Hygiene lost in filth pile | ||
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Patna, March 21: Potholes, garbage dumped on open land are common sights for residents of Kankerbagh who have been struggling to deal with the unhygienic living conditions for years. Amit Keshav, a resident of Kanti Factory Road area who owns a serviced apartment and caters to national and international clients, said: “We see a sheer negligence on the part of the municipal corporation. There is not only a lack of urgency, but also a lack of willingness to take up our problems seriously. Even the sewage system in the area does not function properly.” Keshav said he had visited the municipal office in the area several times. “We have been going to the municipal office in Agamkuan in the past three months. The employees of the corporation have shown little interest in cleaning the garbage. Each time we visit the municipal office we are told that machines are not working. It hardly makes a difference to the civic authorities that we are regular tax payers.” “I wrote a letter to the chief minister and got a positive response. The area was cleaned up. However, the problem returned after barely three months. To add to our problem are the potholes, which becomes a major reason for spread of several water-borne diseases,” Keshav said. Several colonies in the area do not have a garbage bin, which prompts residents to throw the garbage in the open. Sobha Devi, a resident of the area, was seen throwing wastes in the open. “What alternative do we have? We cannot store them in our homes. There is no place where we can throw the garbage,” she said. Shyam Kishore, executive officer at the municipal office in Kankerbagh, said: “We are working on the sewage problem. We hope to come to a solution within the next couple of months.” Afzal Imam, the mayor of the Patna municipal office, told The Telegraph: “The employees have gone on holiday. Once they return, we would start cleaning the area. In case of any urgent crisis, we would act promptly.” | ||
Friday, April 15, 2011
BIHAR MSW SITUATION
SERVICE APARTMENT CONCEPT IN PATNA BIHAR PICKING UP
| New hotel-like apartments with extra facilities mushroom in city for people always on the move | ||
| AAROHI KESHAV | ||
Patna, Aug. 18: A short trip to Patna can stay long in your mind provided you opt for the right place to rest your back. Patna with an improved law and order situation is emerging as a rapid expanding consumer market and is a popular destination among the business class. There has been a tremendous growth in service sectors in recent years and several multinational companies have come up in Patna and many others are planning to join this competition. For those who visit Patna for a business or a personal trip can savour a comfortable vacation with on-the-toe services and a home away from home feel in the already mushrooming service apartments in the city. Travelling for work has become a norm for the business class. For those who keep their bags packed, it is important for them to find the right type of accommodation, so that they can work with ease and also get a home-like atmosphere. A service apartment is a furnished room, available for both short-term and long-term stays. It provides daily amenities and the apartments have huge space, privacy, convenience when travelling with family. Moreover, one can cook their meal in the apartment itself. In Patna, places like Boring Road, Sri Krishna Nagar, Kankerbagh are coming up with many such apartments. Shashi Bhushan Sinha, director, Nesh India Infrastructure, has his service apartment operating in Kidwai Puri. “We started the business of service apartments in the name of nesh.in. At present, we have 12 fully operational rooms, which is always occupied and we are also planning to come up with 100 more rooms in different localities of Patna,” he said. They offer three categories of rooms: club, premium and executive ranging between Rs 1,900 and Rs 4,000 for one night. Unlike hotels, service apartments cater to all living needs. Service apartments offer residential space, bedroom, bathroom, fully fitted kitchen and a living room. In addition to this, they are furnished and offer concierge facilities. These apartments also offer great value for money. They are 25% cheaper than hotels and incidental costs are lower. Shantanu Vats, zonal business manager, Airtel, Jharkhand, whose nature of work includes extensive travelling always prefers service apartment to hotels. He said: “I always love to stay at service apartments. I get the kind of food I want, whereas in hotels, I get what they have to offer.” |
BIHAR CHANGING WITH GREAT BRAND POWER
New hotspot for shopaholics in capital | ||
| AAROHI KESHAV | ||
Patna, March 21: Shopaholics in the state capital have a new hub to pamper themselves — big showrooms have come up at the populated Kankerbagh area. Sushma Kumari, a resident of the area, said: “Shopping here is hassle free. Not only is it near my house, everything is available here now. Why go anywhere else when I can get it all at my doorstep?” Be it shoes, clothes, household utility, children’s wear, electronics — you name it, you have it. Even if you don’t, it is sure to come up soon. Showrooms of many branded products have raised shutters in this upscale area. Residents of the area, too, prefer to visit the fancy shops at their doorsteps rather than brave traffic to go to upscale areas like Boring Road, Frazer Road and Patliputra. “For the past year, this area has emerged as a hotspot for shoppers,” said Sanjay Kumar, owner of two showrooms in the area. He added: “The sales go up continuously. This area has a lot of potential buyers.” Everyday, shops in the area earn between Rs 