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Rains no more feel pleasant in Himachal

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After what happened in Uttarakhand, rains in Himachal aren’t pleasant anymore. More than 10,000 said to be dead in Uttarakhand, and God knows how many are still missing. May be we would never know the actual number of killing done by this devastation. Now, there is a threat of epidemic due to rotting flesh on dead bodies. People are mass cremating bodies wherever they can. Survivors are lucky, but still they have to survive from the trauma of almost touching their death. Whole India, collectively shares amounts of this very trauma. It’s a nightmare to die suffocating beneath mud or by being slashed against the rocks, shattering each and every bone inside your body. Who would stand against the thought of helplessly witnessing their spouse breathing their last, children swept away and killed by flooded rivers, and to lose houses, which might have taken everything you might have collected in years. Where would you go if you have no home, no food and water? Of course, then you are looking at the government for relief and shelter, but unfortunately, inside us, in the words of great Michael Jackson, we all know that “They Don’t Really Care About Us”.

Uttarakhand and Himachal floods

But the State, which is terrified more than any of other States, is Himachal. It shares the geographical and environmental conditions very similar to Uttarakhand; it’s hilly and has rivers fed by glaciers. Kinnaur has already fallen to this tragedy. Heavy rain forecast by the Met department are promoting their show of apocalypse with trailers, like heavy rains did with landslides in Krishna Nagar, Tara Devi, and Press colony in the capital city Shimla. No matter where you park your car at night below or above a hill or at the edge of road, but you sleep with a fear of finding it crushed under lots of rubble or to find it hundreds of meters down the hill. This rainy season, people, who are indebted in loans with which they managed to build their own homes, are carrying suitcases stuffed with stress. God knows what he is upto. May be he is angry with too much slaughtering of nature by homo sapience, whom He had expected to be the wisest.

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There are certain types of people, who watched and read everything about it, but don’t have any worries, and are not really concerned about the tragedy in Uttarakhand, and there are those who don’t have access to much of the media thing. Third type is that which is already on the streets or in sheds, living hand to mouth everyday, and are in majority in India. Now, this third type would be least worried if some disaster falls here. They don’t have anything to lose. That’s right more you have collected, more you’ll be worried and stressed, like you do when you are just finished with your building. So, the saints and philosophers were correct; we should not run after worldly things. That might sound sort of joke in such a context, but isn’t it correct that there is some amount of reality in this fact.

Anyway, there isn’t much that any human can do to escape the wrath of natural calamities on their destined arrival, except warning the government to be ready with relief supply and rescue operation strategies, and not to play politics on dead bodies to win sympathy or to take credit, which the government is doing in case of Uttarakhand. And the last request is to stand united, like compassionate human beings, helping each other if something ever went wrong. Such times are the times when we take the test of character and humanity. Don’t fail. Try to be in the merit list. That’s the best preparation we can ensure.

Image Credits: LiveMint, First Post, Manoj Sharma

Madan has studied English Literature and Journalism from HP University and lives in Shimla. He is an amateur photographer and has been writing on topics ranging from environmental, socio-economic, development programs, education, eco-tourism, eco-friendly lifestyle and to green technologies for over 9 years now. He has an inclination for all things green, wonderful and loves to live in solitude. When not writing, he can be seen wandering, trying to capture the world around him in his DSLR lens.

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Shimla City – Private Bus Operators Seen Creating Nuisance by Blocking Road

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Shimla-In yet another instance, two private bus operators in Shimla city were seen creating a nuisance for the public by jamming the traffic. A reader clicked some pictures at the BCS bust stop in Shimla city on February 19, 2022, at about 8 PM and shared them with us. The reader alleged that two private bus operators, namely ‘Komal’ and ‘Chadda’, indulged in a verbal spat, most probably over their schedule. While the drivers argued, one of the buses remained parked in the middle of the road, choking the traffic. The staff of these two buses indulged in a verbal spat for about 5-10 minutes during which the general public faced a huge inconvenience. The reader has requested the Traffic Police Shimla to take action against such operators and discourage them from adopting such a bullying attitude that they don’t even hesitate to block the entire road.

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Littering – A Grave Threat to Sundernagar Lake and Its Aquatic Life

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Sundernagar-Many people visit the Sundernagar lake in Mandi district and litter along the road. Winds carry all those packets and plastic bottles into the lake. This practice of littering is unlawful because it costs millions in clean-up projects. It portrays a bad picture of an area. Littering is a huge threat to the aquatic life too. In my view, the solution is awareness, responsibility, sensibility and concern for nature. We as a society need to play a big role. At least, dustbins should be installed along the lake. Otherwise, the negligence in the present will affect us in near future.

