Archive for July, 2012
Eighty-six percent of Odisha households do not have access to piped water supply
Following report is from the Sambad:
Nagpur air traffic control (ATC) linked to Jharsuguda airport
Following is a report from TOI:
NAGPUR: The air traffic control (ATC) at Nagpur airport has achieved another milestone by getting interlinked with Jharsuguda ATC. Nagpur ATC is already linked to Bhopal and Hyderabad ATCs, and now it can monitor air traffic over 75% of the country.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, airport manager AK Verma said the interlinking was done by laying an optical fibre cable. “Jharsuguda ATC was commissioned a few days ago. Now, our area extends 960km in the east, 890km in south and 650km in north. Mumbai was linked to Nagpur before the project was launched.”
Airport Authority of India (AAI) had started installation of Indra radars at 38 airports of the country. Nagpur was the first to be commissioned in January 2012. It is also installing automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADSB) systems in airports and work in Nagpur is going on at full space. The deadline for this project is December 2013. ADSB will supplement the ATC radars.
“In the present system, ATC transmits electromagnetic waves to the aircraft, which send back its location. When ADSB transponders are installed in aircraft and on ground, the ATC will continuously get signals about their location,” Verma explained.
Office on special duty (OSD) Shafique Shah and ATC in-charge SC Haldar said that work on GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation (Gagan) was also going on at full swing. This technology uses satellites to aid aircraft in navigation. “We will, however, keep the present equipment on standby.” Presently, Gagan is only used in United States, Russia and Europe. China and Japan do not use this technology.
Kosli language Magazine “Parbha” (published from Titlagarh)
Following graphic was posted on my FB wall by Bijaya Meher:
Staff crunch stares at Deogarh College
Following is a report from TNIE:
There have been many agitations over vacancies in the Deogarh College. Teachers, however, are yet to be posted much to the disappointment of the students.
Last year on August 4, students locked the main gate of the Deogarh College demanding filling up of vacant teacher posts. On August 8, they called for a 12-hour Deogarh bandh which received widespread support.
Subsequently, they unlocked the main gate after the then Regional Director, Higher Education, Bijay Laxmi Mishra promised that teachers from neighbouring colleges would be deputed to the College till a permanent arrangement is made.
But with no development since then, students are threatening to hit the streets again. More than half of the sanctioned posts in the College are lying vacant since long.
Set up in 1963, Deogarh College – the oldest and the only college in the district offering science streams – has a sanctioned strength of 40 teachers. At present, there are only 18.
While two sanctioned teacher posts in Mathematics are lying vacant since March 2010, Chemistry, Zoology, History, Political Science and Logic departments have one teacher each. Similarly, departments of Physics, Botany, English, Economics and Education have two teachers each.
Only Odia department has three faculty members.
The College has about 800 students on rolls. Principal Chittaranjan Das said the authorities had been apprised of the situation.
Sambalpur University inks Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with College of Charleston
Following report is from the Sambad:
