Issue 60 July 2013

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Issue no. 60 | JULY 2013

PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH Madhav Gadgil Udaan Mantra: Excellence of Shree Madhav Gadgil in several fields teaches us that- “Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.”

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1942, Pune, Maharashtra

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Indian

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Institutions

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Ecology, Conservation Biology, Human Ecology, Ecological Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Known for

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People Biodiversity Register in India

Biography He was born in Pune, Maharashtra studied biology at University of Pune and Mumbai before a Ph.D. in the area of mathematical ecology at Harvard University. He has been an IBM Fellow of the Computing Centre, Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics and a Lecturer in Biology at Harvard University.

From 1973 to 2004, he was on the faculty of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where he founded the Centre for Ecological Sciences. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford and as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Prof. Madhav Gadgil's research interests include population biology, conservation biology, human ecology and ecological history and he has published over 215 research papers and 6 books, "This Fissured Land" and "Ecology and Equity", "Diversity : The cornerstone of life" , "Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda" “ Ecological Journeys”,and “People’s Biodiversity Registers: A Methodology Manual”. Two of his research papers have been recognized as citation classics.

He developed strong traditions of working with researchers, teachers, and policy makers as well as NGO workers, farmers and other citizens throughout the country. This has led to innovative experiments of involving High School and College teachers and students in inventorying and monitoring of biodiversity. He worked on the committee that drafted India’s Biological Diversity Act 2002. He is active in a network of educational institutions working towards monitoring the biodiversity of Western Ghats established as a part of his activities as a Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment, and in a countrywide effort of voluntary agencies to prepare “People’s Biodiversity Registers”. He currently chairs the Committee to revise the Environmental Education Curriculum at the School stage.

Awards and recognition He was awarded the National Environmental Fellowship in recognition of his field research on the people-environment relationship on the hill chain of Western Ghats in India, where he has been involved in the establishment of the country's first biosphere reserve.

Prof. Gadgil was a member of the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India from 1986–90 and chaired the Science and Technology Advisory Panel of Global Environment Facility from 19982002. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, Third World Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the British Ecological Society and Ecological Society of America.

He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Biological Sciences and the Vikram Sarabhai and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar awards. Prof. Gadgil was awarded the prestigious Centennial Medal for the year 2002 from Harvard University, USA and the Volvo Environment Prize in 2003. He was conferred Padmashri and Padma Bhushan by the President of India and the Rajyotsava Award by the Government of Karnataka. Received the Firodia Award for excellence in science and technology in 2007. At the 2010 annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Gadgil was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the association for his contributions to the advancement of tropical biology and/or the conservation of tropical ecosystems.

PIONEERS IN CIVIL ENGINEER

Late Shri. S.B. Joshi Born - Jan 1906.

Died – Sept 1991

It was the period of National Independence Movement, when Shri. S.B. Joshi graduated in Civil Engineering from our College in 1927. He then joined Govt. Service on Sakkar Dam Project. All senior engineers and administrators were British officers. Shri. S.B. Joshi with his patriotic spirit could not get along with the Govt. service. He left the job and truly nationalist spirit took to wearing khadi, a white pyjama, kurta and Gandhi cap. His wore simple villager dress, ‘barabandi’ throughout his life.

After leaving prestigious and remunerative Govt. Job, he joined the construction company of M/s. Phatak and Walchand Hirachand and very soon decided to start his own construction company.

One of his early construction projects in Pune is the guest house in Bhandarkar Institute campus known as Hyderabad Guest House. This is the first R.C.C. building in Pune planned, designed and constructed by Shri. S.B. Joshi.

He later shifted to Mumbai and entered the important and onerous field on Bridge Construction. His special choice was to provide alternative for the proposed bridge with his own design and technique.

He started his construction business in Maharashtra with construction of bridges in Nasik and Konkan regions, however, the work and fame of M/s. S.B. Joshi &Co. soon spread to Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and literally all over India.

Shri. S.B. Joshi carried out advances in the technique and methodology by adopting bold designs such a balanced cantilever, R.C.C. Box girders, bowstring girders, prestressed concrete bridges. He has shown courage in suggesting self anchored suspension bridge for Barak Bridge in Assam and 150m span stayed Girder Bridge on Ganga River at Allahabad.

He had always in mind to propagate furtherance of latest technology, materials, and aesthetics and to have economics in construction in India.

He encouraged and trained young enterprising engineers to come forward and shoulder the responsibilities of executing the bridges. Shri. S.B. Joshi inspired them and developed confidence in them to undertake the major responsibilities.

About 8 to 10 engineering firms engaged at present in bridge construction are his greatest contribution to construction industry in India. The engineers of these firms are trained in S.B. Joshi School. All of them are quality conscious.

