IMPROVISING INNOVATION April - June’ 15 MY CITY MY PRIDE From an Idea to Reality
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Cities are facing mounting pressure, to provide quality
infrastructure and civic services in the face of ever increasing
urban population. It is estimated that by the turn of the current
decade, half of the population in the developing world will be
living in cities. Unregulated and unplanned growth of the cities
has left the urban centers with problems of traffic congestion,
slums, inadequate water supply and sanitation, and
environment degradation.
The Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) may find these tasks extremely
daunting, in the wake of the growing population. Their role has
to be reviewed and redefined, in order to meet these challenges.
Considering their limited capacities, their role has to change
from that of a monopoly service provider to regulator and citizen
friendly enabler of services and facilitator of an environment,
conducive to inclusive growth and sustainable development.
Odisha, according to a Survey in 2011, has risen from the mar
of being an underdeveloped and improvised state to be at par or
ahead of most developed states in the country with respect to
infrastructure, industrialization and education.
All these factors overburden the urban infrastructure of the
state, and Bhubaneswar faces the brunt of being the Capital
city. The state holds 4.37 crores people with urban population
comprising of 23%.
To address this quantum of statistics, the government needs
a strategy that shifts from incremental improvement and de-
bottlenecking to making quantum jumps towards achieving
world-class status. In order to achieve the transformation of
the scale envisaged, it is essential to restructure the
participation of citizen and make them accountable, promote
and mitigate problems with an efficient and responsive
service delivery. Within this context, My City My Pride
(MCMP) has been conceived as an organic online grievance
redressal mechanism.
This grievance mechanism operates online from the website
managed by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation
(www.mycitymypride.org). However, it is on fingertips that
the people who would actually access Internet to put forth
their grievances will count. Moreover, making MCMP device
independent and taking it from the toll number to website and
to the smart phone ensures that people and the government,
cannot shy away from their responsibilities.
Lagna Panda (Editor)
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Imagine passing through an overflowing garbage can
everyday to work. This could have gone on forever but then one
of us stumbled upon an idea to send in a complaint to the City
officials standing right there, without having to make a call or a
cumbersome visit to the nearest City development office. How
cool it will be to have someone see the complaint and call you
back to fix it as soon as possible!
The thought was backed by a powerful will to come up with a
tool that can help citizens file complaints regarding their
periphery from any location they prefer. A simple phone call or
by clicking a few buttons on a mobile, well, that’s how My City
My Pride (MCMP) helps you connect with the city
development authorities to get issues fixed without much
trouble.
MY CITY MY PRIDEFrom an Idea to Reality
My City My Pride is an initiative that allows authorities to receive
reports, incidents feedbacks, comments and suggestions from
citizens directly. This is making the system more improved,
transparent and easy to connect.
Not only that the authorities get alerted about an issue but an action
is also taken at the backend to mitigate that issue. MCMP promises
to maximize resources, improve services and a safer smarter city
for today’s citizenry.
How MCMP Approaches Civic IssuesA citizen-centric approach towards service delivery is an
essential part for any effective governing body, MCMP
maximizes on this ground rule.
It combines
A smart responsive mobile app
An informative action oriented website
An efficient call center
Power in your hand
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Just the trigger we neededMCMP recognizes citizens as important data sources. Giving the power to bring in
change in terms of community sanitation and other civic issues:
Creating Change Agents– Allows citizens to lodge complaints about sanitation
and peripheral safety issues effortless without worrying about who to put forth such
complaints to.
Popularizing the cause– To get steadier and faster resolution and create mass
awareness of keeping our neighborhood clean.
Bringing in responsive Government MCMP with its mobile app, call center and website allows citizens to view the status of their complaints, learn about other issues in their locality and get attention from authorities without any delay.
Recognizing real heroes who work on our complaints and ensure a cleaner & safer environment for everyone.
Inviting positive contribution, the web portal provides a platform for creating the right dialogue between the government and the citizens.
