Visharam is also going to decide THE ELECTION 2009!

The Largest democracy of the world is going to polls and choosing its representative through a record number of voters for the 15^th Lok Sabha. This Huge process which costs around 1,120 crore rupees, starts on April 16, goes up to 13 May 2009 and the Indian people will receive the new government in place within 2 June 2009. The result of the election will be announced on 16th May, 2009.

The round-up of Lok Sabha Polls 2009 has a total of 543 seats with 714 Million voters. The election will be held with the Electronic voting machine (EVM), as was done with the 2004 election. There are 13,68,430 voting machines available across the country. There are 8,28,804 polling stations in the country which was 20% increase over the past 2004 election. The 2009 general election will see 3 main national pre-poll alliances take on each other. They are United Progressive Alliance, National Democratic Alliance and Third Front Alliance.

Everyone will be aware that Melvisharam falls under Ranipet assembly segment which itself falls under Arakkonam Lok Sabha Constituency. The six assembly segments - Tiruttani, Arakkonam, Sholinghur, Ranipet, Arcot, Cheyyar falls under the Arakkonam Constituency.

It is the responsibility of every citizen to vote and elect their representative who will voice and represent the issues and developments in the Parliament. Before voting blindly for any person to represent our constituency, one should know about the candidate whether he / she is capable of solving the unsolved current issues and bringing good developments to the last root of the segment. Let we all expect the best candidate be elected in our constituency who have the patience to answer us when the needs arise!

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Contribute your 1-day salary to Crescent Welfare

Does 1-day salary of yours mean you very much? Is it so important to you that you can’t spend on anyone but for yours need? Hope it is not so. Now let me tilt the question. Does 1-day salary of yours mean nothing to you? Is it not so important to you that you spend on your needs? Then contribute your 1-day salary to help the society. Who says that you need to help only when you earn lacs? Earning thousands and helping/contributing tens is far better than a person earning lacs and contributing in tens. During the College day function in CAHCET, dynamic chief guest Mr.M.Mohamed Hashim, said some golden words. “How many of you really earn with a minute thought that you will be serving the society?” The answer seems to be very challenging.

In view of helping serving the society, let us join hands to contribute our 1-day salary to Crescent welfare association, who have been vigorously serving the society in all aspects. They have been helping the deserving students to fulfil their educational dreams. To be realistic and practical, my dream was also fulfilled by their generous contributions. It was all because of Almighty Allah, who through Crescent helped me, complete my graduation. Many are reaping the benefits from crescent welfare association. If you help any deserving persons, then that helping tendency will be injected into him, and in turn he will serve the society when he stands alone. To say in short “Serve the society, Contribute your 1-day salary”. To state the statistical data, there may be nearly at least 500 graduates in Melvisharam, and if in average 1-day salary are 300, then the contribution accounts to Rs 1, 50,000. This will satisfy most of the needy deserving persons. Do you want to be in the list of serving-society persons, then contribute. Am not saying to do for the fame, you can also contribute anonymously. Hope this triggers some of them at least to think of contributions a little. Contributions must be to the society, for the society, by the society.

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There will be turnaround in IT job prospects: FICCI chief

VELLORE: There will be a huge turnaround in employment prospects for the engineers in the Information Technology (IT) field soon, thanks to the ambitious target set by the Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT), according to M. Rafeeque Ahmed, president, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Tamil Nadu State Council.

Addressing the 11th College Day celebrations of the C. Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering and Technology (CAHCET) at Melvisharam on Monday, Mr. Rafeeque Ahmed said that MAIT had set a target for the government to create a vibrant domestic IT market with 500 million Internet users as against the present 55 million, 100 million broadband connections as against the present five million, and 100 million connective devices by 2012.

The 11th Plan, he said, has envisaged a huge outlay for infrastructure development in the country to make it a developed country. Great stress is being laid on development of world-class highways, ports, railways and communication facilities. With the government committed to encourage these programmes on a public-private partnership basis, youth graduating from other branches of engineering too will have opportunities for gainful employment, he said.

Referring to the decline in campus recruitment by the IT industry, the FICCI State president said that recent developments in the country’s economy, though not on the same scale as previous years, has inbuilt potential as against the developed countries. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which was growing at the rate of around nine percent per annum since the past four or five years, is estimated to record a growth rate of about seven percent in 2009, next only to that of China.

“Though our country may not be immune to the fallout of the global financial crisis, it is likely to fare better than the other developing countries thanks to its domestic market and less reliance on exports”. No doubt the country might miss the overall export target of U.S. $ 170 billion for the leather trade for the current financial year, but experts such as C. Rangarajan, former chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council predicted that there would be a turnaround in the economy by September 2009. The slowdown in economy also provided opportunities to the students to shape themselves to meet future requirements, he said.

M. Mohamed Hashim, Chairman, K.H. Foundation, Melvisharam and former chairman of the Council for Leather Exports, and P.A. Ibrahim, Chairman, P.A. College of Engineering, Mangalore spoke.

submitted by Hidayathullah / Reference: THE HINDU

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