I have created a facebook page on entrepreneurship through which students and prospective entrepreneurs can interact for win-win situation. Periodically I will share some interesting ideas with the members. Access the page here.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Enjoyable Places near Kataka
Damadamani is a quite calm place situated in the valley of eastern ghat mountain range very close to millennium city Kataka. One can reach this place via Chowdwar-Charbatia within forty five minutes from Kataka. Government of Odisha is constructing an earth dam of 360 meter long joining two small hills which will irrigate nearby villages. A famous temple of Maa Banadurga is built at the base of the hill. A good picnic spot with natural spring flowing alongside Damadamani will definitely become a more popular place to visit.
Some more photographs which speak their story.
The backyard area behind me in the picture will be submerged once this dam comes into picture.
Spending time with local people of Damadamani.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Virus, Bacteria and System
The recent onset of Swine-Flu epidemic in Odisha reminds me the peculiar characteristics of the Eco-system involving virus, bacteria and human body. The viruses become active during certain period of time when the atmosphere’s temperature and humidity provide extra boost for rampant multiplication. The viruses attack the weak human body and further lower the fighting capability of immune system. During this period the harmful bacteria which remain dormant till the time of virus attack, become active and damage our vital organs.
Similar activities are also observed in organisation throughout its life cycle. It willingly or unwillingly accepts viruses from the environment. When the system is inherently weak, virus (particular category people) automatically enters inside. With passage of time it weakens the immune system of the organisation. There are always combinations of useful and harmful bacteria (particular category people) available in any organisation. The presence of virus provides immoral boost to harmful bacteria to carry out nefarious activities. Gradually the whole organisation becomes weak and sick. Many times this type of case ultimately becomes fatal. Therefore the organisation has to quarantine or eliminate if possible, these harmful bacteria for healthy living. Proper immunisation will keep the virus at bay for which the organisation must seek the advice of external doctors. No self medication should be practiced.
Similar activities are also observed in organisation throughout its life cycle. It willingly or unwillingly accepts viruses from the environment. When the system is inherently weak, virus (particular category people) automatically enters inside. With passage of time it weakens the immune system of the organisation. There are always combinations of useful and harmful bacteria (particular category people) available in any organisation. The presence of virus provides immoral boost to harmful bacteria to carry out nefarious activities. Gradually the whole organisation becomes weak and sick. Many times this type of case ultimately becomes fatal. Therefore the organisation has to quarantine or eliminate if possible, these harmful bacteria for healthy living. Proper immunisation will keep the virus at bay for which the organisation must seek the advice of external doctors. No self medication should be practiced.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
My Views-August
Opportunities from Urbanisation
With rapid urbanisation in India, around thirty percent of total population is now-a-days dwelling in towns and cities. This trend creates market opportunities like transportation and communication, food, and healthcare, followed by housing and utilities, recreation and education.
Who stole engineering students?
Again this year (2010), we have seen around 19000 seats remain vacant in various engineering colleges of Odisha. Last year that figure was 8000. The rising cost of engineering education, poor infrastructural and teaching facilities, unprofessional attitudes and behaviours of promoters of these engineering colleges have lowered the confidence level of prospective students to pursue engineering as profession. This is exemplified by renewed interest of students for traditional courses like science, commerce etc.
With rapid urbanisation in India, around thirty percent of total population is now-a-days dwelling in towns and cities. This trend creates market opportunities like transportation and communication, food, and healthcare, followed by housing and utilities, recreation and education.
Who stole engineering students?
Again this year (2010), we have seen around 19000 seats remain vacant in various engineering colleges of Odisha. Last year that figure was 8000. The rising cost of engineering education, poor infrastructural and teaching facilities, unprofessional attitudes and behaviours of promoters of these engineering colleges have lowered the confidence level of prospective students to pursue engineering as profession. This is exemplified by renewed interest of students for traditional courses like science, commerce etc.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Dr.S.K.Sar Sir No More
Dr.Santosh Kumar Sar, our beloved teacher at UCE, Burla has died due to kidney failure at Bhubaneswar.
