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Issue no. 49 | August 2012

r. Mashelkar had a very difficult childhood. He went to Dschool barefoot and almost gave up studies although he managed to be a rank holder Matriculation exam. His

mother could not support his college education. He was very influenced by what his Science teacher Mr. Bhave told him during one of the science experiments. The children were concentrating magnifying lens upon a paper until it burns. When it started burning Bhave Sir, pointed Dr. Mashelkar and said, "Dr. Mashelkar, this lens is you! If you concentrate on studies then one day you will reach the sky".

Dr. Mashelkar studied at the University of Bombay's Department of Chemical Technology (now the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai) where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Chemical engineering in 1966, later on a Ph.D. degree in 1969.

He was the youngest Director of National Chemical Laboratory and served for over eleven years as the director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, world's largest chain of publicly funded industrial R&D institutions, with thirty-eight laboratories and about 20,000 employees.

Dr. Mashelkar is presently the president of Global Research Alliance, a network of publicly funded research and development institutes from Asia-Pacific, South Africa, Europe and USA with over 60,000 scientists. He is also the President of India's National Innovation Foundation.

Dr. Mashelkar is the former President of the Indian National Science Academy and the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers (2007-8). He is the third Indian engineer to have been elected as fellow of Royal Society (FRS), London in the twentieth century.

He was elected foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2005, only the 8th Indian since 1863 to be selected. On 28 April 2008, he was elected as the foreign associate of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is the first Indian to have received this honour. He was elected foreign fellow of US National Academy of Engineering (2003), Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (1996), and Fellow of World Academy of Art & Science, USA (2000). Twenty-six universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, which include University of London, University of Salford, University of Pretoria, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Delhi University.

In August 1997, Business India named Dr. Mashelkar as being among the 50 path-breakers in the post- Independent India. In 1998, Dr. Mashelkar won the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award,[8] the first scientist to win it. In June, 1999, Business India did a cover story on Dr. Mashelkar as "CEO OF CSIR Inc.", a dream that he himself had articulated, when he took over as DG, CSIR in July 1995. On 16 November 2005, he received the BusinessWeek (USA) award of Stars of Asia' at the hands of George H.W. Bush, the former President of USA. He was the first Asian Scientist to receive it. He has been a much sought after consultant for restructuring the publicly funded R&D institutions around the world; his contributions in South Africa, Indonesia and Croatia have been particularly notable.

The Udaan Mantra: If you are a lens and you concentrate and focus hard on a certain objective, you will certainly gather enough energy the burn the track and sore high to reach the sky.

PERSONALITY OF THE MONTHRaghunath Anant Mashelkar

President of Global Research Alliance,President of India's National Innovation Foundation

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Our Seniors chalking out the way ahead… Drawing a blueprint for the Udaan towards a brighter and bigger future.

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SAFETYCORNER

Height work training was organized at Hindalco site, Singrauli. The main motto behind this training is to recollect the Safety measures adopted for a height work among the workers deployed for the particular task.

Hindalco, Singrauli

Contractors weekly safety & security meeting was held at Hindalco Cast House site, Singrauli.

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The Road Safety Campaign was conducted at Hindalco site, Singrauli.The objective of this campaign is to provide an on the overview on the basics of safe driving and operating techniques and practice required inside the Hindalco MAP project site.

HINDALCO, SINGRAULI

Fire safety training and demonstration to the office staff. Safe work place for one and all!

ROHAN HEAD OFFICE, PUNE

Third Party inspection for equipments at Site

Posters displayed at various locations near Site Access. Surprise Checking for Driving/Operating LicenseVehicle/Equipment Inspection as per Checklist

Drivers/Operators Training and Q & A Session

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Name: M. V. Vishweshwaraiah also known as Sir MV

Dare of Birth: 15 Sept. 1860

Place of Birth: Muddenahalli village near Bangalore

Life sketch:Visvesvaraya lost his father at the age of 15. Although all his education was from Karnataka, he was a Civil Engineering student of College of Engineering, Pune.