-Blog and Picture By Divya Acharya, Sundernagar

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Shimla-Based IT Start-Up Scaling Global Market in Short Span of Time

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Shimla-A youth from a small town of the Mandi district – Sarkaghat- started as a freelancer and went on to launch his own start-up in 2014. By 2021, the start-up grew into a company that has garnered international clients  and also designed and developed websites and web apps for several Departments of the Himachal Pradesh Government.   

Netgen IT Solutions Pvt Ltd- a young agile company- has, so far, developed websites for the Department of Information Technology,  Women & Child Development, Rope & Rapid Transport Development Corporation, HP Milk Federation Cooperation,  and the HP AIDS Control Society.

Besides, it also developed  HimSuraksha Abhiyan App (National Health Mission) and the website of the Department of Tourism & Civil Aviation along with a  Services Portal.

Further, the website of the Department of Information & Public Relations and the single window system was also developed by NetGen.

Having developed over 2500 websites, Netgen IT Solutions has an imprint of having worked for clients spread over 25 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia.

Bootstrapped as a Start-Up on 7th July 2014, the company has evolved to offer a diverse set of services for web, e-commerce and mobile solutions that have enabled Global and Indian business to adapt to a Digital First environment. In seven years, this Shimla-based company has carved out a niche for itself.

The company started with a small team of just four people, and today it employs strong-heeled 25 IT professionals. The skillset of web developers, designers, networking specialists, social media marketers and others is expanding with the growth of the company.

To mark the NetGen Foundation Day, the company hosted a live inter-action of the team members with some clients to understand the need for future technologies and solutions for a fast-changing business environment in the shadow COVID pandemic.

Mr Rajneesh Rana, Founder and Managing Director of the company, is a computer science graduate. Speaking about the company’s journey, Rana’s says, “Stepping out from working as a freelancer at the small township of Sarkhaghat, in Himachal Pradesh, to launching a start-up company, was my first step in entrepreneurship. The company was founded on a shoe-string budget with a small capital outlay. After overcoming the initial hesitancy, we’re on the firmer ground today.”

With the growth in demand for IT Services, the company in the initial year faced manpower shortages. The management took to train and equip freshers in a mentorship program to meet its needs for IT Professionals and also to equip others to find gainful employment elsewhere. Netgen till date has trained over 50 freshers with essential and advanced IT skills. Most of them for the first time in their careers got exposure to the IT Industry.

The company’s IT Technical Team today is professionally equipped to work in 20+ technologies that can be deployed across a vast network of industries. 

The Netgen team of IT professionals has expanded the services that the company now provides. A multitude of projects employing creative website design-development; customised software products; e-Commerce solutions; server administration – web security – networking services; mobile application design – development; social media marketing; stand completed.

“There is a growing demand for many other IT and IT-enabled services that the company has successfully delivered for Global and Indian clients,” said Rajneesh. 

“Since the breakout of the COVID pandemic, the demand for online services has increased. It created an environment that demands moving things onto digital platform, bringing more opportunities for the IT sector ,” added Rajneesh.  

“Take the case of the Government of Himachal Pradesh, India. To secure baseline health data of the over 70 lakh residents in the state and to prepare effective strategies for countering the spread of the pandemic in challenging hilly terrain, the state government needed a simple but effective IT-enabled solution to capture the data as fast as possible,” he said.   

“The ‘Him Suraksha Abhiyan’ application designed and developed by NetGen IT Solutions was used by thousands of teams spread under 2300+ sub-centres. In just over a month, the software solution created successfully captured the data of over 68 lakh residents of Himachal Pradesh,” he added.

The 70:30 Percent (%) Global – Domestic revenue stream of Netgen has prepared the company to expand both its export and domestic service portfolios, said Rajneesh. 

Mr Ravinder Makhaik, Director of the company says, “growing steadily, Netgen is a debt-free, profit-making company. A healthy mix of domestic and international businesses, with sound financials, gives the company strength to take up more challenging projects. Our portfolio of government projects is making good progress.”

Founded as a 1 lakh authorized capital company and with annual revenues rising at a 25 % compounded annual growth rate, the Netgen Board of Directors has decided to expand the authorized capital of the company to Rs 10 lakh to meet future growth needs.

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