20,000 and Rs 25,000. In fact, the showroom of a famous clothesline in the area has been the highest earner in east India, he added. “Most showrooms have come up in this area in recent times. What has prompted this is the fact that this area is not yet congested,” said Sanjay. He also said consumers find it easy to find parking space here, unlike other areas where it is a headache. Suchita Sinha, a customer at a showroom for children’s attire, said: “We have been coming here more than any other place in recent times. We get everything here for the same price. “The collection here is the same as that in other showrooms in upscale areas of Patna,” said Sinha. “We had limited options earlier. But why should we travel to other places for the same stuff,” she said. Ajay Singh, the owner of two showrooms of children’s wear, said he was, at first, sceptical about opening a showroom in Kankerbagh. “We thought places like Boring Road catered more to consumers. But we were wrong. The sales have increased manifold in the past six months,” he said. Shoppers, obviously, agree with him. “Earlier, shopping meant the wastage of an entire day for me. We had to travel for hours to other places. Also there was a problem for parking vehicles,” said Ranjan Yadav, a resident of the area. He added: “The shops are bigger and better here. We often get the latest stuff here that is not available in other places in the city. This is a paradise for shopaholics.” |
BIHAR BRAND POWER
City beams with brand confidence | |||
| AAROHI KESHAV | |||
Patna, Sept. 2: Big brands, bigger showrooms. Residents in Patna are fast acquiring a taste for expensive brands and extravagant lifestyle. This brand consciousness is relatively new for the capital and hence the shoppers are in a fix over what to go for. Which brands are the best? What are the reasons for one to stick to a particular brand? How much money should be spent on what? These are a few questions on the minds on all shoppers who head towards the big malls in the capital. These days, everyone is becoming brand conscious irrespective of his or her age. From a four-year-old child to 60-year-old retired official, all want products with an international label. Their belief: “Sasta roye baar baar. Mehnga roye ek baar (Those who buy cheap products are complain all the time. Those who buy quality products, never repent)”. Patna today has all big showrooms like Reebok, Lee, Levis, Adidas, Woodland, Colourplus, Zodiac and Louis Phillips. You name it and you have it. First-year engineering student Pratyush Ranjan believes that branded products are “chic” and give one tremendous confidence. He said: “I always wear branded things, from wrist watches to sunglasses, t-shirts, jeans and shoes. The quality of branded products are great because of the amount of research done by experts on them and also because of their name in international market. Ranjan said he prefers to shop once a year rather than compromise on quality. According to Nikhil Aggarwal, franchise owner of Adidas in Kankerbagh, in the past few years, there has been a tremendous growth in sales. Presently, there are four Adidas showrooms in Patna and all of them remain crowded all through weekends and sales goes up by 30 to 40 per cent. Aggarwal said: “Earlier, young boys and girls used to visit the showroom. In the past few years, there has been an increase in the footfall and now we are getting middle-aged men and women as well as senior citizens as customers. They usually buy tracks and shoes.” Vicky Bansal, a young corporate executive, said: “I buy branded clothes because they are very comfortable and of good quality. The fabric is also skin-friendly and the colours do not fade, nor do they shrink. Bansal added: “When you buy clothes from a branded shop, you know you have the option to exchange them if there is a problem. Branded shops are actually hassle-free compared to local shops, which, at times, refuse to exchange or refund the items bought.” Children too are acquiring a taste for branded products. Four-year-old Ananya forces her parents to buy her clothes from Lilliput showroom at Boring Road. Her mother’s reasonings fall on deaf ears and she is left with no choice but to give Ananya what she wants. Ananya has no idea about brands. She said: “I love everything here. The colour, the design. The shop is so big and it has soft toys as well.” Owner of the Lilliput showroom, Vikash Singh, said: “The trend has completely changed now. Kids are have become a lot more brand conscious than their parents. Now they suggest that their parents come to our shop to buy things for them. Their friends too wear similar clothes.” On an average, 25-30 customers visit the shop every day and the sales touch Rs 20,000 easily. The older generation is not far behind. Sixty-year-old K. P. Srivastava makes sure he wears everything branded whenever he goes out for a morning or evening walk. “I always make sure that my track suit is from a branded sportswear shop like Reebok, Adidas or Puma. I pay equal importance to the shoes. Branded shoe is a must.” Brand consciousness is here to stay, now the showrooms await brand loyalty. | |||
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Friday, April 8, 2011
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY IN BIHAR
TIMES OF INDIA NEWS
Central varsity likely in Motihari
PATNA: Bihar's first Central university would be, in all likelihood, located in Motihari, the district HQ town of East Champaran.
The university is currently functioning from the premises of Birla Institute of Technology's Bihar chapter on veterinary college campus here. "We are running a Centre for Development Institute from the present premises," said university VC Janak Pandey.