Career brief:

• 1912 to 1919: Diwan of Mysore

• He joined Public Works Department (PWD) of Bombay Province and was later invited to join the Indian Irrigation Commission.

• He implemented an extremely intricate system of irrigation in the Deccan area.

• He designed and patented a system of automatic weir water floodgates that were first installed in 1903 at the Khadakvasla Reservoir near Pune. These gates were employed to raise the flood supply level of storage in the reservoir to the highest level likely to be attained by a flood without causing any damage to the dam.

• The same model was installed at the Tigra Dam in Gwalior and the Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) Dam in Mandya/ Mysore, Karnataka.

• In 1906-07, Government of India sent him to Eden to study water supply and drainage system. His project was implemented in there successfully.

• He was the chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad.

• He also was instrumental in developing a system to protect Visakhapatnam port from sea erosion.

• Visvesvaraya supervised the end to end construction of the KRS Dam across the Cauvery River. This dam created the biggest reservoir in Asia when it was built.

• Under the Patronage of Mysore Government he was responsible for the founding of, the Mysore Soap Factory, the Parasitoide Laboratory, the Mysore Iron & Steel Works (now known as Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited) in Bhadravathi, the Sri Jayachamarajendra Polytechnic Institute, the Bangalore Agricultural University, the State Bank of Mysore, The Century Club, Mysore Chambers of Commerce and numerous other industrial ventures. He was also associated with the Tata Group of companies, helping them in the management. He was also associated with Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO). In 1925, when the Bhadravati Iron factory was in danger of being shut down due to dismal performance, he toured Sweden, England, America and Germany, most times at his own cost, to understand the iron manufacturing process firsthand.

Achievements and Accolades:

• Recipient of the India’s highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955.

• Knighted as a Commander of the Indian Empire by King George V for his myriad contributions to the public good.

• He was rightly called the "Father of modern Mysore state"

• Sir M.V. was honored with honorary membership of the international Institution of Civil Engineers, London

• Fellow of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

• He was awarded several honorary doctoral degrees like D.Sc., LL.D., D.Litt. from eight universities in India.

• He was president of the 1923 Session of the Indian Science Congress.

• Pandit Nehru was well aware of Visvesvaraya’s extraordinary abilities as an engineer as well as a statesman and used it well for nation building by including him in planning commission and economic association.

• Author of book “Planned Economy for India”, published in 1934, about the importance of estimating national income and achieving a society with a minimum level education, healthcare and opportunities for productive work, where he voiced that the path towards this as Industrialization.

• His birthday is celebrated as World Engineers Day worldwide as an honor t for this great technocrat and visionary

PIONEERS IN CIVIL ENGINEER

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CAPITAL GATE, ABU DHABI – UAE

This leaning structure is actually the most “inclined” building in the world (leaning at 18 degrees westward!), thus beating by far the record held by the Tower of Pisa. It has 35 floors, and it is 160 meters (520 ft) high.

Certainly in order to cope with the gravity issues, the designers have made use of breakthrough engineering methods such as stacking floor plates vertically, which would allow the building to lean safely.

It has a floor area of 53,100 sq. meters (5,72,000 sq.ft.), and it uses the “diagrid” building model, just as Hearst Tower did. The diagrid pattern allows for a much better distribution of the weight, and it also allows for using less steel than a building of its size would normally have to.

