IT Chandigarh

Chandigarh: The Indian Air Force has invited applications for Permanent Commission for men and Short Service Commission for both men and women for its Aeronautical Engineer’s Course.

The course will commence in July 2008 and the last date for submitting the application form is November 12. Candidates born between July 2, 1980 and July 1, 1990, possessing the essential qualifications as mentioned in the IAF website ww.careerairforce.nic.in are eligible to apply.

The candidate should be an Indian Citizen and unmarried if below the age of 25 years of age as on July 1 2008, or married if above 25 years, said a statement issued today.

The candidates will be required to undergo an engineering knowledge test. Those qualifying the test will undergo personality test at Air Force Selection Boards at Dehradun, Mysore or Varanasi, for five days which includes the stage I test consisting of intelligence test, picture perception. The selected candidates will be sent to 74 weeks of training at Air Force Academy, Hyderabad and Air Force Technical College, Bangalore.

Source: ENS

Panchkula: With renovation work going on at Haryana Vidhan Sabha, the building is all set to acquire a new look. The Haryana PWD (B and R) Department has undertaken the Rs 4-crore project that will bring in new flooring, air conditioning, false ceilings, light and sound systems. The work will be completed by mid-January.

“An architect from Bombay called Prem Nath is providing consultancy on the work. The entire building, including the main Assembly hall, would be renovated,” said a PWD (B and R) official on the condition of anonymity. He added that special care was being taken so that the heritage status of the building was not disturbed.

“The 300 employees of the Vidhan Sabha will have to shift for at least two months as the work is expected to be completed only by mid-January next year. Though there would be some minor changes in the design, the main design will not be touched at all,” added the official. He said that the main canteen and the washrooms would also be made more spacious than what they are at present.

While the work continues, the Vidhan Sabha employees sit in the corridors with their huge bundle of files. An official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said, “It is good that the renovation work is being done, but it has pushed us into the corridors and the situation is likely to worsen in the coming days.”

Source: ENS

Chandigarh: While the UT Administration has decided to come up with 2,400 dwelling units in Hallomajra, the residents of the area are apprehensive about the administration acquiring their land for the project. The officials of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) said they would conduct a survey and test the soil only after the proposed 36.32 acres of land earmarked for the purpose was handed over to them.

These 2,400 dwelling units comprising one-room, two-room and three-room flats are in addition to the 8,064 flats that the CHB plans to construct at Maloya, Mauli Jagran, Sector 38, Sector 49 and Ramdarbar. CHB has already received some good responses for these projects from the bidders.

Chairman of CHB Mohanjit Singh told Newsline that the administration came up with the idea of the Hallomajra flats to cater to the needs of people coming to the city in the wake of the demand created by new projects being set up there.

“Our effort will be to provide LIG and HIG flats proposed at Hallomajra at reasonable rates. The costs of these flats will be worked out only after considering the cost of land, developmental cost besides other charges and interest rates,” he added.

Mohanjit Singh, however, clarified that the proposed three-bedroom HIG flats in Hallomajra will be sold at the market price prevailing at the time of completion of project. He said all efforts will be made by the CHB to complete the project within the stipulated time.
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Chandigarh: Amsaki 9110. It’s the latest anti-vehicle theft device to have hit the market. Based on GSM technology, the device is as small as a walkman. Yes, it can be fitted anywhere in the vehicle.

“Anti-vehicle theft devices are quite a rage as the number of car thefts is increasing in the city,” said Ashok Verma, a resident of Sector 8, Chandigarh.

Deshbandhu Sahay, a resident of Sector 21, said, “Precaution is better than cure. We cannot stop car thefts, but we can at least safegaurd our vehicles by installing such devices.”

The latest device has been developed by the engineers of IIT, Delhi. It costs Rs 8,950 and so far 55 city residents have installed the device in their vehicles.

Abhishek Puri of Puri Sons said the device was connected with four cell phones after the installation of a SIM card. “Whenever an unknown person opens the car, an anti-theft message is displayed on the connected number followed by a call,” he said.

He said even if the car was stolen, the owner of the vehicle just needed to send an SMS on the number of SIM card installed inside the device. “This will ensure a message within 30 seconds showing the four different locations of stolen vehicle alongwith the time,” he said.
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Chandigarh: After approving installation of traffic lights at all roundabouts, the UT Administration has given a go ahead to the proposal of utilising slow carriageways along V2 roads. These slow carriageways would, however, be restricted to only two-wheelers, bicycles and rickshaws. A senior official said plans are in place for using the slow carriageways along the V-2 roads (like the Madhya Marg) as a parallel road running along with the main road.

The widening of these roads is not being contemplated as of now due to loss of greenery along the road. The V-2 roads include main city roads like the Madhya Marg, Dakshin Marg.

For the initial planning, slow carriageways along the Madhya Marg are being considered and the architecture department has been asked to explore feasibility of the plans.

“Traffic lights would be installed at all slip roads at V-2 roads. Traffic would be coordinated so that slow carriageways become a separate parallel road in itself,” said the official. As per plans, traffic slipways would be able to provide two separate directions to the traffic- one, for providing a straight corridor for slow traffic and another for providing way for slow traffic to go to the opposite direction along a roundabout.

Source: ENS