Development and Management of Water Bodies in the state of West Bengal, India through PPPs for Productive Use

World Bank Group

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP): How can PPPs help deliver better services?

22 June 2015

Final Project - Digital Artifact (Resource)

Development and Management of Water Bodies in the state of West Bengal, India through PPPs for Productive Use 

Agriculture is the main source of livelihoods for most of the households in rural areas in the State of West Bengal in India. However, irrigation system is not developed in most of the places and the farmers mainly depend on rains and exploit ground waters to irrigate their crops. The rural population in West Bengal is about 62 million.

Thousands of water-bodies like rivers, streams, channels, lakes, ponds, swamps of various shapes and sizes are to be found across the state of West Bengal. Most of these water bodies are located on the land owned by Government of West Bengal and primarily engendered by rainfall during rainy season.

Despite receiving moderate to heavy rainfall during rainy season of about 3 months in a year, which often causes devastating floods at many places, there are no concerted efforts for development and management of the water bodies for productive use. The water bodies can be converted to water reservoirs and be operated for the purpose of irrigation, water supply, flood control, fisheries, recreation (like boating) and electricity generation by setting up hydropower plant under Public Private Partnerships. A large numbers of the water bodies have already been repaired, renovated and restored under Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the flagship programme of Government of India to provide minimum 100 days works in a year to every rural household to do unskilled manual work. De-silting of the water bodies, excavation, peripheral embankment, construction of small scale engineering structures like check dam, anicut, escape, weir, trenches, intermediate and linked drains, diversion channels etc have been carried out in many water bodies under MGNREGS. However, utilization of these water-bodies in a professional way under PPPs to help deliver better services to the people by means of irrigation, water supply, flood control, fisheries and hydropower plants is hardly given a thought.

PPPs can be very effective and efficient approach for development, operation and maintenance of water bodies to serve the above-mentioned public purposes. Government of West Bengal owns most of the water bodies; but it lacks money and manpower resources to develop, operate and maintain such water-bodies scattered across the length and breadth of the State.  Small and Medium Private Enterprises will be suitable for these kind of PPPs. Preferably, local unemployed persons can form private enterprise to develop and manage these projects. The requirement of capital investments to develop and manage the water bodies to serve the intended purposes are not very high and can be sourced by private enterprise as loan from the Banks / Financial Institutions.

The responsibility of Government of West Bengal would be to identify the water bodies and to prepare Detailed Project Reports to assess the technical feasibility and economic viability of the scheme. Since the water-bodies belong to Government of West Bengal, there is no requirement for land acquisition for the Government. 

The scheme may be auctioned for allotment to the private party based on the selection criteria of the highest percentage free sharing of the produce / output of the project by the private party with the Government. Private partner will also need to pay upfront premium to the Government of West Bengal at the time of allotment of the project which may be decided by the Government based on the economic viability of the scheme. There will be a fixed concession period after which the project will be re-auctioned. The private partner will earn revenues from the users of waters for irrigation and water supply, recreational users, fish production, electricity generation etc as the particular scheme is intended for. 

The entire development and operational risks as well as demand risks will rest on the private partner.  

The tariff for the water use will be determined by the market i.e. mutually-agreed tariff by the project proponent and the prospective users; so as the price of fish produced and tariff of the electricity generated by the project. 

Irrigating crops from such schemes would be cost effective to the farmers during non-rainy season because, due to over-use, the underground water levels have already been dropped substantially and it requires high installation, operation & maintenance cost to extract ground water using pump sets. During summer time the pumps often fail to extract water.

Government of West Bengal, initially, may take up some water bodies for development and management through PPPs on pilot projects basis.

Sample Photograph: A Lake in West Bengal, India                       

Proud Owner of a copy of 'Inferno' signed by the author Dan Brown

Proud owner of a copy of 'Inferno' signed by the author Dan Brown (also the author of the international best-selling thrillers like The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol and Angels & Demons). The publisher Random House (India) has awarded me the book for being the winner of a quiz contest on twitter conducted by them on November 1, 2013. Random House (India) has informed that this is the only author signed copy of 'Inferno' shipped by them to India from USA. 

