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Kerala State Enterpreneur Development Mission(KSEDM)
Attempt of state mission in giving professions for 1 lakh people within 5 years has got recognition. Kerala financial cooperation is the nodal agency which granting interest less plan for ten thousand industrial enterprises. The plan will officially inaugurate on January 25th 2012. The plan is also grants training to start enterprises and also allowed interest less loan up to 90 percent. Government will undertake the interest by giving 20 lacks rupees as loan. Duration of loan is up to 5 years. Entrepreneurs are selected on the basis of their talents and articulation.
Desiring entrepreneurs can apply online on the website of KFC. Applicants should download the form available on the website and apply within the closure date. The closure date extended to 7th January 2012.Thereafter basic awareness program will conduct for applicants on district, cooperation and block levels.
BSNL NEW ONAM OFFERS
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has widened the existing offers and has also announced new Onam offers to take the full advantage of the festival season. BSNL had already unleashed new plans and offers for the arriving Onam season. Taking into account the improved responses and requests from the consumers the authorities have widened the range and offers of the Onam plans.
The much appreciated ‘Mithram’ plan of BSNL has been extended to 16/9/2011 following the continuous requests of consumers. The present ‘Mithram’ connections have exceeded 4.1 lakhs in number. The Ernakulam S.S.A alone has given away about 1.25 lakh new ‘Mithram’ connections. 5 numbers of our choice can be called at lower rates in this plan. For BSNL network, the rate is 10 paisa per minute and for other networks it is 30 paisa per minute. With the first recharge of Rs.53, the subscribers will be provided with 2000 free national and local sms for six months and free calls worth Rs.50. The validity of this ‘Mithram’ plan is 180 days.
Onam fares will be conducted in all BSNL customer service centres on the 5th, 6th and 7th of September. In the fare, the BSNL services and products will provided to customers with special reductions. A BSNL stall is also set up in the IRDP Onam fare.
BSNL has also started a prepaid plan for students in this Onam season. In this plan with the first recharge of Rs.40, they will be provided with a BSNL to BSNL free talk time of Rs.30 and a BSNL to other network free talk time of Rs.10. Other than this, the customers will also be given a 50 MB free data usage and 600 free sms. The first validity of this plan is 30 days. Call rates of the plan are 40 paisa per minute for local or STD calls in the BSNL network.
In the ‘Friends and Family’ scheme we can register 5 numbers for the scheme and among this the call rates to three BSNL numbers will be 10 paisa per minute and the rates to the two other network numbers will be 30 paisa per minute. The numbers registered can be changed any time as our wish. The validity in this plan should be extended every month with a recharge of Rs.22 and with every such recharge, the subscriber will be given a free data usage of 100 MB and 300 free sms.
EMERGING KERALA
The Emerging Kerala investors meet that has been planned by the government to be conducted in April is being flooded with projects. It is said that projects worth more than 20000 crore are about to be granted final permission. The meet is not only intended to discuss over the projects, but also to provide all permissions and to begin the primary works.
Even though the meet is conducted by KSIDC, it won’t be exclusively an industrial meet. Every sector will come up with their projects. Since meet is concentrating on beginning the new projects, some are already being presented.
The meet is to be conducted at Kochi and it is intended to project Kerala as an investor friendly destination. A committee was formed earlier with the Chief Minister as the Chairman and the Industries minister as Vice chairman for organising the event. All the ministers, Vice Chairman of the planning board, The chief secretory and other senior officials will constitute the rest of the members of the committee.
Hospitals in the health sector, multiplex projects in cultural sector and large scale investments in the IT sector are the major goals of the meet. And the approximate worth of the project has already crossed Rs.20000 crore. Rubber based projects from China, solid waste disposal projects from America and IT investment projects from Europe are expected to arrive for the meet.
A lot of foreign Keralites are also coming up with various projects. Among them the projects from the Gulf Keralites comprises of all the sectors. Those projects which were included in the 4th year projects of the LDF government and that could not get the permission to take it further are being included in the ‘Emerging Kerala’ meet. As per the reports, the Aranmula airport has also got a place in the list. Some projects are being organised in cooperation with the central public sector.
