Blog for Jalgaon

Jalgaon station

2008-10-02T16:01:14+05:30

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Hotel Maitreyas

2008-10-02T11:34:56+05:30

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Ajanta 1.1

2008-06-02T22:22:13+05:30

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Ajanta 3.3

2008-06-02T22:18:39+05:30

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Ajanta History

2008-06-02T20:47:23+05:30

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Maharashtra Tourism - Ajanta caves

2008-06-02T20:18:03+05:30

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Ajanta 2.3

2008-06-02T19:56:01+05:30

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What's in a name? Fame!

2008-04-10T19:40:44+05:30

Preetam and Surbhi. (TOI Photo)

What’s there in a name? Lots, as was evident at the party organised by Pranay Tidke and wife Meghna for the naming ceremony of their daughter. Many prominent people of the city came to bless the child and wish the couple.
CHOOSING A NAME
The trend these days is to have a unique or a different name for the newly-born. Not to speak of numerology, which also determines the number of characters a name should have. On asking the Tidkes whether this influenced them in any way, Pranay said, "Not at all! We just liked the sound of Khyati. It means fame and I am sure she will live up to it. I don't believe in numerology at all."
GUEST LIST
Apart from some close relatives and friends, the guest list also included few of the city’s who's who. While Vijay Darda found the do an occasion to catch up with some friends, Jyotsna Darda was seen having an extended conversation with the parents of the newborn. We caught up with Jyotsna Darda and asked her about the current brouhaha over names. She said, "In our times, the ceremony and the various rituals were a huge affair. Numerology etc. was secondary."
CATCHING UP
While many guests were enjoying the delicacies, Pushpalata and Vijaykumar Tidke, the grandparents were also busy meeting friends. Businessman Prasanna Gujarathi, who had come from Jalgaon for the function was seen busy in conversation with Vishal Jaiswal.
VAGARIES OF NATURE
With the showers soaking the venue a few hours before the function, Pranay was a worried man. He said, "I was praying that rains do
not act as a party pooper. And thankfully, the function went off without a hitch.This left the host a relieved man.

Emco to enter high-voltage switchgears

2008-04-09T12:23:21+05:30

Link: Emco to enter high-voltage switchgears.

Thane-based Emco Ltd, India's third-largest transformer company, has decided to add one more product to its portfolio.
The company is looking for prospective technology partners in Japan and China to enter into high-voltage switchgear manufacturing in the country.

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Rajesh Jain, chairman and managing director, Emco Ltd said, "Since the company is aspiring to become an end-to-end solutions provider in power transmission and distribution segment, a diversification into switchgear manufacturing is an obvious move."

He said Emco is currently looking to get into a technology sharing agreement with an overseas player, which is likely to be in Japan or China.

"Things are at an advanced stage and a decision will be taken in a few months time," Jain said. Two years down the line, the company will have a new manufacturing facility to roll out high-voltage switchgears, he added.

Jain said India's switchgear market is estimated at about Rs 8,000 crore now and growing at 14-15% per annum. "The major players in the high voltage range are ABB, Crompton Greaves, Areva T&D and Siemens."

Jain said Emco Ltd, whose core expertise so far has been transformer manufacturing, is now gradually moving towards project business.

"Under the project business, we will take up complete turnkey solutions in transmission and distribution - right from setting up of 400 KV substations, setting up of transmission lines of 400 KV to 760 KV, manufacturing transmission towers, metering solutions, providing transformers and high voltage switchgears," he said.

The project business is expected to contribute revenues to the tune of 25-30% for the financial year ended March 2008. In the next two years, the company expects this division to contribute over 50% of the total revenues. "Therefore, in two years from now, the project business will become the flagship business of the company," he said.

The revenue target is above Rs1000 crore in the next two years, Jain said.

Emco is also upgrading its tower manufacturing capacity from 20,000 metric tonnes, which it had after the acquisition of Baroda-based Urja Engineers, to 45,000 metric tonnes. The capacity expansion is to be completed by May 2008.

Analysts Rahul Agarwal and Navneet Iyengar, in a March 6, 2008 report said: "Post-expansion, the merged entity would have transmission-tower manufacturing capability of 45,000 MT. Urja is qualified to bid for all state government and PGCIL contracts. This provides Emco with an edge in terms of providing 400 KV transmission lines along with its 400 KV transformer manufacturing capability. The focus is to become an end-to-end solutions provider for the EPC business."

Jalgaon district with an ISO

2008-04-08T23:04:04+05:30

Link: Assam's first tribal district with an ISO | South Asia.

With this endorsement, Karbi Anglong has become the fourth District in India that has the ISO 9001-2000 certification. The other three districts being Krishna in Andhra Pradesh, and Latur and Jalgaon in Maharashtra.