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No more Chaar Anna for Indians

By On May 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Jaago Janta Jaago

When was the last time you saw 25 paise coins or you have done any transaction using 25 paise coins ? Reserve Bank of India recently announced that Coins of 25 paise and below will be withdrawn from 30th June,2011.This means that 30th June onwards 25 Paise and below coins will not be legal.And one cannot exchange coins of these denominations after 30th June.The Bank has asked all the citizens to exchange these coins if they have any before 30th June.Citizens can exchange the coins at branches of banks or even at RBI offices across the country.This means that after this 50 paise coin will be the smallest denomination available for citizens of India along with one , two,five and ten rupees coins available. Continue reading

Union Budget 2011-2012

By On March 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Jaago Janta Jaago

Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee presented Union Budget 2011 in Parliament today.Whole country was eagerly waiting for the budget for year 2011.Few Key features of budget 2011-2012 are :
Exemption limit for the general category of individual taxpayers enhanced from INR 1,60,000 to INR 1,80,000 giving uniform tax relief of INR 2,000.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimated to have grown at 8.6 per cent in 2010-11 in real terms.Economy has shown remarkable resilience.
Indian economy expected to grow at 9 per cent with an outside band of +/- 0.25 per cent in 2011-12.
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: INR 21,000 crore allocated, which is 40 per cent higher than Budget for 2010-11. Continue reading

Awaaz Do-Right to Education

By On December 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Jaago Janta Jaago

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THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS CAN HELP CHANGE THEIR LIVES.
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The government has passed a new law guaranteeing every child’s right to education.
Yet, 8 million children in India today are out of school.
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Visit website for more details : http://www.awaazdo.in/ Continue reading

Bangalore Metro Signature Tune Contest

By On October 18, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Jaago Janta Jaago

Soon we will have Bangalore Metro operational in the city.The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has taken an initiative to involve public participation in functioning of Bangalore Metro.There is a contest initiated by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation which ask public to come up with 4 second signature tune for Bangalore Metro.A user or a company can submit their created tune to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation and if selected the tune owner may win cash prize of Rs 1 Lakh .The selected signature tune may be used by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation for advertising purpose or even signaling arrival of Metro Rail in its station.
The selected signature tune will remain the exclusive right of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation for its exclusive use.
Few Key points are :
* Each participant may provide up to four signature tunes.
* Eight Track Recording.
* Tunes should not exceed Four seconds.
* Audio format – preferably MP3
* Synopsis and Notations of the Tunes. Continue reading | 5 Comments

World’s most unusual protest

By On October 7, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Jaago Janta Jaago

What can be regarded as world’s most unusual protest in the world , people in Hubli actually performed the obituary of a tree that was axed for “obstructing electric cables”.They actually put up a board which states something like “Residents had taken much care to raise the tree to a height of 15 feet by watering and protecting it from stray cattle.Why it is reduced to 4 foot stump ? It used to provide shade to passerby.” The board also states something like “I sincerely request to at least safeguard my brothers and sisters living on the road and who have been contributing to greenery of the city”

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I feel this is one of the most unusual protest I have seen so far.The protest is peaceful and does make a strong statement.This can be regarded as the perfect example of people coming forward for saving environment.The protest has definitely gain some attention from local citizens and questions have been asked from local authority regarding cutting down of trees.If the tree was creating problem for cables , its branches could have been trimmed.Why the whole tree was cut down to 4 foot stump ? Continue reading | 6 Comments

Best Advertisement by Volkswagen

By On September 22, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Jaago Janta Jaago

Volkswagen came up with one of the best advertisements strategy I have seen recently.If you have read today’s Times Of India newspaper, you might have observed it by now.At the last page there is a full page advertisement of Volkswagen new car Vento.As soon as you open the page ,you can hear the audio of Volkswagen Vento ,Crafted with so much passion, it’s hard to let it go.Volkswagen.Das Auto.A very nice way of advertisement where an audio can catch an immediate attention while turning pages.

Seriously we don’t expect an audio clip to be played while reading our newspaper.It is all reading reading and reading.However the notion of letting an audio play is nice creative idea.It immediately gets all the attention and one thing for sure, people will remember the name Volkswagen Vento. Continue reading | 2 Comments

LIC free meal scheme

By On September 18, 2010 · 16 Comments · In Jaago Janta Jaago

LIC meal scheme can be considered as one of the most strange decision taken by LIC(Life Insurance Company) India.As per the meal scheme , LIC employees across India ,who will come on time will receive food coupons ranging between INR 1000 to INR 4000 along with their monthly salary.Punctuality has always been an important quality required in any profession and if any employee found not complying with company punctuality policy should be penalized.However LIC India has taken an aberrant decision of rewarding its employee who come on time.Actually LIC India has decided to reward it employee by giving meal coupons ranging between INR50 to INR200 per day to employees who come on time i.e. by 10am and there is 10 minutes grace period too. :)
In a simple way we can say that LIC is going to spend INR 336 crore per year.We come to this figure assuming INR 2000/month * 12 months * 1.4 Lac employees. i.e. INR336 crore of our money which we pay as tax.

What do you think about this decision of LIC ? Do you think this decision will encourage employees to come on time ? Encouraging student to come to school by luring them by free lunch is completely different than luring employees to come to office on time. Continue reading | 16 Comments

International Ozone Day

By On September 16, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Jaago Janta Jaago

Today is International Ozone Day.Every year since 1995, 16th September is celebrated as Internal Ozone Day. This date has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 49/114, to commemorate the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.The main motive of celebrating this day is to spread awareness regarding importance of Ozone Layer and measures should be taken in order to prevent Ozone layer from depletion.
Ozone Layer(O3) is a protective layer that exists approximately 10-50 kms above the earth’s surface.This layer help us by not allowing harmful ultra violet rays of sun to enter our environment.Direct exposure to harmful UV rays of sun may result in several skin diseases and even skin cancer.However due to some undesirable human actions the Ozone layer has been depleated in several areas.Every now and then we come across news about new hole discovered in Ozone layer.The main reason behind the depletion of Ozone layer is CFC (Chloro Fluoro Carbon). Continue reading | 2 Comments

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