Currently the UDF government is busy with their 100 days programme and as soon as the programme approaches completion, they will turn to this project. The government is to begin the evaluation and permission granting to the various projects of the meet soon after they deal with their assignments.
The main difference of this meet on comparing to the GIM that was conducted 10 years before is that this time only those projects which are 100 % sure to be fulfilled are included in the meet. The authorities are to avoid the previous experience of failing to make the planned projects practical. It is expected that this meet will bring a new opening to the development and job sector of Kerala and our youngsters will find better jobs of good remuneration here itself.
ONAM: THE SEASON OF OFFERS
As the month of September is about to arrive, we, all the Keralites are ready for another season of joy, another season that reminds of a prosperous history we had, another season that urge the sparks of the nostalgia of our childhood.. Yes we are ready to welcome another Onam season to our homes. There is hardly any other festival that has got as much importance as Onam has in our lives. Every native of Kerala irrespective of being abroad or home waits keenly for the occasion.
For those abroad it is the time to return home and be in their land and for those who are here, the season becomes an occasion of reunion of the family. In every aspect it is our festival.
The importance of Onam is not just limited to our emotions or memories. It is also a season that contributes much to our economy. Every small and big names of the market too are eagerly waiting for its arrival. They are ready with many attractive and interesting offers with their products. It is a trend that started a long time before by the companies to include the customers too in their celebrations. And as in the case of the last year, every brand has came up with their most popular packages.
The list starts right from the BSNL in the government sector to mobile companies including the recently launched ones.
BSNL has announced HAPPY ONAM with their unique schemes on free 2G mobile prepaid connections with unlimited free calls and free GPRS browsing to its customers in Kerala.
Aircel which stepped into the Kerala market a few years ago also introduced a one year scheme with a unique and attractive one year scheme with a single recharge over unlimited pocket internet, sms, local calling and Gulf calling pack.
The big names in the textile and fabric industries have also announced the unveiling of their new stocks with the coming Onam season.
The Parthas textiles is running a ‘Be Special’ lucky dip contest operational from August 28th to September 4 and 8 special customers were gifted LCD television sets and satellite connections for free.
The Emmanuel silks announced a discount up to 10% cash back on every purchases foreseeing the coming season of celebration.
Videocon group also announced their special promotional scratch and win offer which promises to gift a Nano car, LCD tv, washing machine etc for the oncoming season.
The most popular news papers too have modified their editions or even doubled it to join the crowd. In short everyone, every industry, every field and everything here is impatiently awaiting the arrival of the prosperous Onam season.
We too wish you the advance warm and joyful wishes of the arriving ONAM season.
SAMSUNG GALAXY S II – THE SMARTTEST PHONE
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Samsung is now presenting the master of all smart phones – SAMSUNG GALAXY S II. It is the fastest in dual core processing and most seamless in wireless connectivity. And that makes it not just a smart phone, but the best of them.
On the 4.27 inch screen, the phone display colors truly vivid and distinguishable. The separations are also too clear between the light and the dark with extra contrast ratios. The GALAXY S II has an amazing response time of .01 milliseconds that makes the video enjoyment more smoother and enjoyable eliminating the motion blur.
Its panel is extra slim – .2mm thinner than SUPER AMOLED PANELS which adds to its beauty. Also it consumes low power than others. The dual core processor eases the switching between tasks giving us more time to do what we truly enjoy. The fast graphics processor does not even make us feel that we are buffering.
The CORTEX Dual core processor improves the video capture quality and smoothens the playback. It’s the lightest smart phone weighing just about 116 grams with a thickness of 8.49 mm. The model has a metallic look and tactile surface that prevents slipping off from hands. Despite of having a large battery capacity, the phone is extra slim and is scratch resistant too.
An entire movie can be downloaded in minutes with the downloading speed of 20 mbps provided by HSPA. It also has an uploading speed of 5.76 mbps. Once connected we can listen to music, set ring tones, transfer files and much more without interruption.
