-11.

The government has allocated Rs.25 crore under the scheme to the civic body a few months ago. The Corporation has taken up 286 works for strengthening and developing 127 black-topped roads and 159 cement concrete roads, in the city. Priority is given for relaying or strengthening of roads that have not been re-laid over the past five years or those damaged owing to natural calamities. Contracts for the works have been awarded in 15 packages.

Works finalised

With the sanction of additional funds, the Corporation has finalised a few more works. Cement concrete roads for a stretch of 4.20 km and black-topped roads for a distance of 13.46 km will be strengthened utilising the additional funds.

On Tuesday, Corporation Commissioner T.T.Balsamy convened a meeting with the contractors ahead of the tenders to be called on January 31. The meeting was attended by City Engineer S.Raja Mohamed, Executive Engineers R.Chandran and S.Arunachalam.

Haphazard parking takes a toll on city roads

TIRUCHI: In recent years, Tiruchi city has witnessed a considerable development in its infrastructure facilities particularly roads whether National Highways, State Highways or Corporation roads.

The conversion of Tiruchi-Chennai National Highway into a four-lane road, and expansion and widening of major thoroughfares in the city by the Corporation are a gift to road-users. Incidentally, the development and expansion took place almost simultaneously in the last two to three years. The Thillai Nagar main road, Collector office road, Williams road, Bharathiar road, Salai road, Sastri road, and Madurai road were developed and strengthened over the last few years . This has ensured free flow of traffic to a major extent.

However, the presence of automobile workshops, shops selling decorative stickers for four-wheelers and more importantly, haphazard parking on both sides of the road by omnibuses in the busy roads continues to create traffic bottlenecks much to the chagrin of road-users enforcement agencies and traffic authorities.

Consumer activists say that the stretch from State Express Transport Corporation bus stand to R.C.School junction becomes a convenient spot for drivers to park lorries, vans and omnibuses on either side of the Mcdonalds road. This has almost become a daily phenomenon causing serious inconvenience to pedestrians.

The problem on Bharathidasan road, especially the stretch between Mutharaiyar statue junction to cantonment police station is the parking of cars, auto rickshaws and other vehicles during peak hours in the mornings and evenings causing extreme hardship to the other vehicle- users. The cars are parked haphazardly blocking free flow of traffic, consumer activists say.

Collector Office road, which sports a new look, has also not been spared. Omnibuses, parcel lorries are parked in front of the Raja Colony in a row. At Periamilaguparai area, heavy vehicles are found parked on the left side of the road, waiting to be repaired at workshops located on the right side of the road. The trouble is palpable even at the entrance of KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College. Birds road – a narrow stretch – accounts for a row of automobile workshops, and lot of three and four-wheelers are seen parked here, causing traffic bottleneck.

Schools, central government offices, cinema halls, residential apartments are situated on the Williams road. Four wheelers are found parked throughout the day in front of the car accessories stores, and sticker shops situated on the road.

Notwithstanding the removal of encroachments, haphazard parking of vehicles along the city roads persists, calling for greater attention on the part of the enforcement authorities in ensuring better traffic management, say city residents in unison. The parking of vehicles along these stretches shrinks the road space, causing traffic hold up and makes the zone accident- prone.

With the number of light, medium and heavy vehicles increasing day by day, long time residents of the city feel that the authorities concerned should earmark specific areas for parking of omnibuses, lorries, and other light vehicles. Given the burgeoning vehicle population, it is high time that steps should be taken for the construction of an integrated bus stand with immediate effect, with a separate area earmarked for parking omnibuses.

According to C.Balasubramanian, president, district Exnora, the operators of tourist cars, contract buses, omnibuses should be directed to park their vehicles in their own premises to ensure that the common man has a safe drive.

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