Friday, February 12, 2010
ENTERPRISE AWARENESS PROGRAMME at ABIT, CUTTACK
I have coordinated an Enterprise Awareness Programme (EAP) on Plastic Industries at Ajay Binay Institute of Technology, Cuttack from 9th to 11th February 2010 in collaboration with CIPET, Bhubaneswar. Around 100 students have participated in the said programme.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Netaji Jayanti celebration at Kataka
On 23rd January we have celebrated Netaji Jayanti in the memory of the great Subash Chandra Bose at Kataka. The figures show a sand sculpture built to commemorate the occasion near Big Bazaar, Old Jail road.Monday, October 05, 2009
Weekend News and Views-October
Who is to be blamed?
Over 8000 seats in Engineering, 2000 in MCA, 1300 in MBA streams are lying vacant even after two rounds of Joint Entrance examinations followed by Counseling conducted by the JEE Committee constituted by Policy Planning Body of Government of Orissa. Many wealthy people (not entrepreneurs) have jumped into the higher and technical education sector to make quick money without understanding the ground reality. Without any constructive thought the state government has given NOC and AICTE, NewDelhi has granted permission to start 30 new engineering colleges in the state increasing the seat capacity from 20,000 to 30,000 suddenly in 2009. In this year a substantial portion of eligible science students have migrated to southern states for engineering education due to lower fee structures prevailing there. The students coming from neighbouring states like Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Bihar etc. have preference for older engineering colleges in Orissa. Therefore the newer engineering colleges have failed to fill even 25 % of their allotted seats and in the process have made their future dark. Who is to be blamed for this sorry state of affair in engineering education? The promoters, the state Government or AICTE. In my view all the above three are responsible for this gloomy state and it shows lack of vision, planning and coordination among the stakeholders.
Green Rating for Residential Building
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with Indian Green Building Council, has introduced a green home rating system for the residential sector. The proposed rating system will serve as a frame work for urban planning and will address issues like water conservation, handling of consumer wastes, use of renewable energy sources, etc. State Bank of India (SBI) has announced to offer concession to developers and owners constructing green homes. With payback period of 3 to 4 years for an incremental investment of 8-10 %, the green home concept may become successful in near future.
Bijay Panda no more
I came to know from Prof.R.K.Sahoo the sad demise of Sri. Bijay Kumar Panda who graduated in Mechanical Engineering from REC, Rourkela in 1966. Though I am not fortunate enough to meet him personally, yet I knew him indirectly from the people who have worked with him. He will be remembered for his impeccable integrity and style of management at Rourkela Steel Plant, Rastriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Essar Steel and Nilachala Ispat Nigam Limited.
Over 8000 seats in Engineering, 2000 in MCA, 1300 in MBA streams are lying vacant even after two rounds of Joint Entrance examinations followed by Counseling conducted by the JEE Committee constituted by Policy Planning Body of Government of Orissa. Many wealthy people (not entrepreneurs) have jumped into the higher and technical education sector to make quick money without understanding the ground reality. Without any constructive thought the state government has given NOC and AICTE, NewDelhi has granted permission to start 30 new engineering colleges in the state increasing the seat capacity from 20,000 to 30,000 suddenly in 2009. In this year a substantial portion of eligible science students have migrated to southern states for engineering education due to lower fee structures prevailing there. The students coming from neighbouring states like Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Bihar etc. have preference for older engineering colleges in Orissa. Therefore the newer engineering colleges have failed to fill even 25 % of their allotted seats and in the process have made their future dark. Who is to be blamed for this sorry state of affair in engineering education? The promoters, the state Government or AICTE. In my view all the above three are responsible for this gloomy state and it shows lack of vision, planning and coordination among the stakeholders.
Green Rating for Residential Building
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with Indian Green Building Council, has introduced a green home rating system for the residential sector. The proposed rating system will serve as a frame work for urban planning and will address issues like water conservation, handling of consumer wastes, use of renewable energy sources, etc. State Bank of India (SBI) has announced to offer concession to developers and owners constructing green homes. With payback period of 3 to 4 years for an incremental investment of 8-10 %, the green home concept may become successful in near future.
