At the Vijay Sankalpa Samavesha held at Mahatma Gandhi Bhavan here, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said that he has asked his officers to get the Suvarna Vidhan Soudha completed by December so that the Winter session could be held in Belgaum.


BSY again said that the city of Belgaum needs more money hence another 100 crore package will be given to the city.
The Vishwa Kannada Sammelan which has been postponed over the years may at last find a “Muhurat” in January 2011.
He also spoke on the power crisis and said that by mid May situation will improve.

The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on Demography (Population characteristics), Economic Activity, Literacy & Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanization, Fertility and Mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Language, Religion, Migration, Disability and many other socio-cultural and demographic data since 1872.
Census 2011 will be the 15th National Census of the country. This is the only source of primary data at village, town and ward level. It provides valuable information for planning and formulation of polices for Central & State Governments and is widely used by National & International agencies, scholars, business people, industrialists, and many more. The delimitation/reservation of Constituencies - Parliamentary/Assembly/Panchayats and other Local Bodies is also done on the basis of the demographic data thrown up by the Census. That is why the slogan of Census 2011 is "Our Census, Our Future".

The first round of house listing will commence in Karnataka from April 15 till June 1, 2010. Actual census will start in 2011 January.
The National Population Register (NPR) would be a Register of usual residents of the country. The NPR will be a comprehensive identity database that would help in better targeting of the benefits and services under the Government schemes/programmes, improve planning and help strengthen security of the country. This is being done for the first time in the country.
Census Process:
The Census process involves visiting each and every household and gathering particulars by asking questions and filling up Census Forms. The information collected about individuals is kept absolutely confidential. In fact this information is not accessible even to Courts of law. After the field work is over the forms are transported to data processing centres located at 15 cities across the country. The data processing will be done using sophisticated software called Intelligent Character Recognition Software (ICR). This technology was pioneered by India in Census 2001 has become the benchmark for Censuses all around the globe.

NPR Process:
Details such as Name, Date of Birth, Sex, Present Address, Permanent Address, Names of Father, Mother and Spouse etc will be gathered by visiting each and every household.
All usual residents will be eligible to be included irrespective of their Nationality. Each and every household will be given an Acknowledgement Slip at the time of enumeration.

The data will then be entered into computers in the local language of the State as well as in English.
Once this database has been created, biometrics such as photograph, 10 fingerprints and probably Iris information will be added for all persons aged 15 years and above. This will be done by arranging camps at every village and at the ward level in every town. Each household will be required to bring the Acknowledgement Slip to such camps. Those who miss these camps will be given the opportunity to present themselves at permanent NPR Centres to be set up at the Tehsil/Town level.
In the next step, data will be printed out and displayed at prominent places within the village and ward for the public to see. Objections will be sought and registered at this stage. Each of these objections will then be inquired into by the local Revenue Department Officer and a proper disposal given in writing. Persons aggrieved by such order have a right of appeal to the Tehsildar and then to the District Collector.
The lists thus authenticated will then be sent to the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) for de-duplication and issue of UID Numbers. All duplicates will be eliminated at this stage based on comparison of biometrics. Unique ID numbers will also be generated for every person. The cleaned database along with the UID Number will then be sent back to the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India (ORG&CCI) and would form the National Population Register. As the UID system works on the basis of biometric de-duplication, in the case of persons of age 15 years and above (for whom biometrics is available), the UID Number will be available for each individual. For those below the age of 15 years (for whom biometrics is not available), the UID Number will be linked to the parent or guardian.
National Identity Cards will be given in a phased manner to all usual residents by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. The issue of Cards will be done in Coastal Villages to start with. After this the coastal Towns will be covered and so on till the entire country is covered.
Government servants duly appointed as Enumerators will visit each and every house and collect the information required. They will carry an Identity Card as well as an Appointment Letter. In case of need you may ask them to show these documents. The local Tahsildar can also be contacted in this regard.
The local Tehsildar/Ward Officer of your area is the designated officer. In case of need you can also contact the Collector/DC/DM of your District or the Commissioner of your Town. You can also intimate us over e mail or contact us over the toll free number given in this website.
http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-FAQ/FAQ-Public.html

Source: Deccan Herald
 Prof B R Ananthan who has been appointed as special officer (SO) to the recently created Belgaum University has brought to fore charges of ‘misconduct’ and corruption leveled against him during his tenure as chairman of Department of Business Management in Mysore University.
Justice N Venkatachala as Karnataka Lokayukta had inquired into allegations and found Ananthan guilty of making ‘unlawful gain’. The inquiry report, submitted in April 2003, had recommended to the government to direct the Mysore University syndicate to initiate disciplinary action against him.
The HC quashed the inquiry report in February 2004 on the grounds that he (Lokayukta) had no jurisdiction to investigate complaints against vice-chancellors and professors of universities.

