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Confederation of Indian Industries [CII] conference at Lalith Ashok
Written By psaram42 - 19 December, 2012
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The day long conference started with the welcome address by Mr. L Krishnan, Chairman CII Karnataka State Council. The irony of rapid urbanization according to him was that we expect different results with identical actions. The vehicles to people ratio has increased rapidly which is holding the environment to ransom. Some disturbing news does make us sit up and think.
- Hyderabad has no ground water
- Solid waste segregation at source is not happening
- Entry level employees dream of owning apartment
- Serious Power shortage
In short the economic boom creates its own challenges.
Picture 1 Lalith Ashok Conference Hall
For the inaugural session, the following were on the dais.
1. Mr. Anil Menon President Globalization and Smart connected communities
2. Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan. President Designate, CII & Executive Co Chairman Infosys Ltd.
3. Mr. CS Kedar IAS Chairman KUIDFC
4. K Ramesh
Many challenges at big scale are.
- Tweets a billion a week
- Video based social media
- Power consumption by the social media
- Telemedicine
- Both People and machines on the net
- Automation of cars and machines
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Session 2 Infrastructure, Waste Water, Waste / Sewage Management
psaram42 - 25 December, 2012 - 09:01
1 - Mr. Harish Gupta IAS, Managing Director, KUIDFC
Could not attend
2- Mr. Makoto Takano, Head, Procurement, Hitachi Zosen India Pvt Ltd
- Hitachi a ship building company started in1st April 1881
- It has 48 overseas offices as of now
- Waste was being dumped in to rivers earlier
- Incineration of waste became mandatory when1 lakh people died due to cholera
- 1965 first energy from waste project
- 1975 extreme pollution
- Closing down Nuclear Power plants
- Removal of Dioxin from Incinerators
- By 2010 they had 1700 mega watt power
- Segregation is mandatory as of now
- Sanitary control
- Environmental protection
- Indian Standard Energy from waste with low pollution is being installed
3 - Mr. Sandeep Pawar, General Manager, JFE Engineeri9ng India Pvt Ltd, 405, A Wing, 215 Atrium, Andheri - Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400093, Maharashtra, INDIA. TEL ：+ 91-22-6692-2224FAX ：+ 91-22-6692-2225
- Steel Engineering and ship building
- Hazeera to Lucknow Pipe line costing 3000 Crore
- Collaboration with Kawasaki Micro electronics
- Steel Structures and bridges
- Gas pipe line and storage
- Industrial Machines
- Solar power
- Geothermal energy
- Waste water treatment / recycling plants
- Capacity for Sewage Water treatment in India is not adequate
- Deodorization norms are Inadequate
- Energy generation from sludge is possible
- Waste water as a resource for Landscaping, Toilet flushing, food crop, Vehicle washing.
- Membrane filter technology
4 - Mr. Anand Krishnamurthy, Sr Marketing Manager, GE Water and Process Technologies
Could not attend
5 - Mr. Damandeep Singh, Director, CDP India
- Carbon disclosure Project
- Incentive, competition, community and governance
- WIPRO Green solution provider Click
- Using disclosure to drive competition
6 – Mr. Lalit chugh, Innovative Financing structures in Urban Infra structure
7 - Sumeet Shukla Coordinator of Karnataka Urban Sector services. Click
- Water Supply
- Solid waste
- Roads
- Civic amenities
- Strom water design
- Street lighting
- Stake holders too many
- Investment gap
- efficiency gap
- Why urban sector is different
- Public transport
- Personal Vehicle growth is enormous
- Mass Transport
Dr. Ashish Verma Expert Urban Transport. Click
- Metro BRTS has to be complimentary with policy measures
- good parking policy as demand management
- Differential parking charges
- car free day
- Metro stations a KM apart
- Cultural / social hubs
- TTMC idle useless hubs
psaram42 - 20 December, 2012 - 03:17
For the full TOI report Click here
silkboard - 23 December, 2012 - 06:09
thanks PSA sir for attending and sharing your report. But seems like you have not published your full notes - only part of it!?
psaram42 - 25 December, 2012 - 10:15
L Krishnan, Chairman CII, Karnataka State council
- Rapid urbanization
- Keep doing same but expect different results
- Sub 10 lakh population 40 L vehicles
Mr. Anil Menon, President, Globalization & smart+connected communities CISCO systems.
- CISCO has two roles to play.
- Emerging countries Challenges are not unique but the scale is enormous.
- Money of the order of Trillion Dollars is involved. Which is dramatically different
- Information Technology enables extraordinary global view.
- CISCO has attempted to give an integrated platform. 70% energy.
- Future will be Video based
- Internet of every thing People to machines. Machine to machine.
- Stress towards Automation like in parking
Mr. Kris Gopalkrishnan President Designate, CII & Executive Co Chairman Infosys Ltd.
- Bangalore as a global city occupies a special position
- It is in 10th positions on number of startups
- Technology should be part of city solution
- Safe, Secure and healthy environment desirable
- Vision, leadership, and personal discipline cannot be over emphasized
- Universal involvement
- In PPP context all of us are partners
- What is my role? What can I do? Should be the attitude
- Tender sure with PPP are the new models to engage the citizens
- Finally what limits Bangalore should grow?
- Satellite towns as growth centers.
Mr. CS Kedar, IAS Chairman KUIDFC
- In 1979 major India was in its villages
- In 2012 it is urban
- He is 2 months old as BDA chairman
- 10% area is reserved for parks
- All parks have lawns which require more water
- He suggests tree parks which require least maintenance
- Arkavati layout which is 80 to 100 acres is optimum.
- More groups with 80 to 100 acres are desirable for new layouts.
- Cities and Towns are Current growth centers
- Health data 6 Crore
Session 1 Bangalore’s Urban Growth – Trends, Patterns and Future
psaram42 - 24 December, 2012 - 06:31
Chairman Dr. A. Ravindra, IAS(Rtd), Advisor to Honrable CM Karnataka
- Three aspects of growth in Demographic, Physical and economic
- High growth in Demographic and municipal area.
- Bangalore contributes about 35% GDP
- Infrastructure, governance and quality of life are the issues
Dr. Ashwin Mahesh, Center for public Policy, IIM Bangalore
- What are the key challenges and how to tackle them
- The current influx is around 800 new people moving in to Bangalore each day
- The quality and interface of the three layers in governance viz central, Local and Municipal. Are they working together?
- Departmental silos, Scale pilots and mechanisms to get right results are the issues
- The more the change more static we are
- Land use planning in doldrums?
- Close BDA in current avatar
- Stress on Infrastructure development
- Economic development
- Trade office to be setup
- Citizen participation
- Mayor to have more term than existing
- Introduce BMRG / MPC bill in assembly
- Work with data
- Bangalore Lake project
- Land fill site proposal up to 750 Tons easily?
- Industry cluster analysis
- Capacity Document
- Inter city competition
- Real time traffic management system 2007
- Directing utilities only on 14 arterial routes
- Separate Foot path budget
- Metro depends on foot path
- Private money in Vittal Mallya road
- Cycling in IISc
- Commuter Rail around Bangalore
- Public Managed city
- Increase number of problem solving people
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