Rajasthan to get 83 New Technical institutes this year

Rajasthan govt is all set to increase the intake capacity of technical education by 11,100 in the near future as the department of technical education (DTE) has recommended 83 more technical institutes to be opened in the state. The recommendation has been sent to the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) for approval. The proposal is to start 34 engineering colleges, 41 MBA colleges and 8 MCA colleges in the academic year 2010-11. The move will take the number of engineering, MBA and MCA colleges to 130, 169 and 42 respectively in the state.
Most of these institutes, 15 engineering colleges to be precise, will come up in the vicinity of Jaipur, followed by four in Jodhpur and three in Kota, doubling the numbers in the respective places. Apart from the big cities, places like Bundi and Sikar too are likely to get a pie.
“Though we have proposed a number of institutes, we are still behind other states who churn out technocrats almost three times of what we do,” said an official of DTE. “We will add only 8,160 engineers to the existing 32,187, which is not a high number,” said Vipin Chandra Sharma, principal secretary, technical education.

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Sehwag out of T20 World Cup 2010

India's Twenty20 World Cup campaign suffered a body blow on Tuesday with hard-hitting opener Virender Sehwag being ruled out of the tournament because of a shoulder injury. The selectors named in-form Tamil Nadu batsman Murali Vijay as his replacement, while naming Gautam Gambhir the new vice captain. "Virender Sehwag has sustained a shoulder injury and has been advised rest for three-four weeks. He has therefore been ruled out of the ICC World T20," BCCI secretary N Srinivasan said in a statement. "The ICC's Technical Committee has permitted a replacement for him. The All-India Senior Selection Committee has accordingly picked Murali Vijay," he added. Incidentally, Sehwag had been injured in the 2009 edition of the T20 World Cup as well when he travelled to England with the squad but did not play a game.

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Lalit Modi's fate to be decided by BCCI meeting on 26th April

Lalit Modi's days as IPL Commissioner appeared to be numbered as Sharad Pawar met BCCI chief Shashank Manohar and announced that the league's Governing Council will meet on 26th April to take a "collective and unanimous" decision on his continuance. "Our (BCCI) total approach in the Governing Council will be they will take collective, unanimous decisions, and give future direction to Indian cricket," Pawar told reporters after Manohar flew in from Nagpur and discussed the "entire IPL situation". Asked whether Modi would have to resign, he said,"If the authority is vested with the Governing Council, neither Sharad Pawar nor Shashank Manohar is interested to interfere in the basic right of all the members."
He said the board always took decisions collectively and unanimously. Asked whether Modi would accept the Governing Council decision, he said, "Don't forget Mr Modi is also a vice president of the BCCI and our total approach and past experience, we always take collective and unanimous decision where everyone is party to, including Lalit Modi." Pawar said Manohar suggested that Modi should call the Governing Council meeting on 26th April in Mumbai.

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MBM Engineering College Jodhpur Alumani website launched

MBM Engineering College Jodhpur is top engineering college of Rajasthan under RPET Exams. MBM(Mugneeram Bangur Memorial) Engineering College, is a technical college at Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Engineers produced by this institute are working allover the world. The research products from this college have not only raised the name of the college, but it also raised the name of the Jodhpur city. A number of books written by the professors from this college are being used as text book in many universities in the world, including IITs and NITs in India. This is only the engineering institute in the world which has its mining department with its own underground mine with ventilation system. MBM students are known in all indian for cracking two main engineering giant GATE and IES exams.
History: The MBM Engineering College was established on August 15, 1951, by the Government of Rajasthan. This was made possible by a donation of 8.00 lakhs Rupees by Seth Ramcooverji Bangur of Didwana, to perpetuate the memory of his late brother Seth Mugneeramji Bangur, together with 2.00 lakhs Rupees from the Hanwant Benevolent Fund. Initially a three year degree course in Civil Engineering was offered. Degree course in Mining Engineering commenced in 1957 and in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from 1958. The college became a constituent Faculty of University of Jodhpur in 1962. In 1966 M. E. courses in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Mining Engineering commenced. Subsequently the course in Electronics and Communication was started in 1972, M. E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering), B.,E. (Production & Industrial Engineer), B.E. (Computer Science and Engineering) in 1990. The first batch of the students studying in the P & I Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering departments had been awarded B.E. degrees in the year 1994.
MBM College got the new very nice looking website for his Alumni members. This new site is created by Alumni member itself. On this site there are already many user registered and connecting each other. This site contain lot’s of information about the latest happening in the college and between the Alumni members. This site is driven by the user and have lot’s of user generated content as in form of blogging. It works like a closed social networking doing by the MBM Alumni people.
Website: http://mbmalumni.com

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Planning Commission to provide revised BPL report