As simple as making a call, one can lodge a complaint anytime, anywhere.
Building Smart Communities
MCMP just takes this to the next level to create alert communities:
Connected – Empowers citizens with the choice to lodge a
complaint and creates a connected ecosystem.
Collaborative – Raises an issue and makes it a mass civic
movement to get authorities attention by
collaborating all sources online.
Capable – Not only allows to lodge a complaint but also
helps in getting alerts on complaints and bring power to the
hands of the citizens by enabling them in bringing about the
change we require.
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How MCMP is Different
MCMP is a sophisticated and well-designed web and mobile interface that makes it very easy for the citizens to report and monitor civic
problems.
Multi-faceted citizen touch points for greater engagement & experience.
Share, support or invite others to view, support, or vote your complaints.
Timely redressal of complaints & pro-active information dissemination.
Tool as social audit for various schemes of Urban bodies.
Helps build transparent & pro-citizen image of Urban agencies.
How MCMP Will Make an Impact
Even though MCMP, is one of the most recent and much needed solutions, the product has already made ample noise.
Empowers citizens to be sensors in the public space and allows government and other ULB’s to use the mobile tools to track down the issues in the field.
Provides digitized approach to problem addressing and resolving in a fool-proof, error-free, effective and quick manner.
Citizens who take the time to report even minor issues and see them fixed are likely to get more engaged in their local communities.
Aims not only to hold government accountable, but to facilitate community volunteering.
What Users Have to Say about MCMP“My City My Pride is an application that gives a voice to the people of the city. The city is an ecosystem whose existence is dependent on the symbiotic relationship amongst the city officials and citizens. This application provides a platform for the two entities to interact and make a change."
Nikita NayakStudent-Symbiosis International University, Pune
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The recent launch of My City My Pride mobile app is an awe-
inspiring addition to city life. Recently, I lodged a complaint
regarding the garbage disposal in the Nayapalli Brit Colony
area, and I got a call from the authorities in 3 hours’ time and
the issue was addressed in 3 days. So, it is very helpful in
today’s age.
Join Hands to Make MCMP a MassMovement
MCMP is a movement that can change the way we involve in
bringing about change in our city. Since MCMP is our brand
product, it becomes highly important for each of us to join in
making it popular. The app is so user friendly and easy to use that
anyone and everyone can lodge a complaint without much hassle.
Apart from this, since the fundamentals behind the app is to make a
better world to live in, we should try to make more number of
people use it to their advantage and get the best out of the system.
MCMP is a relatively new concept hence requires a lot of
improvisation and needs proper branding to reach out to people.
Still it has been doing a wonderful job so far and we require
participation from one and all to make it a huge success and spread
a word across for more and more people and cities to get MCMP
help them too.
Mahua Ray
Marketing & Communications Specialist
Sumanta Kumar JenaPre-Sales Consultant
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Need For a Metric
PROJECT MEASUREMENT &METRICS-A BIRD’S EYE VIEW
Projects account for a significant investment in an organization
and therefore knowing the project status holds the key for any
organizational level decision making on profits and investment.
Some example questions that project status always answers are:
Will the project be delivered when we expect it?
Do we have the budget to complete the project?
Will it deliver what the users expect?
Will the quality of the final product be sufficient?
Change resources on the project
Decide what scope to keep or change
The challenge with project status is to know what information
should be collected, consolidated and reported to best support
management and executives. It is here the concept of project
metrics enters into the picture.
Decide the project isn't going to meet expectedROI and thus cancel it
Decide the project needs additional investmentand can still meet anticipated ROI
Some example decisions that project status supports are:
Many software phenomena follow a Pareto distribution: 80% of the
contribution comes from 20% of the contributors. Knowing this can
help a project focus on the 20% subset providing 80% of the
leverage for improvement. Some examples:
a) 20% of the modules contribute 80% of the cost;
b) 20% of the modules contribute 80% of the errors (may
not be the same ones);
c) 20% of the errors consume 80% of the cost-to-fix;
d) 20% of the errors consume 80% of the execution time.