The Faber Moderns Contest

Publishing house Faber & Faber organized a contest on The Hindustan Times on March 30, 2013.

I participated in the contest and came first.

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”- Fran Lebowitz.

I can't agree more.

My reads since January 2013:

Year 2013

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Jan 2013

2. Water - Asia's New Battleground by Brahma Chellenay - Jan / Feb 2013

3. Billionaire Boy - Mark Zuckerberg in His Own Words - edited by George Beahm - Feb 2013

4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Feb / Mar 2013

5. Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow by Sarat Chandra Das - Mar 2013

6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Mar / Apr 2013

7. 2 States - The Story of My Marriage by Chetan Bhagat - Apr 2013

8. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S Sharma - Apr 2013

9. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass - Apr / May 2013

10. Manuscript found in Accra by Paulo Coelho - May 2013

11. The Way of The Knife - the untold story of USA's secret war by Mark Mazzetti - May / June 2013

12. What Young India Wants by Chetan Bhagat - June 2013

13. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell - July 2013

14. An Uncertain Glory - India and Its Contradictions by Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen - July / Aug 2013

15. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Aug 2013

16. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri - Sep 2013
17. The Call of the Wild by Jack London - Oct 2013
18. The Arumentative Indian by Amartya Sen - Oct 2013
19. Madam O Mahashay (Madam & Sir)- Bengali novel by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Sharadiya Desh 2013)- Oct 2013
20. Keu Keu Theke Jaan (Few persons remain) - Bengali story by Samaresh Majumdar (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
21. Debnathbabur Ishwar (God of Mr. Debnath)- Bengali story by Harsha Dutta (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
22. Atithi (The Guest) - Bengali story by Sukanta Gangopadhyay (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
23. Upatyaka Paar Hoye (Beyond the Valley) - Bengali story by Mallika Dhar (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
24. Aamader Chhoto Nodi (Our small river) - Bengali story by Ullas Mullick (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
25. Faster Than Lightning - My Autobiography by Usain Bolt - Oct / Nov 2013
26. Kintu Kano Jaabo (But why should I go) - Bengali novel by Amrit Saha (Sharadiyaa Patrika 2013) - Nov 2013
27. Phooler Torah (The Flower Bouquet)- Bengali story by Prachet Gupta (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Nov 2013
28. Mayabi Saras(The Conjurer Heron) - Bengali story by Maniratna Mukhopadhay (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Nov 2013
29. Moneybag - Bengali story by Prachet Gupta (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
30. Barhi Phire (Returning Home) - Bengali story by Prachet Gupta (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
31. Phuray Shudhu Chokhe (Ends only in sight) - Bengali novel by Smaranjit Chakraborty (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Nov 2013
32. Kobir Bari (The Poet's House) - Bengali story by Anita Agnihotri (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
33. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - Nov 2013
34. Hold My Hand by Durjoy Datta - Nov 2013
35. Tobuo (Yet) - Bengali story by Suchitra Bhattacharya (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
36. Sparsho (Touch) - Bengali story by Harsha Dutta (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
37. Plastic'er Manush (Man made of plastic) - Bengali story by Basudeb Malakar (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
38. Bidhaba Bhata (Widow Allowance) - Bengali story by Ullas Mullick (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
39. Sansar (The World) - Bengali story by Sangeeta Bandopadhyay (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
40. Himsheetal (Ice-cold) - Bengali story by Samaresh Majumdar (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
41. Netajir Opekkhay (Awaiting Netaji) - Bengali story by Shekhar Basu (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
42. Ei Nau Parijaat (Take this amaranthus) - Bengali story by Ramapada Roy (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011)
43. Swapnopath (Dream-way) - Bengali story by Harsha Dutta (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011)
44. Emma by Jane Austen - Nov / Dec 2013
45. Ekta Pistol O Dumur Gachh (A pistol and fig tree) - Bengali short story by Syed Mustafa Siraj (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
46.  Special Officer - Bengali short story by Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
47. Sanko (The Narrow Wooden Bridge) - Bengali short story by Sunil Gangopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
48. Chaabi (The Key) - Bengali short story by Ashapurna Debi (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
49. Almari (The Cupboard) - Bengali short story by Narendranath Mitra (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
50. Jhalmudi (Hot Corn) - Bengali short story by Dibyendu Palit (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013