Planning Commission will give revised estimates of families living below poverty line within a month for effective implementation of Targeted PDS and other welfare schemes. Replying to a supplementary in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said, "The Planning Commission has been authorised to look in the issue and give report in one month and based on that foodgrains would be sanctioned to all the states." On the complaint of shortage of foodgrains, the minister said lifting of foodgrains by states/union Territories under TPDS and other welfare schemes has been less than the allocation made to them.To a query by Lalu Prasad (RJD) that Bihar was not getting sufficient foodgrains, Pawar informed the House that like other states Bihar lifted less quantity of foodgrains compared to what was sanctioned. Against sanctioned foodgrains of 34.36 lakh tonnes, Bihar lifted only 20.51 lakh tonnes in 2009-10, he said adding the state government had suggested that there was a difference between actual and existing BPL card holders. Based on that, the Union Cabinet authorised Planning Commission to relook into the BPL survey and give report within a month.

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IT to investigate Modi's Rajasthan land deals

IPL commissioner Lalit Modi is embroiled in numerous land deals in Rajasthan involving many prominent developers and business houses during the regime of the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in that state, according to a source report of the Income Tax department. The document, the cricket-related contents of which ET first reported on Monday, also has details of his alleged role as a backroom operator who had the clout to swing land deals. The report has details of how Mr Modi and his associates in business and bureaucracy allegedly flouted rules and manipulated state agencies such as the Board of Infrastructure Development and Investment for private gains. The report details investigations into many big companies operating in Rajasthan. Since the nature of the contents are largely speculative and based on market intelligence garnered by I-T sleuths, ET, as a responsible paper, is not publishing the charges levelled against Mr Modi or the companies in detail.
In many ways, the barrage of allegations aimed at Mr Modi is the revenge of the Congress establishment, say sources. Not only is Mr Modi seen to be close to NCP strongman Sharad Pawar, his proximity to a number of BJP leaders has not gone down well with the Grand Old Party. Mr Gehlot refused to get into specifics of each of the deals. “Congress party is not into politics of vendetta,” said Mr Gehlot.

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BSNL unions strike called off

BSNL Employee unions indefinite strike called off after talk with government today. After discussion with Minister of Communications agreement has been reached and the Joint Action Committee has unanimously decided to call off the strike. within hours of going on indefinite strike, the employee unions of BSNL has called off the protest after the govt assured that the issue of disinvestment in the telecom PSU will be referred to a Group of Ministers. "We have assured them (unions) that the issue of disinvestment will be referred to a GoM and they would be consulted before taking other decisions with regard to BSNL," Telecom Minister A Raja said on Tuesday. A high level panel, headed by Sam Pitroda and banker Deepak Parekh and Telecom Secretary P J Thomas as members, had recommended 30 percent disinvestment in BSNL and voluntary retirement to over one lakh staff as part of steps to improve financial health of the PSU.
The apex body of BSNL unions claimed that over three lakh of its members had joined the strike action on Tuesday morning. The joint forum of unions has both executives and non-executives as members. Within hours, BSNL Chairman Kuldeep Goyal met the Telecom Minister and sought his intervention. "As the management has agreed to look into our major demands, we have decided to call-off the indefinite strike," convener of the Joint Action Committee of BSNL Associations and Unions VAN Namboodiri said. The Sam Pitroda panel was set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to suggest ways to improve BSNL's financial health. BSNL saw profits plummet to Rs 178 crore in 2009-2010 (up to December 2009) from over Rs 575 crore in 2008-09 as the PSU is rapidly losing market share to new entrants. The PSU has 91 million users, both mobile and landline. BSNL offers services across India, except Delhi and Mumbai. Besides the scrapping of the divestment plan, the unions were also demanding absorption of 1,500 Indian Telecom Services (ITS) officers, who have been continuing on deputation for the last 10 years.

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BSNL employees on indefinite strike from 20 April 2010

BSNL Executive and Non-Executive employees to go on indefinite strike from 20 April 2010 as a mark of protest against the proposed disinvestment of BSNL, Retrenchment of one lakh workers through VRS and sharing of valuable BSNL infrastructure including cables and towers with private telecom companies. The Unions also termed the recommendations shared by a Committee headed by Sam Pitroda as anti-people and anti-PSU. The Unions have also called for absorption of about 1500 ITS officers in BSNL. According to the Unions, they had to resort to strike since meetings with DoT Secretary and with Minister for Communications & IT did not sort out the issues.

Telecom services of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will be affected from Tuesday next as 300,000 of its employees, including executives, will go on an indefinite strike protesting the state-run firm's disinvestment plan. The strike call has been given by a joint forum of unions that has both executives and non-executives as members. The unions are also demanding absorption of the 1,500 Indian Telecom Services (ITS) officers in the company who have been continuing on deputation for the last 10 years. "The profits of the BSNL are declining as the ITS people working in the management are still on deputation. We demand their absorption as this will make them accountable to BSNL." Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had set up the Pitroda panel, with HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh and Telecom Secretary P J Thomas as members, to review the functioning of the company and suggest ways to improve its financial health.

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