Bihar government has identified three plots in Motihari for the purpose, the most suitable being the one near engineering college at Motihari. "It's of approximately 1000 acres and located just three km away from the railway station," a Bihar official said and added electricity is also available at this site.
The other plots are in Patpariahaal and Panchrukha villages. At both these places, over 1,000 acres of land are available. The process of land acquisition will start soon after the experts' committee takes a final decision, the official said.
VC Pandey said he has requested the Union HRD ministry to send the experts' team before November 4, prior to the commencement of the Parliament session. Earlier this month Pandey made a power-point presentation before Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal at New Delhi.
Pandey has proposed setting up of School of Social Sciences and Policies, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences and School of Earth, Biological and Environmental Sciences at the university. He has also proposed to start a five-year integrated course for Plus II students. After three-year graduation, there would be an option to exit or, based on their performance, continue for Master's degree.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Korea India Entertainment And Media Event Mumbai India 2011 A Current Report
Youl Production is the sister concern of Shila Group of Company which was started in 1998, with the vision to strengthen the bilateral relation between the two nations i.e. India and South Korea. With our expertise in South Korean market we have been successfully delivering best results in all possible areas. In past 13 years we have been successful in organizing events for the promotion of two rich cultures.
Since Bollywood is known for making best entertaining film and Korea for making best Art films but due to language barrier. Many film directors watch Korean films and appreciate it because of it being more content based and meaningful. Many directors have tried to make films on these lines but none has been successful. There are film makers who want to direct such kind of movies, but due to lack of such platform were talent from both the countries can come together and exchange their ideas to make a masterpiece.
Our vision is to amalgamate the ideas of both the countries and produce the meaningful as well as entertaining films which can be appreciated by the views all over the world. We believe that a combination of Korean content and Hindi masala film can be a very successful entertaining movie.
In the past we have been successful in organizing number of events and popularizing it to the fullest which in return has gives us great confidence to organize any kind of event in India for Korea with the surety of huge success in whatever we are assigned. Our core team has the potential to deliver best design for the event we are capable of creating a common platform where we can invite best line content companies of both the countries in order to create awareness and provide knowledge about the business via conference between the two nations. We are sure that the conference can create an environment for effective market, it can create a platform where companies of both the nations can come together and share their content with each other in return it can not only help in networking but also become a platform for buying and selling of products. At the event a state of the art k-pop concert will be organized to introduce the culture. The event will include press conferences, discussions on various topics related to the subject, marketing of product and promotion being the main agenda, the event can be popularised in print and electronic media on a day to day basis. We also plan to market it across effective platforms like press, print , T.V, Internet etc to create the required hype and participation.
We are associates for a team well equipped to manage and deliver a great performance of doing a event of this caliber and can provide a 360 degrees solution from Marketing, Hospitality & catering, infrastructure, show flow, Networking, Business and media services. To top it all we are the only companies with a USP to operate with South Korea - India bridging the gap between the two for years now and understand every aspect of business and personal need in both countries.
Our team has the potential to organizing event depending upon the budget like for Gala event we can invite the most popular faces of Bollywood followed by a gala dinner party and so on.
Aarohi Keshav CEO of Youl Production, has done Graduation from Hindu College Delhi University and a Post Graduate in Journalism from Bhartiye Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi. Has worked as freelancer for The Hindu, The Asian Age, The Times of India, The Telegraph (Leading News papers of India)
Korean films high in demand
Bollywood have been continuously trying hard to remake Korean films but their experiment has not been turning into a masterpiece the major reason being Korean Movies have taken away the whole world by its wonderful, sad and sweet love stories, dramas, music and movies while Bollywood films lacks variety.
Films: Mainly three Korean movies have been made into a bollywood films. The bollywood flick, Zinda gets the distinction of being the first Indian movie based on Korean content. The movie is based on the Korean movie Oldboy. It was made into a critically acclaimed worldwide hit Korean movie called Oldboy. Second being Ugly or Pagli, Directed by Sachin Kamlakar a remake of My Sashi girl. Then came Krishna Cottage a Hindi movie again a copy of Korean film.
Unfortunately none of these movies has been a hit; our team believes that the major reason can be the language and the absence of good techniques. Two of the bollywood movies Gangaster and Kalyug have been shot in Korea.
Korea is considered to be one of the best movies making with their animatical skills, India lacks good stories. In India common people believes that after being religious there is only two religion i.e. movies and cricket (game). People in India still wait for good movies to come people have such a craze for movies they stand in a line to buy ticket for 6-8 hours, it states that people in India love movies, there are many regional and Hindi films made in several languages but it is sad to say that once a person goes to watch movie spending 250rs for 3 hours time and get back with unsatisfied comment. Our production thinks story lies in small cities, villages and countries. Entertainment in India has become a sheer business and valuable people who have passion for art and can deliver good, meaningful films are not used because the trend of Indian culture is very socially attached and people are fed up with such kind of movies same as MUSA most of the movies do not connect to real life, most of the films are fictitious to sum up with Korea has good content and India has crazy people to watch film.