Year 2014
1. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - Jan 2014

2. From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth - Jan 2014

3. Taatka Barafer Maachh (Ice Fresh Fish) - Bengali short story by Samaresh Majumdar (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Jan 2014

4. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple - Jan 2014 

5. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - Jan / Feb 2014

6. Ghare Baire (The Home and The World) - Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore - Feb 2014

7. Marata (The Deadbody) - Bengali short story by Banaphool (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

8. Haaoa-Badal (Wind Change) - Bengali short story by Achintya Kumar Sengupta (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

9. Karnaphoolir Daak (Call of Karnaphooli) - Bengali short story by Subodh Ghosh (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

10. Sandesh (The News) - Bengali short story by Jyotirindra Nandi (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

11. Snayu (The Nerve) - Bengali short story by Santosh Kumar Ghosh (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

12. Khil (The Peg) - Bengali short story by Bimal Kar (Anandasangi - Robibaer Galpo) - Feb 2014

13. Aami Aaamar Mato Noi (I am not like myself) - Bengali short story by Abul Bashar (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014  

14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Feb 2014

15. Bosbar Ghar (The Sitting Room) - Bengali short story by Ramapada Chowdhury (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

16. Aamar Ekhon Samay Nei (I don't have time right now) - Bengali short story by Suchitra Bhattacharya (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

17. Thatta (The Jest) - Bengali short story by Samaresh Basu (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

18. Obosthan (The Location) - Bengali short story by Bani Basu (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

19. Pashanbhar  (A weight as heavy as stone) - Bengali short story by Moti Nandi (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

20. Suitcase - Bengali short story by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

21. Annapurna (A Hindu Goddess who feeds the world) - Bengali short story by Shyamal Gangopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

22. America - Bengali short story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

23. Shonite Sumadhur Sojja (Sweet Bed on Blood) - Bengali short story by Atin Bandyopadhyay - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014
24. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - Feb / Mar 2014

25. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - Mar 2014
26. Toba Tek Singh - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014     

27. Khol Do (Open It) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

28. Nangi Awazein (Naked Sounds) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

29. Mozzale - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

30. Thanda Gosht (The Cold Meat) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

31. Hatak (Insult) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

32. Kali Salwar (The Black Garment) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014 

33. Khushiyan (Delights) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

34. Naya Kanoon (The New Act) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

35. Mamad Bhai (Brother Mamad) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

36. Mommy - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014     

37. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - Mar 2014

38. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - Mar 2014
39. The Stranger by Albert Camus - Mar 2014
40. Anandamath (The Abbey of Bliss) - Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - Mar 2014
41. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - Mar / Apr 2014
42. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - Apr 2014
43. Crusador or Conspirator? Coalgate and Other Truths by PC Parakh - Apr 2014
44. My Life and Work by Henry Ford - Apr 2014
45. The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru - Apr / May 2014
46. One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat - May 2014
47. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Jun 2014
48. Darwinbad : Bigyan O Darshan (Darwinism : Science and Philosophy) by Tapan Mishra - Jun 2014
49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Apr 2014 to Jul 2014
50. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Jul 2014
51. Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis by Brahma Chellaney - May to Aug 2014
52. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Aug 2014
53. In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh - Aug 2014
54. Godaan (The Gift of a Cow) - Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand - Aug / Sep 2014
55. Sons of Brahma by Dhruba Hazarika - Sep 2014
56. Ajaya: Roll of the Dice by Anand Neelakantan - Sep 2014`
57. Half Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat - Oct 2014
58. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - Sep / Oct 2014
59. Nirbachito Kuri (Selected Twenty) - a collection of Bengali short stories by Samaresh Majumdar - Nov 2014
60. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran - Nov 2014
61. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Dec 2014
62. Mother by Maxim Gorky - Oct to Dec 2014
63. Love Match by Reggie Thomas - Dec 2014

