The City of Mess!!

No prizes for guessing, it’s GURGAON. It’s the biggest failure among all the efforts which our governments made to create happy living for the citizens in the so called NCR region. So called because for our builders even 100 Kms from National capital is NCR. It’s a mockery of urbanization policies and a slap on the face of those who called it with names like - Global City , Singapore city , city of rich and educated and what not.

This satellite town of NCR never lived up to its expectations. Without any urban planning they have created a city of Superstructures with Zero infrastructure. When I visited this place for the first time I was appalled by its horrifying condition. With no facility of public transport I had to walk for 5 Kms in the scorching heat of June to get an auto rickshaw. For miles there was nothing but buildings and speeding cabs of call centers. God forbade, if by any chance you get hit by any of those, there is not a single soul to help you for miles.

No, I do not hold any animosity against the innocent dwellers of this city. Their only mistake is that they have fallen into the false trap of builders and believed on fake claims made by the city creators in government. Without any urban planning, no public transport , zero infrastructure in terms of roads , drainage system , power supply this is a “City of Mess”. There are sad stories of people getting trapped in their house during rains. Water gets filled in the basements, blow off the power grids and back up generators immobilizing lifts. If you are living in your free hold then you will have to swim in the puddles all around it in order to reach destination. Even there were reports in TOI sayinf that people are sleeping in cars with their kids because of the power cuts all night in our “Global City “.

New toll road has failed to live on its promise to solve the traffic woes for commuters. People get stuck in traffic even in 16 lane road for hours. During the peak office time it takes at least 2 hours from any adjoining border areas of Delhi to reach Gurgaon. Think about the pain of those who travel from far east or northern part of Delhi.

By writing all this my plea to the government is “No more Gurgaons”. Not for God’s sake , but for the poor peoples sake. There has to be some kind of policy or planning to stop mushrooming of such disasters. Such places only create havoc for environment and climate. Such places increase pollution , climatic temperature, reduce water table etc. Create measures to stop the builders who fool innocent farmers to buy their fertile lands for construction. Once acquired then go on to make false claims about their projects and fool inncocent people to fall into the trap of investing in their projects.

To first citizens of Gurgaon who thinks “I am rich and I can buy any thing “and have closed their eyes on such issues. Please leave your bloated egos, this city never was a Global city, and will never be until you take a stand. Take a stand against lack of civic amenities in city; educate people who are buying in Gurgaon about its pathetic state. Builders will not stop selling this mess to us until we start questioning before buying.

IBM banks a deal with US Bank

A US bank picks IBM's products QuickR and Lotus Connections over MS Sharepoint to implement in their bank for its file sharing requirments and social collaboration respectively.
This Minneapolis based U.S. Bank is also standardizing on the latest Lotus Notes 8.5 client for all 58,000 employees, as well as the Lotus Sametime messaging app .

For detailed reports visit the Link below :
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138020/U.S._Bank_picks_IBM_s_Lotus_platform_over_Microsoft_s_SharePoint

Upgrading to Notes 8.5-Open Mic conference call this Thursday, Sept. 17th

For all those who will be involved in upgradation projects in near future this is an opportunity to have good idea of what is required during upgradation of 8.5.


Details of the Call :
Date & Time: 17 September 2009 at 10:00 AM EDT (2:00 PM GMT), currently scheduled for 60 minutes
Complete information, including North America and international dial-in numbers and also the passcode, refer to technote #1402855 :
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21402855

Most Expensive Dog

************************************************************* A woman, identified by only the surname Wang, poses with her four-million-yuan (600,000 USD) dog as they are greeted by a convoy of 30 black Mercedes-Benz cars at the airport in Xi'an, in northern China's Shanxi province, on September 9, 2009. It was reported in the local Chinese media on September 10 that the woman said she and a friend had spent a long time searching for an original Tibetan mastiff, who had arrived from the Tibetan-populated province of Qinghai in China's northwest