Bijay Panda no more
I came to know from Prof.R.K.Sahoo the sad demise of Sri. Bijay Kumar Panda who graduated in Mechanical Engineering from REC, Rourkela in 1966. Though I am not fortunate enough to meet him personally, yet I knew him indirectly from the people who have worked with him. He will be remembered for his impeccable integrity and style of management at Rourkela Steel Plant, Rastriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Essar Steel and Nilachala Ispat Nigam Limited.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
RELEASE OF NEW TECHNICAL JOURNAL
A new technical journal titled " Journal of Engineering Innovation and Research" is released on 26th May 2009 which is edited by me. My Father and my small family innaugurated the Journal. This technical endevour will provide platform for sharing engineering thoughts and ideas in our locality. The famous mathematical equation of great scientist Albert Einstein
E=MC square, where E stands for Energy, M stands for Mass and C stands for velocity of light.But in my view E stands for Engineering, M stands for Merit and C stands for Collaboration. So we engineers have to communicate and share our ideas to uplift society to a new level. This journal is the first step in this journey. Access the online version of journal .
Friday, April 10, 2009
Election in Orissa
The people of Orissa will elect their representatives for Legislative Assembly on 16th and 23 rd april of 2009. But one simple question that comes to my mind Are we actually electing the right candidates who will take care of us .
Friday, March 06, 2009
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Dashahara Festival Celebration
This is the time for the ageold celebrationof Dashahara festival . The recent devastating flood in the rivers of Odisha has somewhat dampened the spirit of the celebration. Njoy Odiyas.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
IIM-A ropes in MIT expert to promote innovation
Prof. Eric Von Hippel, an innovation expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) will be visiting the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in november to promote the importance of user based innovations in creating successful companies." India and Indians residing worldwide have a wonderful record as innovators and entrepreneurs. I believe users tend to be the real developers of many important products." says Eric Hippel , professor and head of Innovation and entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Friday, January 04, 2008
HAPPY NEWYEAR 2008
Very happy Newyear to all my friends. Letus hope Orissa will witness sustainable development.
Monday, September 17, 2007
CELEBRATING ENGINEERS' DAY
In our country we celebrate 15th September as Engineers' Day in the memory of late Sir M.Visheshwaraya, one of the chief brains behind India's industrial and engineering development.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
MAY MASALA
The INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau,France has conceived a Global Innovation Index(GII), a model to show how countries are responding to the challenge of long term economic growth through innovation. The index is based on data from a variety of sources, some objective and some subjective, and includes things such as GDP growth rates, university enrollment rates, and results from the World Economic Forum's annual Executive Opinion Survey.
The GII has in INSEAD's terminology 8 pillars, five input pillars and three output pillars. The input pillars, which support a country's ability to generate and use ideas for innovation, are (1) institutions and policies,(2)human capacity,(3)infrastructure,(4)technology sophistication,(5)business markets and capital. The output pillars, which represent the total benefits of innovation, are (1)knowledge,(2)competitiveness, and(3)wealth.
Out of the 107 countries measured, the GII shows that the US is the most innovative country by a wide margin, followed by Germany, the UK,Japan, and France.India ranks 23rd and China 29th .Because of its recent rapid growth India will presumably move up the GII ranks in future.
The GII has in INSEAD's terminology 8 pillars, five input pillars and three output pillars. The input pillars, which support a country's ability to generate and use ideas for innovation, are (1) institutions and policies,(2)human capacity,(3)infrastructure,(4)technology sophistication,(5)business markets and capital. The output pillars, which represent the total benefits of innovation, are (1)knowledge,(2)competitiveness, and(3)wealth.
Out of the 107 countries measured, the GII shows that the US is the most innovative country by a wide margin, followed by Germany, the UK,Japan, and France.India ranks 23rd and China 29th .Because of its recent rapid growth India will presumably move up the GII ranks in future.
Monday, April 23, 2007
A New Business Paper " UDYOG DUNIYA"
I am launching a business newspaper titled " UDYOG DUNIYA" in Oriya language for the benefit of both existing and budding entrepreneurs of Orissa. If anybody interested to subscribe this fortnightly paper , then contact me immediately.