Year 2015
1. Banglar Prabad (Proverbs of Bengal) by Sudeshna Basak - Dec 2014 / Jan 2015

2. The Storyteller's Tale by Omair Ahmad - Jan 2015
3. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster - Jan 2015
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Jan / Feb 2015
5. Beyond the Idea  by Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble - Feb 2015
6. And We Remained by Asad Ali Junaid - Feb 2015
7. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande - Feb 2015
8. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - Feb / Mar 2015
9. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - Mar 2015
10. Mahaloko Bikte Dekha Hain (collection of Hindi poems) by Piyush Kaviraj - Mar 2015
11. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor - Mar / Apr 2015
12. Jeevansmriti (Memories of Life) by Rabindranath Tagore - Apr 2015
13. Return of a King - The Battle for Afghanistan 1839 - 1842 by William Darlymple - Apr 2015
14. The WISDOM and TEACHINGS of Stephen R. Covey - Apr / May 2015
15. A Village in Bengal - Photographs and an Essay by Chirodeep Chaudhury - May 2015
16. The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat - June 2015
17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - May / June 2015
18. Prothom Protishruti (The First Promise) - Bengali novel by Ashapurna Devi - June / July 2015
19. Gulabi by Pankaj Suneja- July 2015
20. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - July 2015
21. Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan - July / August 2015
22. Dakghar (Post Office) by Rabindranath Tagore - August 2015
23. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - September 2015
24. Sita - Bengali story by Sayantani Putatunda (Sharadiya Anandabazar Patrika 2015) - Sep 2015
25. India: An Alphabet Ride by Shallu Jindal - Oct 2015
26. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Sep / Nov 2015
27. Hajar Churashir Maa ( The Mother of Sl No. 1,084) - Bengali novel by Mahasweta Devi - Nov 2015
28. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson - Nov 2015
29. Narmada - Hindi novel by Laxman Rao - Nov 2015
30. What I Did Not Learn at IIT by Rajeev Agarwal - Dec 2015
31. The Poetry of A Common Indian Female by Virendra Narayan Desai
32. The Art of War by Sun Tzu  - Dec 2015