Software metrics helps to determine and corroborate these and many other useful relationships.
Numbers tell stories – and metrics are the tools through which these
stories get shape and substance.Though nightmarish at times,
yetthe success of the project management office is dependent on
metrics which helps the unit in proving its real worth to the
organization.
A metric, by definition, is any type of measurement used to gauge
some quantifiable component of performance. A metric can be
directly collected through observation, such as number of days late,
or number of software defects found; or the metric can be derived
from directly observable quantities, such as defects per thousand
lines of code, or a cost performance index (CPI). When used in a
monitoring system to assess project or program health, a metric is
called an indicator, or a key performance indicator (KPI).
Need For a Metric
- Gain an understanding of processes, products, resources, and environments
- Establish baselines for comparisons with future assessment
Reasons to MeasureTo characterize in order to
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Planned Value (PV)
Earned Value (EV)
Actual Cost (AC)
Benefits of Project Measurement Project metrics enable a project manager to
To evaluate in order to
- Determine status with respect to plans
To predict in order to
- Gain understanding of relationships among processes and products
- Build models of these relationships
To improve in order to
Assess the status of an ongoing project
Track potential risks
Uncover problem areas before their status becomes critical
Adjust work flow or tasks
against signed baselines. It integrates project scope, cost and
schedule measures to help the PM to assess and measure project
performance and progress. EVM develops and monitors three key
dimensions of each work package:
It is the authorized budget assigned to the work to be accomplished
for an activity or work breakdown structure component. Total PV is
also known as Budget at Completion (BAC). PV at any stage =
(Planned % Complete) X (BAC).
It is the authorized work that has been completed, against the
authorized budget for such completed work i.e. EV is ‘how
much you planned to spend for the work you actually did’.
Earned Value is also known as the Budgeted Cost of Work
Performed (BCWP).
It is the total cost incurred in accomplishing the work that the
EV measured. I.e. how much you spent for the work you
actually did. Actual Cost is also known as the Actual Cost of
Work Performed (ACWP).
Positive result means that you are ahead of schedule.
Negative result means that you are behind schedule.
Cost Variance (CV) is the measure of cost performance on the
project. It is equal to earned value (EV) minus actual costs
(AC).
Any negative CV is often non-recoverable to the project.
CV = EV – AC
Using these three variables project Schedule variance and
Cost variance metrics can be derived which shows if the
project is running over or under budget; project is running
behind or ahead of schedule, as follows:
Schedule Variance (SV) is the measure of schedule
performance of the project. It is the difference of Earned value
and the planned value i.e. SV = EV – PV.
Evaluate the project team’s ability to control quality of software
work products
Minimize the development schedule by making the
adjustments necessary to avoid delays and mitigate potential
problems and risk
Assess product quality on an ongoing basis
Metrics Categories
Project management metrics varies based on complexity and
nature of project. However, following five performance metric
groups cover all the important aspects of a project to measure
during execution:
Based on the concept of EVM (Earned Value Management), as
defined by PMI standard PMBOK, the goal of this metric is to
measure the performance as well as progress of the project
Performance Metric #1: Schedule and Effort/Cost Variance
Identify roadblocks, root causes, inefficiencies, and other opportunities for improving product quality and process performance
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Requirement Analysis
Design
Test Plan development
Coding
Unit Testing
Functional Testing
Customer Support
User Manuals
Rework
Defect fixing
General
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Since EVM method allows PM to extrapolate the expected costs
and duration at project completion based on project performance
to date, PM can develop a forecast for the estimate at completion
(EAC) which may differ from the budget at completion (BAC)
based on project performance. Forecasting of EAC involves
making estimates or prediction of conditions and events in the
project’s future based on information and knowledge available at
the time of forecasting. EAC is typically based on actual cost (AC)
incurred for work completed, plus an estimate to complete (ETC)
the remaining work. I.e. EAC = AC + ETC.
