Thursday, October 11, 2007

Bharti reveals made for each other plans

Seems that telecom operators in the country have started to feel the heat. Soon after Vodafone Essar anounced its plans to launch a series of ultra low-cost handsets bundled with connections, Bharti Airtel had no choice but to follow suit. The No.1 tele-service provider in the country will, from now on, package handsets along with mobile connections at ‘subsidised’ rates. While other players have in the past indulged in bundling offers with handset makers, for Airtel, this will mark the first time at such a deal. And it’s no speculation.
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Source:
IIPM Editorial, 2006
An
IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Friday, October 05, 2007

The River That Dyes

Tirupur, the textile hub of southern India, has crossed Rs.110 billion in earnings from textile exports, according to Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA). But there’s a price for this too! And in this case, the price is something too much to bear. Here it is – the death of river Noyyal, a tributary of the Cauvery. The city which is located upstream, had used water from Noyyal for years for its dyeing industries. It is a known fact that bleaching and dyeing processes are water consuming and highly polluting. It has been calculated that Tirupur has more than 700 dyeing units. All the effluents with salinity and heavy metals from these units find its way into the river Noyyal, shockingly untreated! The water with effluents gets stagnated in a irrigation dam downstream at a place called Orathapalayam. And the consequences have been quite far reaching. Land upto three kilometers on either side of the dam at Orathapalayam have been affected and adding to it the groundwater has also been seriously polluted. All of it has meant death to agriculture in that region and has made way for devastating and debilitating diseases. The water at the dam was blocked for a long 10 years & the silence was finally broken on August 22, 2005 when the Orathapalayam dam (which was filled with polluted water to the brim), was opened and the polluted water ran through Noyyal downstream and the water flushed into the Cauvery. The end result was that the toxic sludge settled on Cauvery’s river bed. “It is estimated that 30,000 acre cultivable land was affected by pollution and has became uncultivable. From Tirupur until it joins Cauvery near Karur... it runs through 57 long kilometres... And all along one can only witness the devastation!” laments a local journalist.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Indian bureaucracy is well known for designing lopsided development models.

New Delhi is not only the capital of the country, but has also gained the dubious distinction of generating the largest amount of waste among all the metros. According to an Assocham study, “Delhi generates about 6,000 tonnes of solid waste per day as against 5,800 tonnes in Mumbai, 2,800 in Bangalore, 2,675 tonnes in Chennai and 4,000 tonnes in Kolkata.” The study further reveals that in Delhi alone, there are nearly 85,000 rag-pickers who collect around 900 tonnes of waste. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) spent approximately Rs.24 billion for garbage management during 2006-07. But the results are rarely visible and the city continues to stink. Ramapathy of Greenpeace India told B&E, “Currently, there are two ways to manage waste in India – one is landfills and the other is incineration. However, the latter one being a failed method of waste management, landfills is the method which is extensively practised. Although, landfill is a better option than burning the waste, but it is not a foolproof method. Many times the chemical waste seeps into the ground thus contaminating the groundwater.”
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

The i-Pod falls flat...

2.7 out of 10! Well, these are not the marks of any of the backbencher in a high school grade but represent the score of Apple in the latest Green Electronic Guide Rankings released by Greenpeace. In simpler words (for all the die-hard Apple fans), Apple has been ranked as the worst electronic firm in the world in terms of its policies and practices of eliminating harmful chemicals from its products.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative