A bag of Mixed feelings

It was 4 AM on 14 jan, 2014 and I just couldn't sleep anymore. As it was raining since previous night though not so heavy, it was a bit wet n very cool outside. Even then I got out of the home and started to move the trees n wood to a place to burn n by the time I finished it, all the family members woke up and somehow the celebrations on a lohri day started. Though every one were enjoying in their own style, I really donot know why am I unable to enjoy myself in the party. I was so eager and curious about my CAT result. Though am smiling, I knew I'm not so comfortable with that. As the clock is getting nearer to 9 AM, I just started to look for the result but the server was so busy and I'm unable to get my result. After a good long struggle, I'm able to get through to the result's page at around 9:40AM and I'm really elated to see my result. It was 94.48 percentile. I was just surprised after looking at it and told the same to my mom, dad and other relatives who were present at my home for festival. Mom was a bit happy but not the rest. Even mom felt that I'm going to leave her to study. All my happiness went in vain just after that moment. I'm not even able to share that with the closest thinking that even they will feel the same. And till today I didn't let anyone know the result. I shared very many moments, happy n sad, with the one I always want to be with. But I couldn't do the same this time. Don't know how the time passed by. It was February now and I still couldn't let my close ones know about the result. N today, after the last IIM announced its shortlist for WAT and PI, I feel I can never let anyone know about this result. Happiness of having eyes is only for a moment when u get to know that they bring tears in life. Guess it is the magic of life.

AAP ki Sarkar... Government in one week...

• First & Foremost thing is that the leader taking a metro to come to make the oath as Chief Minister of the National Capital Region.
• Fulfilling the dreams of Delhi people, CM signed the paper to allot 20 Kilo Liters of water for all.
• Government banned the VIP culture in Delhi.
• A subsidy of 50% on the Electricity Bill for all those who consume less than 400 units & also started auditing Electricity companies.
• Started helplines for parents to report problems in school & also the culture of school volunteers for checking the cleanliness of school, supply of water at their place & presence of teachers.
• Started 45 Port cabin night shelters for the homeless & the aged.
• As a part of strengthening the security for ladies and children, started late night inspections at bus stands, auto stands & police stations.
• started the process for simplification of VAT to reduce the price of grocery and other important needs of the people.
• Surprise inspections at 10 government hospitals by the Health Minister did stun the hospital staff.
• 1500 new auto license for the unemployed SC/ST as per supreme Court order & 5500 new inter-state license to autos for helping commuters from nearby states.
• The Chief of the party & the state has denied a 5-BHK Duplex government house & insisted to see for a small one.
• The party is now getting ready for Haryana Assembly Elections & for National Level Elections in about 20 states.

This is the progress of a debutant party after forming government in just 7 days. And this is what was just lacked in the previous government. i.e. the commitment.

I will be much more happy than what i do feel now if this continues for a long run. And i hope all these schemes will be made available for the needed. i.e. water bill and electricity bill meters for every individual house, port cabin night shelters at every corner of delhi and many more as such.

A Review on launch of GSLV D5

Cryogenic technology is quite complex and only a few in the world have mastered it. ISRO got its measure of technology for the smaller Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) quickly. It has had 25 textbook PSLV launches and is now widely considered the best vehicle in the world in its class. However, the GSLV had only two successful flights out of seven, which were with Russian cryogenic engines. The US had forced Russia to deny India the technology and ISRO had to content itself with seven cryogenic engines but no technology transfer.

It is the first successful flight of the indigenous cryogenic engine.

"This shows that we can master any technology," said S Ramakrishnan, director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram. The PSLV does not have a cryogenic engine and can only put small satellites, weighing just over one tonne, into geosynchronous orbit.

A cryogenic engine, which uses liquid oxygen at -253 degrees Celsius and liquid hydrogen at -183 degrees Celsius, can develop the thrust needed in the final state of the rocket to put satellites, weighing two tonnes or more, into a geosynchronous orbit. Mastering this technology is essential for any space power as launching heavier satellites requires cryogenic engines even in the lower stages of the rocket. "The 1,000 seconds of the GSLV flight was achieved with 1,000 days of dedicated work," said K Sivan, GSLV mission director. Only five others have cryogenic technology: the US, Russia, Europe, China, and Japan.