Aditya Gajanan Vernekar brought laurels to Belgaum by winning the second prize in The Ideation Award at the recently held Malaysian International Furniture Fair 2010 (MIFF 2010) recently. Aditya did his PUC from GSS college and his civil engineering from GIT. He won the 2nd prize while he was facing tough competition from students from 22 countries. He had designed a multi purpose stool “QUBE”. Which has many uses. Currently he is pursuing his studies at the Limkokwing University of creative technology Malaysia.
His new design has been shortlisted in the Lamborghini design competition where his design has been shortlisted out of 285 entries and is now in the last 64. Aditya named this theme COLOURina and you can check that out on www.paintmyride.org
A small interview with Aditya:
This is Aditya's first interview to any media in India and AAB is proud to be the first one.
What made you take up creative designing?
Aditya ---> The title of my course is industrial design major and my father Mr. Gajanan Vernekar who is an Engineer & Industrial designer. He is my main source of inspiration. I was always influenced by some of the great designers like Mark Newson, Konstantingrcic, Renzo Piano, Carl Liu And pretty much as a person I grew up with similar experiences. Lots of failures and down sides in my past and those have become my keys to present success.
Other aspects that greatly contributed to taking design are, I always wanted to explore some new possibilities& culture. Meet new people exchange views & ideas one of the great contributors to my design understanding is Mr. Reza Razazzadeh from Iran my close friend and a great artist.



Your experiences creating the Qube and why u thought of that design?
Aditya ---->Qube was just a general design the idea of developing such a seating evolved from one of my personal experiences when I visited a public school.
India is a developing nation and education is one of our vital source and stand point to be a strong nation. But not really much has changed in the class room. Country is going hi tech but we still sit on those monstrous dull wooden benches which don’t really have any ergonomic functionality nor are they safe they are very static and eat up lot of floor space. That’s where I came up with idea of developing qube.
It simply transforms to the requirement of the user for best possible function. Charles Darwin said nor does the strongest, nor does the smartest but one who transforms and adapts to the situation exist that’s the philosophy behind designing qube


How did u think of participating in MIFF 2010.
Aditya ---->Participating MIFF 2010 was just an initiative to display my skill and to test my competency among other Students in the same field. Over all I developed this project in 16 days when I was in India for my midterm break.
What made you take up creative designing?
Aditya ----> The message I would like to convey is believe in yourself, be very confident Be a dreamer and stretch your boundaries beyond to achieve them. Enjoy failures & experiences and you will enjoy success like never before.


Your future plans?
Aditya ----> Future plans are, I am very keen on enrolling myself for MDES in advance Product design at UMEA SWEDEN. Or peruse MDES in Industrial design at IDC at IIT Powai, Mumbai. Working for it hope I get there.

Dear Readers, Friends & Belgaumites;
I have truly enjoyed posting here and have been thrilled you have been coming to read it. Thank you for taking time out to check in with me. Also, special thanks to people who have linked to AAB. To us this is just another milestone in a very long journey and we never work here for milestones, they just keep along while you work. A special mention for my Leadingminds designing team.
Sharing knowledge is so important and it is really heartening that AAB has got excellent contributions by way of articles and photographs from endearing readers. I have thoroughly enjoyed posting them and reading your insightful and appreciative comments. With 349 email FEED readers who have been following me from long, thank you.
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The Ministry of Environment and Forests has so far sanctioned projects for conservation and management of 58 polluted and degraded lakes in urban and semi-urban areas of the country at a cost of Rs.883.94 crore. This is on 70:30 cost sharing basis between the Central Government and the respective State Governments.
 

Lake	Approved cost (in Rs.crore)	Funds released during last 3 years (in Rs.crore)
Kotekere lake, Belgaum	5.64	0.66

Photo: Uday
Source: PIB

Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) on Wednesday declared a hike in milk prices across the State from Rs 3 to Rs 4 per litre. The new prices will come into effect from Thursday.
 

Milk Type	Old Rate	New Rate
Full Cream Milk	22	26
Homogenized Milk	18	22
Standardized Milk	20	24
Double Toned Milk	15	18

It is said that this increase will give the farmer Rs.2.5 per litre more but all this is done keeping in mind the Gram Panchayat elections scheduled in May.