Positive result means that you are under budget.
Negative result means that you are over budget.
Earned Value, Planned Value and Actual Costs
Reference: PMBOK 4th Edition
Data Date Time
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Budget atCompletion(BMC)
ActualCosts(AC)
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Signed Scope baseline with customer forms the baseline for the entire project planning and development. Any change to signed scope
should happen in controlled manner. So here comes another important metric for PM to track. Each and every change request, once
approved by internal change control board (CCB), requires update to Scope baseline which in turn has a cascade impact on cost baselines
and schedule baselines and resource plans. Uncontrolled change requests often result in project scope creep and further impact negatively
on the project cost/schedule, which is the worst thing to happen for any project.
Performance Metric #3: Change requests to Scope of work
Based on this PM can also derive another metric, Varianceat completion (VAC) = BAC – EAC
Performance Metric #2 – Productivity: ResourceUtilization
The objective of this metric is to measure productivity of
resources involved in project and let PM assess over or
under-utilization cases.
Utilization% = Total Effort spent by resource/Total Budgeted Effort
for the resource
Budgeted effort is the planned billable work of resource. Any over-
utilization and under-utilization indicated by this metric has an
impact on the project’s profitability. It is important for the PM to
track this metric very closely and find out the reason for deviations
and the action items to bring back resource utilization to optimal
level.
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Throughout the execution of project, Quality Assurance should
always be on the radar of project manager. Quality here is defined
as the number of severe, medium or low defects delivered through
the lifetime of the project. It indicates the health of the deliverable to
the end user and drives the Customer Satisfaction. Under quality
metrics, following are the key ones to track:
Total number of defects found/ Measure of size.
Number of days since the defect is open and not
fixed. It can also be inferred as the time customer has been waiting
for their issues to get resolved,
Total number of defects resolved/ Total
effort spent
Rate of closing the open defects over a period of time. If the rate of
resolution is not in line with the defects being opened over a
particular time, this indicates to the PM a situation of concern.
Defect density =
Defect age =
Defect resolution rate =
Performance Metric #4: Quality and Customer Satisfaction
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Number of defects reported by customer
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PM should keep this as a separate metric to differentiate from the
defects reported out of internal testing and the defects reported by
end user i.e. Customer. Customer satisfaction depends a lot on the
quality of deliverable provided and on how fast defects raised by
customer are resolved.
Performance Metric #5: Gross Margin
Gross margin (GM) is basically the difference of total revenue and
the total cost spent on project i.e. profit.
Conclusion
In a nutshell, project management performance metrics are
critical metrics to be tracked while taking charge and during
execution of a project. The continued analysis of these metrics
provides additional insights into what is working and what is not,
allowing the PM to make appropriate improvements. These
metrics also help in building up historical data for similar kind of
projects so that in future, better project planning can be done.
Success story of project can be then built up based on the
effectiveness of defined metrics by showing the improved
numbers “before” and “after”. This ensures that the effort spent
by team in collection and measurement of data for these metrics
is leading to continuous improvements and not just an overhead
activity
In summary, metrics improve decision making ability
by providing the foundation and rationale for the
decision by making explicit what is usually implicit in
the decision-making process.
Prabhu Prasad MishraSr. System AnalystBusiness Solutions & Services
1. What to measure?
2. How to measure?
3. How to gather data to measure and represent?
4. How to analyze gathered data and what actions to be defined
based on that?
5. How to show improved effectiveness of metrics by using
improved numbers ‘before’ and ‘after’?
For having a good metrics program, knowledge on the followings are required:
Preconditions for a Metrics program
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Project Name
Team Leader
Members
Problem Statement
Project Scope
Tasks have not been assigned to all resources in regular basis.
According to analysis of data for a period of (October-2014 to
December-2014) regarding task assignment, is 25% instead of
100 %. Project Manager unable to measure actual effort for a
project during development. According to analysis during this
period total task assigned hours are 32802 which is 63 % of
total productivity hours.