Year 2016- 
1. Selected Stories by Alice Munro - Nov 2015 / Jan 2016

2. Padmanadir Majhi (The Boatman of Padma River) - Bengali Novel by Manik Bandopadhyay - Jan 2016
3. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - Jan / Feb 2016
4. A Situation in New Delhi by Nayantara Sahgal - Feb 2016
5. The Blue Umbrelia by Ruskin Bond - Feb 2016
6. The Country of First Boys by Amartya Sen - Feb / Mar 2016
7. Nirmala - Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand - Mar 2016
8. The Treasure of Kafoor by Aroon Raman - Apr 2016
9. The Trial by Franz Kafka - Apr 2016
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Apr / May 2016
11. Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat - May 2016
12. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - Jun 2016
13. Shesh Katha (The Last Word) - Bengali short story by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay - Jul 2016
14. Pashchatbhumi (The Background) - Bengali short story by Debesh Roy - Jul 2016
15. Voter Savitribala - Bengali short story by Banaphool - Jul 2016
16. Aamake Dekhun (Please, Look at Me) - Bengali short story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jul 2016
17. Saareng (The Captain of the Boat) - Bengali short story by Achintya Kumar Sengupta - Jul 2016
18. Baachar Jonyo ( For Living) - Bengali short story by Prafulla Roy - Jul 2016
19. Ranipachhand ( The Queen's Pick) - Bengali short story by Annadashakar Roy - Jul 2016
20. Khara (The Drought) - Bengali short story by Sunil Gangopadhyay - Jul 2016
21. Niruddesh (Missing) - Bengali short story by Premendra Mitra - Jul 2016
22. Shesh Bikeler Duti Mukh (Two Faces of the Falling Afternoon) - Bengali short story by Moti Nandi - Jul 2016
23. Dhas (The Slide) - Bengali short story by Satinath Bhaduri - Jul 2016
24. Taaser Gharer Moto (Like the House of Cards) - Bengali short story by Syed Mustafa Siraj - Jul 2016
25. Seemarekhar Seema (The Limit of the Boundary Line) - Bengali short story by Ashapurna Devi
26. Bharatbarsho (The India) - Bengali short story by Ramapada Chowdhury - Jul 2016
27. Thogini (The Female Thug) - Bengali short story by Subodh Ghosh - Jul 2016
28. Bondur Jonyo Bhumika (Foreword for the Friend) - Bengali short story by Bimal Kaar - Jul 2016
29. Ekti Premer Galpo ( A Love Story) - Bengali short story by Narendranath Mitra - Jul 2016
30. Pran-Pipasa (The Thirst for the Life) - Bengali short story by Samaresh Basu - Jul 2016
31. Manonio Porikshok Mahashay Somipeshu (To the Respected Examiner) - Bengali short story by Narayan Gangopadhyay - Jul 2016
32. Gachh (The Tree) - Bengali short story by Jyotirindra Nandi - Jul 2016
33. Chhoto Katha (The Insignificant Word) - Bengali short story by Santosh Kumar Ghosh - Jul 2016
34. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein - Aug 2015 to Jul 2016
35. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - Jul / Aug 2016
36. Chhoto Galpo Sankalan (Collection of Short Stories in Bengali) by Ashapurna Devi - Aug 2016
37. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Aug 2016
38. Jatinbabur Mrityu (Death of Mr. Jatin) - Bengali short story by Prachet Gupta - Sep 2016
39. When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam - Sep 2016
40. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Aug / Oct 2016
41. One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat - Oct 2016
42. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - Oct 2016
43. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Oct / Nov 2016
44. A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna by Amitava Kumar - Nov 2016
45. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad by Twinkle Khanna - Nov / Dec 2016
46. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Dec 2016
47. Kohinoor: The Story of World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand - Dec 2016

10 All-time Greatest Sportspersons of India

My pick for 10 all-time greatest sportspersons of India:
1. Major Dhyan Chand
2. Viswanathan Anand
3. Leander Paes
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Mahesh Bhupathi
6. Abhinav Singh Bindra
7. Milkha Singh
8. P. T. Usha
9. Saina Nehwal
10. MC Mary Kom

My All-time Best Indian Football XI

Indians are crazy about Cricket. World's most popular sports Soccer is not much preferred in most parts of the country except West Bengal, Kerala, Goa, Punjab, Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya & other few states. Quite expectedly, when FIFA.com wants its followers to name their countries all-time best football XI, not a single entry is found from our country. If we are asked to slecet nation's all time Cricket XI, it is eventual that not less than hundreds of thousands of entries from India would jam the website. Our country has defenitely produced quality footballers of highest international standard. We have won Gold in football in Asian Games in 1951 (New Delhi) & 1962 (Jakarta) and stood fourth in 1956 (Melbourne) Olympics.
Being a club member in FIFA.com, I have picked my all-time Indian Football XI and my team: Goalkeeper:Peter Thangaraj,
Defenders: Jarnail Singh, S. A. Latif, Sailen Manna (Captain), Mahesh Gawli,
Mid-fielders: I. M. Vijayan, Mohammed Abdul Salim,
Forwards: Chuni Goswami, P. K. Banerjee, Baichung Bhutia, Neville Stephen D'Souza,
Coach: Syed Abdul Rahim.

safety first

Life is priceless, so your health,

fitness is your most precious wealth.

Follow safety, be alert wherever you are,

keep away injury and illness a far.

Observe all safety measures while at project,

otherwise surely you will be reject.

Take all safety cares when you at site,

don't blacken your future, paint it bright.

Use all safety gears in proper style,

and have your face always full of smile.