The Mayoral election's hangover is still at place. The 38 member Belgaum Development Front(BDF) staged a dharna at the gate of City Corporation at the time of the arrival of the Commissioner.
The councilors, led by Latif Pathan, Kiran Sayanak, Dhanraj Gauli and Parshuram Dhage, staged a dharna on the corporation premises, to protest against rejection of all but one set of nomination papers for the post of Mayor. Seven sets of nomination papers were filed for the post, including those by Mr. Pathan and Mr. Gauli. They demanded the certified copies of the nomination papers filed for the mayor and deputy mayor's posts.
The BDF plans to take this matter to court and they can file a petition within 15 days of the election. To file the petition certified copies of the nomination papers are required. The councilors alleged that the corporation officials are intentionally delaying the process of providing the certified copies, bending to political pressure of a local MLA.
As Commissioner S G Patil assured to provide the certified copies on Wednesday the dharna was taken back.

Belgaum based UrbanBuzz.in have launched their SMS services for IPL.
One has to just send a sms CRICKET TO 9742455100
and you will get the latest live score on your mobile.
UrbanBuzz.in also has other services under its SMS services cluster.
Persons interested in advertising on this medium can see UrbanBuzz.in for more details.

The India Meteorological department on its website has daily temperature recordings on its site of major cities of India. AAB keeps following it daily for variations and today there were two pages of the same site which showed two different temperatures.
The variation isn't much but still the timing of recording is the same but temperature is different. AAB followed this variation for over two days and same continued. Why is this I cannot say.

One page says 38 and another says 36.6.
Both sites are the same. Earlier it was imd.gov.in and now on the same site a new site has been designed as mausam.gov.in. All these temperatures are recorded at Sambra.
Till then you all can enjoy the heat and the say its too hot than the temperature recorded.

 The art of communication and presenting oneself before prospective hirers/bosses is very important. You might be an all rounder when it comes to academics, but if you fail to impress your interviewer/boss with the right CV and the right words; your knowledge is of no use. Communication skills are very authoritative as they are required to go through the Group Discussion /Personal interview while chasing their dreams of landing at a leading business school of their choice. Directors, deans and professors of leading business schools, have reiterated the fact that one of the factors they see in GD/PI is how well a candidate can express himself.
















Amit Soundalgekar is an entrepreneur adept on communications and soft-skills training. Amit has a Bachelors degree in Science from GSS college Belgaum and a Post Graduate Diploma in business management from Local self GOVERNMENT. He did his schooling from Oriental School Belgaum and has corporate training experience of over 9 years. An excellent motivational speaker with a specialization on communication skills, team building and body kinesics. In addition to training for ICMIS, he is associated as a corporate trainer with Kotak Life insurance, AKP Foundries, JP Foundries, Hewlett Packard, Goldman sachs, CRISIL, GeneralMotors, Duke University ,Goodrich, Convergys,IBM,Novell, Identified as the Training partner for Linfox of Australia & other organizations.
 A Corporate Consultant with wide experience in corporate training and consulting with a range of industries, across levels and functions. Experienced in strategizing, pre-validating, designing customized training interventions and facilitating for development of skill and effective behaviors to help organizations meet defined objectives. Addressed areas of Sales Effectiveness, Customer-ism, and Behavior Management, using Classroom and Outdoor Adventure based training interventions.
 Amit has previous manufacturing experience in water treatment equipments and sales experience in the pharma industry. Through his personal and professional experiences, Amit gradually became a specialist in Negotiation skills, Project Management, Leadership programs, Focused groups, Cross culture Communication, Communication skills, Presentation skills, and Team building
Amit has been part of c2c since its inception with other expert trainers at C2C Training & Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
He has experience working with clients in Europe, Middle east, Africa, Far east. He has made presentations in Netherlands for valve Manufacturers and Amit was invited for a Management talk show on Radio Mirchi and Radio Indigo.
 Some excerpts of an interview: 
What made you take up Corporate soft skill training was it an accident or you wanted to be one?
Amit ---> It is a shear accident. Because before getting into training I was into manufacturing of water treatment equipments. I accidentally took up an assignment at the cyber college in Kolhapur. Their i met the branch manager of Kotak life insurance, who mentioned that they were looking for some trainers in Insurance. That was the beginning of a long and pleasurable journey. I always had a flair for public speaking but never did it cross my mind that I can make a career out of speaking to people. Because I started as a automotive paints seller then pharma sales and even toilet cleaning acid.
How important is communication in the field of management, according to you?
Amit ---> I feel communication is a tool to inspire people.
I would say the more articulate, patient and assertive you are, the more you can gather information and make the best out of communication. To me communication is to achieve shared understanding At the same time I always say “communication is not what is said, but what is heard and understood”. To me in management communication is a very important skill and especially kinesics. I am almost branded in Belgaum as Body Language
How can an individual overcome their spoken English and bad body language?
Amit ---> First is the willingness to better your speaking skills and then the resilience to keep reading and being bold to communicate in English. Not shying away at every learning opportunity and be willing to fail. Beyond that one technique that I suggest is that one should read a article and then try to speak out the gist of it into a recorder. Then play it for yourself,or even share it with someone whom you consider is better in language skills. Persoanly I have seen people finding amazing results for themselves.
And when it is about body language, we all are aware that a chunk of the meaning in communication is understood through body language. Be a good observer and a quick learner to adopt different postures and expressions or hand movements. I am a big fan of body language as a study. I am almost branded as Mr Body language in Belgaum. Every act or mood of an individual is easily reflected through body language. You can see through a person through his or her Body language.

