Environment upkeep is very important for a healthy life of human beings on the planet earth. We are lucky our elders have given us a good environment to live in. But from early 70s, the concern for environment is diminishing and everybody showing importance for individual survival rather than the society.The concern for environment in India is very very less. How much oxygen we are taking in, how much we are consuming oxygen from air for our travel. How much waste gases we are letting out. Are we compensating it? We have to think seriously on these lines.

Why the levels of heat are increasing so much? We are responsible for this onslaught on atmosphere. Cutting trees, deforestation, creating concrete jungles are the ill doings of mankind. Recently some awareness is coming in the public. Many are going for tree plantation and water conservation measures. Please treat them very important and handover the universe to the next generation at least in the same way as we received if not improved. 

Strike or Bandh is generally called by political parties. Here their interest will be more to get their names highlighted than the benefit to public. Generally bandhs and strikes are a national waste. Government may lose but we need not worry. Productivity of that day has gone. A daily wage worker who earns his livelihood on day to day basis has to suffer for his food. An auto driver, a ricksha puller and a taxi owner cum driver will suffer a lot because of loss of a day. Political parties and politicians they enjoy their day as usual. They don't suffer. they may gain or may not.They may get some political advantage.
The fate of a private employee on that day nobody can explain. He has to reach the office in time. No conveyance. If late company will mark absent.

I feel by calling a bandh or strike nobody is gaining except some politicians

Chemical farming is very dangerous. Now a days farmers are using different types of pesticides and insecticides during farm growing. They get deposited on the fruit and sometimes simple wash with water may not help. In our Hyderabad area for grapes they use many chemicals. Many of the residues which are getting deposited on the fruit skin will not go with ordinary water wash. They are very dangerous and create lot of health problems. The grapes should be soaked in salt water for about 2 hours and take out. Wipe with cloth and again wash with ordinary water before we consume.

Many farmers use carbide for fast ripening. Again it is dangerous. So we should not eat these fruits. The mangos which are ready to be ripped should be kept in dry grass and keep in the room for some days. Then they will ripe properly and taste will be good. These fruits only are to be eaten. As mentioned by Mr.Raheja, we should eat rightly ripped fruit only.

Organic farming is a very good idea. But yield will be less. But if consumers are not ready to pay that extra money nobody prefer this. We should be ready to pay extra cost for the benefit of our health. Then organic farming will be taken up by many.

Yes. Nowadays the TV serials are very disturbing, All serials are mainly focused on women audience only. Watching these serials is waste of time only. I never advise any body to watch these serials. Unnecessary disputes between family members, various attempts to spoil each other and all nonsense only. These serials are spoiling families and family relations.

Serials like Ramayana, Mahabharata were aired and people used to watch. But today's serials are very bad quality. No morals . 

It is better to have a control body for these serials also.

Starting a new session in April will never suit our environment. April and may are very hot. Going out is very difficult for the students. Starting from Middle June is desirable. Students and teachers need not go out in hot sun. Especially for students it is very difficult. If they get grouped with other students, they like to play and they may not care for the heat. It is very dangerous.

But this private schools and corporate institutes, want to attract people. So they all start the classes in April itself. 

Many of the SSC students already got admitted to the colleges of their choice. SSC results are not declared. This is all marketing gimmicks and parents in their anxiety of good institution for their children admit their children .

All the subjects what they are teaching in school are necessary only. It gives us some basics of all the subjects. Once you go to college you have a choice of subjects and you can choose the subjects as you like.

3 language formula is very good. If we select only 2 languages our ease of taking in various languages will improve. If we go other places it will become very difficult to manage with only two languages. 

As far as history is concerned, except for remembering years and names, the subject is very interesting and useful also. People will understand more about our earlier methods and practices. Ethics, way of life, how to behave and what are the good practices will be understood properly. So I feel we can't rule out history at least in high school level.

Every body will have dreams about their life. Everybody should work hard to make those dreams to get realised. Every body will get dreams while they are sleeping. Sometimes i get dreams about my previous day's problems and I will get some answers from those dreams.

It is very good to work for making our dreams to real. This is what all great people say. As mentioned by Mr. Mohan, the dreams what we are getting in early in the morning before we get up will happen sooner or later in our life.