Maintain cleanliness, don't make mess,

live your life free of distress.

Live and let live in hapiness and peace,

life is only one, don't miss please.

MORE WE KNOW, MORE WE COME TO KNOW THAT HOW LESS WE KNOW

Coalescence of Quality & Productivity

Albeit earnest and incessant persuasion of the higher management for upgrading quality of the product and service to meet the mounting expectations of the customers and to have edge over rival companies’ product and service, strife between quality & production wings is encountered time to time, specially this is obvious between the team led by supervising engineer of one department and their counterparts belonging to other department. Concept predominates among production supervisors are that the measures and actions such as inspections and tests as per applicable codes & specifications conducted by quality control wing to check flaws and to maintain standard of the products impede desired productivity. The production staffs perceive the duty of quality control personnel as interference which cause shortfall of the production. This sort of shortsighted, prejudice, mistaken perception of the production team translates into their action and consequently quality deteriorates. On the other hand, quality control inspectors misuse their authority to make much fuss over minor issue that could have been resolved amicably. They also lack integrity and apply different yardstick in different times arbitrarily for measuring identical items in same condition. They perceive that it is their own personal discretion, not applicable code and specification, which would determine the acceptability of an item and because of their this kind of attitude productivity suffers.
I had an opportunity to work as execution as well as quality control engineer by leading a team single-handedly responsible for both quality and productivity for a particular job during the period of construction of Chilime Hydro Electric Project, a hydel-power project in high Himalayan terrain of Nepal. Earlier I had worked as project execution engineer in other projects but I did not confine myself merely in that arena. Whenever I had got opportunity managing time from my task I did involve myself in learning quality aspecsts of the job with a great enthusiasm as I had been very keen to carry out a job being responsible for productivity as well as accountable for quality entirely.
In Chilime, I convinced my management that no separate team is required for quality and execution, one sole team would be entrusted both the responsibilities and each member of the team would take care of quality as well as look after productivity and I would be able to handle the both responsibilities as team leader and could accomplish the job as per project schedule maintaining intended quality of the job. Initially client made objection and they insisted for independent execution team. Management assured them that if necessity arises, team would be deployed.
I made micro planning of the each activity involved in production and related measures for quality. I trained members of the team regarding quality aspect of the job who had not been exposed previously in this field and about productivity to those who had not experience in production. I made them aware of all aspects of the jobs by encouraging them to read applicable codes, specifications, and procedures and through pep talks. I knew it was not going to be easy task and great motivation, determination and honesty would be required to accomplish both the jobs simultaneously.
At beginning stage of production I had to face few inhibitions to achieve highest class of quality because some of the members could not cope up with the quality features of the job to the required level. Gradually this sort of problem diminished through our persistent endeavor as all team members realized the importance of quality while chasing productivity. Thus we were able to complete the job well within the time frame maintaining best grade of quality by coalescence of quality & productivity.

Amazing Arunachal - Lohit River

Lohit River - Is not it wonderful?


'Network of Channels' of Lohit River


Lohit River


Lohit River - View from Salangam on Tezu-Hyualiang-Hawai Road


Another view of the 'Network' of Lohit River


Lohit River - near Parasuramkund

Amazing Arunachal - Parsuramkund

Parasuramkund where, according to the legend, Parasuram washed away the sin of kiling his mother.


Parsuramkund is located on NH-52 near Bridge on Lohit River


Lohit Bridge near Parsuramkund


Idol of Parsuram in the temple


Kund is on the bank of Lohit River


At Kund


The place where Parsuram is believed to dig with his axe to release water

Amazing Arunachal - Mayodiya Pass

Mayodiya Pass - Dibang Valley


Another View


Snow fall at Mayodiya Pass - Dibang Valley


We could not proceed further because of snow fall

Amazing Arunachal - Dibang Valley

'Children of The Nature'- Idu Mishmi Kids, Dibang valley. India will shine, only when they will shine


A hut in the jungle


Man with 'Dau' (the dagger)- very common scene in Arunachal Pradesh