Shri. S.B. Joshi’s other most outstanding contribution is to formulate ‘Codes and Standards’ for concrete and bridges. He was a very active member of various codes and standards committee of Indian Road Congress and the Institution of Engineers (India). He was President of Institution of Engineers (India) in 1954-55.

Shri. S.B. Joshi, by nature was a great teacher. He would have attained higher honors in teaching profession, if he had continued the same. Shri. S.B. Joshi was responsible to help “New Engineering College” to be established at Sangli. In the early days of the college, he used to visit it periodically to teach the students. He had a good command over Law and Sanskrit. He translated in chaste lyrics Marathi, Ajavilap and Ritusanhar.

HUL KHMAGAON Weekly safety meeting was conducted at site. During the meeting various points were discussed like Safety Awareness, Proper use of PPE's, Proper housekeeping etc.

SAFETY CORNER

World Environment Day celebration

Inbisco

Inbisco

Mahindra Chakan

Rohan Kritika

Rohan Kritika

Mahindra Chakan

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverage Pvt Ltd

Plantation inauguration done by the statutory from KPCB

Plantation by Coca-Cola Staff

World Environment Day celebration John deere

Various Environment Poster Display

Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited Pooja at site

The International Commerce Centre and the Union Square development Status Type Location Construction started Completed Opening

Complete Hotel / Commercial offices 1 Austin Road West Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong 2002 2010 2010

HEIGHT - Architectural - Top floor - Observatory

484.0 m (1,587.9 ft) 118 387.8 m (1,272.3 ft)

TECHNICAL DETAILS - Floor count 108 - Floor area 274,064 m2 (2,950,000 sq ft) - Lifts/elevators 30 passenger lifts, 14 shuttle lifts, VIP lifts DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION - Management Kai Shing Management Services Limited - Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (design) Belt Collins & Associates (landscape) Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd. - Developer Sun Hung Kai Properties - Structural engineer Arup - Main contractor Sanfield Building Contractors Limited The International Commerce Centre is a 118-storey, 484 m (1,588 ft) skyscraper completed in 2010 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a part of the Union Square project built on top of Kowloon Station. The development is owned and jointly developed by MTR Corporation Limited and Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's metro operator and largest property developer respectively. It is currently the world's fifth tallest building by height, world's third tallest building by floors, as well as the tallest building in Hong Kong.

Known in development as Union Square Phase 7, its current name was officially announced in 2005. The International Commerce Centre was completed in phases from 2007 to 2010. The tower opened in 2011, with the Ritz-Carlton opening in late March and the observatory in early April.

Sun Hung Kai Properties also developed, along with another major Hong Kong developer, Henderson Land, the second-tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, the 2 International Finance Centre, which is located directly across Victoria Harbour in Central, Hong Kong Island.

Development The height had been scaled back from earlier plans due to regulations that did not allow buildings to be taller than the surrounding mountains. The original proposal for this building was called Kowloon Station Phase 7 and it was designed to be 574 m (1,883 ft) tall with 102 floors.[7] It would have risen 162 m (531 ft) over the then-current tallest in Hong Kong, 2 International Finance Centre.

The tower was designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in association with Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.

ARCHITECTURAL WONDER

19th July Aashadhi Ekadashi

22nd July Gurupornima

Yogesh, Vishwakarma Arvind Kumar, Ravindra Kumar, Yadav Sudesh, Sayyed Mukhtadir, Bose Mrinal Kumar, Joshi Ramakant, Singh Mukesh, Singh Vivek, Paul Vedraj, Chandrakant Patil, Tejashri Surve, Pramod Jagadhane, Rahul Pawar, Rohit Gaikwad

Mr. Vikas Chougule(Jr.Officer safety – Mahindra Chakan) Weds Kajal on 2nd June 2013.

Mr. Tukaram Kambale (Assistant – HR & Admin – Mahindra Chakan) Weds Pratiksha on 2nd June 2013

We wish the couples a very happy married life.

Mr. Chetan Musale (Assistanat Manager HR & IR) is blessed with cute baby girl on 15th June 2013.