Prabhu Prasad Mishra, Souravi Bose, Tripti
Mishra, Chinmaya Kumar Samantsinghar,
Santosh Kumar Pati, Pradeep Sarangi.
Sankarsan Dash
IT2MS, Improve Task Assignment
INCLUDES
Total task assigned - plan vs. actual
Total actual hours assigned vs. to be assigned
Total Reporting hours
EXCLUDES
Goal Statement
Major Causes
Business
Other departments except BSS
People on tour
People on Leave
People who are engaged in R&D project
Resource those are in Bench
Improve task assignment per number of resource up to 85% and
total actual effort hour up to 95% against plan.
Measure project development effort
Actual Data effort should be reflected in KRA Report
Generate MA report on actual effort of the projects
Projects are being monitored and measured for their effort
& timeline through task assignment. It is important to have
proper & 100% task assignment done in the projects to
have an accurate management of any project. It is observed
that in majority of the cases, the task assignment is not
done to it’s fullest or have incomplete task assignment data
in projects.
As this incomplete task assignment & reporting is
increasing day by day, the project management is
becoming difficult & it has already crossed a limit of
deviation. So, it is high time to do find a solution for these
issues immediately.
Problem Statement
- Measure efforts in projects
- Appropriate cost measurement
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Task Assignment against each resource : From 25% to 91%
Task assignment per hour: From 63 % to 84 %
Weekly Review meeting
Auto alert message to Non-assigned resources
Solutions
Benefits
Measure actual effort in a project
IMonitor project cost
Measure performance of the developer
Measure productivity factor of development
Project Name
Optimizing the response time of our webapplications
Some of the solutions for the Issues:
Team LeaderNirakar Mallick
Members
Debabrata Choudhury, Sibu Samal, Babulu Behera,
Gayatri Prasad Dash.
Problem Statement
Most of our web application performances are low. Web pages are
taking more time to load. Due to this, it is affecting the:
User Experience
Operational Cost
Usability
Search Rank
Project Scope
Project scope includes
Identification of bottleneck of application and system
Tuning of application and database
Configure framework and system
Configure web server
Goal Statement
Major Causes
Solutions
To reduce the response time of the web application up to 50 to
60%
There are around 42 causes identified by the team members.
Two major root causes were identified during analysis phase
for the problem.
Improper database design
Improper Application/Database Resource release in codes
Allocate dedicated resource for DB design
Training on DB design and share knowledge of DB design
best practices
Use Latest versions of framework and database
Benefits
Reduced Response time of web application
Improve performance leading to improved user
experience and usability
Improve accessibility of the application
Reduced resource utilization of the application
Attain optimal use of hardware and software resources
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RAJO MEENA BAZAAR
SMART CITIES INDIA 2015
Rajo…. As the name goes… the festival of food and fun. But not
to mention, the occasion is celebrated by people of all ages. This
time the “Raja Meena Bazar” was celebrated in the office
premises post the Raja Festival with great enthusiasm, interest
and eagerness. Each room framed their respective stalls either
with eatables or games. Great effort by the Organizers, decision
makers, representatives, stall owners and of course the
customers who rushed to each and every stall spending huge
number of coupons purchased on the previous day. The event
was managed very systematically and efficiently by the stall
coordinators. Each stall was flooded with varieties of yummy and
mouth-watering food. There were a total of nine teams
participating in the event. Each representative tried all their ways
out to attract customers to their stall.
“Smart Cities” a topic to hit
today’s headlines is an initiative
to help develop a Smart Country.
CSM participated in the Smart
C i t ies Ind ia o rgan ized by
Exhibitions India, a global
knowledge platform for the smart
cities industry.