Anybody can dream and it is good to work and hope for realising the dreams. I wish and hope the Almighty will definitely help you in realising your dream.

Lamination is nothing but wrapping of an item with a thin sheet of plastic. It is not permanent. Lamination will get peeled of after some time. Then we will through the lamination out and get the item again laminated.Using very thin plastic is banned. This is the reason for saying no to lamination.

If the cards are made of thick plastic no lamination is required and it will not perish easily. The longevity will be more. The disposal is easy . This plastic can be reprocessed. But it is better to have metallic sheet cards for PAN, Adhaar, credit, debit. driving licence etc.

Nowadays plastic playing cards are preferred rather than ordinary playing cards.

5-12-55/2A,                               Dr.N.V.SRINIVASA RAO                                                          

Mangapuram, Meerpet                                                                                   

MOULA ALI,

HYDERABAD-500040

Telangana, India.

Cell: +919550752255

E-Mail: drnvsrao1956@gmail.com

PROFILE SUMMARY

A well qualified and rich experienced professional having more than 33 years of experience in explosive industry in manufacture, quality control, R&D and safety.  Carried our R&D works on various high energy materials and collaborated with various defense labs for development. I have Presented papers in national and international seminars.  I have teaching experience and published more than 40 papers. 3 persons obtained Ph.D under my guidance.

EDUCATION

Ø  M.Sc. Ph.D (Chemistry) from Andhra University;

Ø  A.M.I.I. Ch.E; from Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Ø  PG Diploma in Business Management

EXPERIENCE

·         Worked in Explosives and accessories manufacturing companies, worked in Godavari Explosives Limited and Premier Explosives Limited in different levels starting from Manager (QC) to Director (Operations). As operations in charge, looked after all functions of operations including safety, quality, R&D, production and general administration.

·         Premier Explosives Limited is a member of Safex International. Was the contact person for safex.

·         After working for more than 30 years, recently resigned from M/S PEL and started consultancy for various explosives manufacturing units in the areas of Safety, quality and Production. With my rich experience in explosives I want to contribute further for the growth of explosive manufacturing with safe practices to avoid accidents. I want to be a member of Safex to be in touch with all developments that are taking place around the globe and contribute a little with my experience to eliminate hazards in these areas.  

·         Experience Details: Aug 1983  to   Jan 1986.: 

·         Worked as Chief Chemist with M/S Eastern Electro manganese Pvt.Ltd, Visakhapatnam.  I worked in this company as laboratory in charge and process development in charge. Established process in collaboration with Andhra University at pilot plant scale. Also established at plant level.

·         Feb 1986 to Feb 1988.:

·         Worked as “Plant Manager”  with M/S Calcium Products,Hindupur. Worked as plant in charge. Responsible for production, quality control and general administration.  As a profit centre head managing the factory as per the budget, keeping the production cost as per budget, quality of the product and industrial relations maintenance were the main responsibilities. Production Manager, Lab in charge and admn.officer were reporting to me and I was reporting to Managing Partner.

·         Feb1988 to Aug 1995.: 

·         Worked with M/S Premier Explosives Limited, Hyderbad in different capacities.

·         Feb1988 to Apl 1991.:  Manager (QC)  Responsible for quality control.

·         Apl 1991 to Mar 1994.

·         Production Manager, Responsible for production, QC, Safety and Maintenance. In addition to these I used to guide people in R&D also.

·         Completely responsible for plant management. Meeting budget targets, keeping the production cost as agreed and making the product available as per the requirement of marketing. Production manager, maintenance manager, qc manager and safety manager were reporting to me and I was reporting to Works Manager.

·         Apl 1994 to March 1995.

·         Works Manager.  In charge of all plant operations including inventory, IR and General Admn.  Reporting to Managing Director.

·         Apl 1995 to Aug 1997. 

·         Plant Manager with M/S Pennar Chemicals Ltd., Hyderabad. Established the process and brought the unit to commercial production level. Reporting to Managing Director. All departmental heads are reporting to me.

·         Aug 1997 to Sept 2016   :   With M/S Premier Explosives Limited, Hyderabad as detailed below.

