Congrats to BBMP and VVN College-Part I

On 21st Jan,2013 close to 300 youth of bangalore witnessed a fantastic one-day workshop about waste segregation and management which was conducted by VVN Degree college and sponsored by BBMP(Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike). Smt. Prasanna Udupikar mam was the key convener of the entire event supported by the principal of VVN degree college, Smt. Namitha. Tallam Venkatesh sir, president of VVN Trust was also present during the inauguration of the event along with VenkateshMurthy, Mayor of Bangalore.

 

The event was inaugurated by a devotional song to Lord Vinayaka and lighting of the lamps by the dignitaries. Dr.Almitra Patel who is a member of Supreme Court of India for country's municipal waste management spoke about how the waste problem started in bangalore. Till 1960 there was no waste issue in bangalore because the waste was used up by farmers for their crops but with the subsidy given for urea and introduction of plastics stopped composting and made the waste useless. Black spots got created in different parts of the city as even rag-pickers couldn't separate plastic from food. She also mentioned the use of plastic if it can be recylced and reused. Tar roads need good shredded plastic so that they become 2-3 times better. PROBES/101/2005-2006 explains as to how to use plastics and PROBES/122/2008-2009 explains about differences of roads with and without plastics.

 

In one of the incidents in Tamilnadu, a school asked the children to bring one kilogram of plastic from their home in exchange for Rs.1 pencil. 1 tonne of plastic was collected in 10 days and a fantastic road was laid. Smt.Jayalalitha who was the then chief miniter ordered to lay thousands of kilometers of similar roads and it improved rural employment. Dr.Almitra Patel mam also informed about ghatta where recycled plastics chops are made into polystyrene, polypropylene and others in Nayandanahalli, Hosaballa.

Waste Management - A necessity for our future

V.V.N. DEGREE COLLEGE (A Unit of VVN Trust)
Vanivilas Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore-560004
Invites you for the

“ONE – DAY WORKSHOP”

(Informative and enlightening sessions)

ON

“WASTE SEGREGATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT”

Sponsored by
BHRUHAT BENGALURU MAHANAGARA  PALIKE
Venue: Maruthi Sabhangana(VVN College Auditorium)
  Time: 10.00 AM
  Date: 21^st January 2013

Prof.Prasanna Udupikar                 Prof.Satish U Mahishi
Convener 9449800783                      Co-convener 9986793396
Prof.Sreekanteshwara                     Dr.Namitha M G
Vice-Principal                                      Principal

PROGRAM SCHEDULE :

10.00 to 11.15 AM	Inauguration
Chief Guest	Worshipful Mayor.VenkateshMurthy
Keynote Address	Smt. Almitra Patel Member, Supreme Court Committee For Solid Waste Management
Presidential Remarks	Sri Tallam Venkatesh President, VVN Trust
11.15AM – 11.30AM	Tea Break
11.30AM – 12.15PM	Technical Session 1
Resource Person	Dr. Meenakshi Bharat SWMRT
Topic	Simple Ways for Waste Management
12.15PM – 1PM	Technical Session 2
Resource Person	Smt. Nalini Shekhar Hasirudala
Topic	Inclusive Waste Management Integration of Waste pickers in Solid Waste Management
1PM – 2PM	LUNCH
2PM	Technical Session  3
Topic	Waste Management in Schools and Colleges A Pragmatic View
Jain Group of  Institutions	Sri. Marwan Abubkar Project Manager, Radio Active
Mount Carmel College	Dr. Radha Kale Director, Mount Carmel Research Centre
Oxford Institutions	Prof.Manikantan N Department of Microbiology
Jyothinivas College	Prof.Shirley Department of Biology
4.15PM – 5PM	Valedictory
Chief Guest	Sri K.V. Thrilok Chandra IAS Additional Commissioner
Presidential Remarks	Sri Arun Kumar Secretary General, VVN Trust
Vote of Thanks	Sri Chandrashekhar CEO VVN Trust

Organising Committee Members:

Prof.Sandhya Suri           Prof.Nagamani C N        Ms.Anithakumari

Ms.Divyashree S R           Ms.Akshaya B R

OOD facility provided by Regional Collegiate Education
                            No Registration Fee

A magnificient event to educate the masses to solve the current problem and prevent the future generation from suffering from the same. Let's make this event a grand success with all your participation.

Connectors for the world

The worldwide population on this earth is a huge human network. Not all 7 billion people know each other but the more number of people you know the better it is because man is a social animal. I also believe in the principle of having just those few individuals who can be completely trusted in one's life and no one else. But to find those few trustable individuals we have to scan through many hollow strangers. Hence having a big network shall always help.