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13th July

- Laskar Samsuddin, Tiwari Mahesh Chandra, Mishra Chandra Prakash,, Chaturvedi Praveen Kumar, Raut Jaywant B, Garad Bhalchandra A, Sawangade Suresh, Sahoo Gokul, Laskar Sayur Hussain, Saste Tanaji, Manwadkar Anil, Shende Ramdas S, Singh Maneesh Kumar, Kushwaha Pradeep Kumar, Bhagwat Sachin, Harijan Manorama, Shah Tejas, Mall Abhishek Kumar, Ahirrao Pramod, Singh Harikesh Bhadur, Singh Dharmendra Y, Karki Dinesh Chandra, Patel Ahamed, GOPINATHA RAO J, Ithape Jitendra, Shinde Rupali - Kondalkar Anant, Singh Vijay B, Kamble Tukram, Chavan Nandkishor, Kurlekar Sunil - Singh Sudhir Kumar R, Kamble Mohan,, Muduli Dibya, Varma Mrutunjay, Pawar Dnyaneshwar, Irfan Ahmad Abdul, Aiwale Manohare, Benerjee Jay. Sharma Vishnukant, Kulkarni Bhavani, Pande Parag - Yadav Ranajit Kumar, Pardale Balaram - Kamble Narayan, Rakesh Kumar Bal Krishna,, Jogeshchandra Sahoo, Chaugule Vikas, Yadav Baldev, Yadav Dharmveer, JAGADEESH D, Yadav Shambhu - Jalsakare Shivraj, Tele Bhiku, Ghadai Manoranjan, Attar Sharfuddin, Shinde Vinod, Salunke Alankar - Sahoo Sukumar, Kamble Santosh R, Ipalapalli Prashant D, Chand Dinesh, Mishra Sajan Kumar, Shedbale Komal, SISIRA KUMAR SAHOO, Wakchaure Ganesh, Ranpise Sushant, - Nadeem Uddin, Tamhankar Charuhas, Mathura Datt, Mohanta Bishwanath, Mohapatra Giridhari, Moradhvaj, Dhal Baidar, S.MOHAN KUMAR, Rautaray Chhabi - Garad Dhananjay, Bhadavankar Raviraj - Gosavi Kantilal A, Kalandar Attar, Kuber Vivek, Barsagade Vinod, Vishwakarma Shankar, Rout Bibekananda, Sangare Ashish, Singh Shivendra Kumar, Singh Rajendra Kumar, Barik Pramod, Swami Ramrichpal, Belge Avinash, Kapare Dattatray Gosavi Kantilal A, Kalandar Attar, Kuber Vivek, Barsagade Vinod, Vishwakarma Shankar, Rout Bibekananda, Sangare Ashish, Singh Shivendra Kumar, Singh Rajendra Kumar, Barik Pramod, Swami Ramrichpal, Belge Avinash, Kapare Dattatray - Khandelwal Vijay M, Patil Anant, Jadhav Vandana, Sharma Arvind Kumar, SHIVARAJ.S - Thakur Sadaram L, Shaikh Firozuddin A, Mistri Pintu S, Rajwant Singh, Sahani Hari Lal, Yadav Santosh Kumar, Khan Idrish, Farooqui Mudssar, Singh Rajveer - Singh Prem, Mohanta Ashok Kumar, Khan Sameer, Yadav Sudesh, SANTOSH B LUNKAD, K Ravi Shankar, More Achyut

14th July - Armugam Chandrashekhar, Gorkhe Anil, Babar Pranay 15th July - Dubey Rajesh, Pal Jhallu, Gaurav Kumar Shrivastav, Gaikwad Abhijeet Sanjay, Shelke Lalasaheb, Bishwa Mohan Kumar, Samota Chothmal, Singh Mukesh, SHASHI BHUSHAN SINGH, ANIL MISHRA 16th July - Lunkad Suhas K, Joshi Hemantkumar, Mahanta Krushna, Patra Sapneshwar 17th July - Awale Ajay Kumar, Tambde Pramod S, Dusmanta Kumar Shi, SACHI SUMAN MALLICK, BIKASH CHANDRA BISWAL 18th July - Mhaskar Chandrakant 19th July - R. Ravichandra 20th July - Biradar Mallappa S, Dwivedi Shashindra Kumar, Tiwari Umesh Prasad, Pandage Rajendra, Hukkeri Mallappa, Jadhav Sambhaji, Mahantesha S, Jadhav V.K., Nahar Popatlal, Sahu Nitin, Bhavi Mahesh 21st July - Joshi Sachin, Shinde Pramod, Dawande Sachin V, Rajoo Kumar, Konde Ravindra 22nd July - Bapat Vishwas P, Chandrashekhar Colin, Markate Lakshman, Patil Girish, K Govindaraj, Tele Arjun, D S VIJAY MURTHY 23rd July - Guhe Pankaj Kumar, Basu Pranab, Patel Indrapal 24th July - Thakur Ashok, Jadhav Sunil S, Shendage Ganesh M 25th July - Suresh Kumar R, Khatri Harish Singh, Sayyad Abdulrouf, Vachakal Amol, Savare Narsing, M. G. Shailaja 26th July - Bhosale Anil, Pradhan Prasahant P, Parit Vijay 27th July - Singh Bharati P, Dandge Abhijit, Jadhav Vishal 28th July - Singh Rajneesh, Singh Abhishek, Gaikwad Mahesh, Vikhe Rajesh, Kulkarni Kavita 29th July - Patil Pradeep Kumar 30th July - Pandage Walmik, Shukla Pramod Kumar, Singh Kundan Kumar, Viranna S. Karagupi 31st July - Bhavani Kulkarni

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