Vellore city

 Formation of Board will help Palar regain its flow, says meeting

"The Palar Board should be created in order to ensure that the link to Palar was included in the scheme of diverting the west-flowing waters from Nethravathi."

A meeting of stakeholders convened by M. Abdul Rahman, Vellore MP, to discuss measures to revive water flow in the Polar and prevent pollution of the river held at the Collectorate here has urged the MP to take expeditious steps for the formation of Palar River Board on the lines of the Tungabhadra Board to implement schemes for linking of other rivers with the Palar and ensuring perennial water flow in the river.

A.C. Venkatesan, president of Tamil Nadu Pasumai Padhukappu Makkal Iyakkam, said that Karnataka has submitted to the Centre a proposal to divert the water from Nethravathi River which is flowing into the Arabian Sea to irrigate the parched areas in Kolar district. Utilising this proposal, Tamil Nadu should press for the extension of the scheme up to Palar since the distance between Kolar and Palar is very short.

The Palar Board should be created in order to ensure that the link to Palar was included in the scheme of diverting the west-flowing waters from Nethravathi. He wanted the Palar to be surveyed and stones erected to prevent indiscriminate quarrying of sand.

      Mr. Abdul Rahman said that the Speaker of Lok Sabha has allotted time for him to speak in Parliament on Thursday. At that time, he would press for the formation of the Palar Board and for the linking of Nethravathi with Palar. Agreeing with the need to stabilise the ecological survival mechanism of the Palar, especially its sand wealth, he said that an inspection committee constituted by the Union government was currently on the job of inspecting the damage caused to the ecology in Palar.
    Thangamani, Superintending Engineer, Central Water Commission, promised total cooperation of the CWC for the river conservation and river link projects of Tamil Nadu. The CWC has proposed to implement an upgrading scheme for 49 irrigation tanks in the State, under the Renovation, Restoration and Reconstruction component of the Water Resources Management Programme. Twenty-nine of the 49 tanks identified are in Vellore district, he said.
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It was on the 8th February, 2011 that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT visited Assam to review e-Governance and NeGP status in the State. In one of its first meetings chaired by Sri Jesudas Seelam, Hon'ble MP on the progress of e-Registration, a string of question and answers were going on. The Government of Assam was represented by Sri V. K. Pipersenia IAS, Principal Secretary, Revenue, Sri Niraj  Verma IAS, Commissioner & Secretary, IT and truly yours. It was also attended among others by Sri Deepak Goswami, SIO, NIC, Assam. Deepak himself is a FOSS enthusiast. Sri VK Pipersenia has the reputation of over-ruling purchase of Microsoft Office for the CLR (Computerization of Land Records) Project rolled out in 200+ Circle offices in the State last year. Due to his strong stand, we not only were able to push OpenOffice.Org in all the PCs supplied, but also gave training to the Revenue Staff in FOSS. Here I would mention that the Dharitri, which is otherwise a very good software prepared by NIC for Land Records, is in Client server model and is based on MS .Net. 

The reason why I am writing this Blog is that while the Standing Committee was sitting on one side of the conference table, and we on the other, among the several questions being bombarded by the Hon'ble Committee members, i heard one question and it got me floored, "Are you using open source? What is the platform of your application?" To this Deepak replied that It was on Microsoft .Net. Then another question, "Why you are not using open source?" to which Deepak promptly replied that they were migrating to FOSS in the third version of the Software.