The repeated failures of the GSLV had baffled ISRO engineers as the rocket was very similar; even simpler in some senses, compared to the ever-reliable PSLV. But critical components, many of them developed by Indian industry, had failed in the GSLV. Three years ago, ISRO put everything behind the GSLV and conducted a thorough review. It created special facilities and put a rigorous test regime in place. No ISRO launch vehicle has been tested as thoroughly as the GSLV-D5. "We have done whatever was possible," said MC Dattan, director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, "And so we were very sure of the success of GSLV."

Indian space engineers enjoyed the fruits of two decades of tireless work on Sunday as the indigenous cryogenic engine performed flawlessly and injected a 1.9-tonne satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) with high precision. The rest of the three-stage Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which had seen several glitches and aborted launches over the last few years, also performed exactly as required.

Now then the GSAT-14 satellite is being maneuvered over the subcontinent into a geosynchronous orbit 36,000 km above the earth. Precisely 16 minutes and 55 seconds into the launch, as the satellite separated from the final cryogenic stage of GSLVD5, it was an emotional moment for everybody at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Current and former engineers at ISRO even think that this is the agency's finest moment, much more significant commercially and for the development of indigenous technology than the Mars Orbiter mission.

“Without performing GSLV, ISRO's future programmes would have been seriously affected”, said ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan.

City Wakes upto Red Sea

Vizagites literally woke up to a bloody Friday morning as the seas off the coast of port city turned red. Beach goers left shell shocked when they witnessed the strange phenomenon of bleeding sea as the entire coastal water of the city of destiny turned red in color.
While this phenomena left vizagites equally stunned, scientists, however said that they don't consider it completely unusual and listed the most probable reasons for this change.
some of them to note are the erosion of soil, red tide, discharges from rusty boats & ships and besides all these pollution may be the main reason. Scientists said it must be probably because of the presence of Artificial Nutrients in sea water.
A Pani puri vendor at R K Beach said that he has doing business there since 4 yrs but didn't come across this kind of strange occurrence. He had observed the red tinge from Thursday evening and it was at its very best on Friday morning and it remained red-hued till the mid- friday.
Wake up my dear friends. Wake up before things happen. yesterday it was kurupam market, today its about beach and tomorrow it may be some other thing. Wake up before the City of Destiny loses its prominence in this global village. don't make it just a page in the book of history.

A note on Water Subsidies by AAP

I'm very glad that AAP's government has started to keep their words from the outfit. And one from those stated is Subsidy of water. I just want to let everyone know the fact of how this subsidy works. Through subsidization, the government thinks of the short term gains. When one can take a deep look at the scheme to subsidize water for those consuming less than 20 Kilo liters of water, they can find that it must be done only through a metered system. But the people who are in requirement of subsidies are mostly either unmetered or with defective meters. Hence the real challenge is that those outside the water supply system must be connected to it. Laying down pipelines in every locality, installation of taps in every house can only be provided by a healthy board. Thus it must be noted that the water subsidy has completely ignored the weakest section of Delhi. The poorest of the Delhi have been kept out of the water subsidy scheme i.e. Localities without a pipeline, households without a tap, households without a meter, households with defective meters are not entitled to any subsidy. Households in the NDMC area, particularly of those lesser paid employees, households in Delhi Cantonment area have all been kept out of the water subsidy. This subsidy ignores the weakest and includes a small layer of people with metered consumption. A very large number of people in Delhi have no water connection and are not covered by the free water scheme. They are reliant only on tankers. A very large number of unauthorized colonies have no pipelines and are yet to be covered by laying of water pipelines. There are no individual house connections and hence they are outside the purview of the free water scheme. Many of the cooperative housing societies have bulk connections, Individual flats are not metered. They too cannot obtain free water. Some of Delhi’s middle class whose connections are metered and who keep their consumption below 20 Kilo liters i.e. 666 liters per day alone are entitled to the free water scheme. Those whose consumption exceeds the 20 kilo liters mark would be charged for the entire consumption with a hike of 10% in tariff. Delhi thus can be divided into four categories. The first is those who have no taps or pipeline connections. Second are those with defective or no meters. Third and fourth category are those with functional meters whose consumption is < 20 Kl of water and > 20 Kl of water respectively. The scope of the benefit has narrowed down to just some of the households falling in one of the above four categories i.e the third category.
Thus one (not only the people but also the AAP government) must note that its not only the subsidy that is needed for the poorer but also the basic working infrastructure and good board to control the proceedings.