·         Aug 1997 to April 2000. General Manager. Reporting to Managing Director. Responsible for all operations of the unit working. As a profit centre head showing the projected profit was the main function. All departmental heads were reporting to me. Additionally I was heading the R&D of the company.

·         April 2000 to Aug 2005.:  Vice President. In addition to the responsibility of the unit posted and R&D, looked after the out sourcing activities of the organization at different places.  We are managing three units under government sector under operation and maintenance contract. Providing the required manpower and maintaining the production levels as required by the department are the important aspects in this.

·         Aug 2005 to April 2009:  President. Responsibilities are same as that of Vice president.

·         May 2009 to Sept 2016.:  Director (Production).

·         Responsible for the total companies production and service activities. All unit heads and service contract heads will be reporting to me. I will be reporting to Board of Directors of the Company. Maintain the production as per the agreed budget with accepted production cost is the core responsibility. Managing multilocational activities of the company within the agreed budget without any IR & HR problems is my main responsibility.

·         Sept 2016 to Date.

·         Consultant. Undertaking consultancy works with various explosive and chemical industries.

·         I have teaching experience also. I am a guest faculty at University of Gulbarga and Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune.

Achievements

Ø  Nickel Hydrazine Nitrate (NHN) was developed at commercial scale. Detonators of all types are developed using NHN in place of ASA. Patent for this technology is applied and awaited approval. NHN is a very safe primary explosive.  This technology was transferred to Austin Detonators, USA. After introducing this product there are no incidents in handling of the product for the last 4 years. I have published a note on this product in Safex news letter. 

Ø  During my career with PEL, best safety practices were maintained and obtained Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board award for best safe practices consecutively for 4 years.

Ø  A system of internal training on safe handling of explosives was established. Each and Every employee of the Organization has to undergo this training at least for a day in a year.

Ø  A system of internal safety audit was introduced to know the drawbacks in the operations and required actions were being taken within the acceptable time frame.

Ø  Expertise in managing multiproduct manufacture and multilocational operations.

Ø  Published more than 40 papers in various national and international journals and seminars.

Ø  Attended a seminar organized by IGUS at Japan and presented a case study on one of the accidents occurred in an explosive manufacturing plant in India in association with Safex International.

Ø  Presented two case studies on accident investigation at seminars conducted by Safex.

Ø  Attended and presented a paper on Safety in Explosive and Pyrotechnic manufacture at a seminar organized by IPS, at Colorado, USA.

Ø  Was a technical committee member in Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials and also published a paper on safe manufacturing practices in explosive manufacture.

Ø  Organized two seminars in association with Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization (PESO), Government of India, Hyderabad office. Was an editorial board member for these seminars and Presented papers in these seminars.

Ø  Was a technical and paper screening committee member for the two international seminars organized by PESO, India in association with Explosive Manufacturers welfare association, India.  Presented two papers in these seminars.

Ø  Was an Executive Committee Member in National Safety Council, AP Chapter,Hyderabad.  Three training programs were conducted for the executives working in various explosive manufacturing units in collaboration with National Safety council and Department of Factories, AP. Delivered lectures in these programs on importance of safety in manufacturing.

Ø  Attended Workshops conducted by Andhra University; Gulbarga University, Nanded University, and Vijay nagar College of Technology as Resource person and delivered lectures on High Energy Materials and importance of safety in handling these products.

Ø  Attended training programs organized by Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune India, and delivered a lecture on explosives. Participants of this program   were officers from various defense organizations of India.

Ø  Organized a National Seminar in association with Gulbarga University, Gulbarga on High Energy Materials and delivered a lecture.

Ø  I was an authorized research guide in Gulbarga University and 3 students obtained their Ph.D., under my guidance.