For a sample of UDYOG DUNIYA, you may email me with your mailing address ...chinmaydas@gmail.com
For a sample of UDYOG DUNIYA, you may email me with your mailing address ...chinmaydas@gmail.com
Friday, March 16, 2007
CRICKET WORLDCUP,INDIAN BILLIONAIRS AND NANDIGRAM
World Cup Cricket-2007
Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa scored six sixes in a over of Bunge of Scotland, surpassing the previous record of Jayasurya of Srilanka in World Cup cricket.
Indian Billionairs rule the Business World
According to Forbe's latest list of Billionairs , India has 36 in the hotlist, becoming the country having maximum number of billionairs in Asia surpassing Japan. Steel Baron Laxmi Narayan Mittal is in 5th position while Ambani Brothers are in 14th and 18th place in the world.
From Kalinga Nagar to Nandi Gram
Acquisition of land for the development of Industries in many places of eastern India had resulted in bitter pills for government due to poor and hasty handlings of various deals. Nearly 17 adibasi people died while protesting against the acquisition of their land by Tata group in Kalinga Nagar of Orissa. Now Nandi Gram(West Bengal) residents are opposing the setting of SEZ. As per the latest report 12 peole have died in Nandigram , making the both Central and State Government to think judiciously about the imlemetation aspect of Globalisation and Industrialisation.
Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa scored six sixes in a over of Bunge of Scotland, surpassing the previous record of Jayasurya of Srilanka in World Cup cricket.
Indian Billionairs rule the Business World
According to Forbe's latest list of Billionairs , India has 36 in the hotlist, becoming the country having maximum number of billionairs in Asia surpassing Japan. Steel Baron Laxmi Narayan Mittal is in 5th position while Ambani Brothers are in 14th and 18th place in the world.
From Kalinga Nagar to Nandi Gram
Acquisition of land for the development of Industries in many places of eastern India had resulted in bitter pills for government due to poor and hasty handlings of various deals. Nearly 17 adibasi people died while protesting against the acquisition of their land by Tata group in Kalinga Nagar of Orissa. Now Nandi Gram(West Bengal) residents are opposing the setting of SEZ. As per the latest report 12 peole have died in Nandigram , making the both Central and State Government to think judiciously about the imlemetation aspect of Globalisation and Industrialisation.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
FEBRUARY COOL STUFFS
BANGALORE : The Chip City
Bangalore is now home to 70 of the 130 firms(including multinationals) engaged in chip design in India. That makes it not just way ahead of the rest of the Indian competition but one of the top global clusters in chip design, comparable to Silicon Valley, Cambridge(UK), and Taiwan. If we break up the chip design work into design services(designing for others) and proprietary or innovative designing, Silicon Valley, Cambridge(UK) are already ahead. But if design services are considered, Bangalore is in forefront. Global players opt for chip design services offered by Bangalore firms for multiple reasons like talent availability, cost advantage etc.
Travel Portals get Rs.500 cr from PEs in 2006
Travel Portals are increasingly catching the fancy of Private Equity (PE) players with investments in this fast emerging business segment registering a 100 percent jump. The past year alone has witnessed investments of nearly Rs.500 crore being pumped in.
Bangalore is now home to 70 of the 130 firms(including multinationals) engaged in chip design in India. That makes it not just way ahead of the rest of the Indian competition but one of the top global clusters in chip design, comparable to Silicon Valley, Cambridge(UK), and Taiwan. If we break up the chip design work into design services(designing for others) and proprietary or innovative designing, Silicon Valley, Cambridge(UK) are already ahead. But if design services are considered, Bangalore is in forefront. Global players opt for chip design services offered by Bangalore firms for multiple reasons like talent availability, cost advantage etc.
Travel Portals get Rs.500 cr from PEs in 2006
Travel Portals are increasingly catching the fancy of Private Equity (PE) players with investments in this fast emerging business segment registering a 100 percent jump. The past year alone has witnessed investments of nearly Rs.500 crore being pumped in.
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