 

The reason I am talking, sorry writing about human network here is because today anything that has to happen cannot be done by a single person. It needs a collaborative effort of many people who also share similar interests and goals. So how do we get in touch with all those people who share similar interests as that of ours? The answer for this question is 'connectors'. Connectors are those people who maintain a huge diverse network of people with them. They do not pay to have this network nor they work only to get their network. These connectors increase their circle of known friends wherever they go or wherever they are irrespective of the background of the person. They enjoy making new friends, interacting with people and learn more about others and diverse mindsets.

 

The best service done by these connectors is that they can connect any person in their network with someone else who is in need of the service shared by the other. There might be absolutely zero benefit for the connector himself/herself. Still s/he make the problem-holders meet the solution-providers for the betterment of one's life. The advantage of connector's interference is that the trust gets leveraged through the connector which is not the case when a stranger meets another prospect for a solution. Thus connectors help the world to get interlinked and help more and more people get more and more friends. If you want to know as to how to become a connector, you can message me on

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A glimpse about ebooks

Nowadays we find lot of people reading, playing, talking, enjoying and doing hundred of other things just on their electronic gadgets. Mobile phones, tablets, phablets, PCs, laptops have changed the way of life from what it was just about 2 decades back. All the knowledge that we accumulate is either by reading or listening. Coming to reading part, books were the main source of information until the advent of internet. With internet entering our households, schools and universities from cyber centres, internet became a powerful storehouse of information in-house and books got reduced to certain extent. About just 5-6 years back, with internet entering our smartphones alongwith launch of tablets in the market, lot of people have moved away from traditional printed books to ebooks.

 

More than 60% of the population in US relies on ebooks for information. Since the preservation of old books in the form of paper is becoming difficult, they are converted into ebooks for eternal preservation of information. Moreover ebooks avoid the carrying of heavy books and save on the printing cost. They also help in reducing the cutting down of trees for paper. However few people do argue that ebooks with all the hyperlinks in them make it easy for readers to get distracted towards some other content and hence the whole purpose of reading a book is defeated. Still many favour the same as an advantage as it helps to refer a lot many sources at one single place without running around to fetch different books. ebooks are available at affordable costs on online centres such as iBookstore, Amazon's kindle, Aldiko reader and lot of other e-retailers and can be bought with just few clicks of a button and online shopping. With the ebooks era, competition to acquire the ebooks market share is also growing. Some ebooks are being sold for a mere cost of 2cents while some free of cost just to encourage more and more people to get engaged to the habit of reading books online on their smart devices.

 

India and brazil are the next big markets for ebooks industry though it is still in its nascent stage in these two countries. 17 to 24% of adults having access to internet have bought an ebook from these countries. With growing middle class economy and availability of economic smartphone-like devices, the growth of ebooks industry is forecasted to be very positive in coming years. Some even predict that in next 50 years, printed books might become extinct and be only found in museums as almost everyone would be reading ebooks. Do research more on ebooks as it is one of the modern age businesses. Do pass on your suggestions on ebooks on
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How far can you plan?

Planning is an essential asset that is required for every person on this planet today in this fast progressing world. So how far can one plan is a question of interest. Generally people have short term, mid term and long term plans. These plans vary based on the time required to accomplish the short term, mid term and long term goals. However when a person is involved in planning, it is not just for what length of time is the plan made which is important but how detailed the plan is, is also very important. So when I ask 'how far can you plan?', I refer to both the length and depth of planning.

 

Everyone has to do something or the other to pass time. Some might work while some might play while others might just rest. The human mind is so well tuned to continuous activity that it keeps asking for what is the next task. As a result everyone of us has some idea about what to do next. This is where we can differentiate between A stars and rest of them. How well and far planned is your next activity determines your course of life. People who are in pursuit of their visions, goals and dreams generally are aware about all the minutest details of their plan and also have a rough picture of the next plan such that it progresses towards accomplishment of their visions. They even chart out a time plan so as to complete the different steps of the plan. The rest might just have an idea on what to do next and might think about its execution only during run time. Unfortunately such people end up with reasons and excuses more than results. They shall have no idea about what is supposed to be done after that activity. This is where we take our time, resources and life for granted.