In the three-day conference-cum-exhibition held at Pragati
Maidan, from 20th to 22nd May, 2015, supported the plans and
projects of the Government of India, as announced by the Hon’ble
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. CSM was represented by
Ashwini Kumar, Saroj Kumar Swain, Anshul Srivastava, Abhinav
Thakur and Pragyan Paramita Sethy at the exhibition who
attended different panel discussions, managed the walkins and
showcased the company product at the stall. Some of the major
participating companies of the event include CISCO, CMS,
BOSCH, TDK, Schneider Electric, etc.
NABAKALEBARA WEBSITE LAUNCH
Nabakalebara the biggest festival of Chaturdhamurti draws the
most number of people around the country to the land of Lord
Jagannath. To make Nabakalebara a world event, CSM has
designed and developed the Nabakalebara 2015 website along
with its mobile app. The project was launched by the Hon’ble CM
of Odisha in the presence of Cabinet Ministers and senior
bureaucrats at Odisha secretariat conference hall wherein our
CEO presented the features of Digital Campaigning inorder to
promote the mega festival worldwide through a state of art
dynamic website and a user friendly
mobile application (Nabakalebara Official). The website and the
mobile app focus on providing information on stay, safety, travel
and visit to the temple and nearby places for all the tourist
coming to attend the major historic event. The social media
campaign "Nabakalebara 2015 Official" on Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube and Google Plus covers the event news, interesting
facts about the Nabakalebara and Puri temple and tourism
related information.
www.nabakalebara.gov.in
EMPLOYEE SPEAK
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Prabhu Prasad Mishra
Sr. System AnalystBusiness Solutions & Services
Speaking from Heart…
“I became a part of CSM family on 16th Sep, 2008 and these 6
years of association has been phenomenal in my professional
life. Time and again I was provided with ample opportunities to
expose myself to overseas clients and projects, multiple
domains, varied technologies and multifaceted roles and
responsibilities. During these years, the support and guidance
received from my peers, superiors and managers helped me a lot
in building a strong foundation block of self-confidence resulting
in fine tuning my professional acumen and bringing out the best
within me in the endeavor to contribute to the overall organization
growth.
It will not be an exaggeration to say that “Sky is the Limit” for the
growth of my CSM family and I wish to be a part of the each and
every attempt made to take this family to the pinnacle of success.
My dream is to make CSM as top 20 Indian IT Company in the
decade to come.
I have been working with CSM for more than 8 years. This journey has accelerated my
professional career not only vertically but also horizontally. CSM has provided me with
ample opportunities to enhance my skill set. I had the opportunity to travel and visit our
onsite clients like Sudan, though I was a new comer. The team trusted me on several
aspects and provided me with several responsibilities in these years. It’s the support,
blessings and guidance of my seniors which has helped me to climb the ladder of
success and improvising my professional career.
Subrat Acharya
Project LeaderBusiness Solutions & Services
Santa Sarada
Test Lead Business Solutions & Services
I started my career as a software tester in this organization about
7 years back and now I have evolved as a Test Lead. I was like One
Man Army at the time of my joining. This organization gives me
the opportunity to explore my strength and to build a testing
team. With the help and support of my peers and seniors, new
testers are being recruited with the upcoming requirements
making it a big team. In times, I have to give my ultimate effort to
define and streamline a process for the department. Having
faced so many challenges at times in achieving a target, still I
never gave up which helped me to achieve my target. My seniors
were always there to support me whenever I needed them.The
organization has always provided me the ample opportunity to
prove my ability and strength and it would always be the reason
of my growth and self-confidence. I am proud to be a part of the
organization. Proud to be a CSMian.
The ambience of the company creates a great working environment enhancing the
productivity of the employees. It’s always pleasure working in such an environment. The
team performs with high spirit. There is hardly any bitter feeling within the team members
wherein I am involved. Proud to be a member of the family.