Music: Music Director Pritam’s two most popular numbers “Pehli Nazar” from the movie Race is plagiarized from the Korean song, 'Sarang hae yo' by Kim Hyung-sub. Pritam has been regarded as one of the best music director of India and has won many film fare awards for his songs.
Documentary: Indian news channels lack documentary programmes there are more than 20 news channels and many more regional channels (India has 22 official languages). Korea as per our knowledge Korea has major 3 channels MBC, KBS, SBC & EBS. Our company works as line producers and story tellers and people in India is getting frustrated watching programmes because they don’t get to watch any real programmes like Khara sa sege sogro mohanji dekyo, MBC khongam, MBC weekly, EBS G20 and many others have been made by our production in association with Korean channels. The motto of Youl Production is “Until and unless we let people know we can’t convince people individually so in order to let Korea India business done we need to exchange our culture, thinking, economy, social structure, religious believers and the best medium to reach common people is through media. India needs such discussions with Korean channels and production Companies.
Channels: UTV and NDTV Luminaire have been taking best movies from all over the world, and Korean movies are high in demand and they are interested in bringing more and more brilliant movies in India. The national television channel of India, Doordarshan has been airing many Korean documentaries and short films translated in Hindi, which have been liked by the Indian viewers.
Animation and gaming: Since the young generations are techno savvy and love to have new games so animation movies and gaming are the hot favourites. Since the Korean animations like Pororo animation character of Korea, are regarded as the best all over the world we strongly believe that the amalgamation of two nations will give rise to best creative product. Animation market in India lacks good talented animators as there is no such institute as compared to South Korea or America; Indian Children between 5-20 years prefer to watch animation since the population of young people in India is much higher as compared to rest of the world after China. China has less young population as compared to India. 65% of Indians are young (between age group of 15-30) which clearly shows we have good market. There are six major channels which are dedicated to Animation i.e. POGO, Nickelodeon, Cartoon network, etc.
Mobile market: Recently India is booming in telecom sector Indian telecommunication company has launched 3G services and it has been started only about 3 months all the Hand phone Companies are doing extensive marketing for the development of everything on mobile, IPod is an example to this, which help people to access mini office in handsets now people are getting acquainted to use such mobiles but the problem is the cost of such mobile is expensive for a normal people to afford on the basis of IPod success in the world many Companies are trying to develop such multi utility phone in order to satisfy the customer at one go. Some of the major companies of India are adopting such devises even Samsung galaxia has been launched in India the cost starts from 27,500 Rs. Now since 3G is launched and India is one of the top software company to the world at the same time Korea is very high on the networking’s and new online games, Indian software can be the best combination if Korea brings their technology to India in a competitive cost it can be a very big business. Korea is good at making beautiful designed sets India is good at software if we bring the technology to India and use the existing IT young talent of India we can definitely make good user friendly devise.
Cinema hall: As compared to Indian population the numbers of multiplex cinema halls are less although the qualities of existing halls are similar to that of Korea. CJ has already done Intensive research to launch in India there full entertainment company.Warner Brother is the one and Sony Pictures but the result is not that what it should br as any international company comes in India the way ther think it does not behave like that.In india genrally there is a lobby for all.Film Stars and to Director to Writer to Music Director
Sin from Shila Consultancy Services
So my suggestion would be we should open one research center on Media underYoul International Media Research Center in India and we should appoint such people who understand Korea India Media or Entertainment Industry there Behavior and an amalgation of India Korea mid style business Module.I think it is manageable for us in India as we have good connection with Star and Production Company,Mobile Service Provider Company,Amimation Company,Indian News Papers Television Company.Ad Agency with Legal Media Copy right LAwer and Charted accountant.
How can Shila Be Helpful to this:
We have a Mice Travel agency in the name of
Shila Travels India Pvt. Ltd 14 Years of Company (have been doing Inbound tourist exclusively for Korean ) A MICE COMPANY FOR KOREA AND INDIA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Shila Language Consultancy (We have been catering all the major company in India and Korea who requires Korean Language Expert and and Foreign Language Services.Some of our Clients
Posco India,Posco Maharastra,Halla Agent in India, Sansung,Lg Hyundai ,Tata Mahindra and may more companies.
Amitabha Hotels India Pvt. Ltd (All kinds of International Food) Already done many Food Fest Too and have one 4 Star Hotel in Indian Buddhist sector and Zen Restaurant for all the foreigner who visit Bihar
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