 

Whenever you are into an activity you must be aware about at least 5-10 next steps as to how you will grow and master that activity and also what you would be achieving at each step. Sometimes people jump into work out of curiosity or temporary motivation without understanding the long-term goal of that work. When their immediate targets are reached, they find themselves clueless about how to continue further, whether to continue further or change. Hence whenever you're planning to jump into something try to make a plan which has depth as well as longevity. You can share your opinions on is.mohanbn@gmail.com
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Jan 13th,2013 witnessed one of the best magnanimous events in Kundapur, one of the districts in Karnataka, India. The aim of the program was to trigger the inspiration in youth from different regions of the west coast of Karnataka namely kundapura, udupi, bhatkal, moodalkatte and others. The entire 8 hour event was organised by Saraswathi Group of Institutes and Akshaya Coaching Classes headed by Rithesh Kamath and RamaMurthy respectively. They had really worked hard for last 45 days to make sure that close to 1500 students would go back from the event empowered and with a fire in them to accomplish their dreams and make our nation proud. It was one of the best events to kick off this new year with unlimited enthusiasm and motivation.

 

The event started by about 9 am in the morning with prayer and a small stage performance. Then came the highly energetic gentleman to trigger the fire of passion and aggression in students and he was none other than Mr.Gururaj Pai, an educator who has been very passionate about taking speeches and motivating the youth towards a better future. His voice was powerful enough to fill in watts of power in the studnets sitting in the hall. He taught about memory techniques and basic principles of life that one needs to follow. His main message was to love oneself. His speech of 100 minutes was filled with loads of energy. Then came Srilatha Danya mam who has been a M.Sc 1st rank holder. She spoke about the flaws in the current education system and suggested a lot of methods by which the education system can undergo a rapid positive change. Even the students voiced their consent to her suggestions and promised to support her in all her movements. She instantly became a role model to a lot many girls at the event. After her contentful speech there were demos by students of kundapura about flying quad-rotor, robotic bird and hacking. Gautam Navada was a 19year old kid who had started a website www.coondapur.com and had got lakhs of visits on his websites. He was the young star for the day. Then the crowd broke for lunch at 1:10pm.

 

Precisely at 1:40 pm the crowd gathered back only to witness a roar of applause when they got a glimpse of the person for whom the entire lot had been waiting from the morning. It was none other than Er. Sujit Lalwani who thrilled the audience just by his entry. There was an uproar of happiness among the crowd. It was as if they were all waiting since morning only for this moment. The next 3 hours was just a feast for the audience. Sujit sir spoke of varied topics in his amazing style and the crowd was only mesmerized by his talk. He spoke about patriotism, respect towards parents, working towards one's own dreams, developing the nation, self-appreciation and lot of other topics. The feedback from the students was tremendous. I am happy that I was also a part of this event and got few minutes to convey the inspirational story about an eagle's life. Vijeth Shivaraj and Shyesh.K.S also had been a part of this mega event. I would like to thank the organisers, volunteers, speakers and all the sponsors who were responsible for making this wonderful event happen on 01-13-2013.

The idea matters

Just few days back I had written a blog about executing the ideas and thoughts that come to our mind. After I wrote about how people tend to deviate away from work and don't execute what they think, I switched the frame of reference to those people who are always

thinking and simultaneously executing a lot of their plans. Then I realised that the execution of each and every idea that comes to the mind of such people is very difficult because ideas run a lot faster than execution. That is when I read a famous anecdote and concluded that execution is a must when the idea matters despite all constraints of time, money and human resources.

 

Once two people were travelling in a train. The second person was really awed by the persona carried by the first person. That is when the first person shared his vision with the second person to create an institution for science, technology and innovation. The result of this sharing of an idea was IISC- Indian Institute of Science, the second person was J.R.D.Tata while the first person was none other than Swami Vivekananda. This was the anecdote that completely took my thought to another higher level of perception. It's always not possible by us to execute each and every idea of ours due to different constraints. Sometimes people feel that they cannot share an idea of thiers with others because it might be stolen away from them and they might not get the credit. Other times people might also feel that without them doing the work by themselves first, they cannot ask or guide someone else to execute the idea. As a result of any of these confusions, finally the idea doesn't materialise into execution which is once again a loss for this world.

 

Once an idea comes to a person's mind which has the capacity to do good to the human society it must be executed. If the same person who got the idea cannot execute it either due to lack of prior experience or insufficient resources, it must be shared with people and for sure he shall find one person who will take the idea to the execution step. At the end of the day all that matters is execution of an idea which really matters to our world. Feel free to share your ideas about this blog on is.mohanbn@gmail.com

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