ACROSS THE GLOBE
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SIGNING OF JHARKHAND i3MSCONTRACT
After the Odisha i3MS Contract, CSM has signed the next i3MS
contract with Jharkhand recently. After a long wait, CSM was
finally successful in achieving the target. The agreement was
signed by Shubhangam Sinha Sir with the Director IT, in the
presence of Director Mines at Ranchi on 7th May, 2015.Finally,
CSM has entered into a contract with Jharkhand Government to
design, develop and implement the i3MS project across all
mineral & mining stakeholders for the state of Jharkhand. This
gives the opportunity to move one step forward with the robust
solution of CSM but lets keep the innovation at same speed to
move towards unseen future opportunities as well.
Congratulations to the JIMMS team who have toiled hard day and
night to achieve this contract. Furthermore, the team can gain
their expertise in Mining domain. Congrats to the team. Way to
go team to achieve many such milestones.
DARS BANNER IN FEACC, ADDIS(ETHIOPIA)The Federal Ethics And Anti Corruption Commission (FEACC),
Ethiopia have released a banner for the implementation of
Project DARS (Disclosure And Asset Registration system).
Prabhu Prasad Mishra (Sr. System Analyst) was there to train the
staffs of asset disclosure at Addis. Congratulations to the DARS
team who have put in their commendable effort to make it happen
developing the application within a stipulated time period in a
new platform. The training was given to the team leaders and
team members of FEACC who are actually involved in the asset
registration process and it continued for 11 days. Mr.Subhendu
Mohapatra, delivery Manager CSM, was also present during the
session.
The project is approaching towards closure, so FEACC is all set
to launch the application soon. Hope the project would soon roll
out successfully. Such projects on International level will help
us to get more reorganization on global platform. The importance
of the project lies high keeping in view the mandate from the
AFRICOM UNION to implement Asset Disclosure system across
all the AFRICAN countries to tackle corruption. The project has
also the capability to be replicated in INDIA if ever the
opportunity comes.
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Brush is a media to paint your feelings on a paper with varied
colors giving them different expressions as can be viewed in the
following oil paintings. Tremendous job by one of our artist and
what an usage of vivid colors. He is excellent at free-hand art and
paintings as well.
Artist : Chandan Kumar Swain
Artist : Tripti Mishra
Right thought gives you the right perception. Have a look at these
great paintings. They speak out the artist’s heart. Great work by
our artist who is not only good at oil painting but also at other
artistic work. She has great innovative ideas. Have a glance.
HOMOUR
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“It’s supposed to inspire, but most employeessee it as permission to take a nap.”
“It’s called ‘reading’. It’s how peopleinstall new software into their brains”
“We don’t pay extra for overtime. If you work
for more than 8 hours a day, we figure you
owe us a volume discount.”
“You handled the audit so well, we’re promoting you
from Accounts Receivable to Accounts Deceivable .”
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Any of a series of manned U.S.
spacecraft such a --- 11, which landed
on the moon in 1969 (6)
Dark brown mammal also called a
foumart (7)
Large wading bird typically having a
black and white plumage (5)
Mild yellow Dutch cheese (4)
South American republic whose capital
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Island in Indonesia whose capital is
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A member of a confederacy of North
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Oklahoma (5)
Matthew, rower who won his third
successive Olympic gold medel in
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Vladimir, Russian artist known for his
1919 design Monument to the Third
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Cecil, British photographer who died in
1980 (6)
Hawely Harvey, U.S. doctor executed
in 1910 for murdering his wife (7)
Philip, author of the award winning
trilogy His Dark Materials (7)
Christoph von ---,German composer
of the 1767 opera Alceste (5)
“The -----‘, 1997 film for which
Robert Duvall was a Best Actor Oscar
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1850 novel by Charies Kingsley (5,5)
The Last Inca emperor of Peru, put to
death by the Spanish in 1533 (9)
Australian genus of trees having long
leathery evergreen leaves (7)
The --- Sea is a part of the Arctic
Ocean between Novaya Zemlya and
Spitsbergen (7)
The chapel of the pope in the Vatican
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Gordon, actor who played Tarzan in
the 1959 film Tarzan’s Greatest
Adventure (5)
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Major Mountain system of South
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