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

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30%

40%

50%

60%

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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

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played a

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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