Ø  Connect it is a institution offering a diploma in industrial safety to engineers. As a guest lecturer here delivered lecture on safety aspects in hazardous material  and explosive handling.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC BODIES & COMMITTES

a)         Member;          B.O.S; DIAT; Pune

b)         Member;          B.O.S; Gulbarga University; Gulbarga

c)         Member;          B.O.E;             -do-

d)         Member;          IMC; ITI; Dindi

e)         Member;          T.E.C. A.P. Pollution Control Board; Khammam Dist. A.P.

f)          Member;          District crises management Committee, Nalgonda Dist. A.P.

g)         Member           Governing Body; High Energy Materials Society of India; Pune

h)         Member;          Central Disaster Management group; Ministry of Environment

                                    & Forest; Govt. of India

i)          Adjudicator;     Ph.D. Thesis; Andhra University

j)          Fellow; Institute of Chemists (India)

k)         Member;          Project Evaluation Committee; EMR group; HEMRL; Pune

l)          Member;          Society for quality and reliability

m)        Member:          Executive committee, National Safety Council, AP Chapter,

             n)         Member          B O S, Dept. of  Engg.Chemistry,Andhra University, Vizag

TRAINING PROGRAMMES ATTENDED

a)      Administration for non administrative executives; Academic  Staff College of India; Hyderabad

b)      Production Management; NISIET; Hyderabad

c)      Hazardous waste Management; EFTRI; Hyderabad

d)     Six Sigma Champion Training; JNTU; Hyderabad

e)      Quality Circles; QCFI; Hyderabad

f)       Team building; Communication skills & Interpersonal relations

COUNTRIES VISITED

a)      Austin

b)      Amsterdam

c)      China

d)     Dubai

e)      Korea

f)       Singapore

g)      Thailand

h)      Turkey

i)        USA

j)        Japan

Date of Birth:  03.01.1956

R&D Expertise

Almost from the last 33 years; I participated actively in various research and development activities in High Energy Materials in M/s Premier Explosives Ltd., Hyderabad.

As a Head of operations and R&D a very important role was played in various development programs.  The following are the projects carried out.

a)         NHN manufacture at plant level.

b)         CL-20 pilot plant production

c)         HNS-IV manufacture

d)         Microcrystalline PETN

e)         RDX / HMX manufacture

f)         CR pilot plant production

Associated with ASL; DRDL; ARDE; TBRL; VSSC; SHAR; HEMRL in development.

The following are the special devices developed.

a)         Explosive transfer line for CSS

b)         Non aluminized propellant

c)         Blazer Unit

d)         Agni Igniters

e)         Other type of components for various defense units as a part of indigenization.

f)          Solid propellants

The following are the awards obtained for R&D activity of PEL.

a)         FAPCCI; Best R&D effort award for premier green safe detonator

b)         AIMO; APSC; Best R&D award for Rock split

c)         Best Technology absorption award from DRDO

d)         Industry appreciation award from NSTL.

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.ANNAVARAM    

Introduction:

Annavaram is a pilgrim center in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. It is a small town on the highway from Chennai to Calcutta. It is in between Kattipudi and Tuni of East Godavari District. It is treated as second Tirupathi of Andhra Pradesh. The name of the Deity is Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Swamy. The Goddess is  Ananta Lakshmi.

About the temple:

The temple is on a small hill. There are stairs to go up and also there is a road to go up by car and bus. The Devastanam runs buses from downhill to hill top. As you get up to the temple, you feel very peaceful and the whole ambience is full of sacred thoughts.   Many people coming here will perform Satyanarayana Vratam. People will come here to perform Satyanarayana Vratam. After performing the Vratam they will go for Darshan.  

The other places you can visit on the hill are Rama temple, village Goddess Temple and Time Machine. The view of Pampa dam from the top is very good.

Down the hill there is a temple of Kusuma Haranth Baba.

Where to Stay:      

There are guesthouses of the Devastanam. Many rooms are available on very reasonable rates.

Private lodges are not available. There are restaurants for meals and Tiffin.  Staying in Kakinada or Rajahmundry and hiring a taxi and coming here is also a good option.

How to reach:

This place is on the highway from Chennai to Calcutta. Many buses are available from all places of Andhra Pradesh to this place. From Hyderabad also buses are there. There is a railway station in Annavaram. It is on the Vijayawada- Vizag route of south central railway. Many express trains will have a stop here.

Final Word:

This is a very nice place and visiting this place will bring in lot of peace to our mind. It is nice to visit at least once in a life time.