In the entertainment field, it offers a readers hub that provides instant access to thousands of books newspapers and magazines in various languages. It gives over 2.2 million e- books, 2000 newspapers (in 49 languages) and 2300 magazines (in 22 languages). We can have access to the social network by the social hub through which instant messaging and SNS is possible on one screen.
The game hub is pre- occupied with the most popular social games such as ‘WE CITY’ and ‘WE RULE’ and also many more HD games that are optimized for this version.
It has a main camera of high resolution 8 MP equipped with a brighter BIS sensor that improves the definition and declines noise. 4x digital zoom and LED flash is also incorporated to enhance the performance in low – light situations.
The Bluetooth version is 3.0+ HS with a data transfer rate of 24 mbps. In short it makes our world so big and keeps it at our fingertips.
Joint sector business city coming to Angamaly by INKEL
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A joint sector business city is about to launch in Angamaly by the Infrastructures Kerala Ltd (INKEL). The city seems to be a bless to all those entrepreneurs wishing to launch a unit in the heart of Kochi.
The city provides every basic necessity for the investors and they only insist upon environmental safety.
The project is intended to be completed in two phases.The firest phase is expected to be launched by 2012 March.The second elaborated plan will be started after analyzing the success of the former.
The city has 40 modules and its upto the investors whether they would like to take upon as modules or storeys.
The contract will be based on a lease with Rs.2500/sq.feet. Known business groups are already dreaming of this project which has an initial estimate of Rs.40 crore.
The investors or entrepreneurs should deal with the formalities to start the unit. However assistance will be offered by INKEL.
The INKEL claim of providing facilities such as data connectivity,electricity,water etc.We hope this to be a landmark in the way of Kochi which is heading towards the title of a metro.
Revised Kerala Budget 2011-12 by K.M. Mani
Revised Kerala Budget 2011-12 by Finance Minister, K. M. Mani
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Kerala Finance Minister K. M. Mani presented the Revised Kerala Budget for 2011-12
Rs: 500 cr for making one lakh new jobs
Rs: 5 cr for starting Kodimatha Mobility Hub at Kottayam Dist.
4 new medical colleges at Kasargod, Idukki, Pthanamthitta, Idukki districts
Rs 300 as pension for small scale farmers
Rs 30 cr for capital city development
Housing schemes for fishermen
Rs 325 cr for public works
lottery draws on every day of the week
25 lakh for Pilgrim tourism at Bharananganam
Rs 5 cr for first phase of hill-highway
Rs 25 cr for Kochi Metro project.
More low floor bus services at Trivandrum
Global positioning system for KSRTC
Traffic technology improvement with the help of keltron
Women and Children hospitals in all districts.
New sports complex @palai.
Rs 100 cr financial assistance to KSRTC.
Vizhinjam port project-180 cr.
1 cr for Padmanabhaswamy Temple.
Sport complex project for Poonjar.
Development of sports stadiums-120 Cr.
Kerala’s internal debt Rs 88,887 crores in 2010-11, Kerala in debt trap.
Ernakulam-Sabarimala State Highway -2 Cr.
More fund To strengthen ‘Kudumbasree’ networks.
Sez for luxuary cars, foreign liquor.
Priority for road development.
Rs 5 cr for Sabarimala, zero-waste project
Legal aid cell for NRI’s.
Free entrance coaching for SC students.
IT parks at small towns.
Volleyball academy at Idukki.
Technical training institute at Chavara, kollam.
13 more essential commodities Through public distribution system.
5000 more job opportunities at khadi sector.
2 cr for Mala spinning mill.
44 cr for Kottayam, Alapuzha, Trissur Medical colleges.
Education loans through K.S.F.E.
10 cr for ring roads.
30 cr allotted for establishing Kannur Airport.
Emerging Kerala – New Investment meet will be conducted in the name of Emerging Kerala like the previous UDF Govt’s Global Investment Meet.