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AUGUST

Thursday, 2nd August

RAKSHABANDHAN

Wednesday, 15th August

INDEPENDANCE DAY

Wednesday, 1st August

NARALI POURNIMA

Thursday, 9th August

SHRI KRISHNA JAYANTI

Friday, 10th August

GOPALKAL

Friday, 17th August

POLA

Saturday, 18th August

PATETI

Monday, 20th August

RAMJAN EID

NEW ASSIGNMENTS

We have been awarded the following projects :

• Civil construction contract of Cadbury India

limited At Induri. Dist. Pune

• Turnkey Project of Nipro India Rubber

Stopper Khandala, Dist. Satara

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Vinod Kandarkar, Gurupreet Bagga, Brijesh Kushwaha, Vikas Kumar, Satyam Agarwal, Ajay Thakur, Nikhil Pandita, Sagar Kadam, Sanjay Wayse, Shivraj Aule, Nilesh Rautrao, Ganesh Salve, Surjyamani Parida

WELCOME TO ROHAN

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY1st Aug - Rampukar Rai, Yadhav Sheshnath, Kawathe

Vikram, Rahul Singh, Anant Joshi, Shivaji Hulsure

2nd Aug - Kanhaiya Lal, Rahaman Mahammadur, Patel

Ram Singh, Karki Laxman Singh, Manesh Chavare

3rd Aug - Patankar Prakash, Singh Sandeep,

4th Aug - Joshi Manish, Mohanta Niranjan, Chauhan

Ranjeet Kumar

5th Aug - Sarfaraz Idrisi, Biswas Kartik, Londhe Ramesh,

Salunke Santosh, Sharma Kunj Bihari, Singh Jaiprakash,

Krishna Silveri

6th Aug - Bangal Harish, Singh Anil, Gulam Mohmmad,

Chothani Mayur, Shinde Anil, Pandharinath Lohar

7th Aug - Digendra Kumar, Kamble Avinash, Gupta

Chandrashekhar

8th Aug - Kinge Nandkishor, Jaykumar Kamble, Vishal

Yakkundi

10th Aug - Ansari Aslam, Sengar Rajesh Singh, Adesh

Kumar, Satendra Singh, Choudhari Praful, Suraj Makkoth

11th Aug - Inam Masuk, Shinde Navnath, Prashant

Kunjir

12th Aug - Kale Raosaheb, Singh Pankal Kumar

13th Aug - Pillay Suresh, Upadhay Anil

14th Aug - Thorat Pravin, Bhagavat Sirsat

15th Aug - Boduram Chaudhari, Pandey Devendra,

Pandey Dhru Chandra, Mahesh Narayan, Jha Kishor,

Venkatesham B, Sirsat Bharat, Singh Dharmendra, Babar

Rahul, Aalhat Shailesh, Yadav Ramkishan

16th Aug - Verma Rajendra, Omprakash Halkude,

Rupesh Kamble

18th Aug - Chaubey Santosh Kumar, Guranna Goud,

Bangi Mohammad Khajabhai, Shinde Rajanikant

19th Aug - Chandra Sekhar S, Patil Samadhan, Yogesh

Deshmukh

20th Aug - Karkhanis Sunil, Singh Rakesh Kumar,

Wadkar Sanjay, Chaubey Manoj Kumar, Dhutre Suresh,

Wankhede Amol

21st Aug - Jadhav Sunil

22nd Aug - Nagar Ratanlal, Ashish Kumar, Ganesh Patil,

Nandkumar Salunke

23rd Aug - Sahni Pankaj Kumar, Shrikrishna Surve

24th Aug - Deve Sadashiv, Suresh Nair

25th Aug - Ghosh Bhaskar, Dilip Kumar Mahanty,

Rajendra Pol, Santosh Gaikwad, Sagar Kadam

26th Aug - Vachhrajani A. H., Mundhe Vijay, Jagtap

Prakash, Shraddha Gramopadhye

27th Aug - Shinde Suhas, Maharana Pratimamayi

28th Aug - Kurale Jaysingh, Ghatnekar Ajay, Kishore

Kumar, Kunwar Ram

29th Aug - Dattatraya Chavan, Rahul Kale

30th Aug - Salokhe Ananda, Guthal Vishal, Augustin

Bhosale

31st Aug - R. Pradeep, Sandeep Banke, Sarika Padalkar

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