Any idols that you admire?
Amit ---> I definitely admire Gandhiji for the simple fact that he was able to inspire an entire nation singlehandedly and at the same time inspired some world leaders of his own generation e.g. Nelson Mandela,Martin Luther king. To me that is amazing, being able to inspire a whole generation of leaders.
 You have given training in many corporates in India and abroad is there any difference?
Amit ---> Culture is the biggest difference. Every individual from a different culture reacts in a different way to the same information. Thats one challenge which I usually cherish. I need not stereotype my experience but it’s a general observation. Because I get to train people from various organization and at different levels. To name a few would be ABB,CRISIL,LINFOX,HEWLETT PACKARD,IBM,NOVELL. Every organization throws a different challenge in terms or organization culture and national culture.
 Do you think being in Belgaum is advantageous or otherwise?
Amit ---> It’s a definite advantage. On a very positive note I am able to devote a lot of time for myself and my family. Not spending time in traffic is the biggest advantage and my sole purpose of being in Belgaum is that I wish to share my experiences with the industry or student fraternity of Belgaum, everything that I keep learning world over.
 How was the Radio experience and speaking there?
Amit ---> My radio experience was one of a kind. Going live on air was like”I cant go wrong”.I was nervous the moment I was introduced as a management consultant and a corporate trainer. But as we progressed through the talk I received a few compliments by the editor of the show and that eased my nerves. But honestly speaking I felt like a kid getting some well deserved gift.
 How is the family support when u took this job?
Amit ---> I cannot ask for more from my family. I personally believe that the biggest sacrifice anyone makes for your success is your family. Hats of to my wife and my parents for being exceptionally supportive. I need to make a special mention that my wife having worked for a multinational herself and studied in Italy as an Italian language specialist,Understands how demanding my profession is. The best part is everybody including my brothers and their family stay involved about what I am doing,where I am traveling,and feel proud about the small things that I have achieved till date.
 You travel a lot how does your family take this?
Amit ---> I sometimes come home only to exchange my baggage and leave for another destination.
I work hard and at the first opportunity I spend most of my spare time with my family. Though they don’t complain I know I am falling short in spending some quality time with my kid,wife and parents.
 What would you say to other enthusiast trainers out there who aspire to be what you have achieved?
Amit ---> Be passionate. Being ready to learn and not hesitant to accept mistakes,will ensure that you would go a long way in being a good trainer. I am at my motivated best the moment I enter the training room.
 Your favorite place / food in Belgaum?
Amit ---> Ramkrishna ashram and in particular the room where Swami Vivekanad stayed.
As far as food in Belgaum,it cannot be any better place than my own house as I am hardly home. I love home made food but if I still need to make a choice I would say Sun n Sand,and Rasraj (a small Savaji outlet near Ushatai Gogte Grils high School).
 Your views on ITBelgaum group and its effectiveness?
Amit ---> I see IT Belgaum group gathering momentum in their activities and It Belgaum becoming a brand.
In your view is this website(AAB) doing good for Belgaumites?
Amit ---> I need to congratulate Uday on coming up with the idea of ABB. I first got to know about it through a friend of mine and then when I visited the site I felt it was worth. One other thing that I need to share is ABB has helped me know Belgaum better than ever before. I am sure most Belgaumites who visit ABB regularly share the same view.