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CITY2 THE HINDU MONDAY JUNE 16 2014

NOIDADELHI

AAP begins reorganisation bidThe Haryana unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held ameeting of its volunteers at Sukhrali village here onSunday to assess the situation and rebuild the party Page 4

Emergency immunisation drive to tackle encephalitisThe death of 44 children in Bihar over the past month due toencephalitis has prompted the Union Health Ministry to order100-per-cent immunisation of children Page 5

GURGAON Official figuresstate that 33000 people rideeveryday on the RapidMetro a three-coach trainthat when compared to itsolder bigger cousin in Delhiresembles a toy trainnavigating the Gurgaonskyline This privately builtMetro line services a 51 kmlong route that has sixstations three of which arenamed after its sponsors ndash aBritish telecom company abank and an Indian phonemanufacturer

In this entirely elevatedroute that presently runs aloop service that begins andends at Sikanderpur thefootfall is highest in the

Phase-3 station which isclosest to Cyber Green andbuilding numbers 7 9 and14 According to the officialsat Rapid Metro the stationnamed after the bank ndashIndusInd Bank Cyber City ndashwhich has been operationalfor only about a month nowwill in the next quarter see ajump of 30 per cent in itsridership figures

Skyrocketing parkingcharges at the nearby CyberHub a place described as aldquoheaven for foodiesrdquo by theonline community for itsrange of restaurants may bethe reason for this estimatedjump in ridership at thisstation A Rapid Metrospokesperson concursldquoRecently I saw a large

for the elite Gurgaonrsquospopulation is a mixed crowdof residents commercialenterprises and officer goersand it is important to tailor-make approaches toconvince each of thesegroups to switch fromprivate vehicles to the trainrdquo

The Delhi Metro he saidheld multiple street plays forinstance in slums andresidential areas when itsfirst line came up more thana decade ago to convincepeople to use the train ldquoThetransport system is after allfor public consumption andit is important that it reflectsthe sentiment of the peoplerdquo

defers in his views on howthe line is currently beingmanaged

ldquoThe line has beenconstructed very well butlacks in operational aspectsGurgaon is a multi-culturaland multi-strata society andit is important for people tobe convinced to use theMetrordquo he said

Citing an example wherethe Rapid Metro organised aprogramme for companyCEOs to walk and ride on theMetro the official said ldquoIfyou only do programmesthat target the top bosses ofcompanies it will appear thatthe Metro train is reserved

The Rapid Metro was tocarry nearly 1 lakh peopledaily but officials claim it istoo early to judge the successof this private project ldquoWecommissioned the line inNovember 2013 and we onlymade the IndusInd BankCyber City operational amonth ago so itrsquos unfair tosay we havenrsquot reached theestimated daily footfalllevels In fact we expect thisnew station to soon be theone which sees the highestfootfallrdquo said thespokesperson

An official who workedvery closely with the RapidMetro project however

is far more convenient tojust take an auto directlyrdquoshe said Aparna was usingthe Rapid Metro for the firsttime this week only becauseshe was travelling to Delhi

ldquoI feel connectivity is ahuge problem for peoplewho live in Gurgaon Maybefor people who come in fromDelhi and Ghaziabad thisMetro service is convenientIrsquod rather use autos to getaroundrdquo she addedVaishali-resident PankajSaxena and Lajpat Nagarresident Shobit both ofwhom work in one of themany high-rise buildingshere are cases in point

Upadhyay lives in GurgaonrsquosSector-14 Every day shespends Rs 100 on anautorickshaw which takesher directly from her hometo her place of work at DLFSquare closest to theVodafone Belvedere Towersthe third station on the loopservice Travelling anywhereon the line has a fixed rate ofRs 12

ldquoIf I take the Metro Iwould end up spending Rs70 to go to the MG Roadstation on the Delhi MetrorsquosYellow Line then changetrains at Sikenderpur totravel to my office I will endup saving maybe Rs 10 but it

group of women andchildren travelling on theRapid Metro to Cyber HubDue to the exorbitantparking charges and lack ofspace on weekends manypeople choose to park theircars either in Sikanderpur orHuda City Centre stationsand take the trainrdquo said thespokesperson

Yet how many of the33000 people who ride onthe Rapid Metro areGurgaon locals This weekThe Hindu took a ride on theRapid Metro andinterestingly found morenumber of ldquoout of townrdquocommuters travelling infrom Delhi and Noida ascompared to locals

24-year-old Aparna

Sowmiya Ashok

Are Gurgaon residents game for a smooth ride on the Rapid Metro

The Rapid Metro track running through Gurgaonrsquos commercial area mdash PHOTO S SUBRAMANIUM

A young commuter inside the Rapid Metro in Gurgaon mdash PHOTO MONICA TIWARI

It has been said that 33000 people ride every day on this privately built metro line The Hindu takes a ride on the RapidMetro and finds that there are more number of ldquoout-of-townrdquo commuters travelling on this route than the locals

NEW DELHI Entrepreneurshipis the new fashion mantrathat todayrsquos youth not onlywear but also carry wellwith an eacutelan

In the infinite horde ofaspirations young studentsare trying hard to build theirown identity while baskingin the joy of working forthemselves

Some of the popular areaswhich have witnessed youngentrepreneurial activitiesare IT services e-commerceproduct developmentcounselling photographyand entertainment

Sanyam Bajaj a businesseconomic graduate fromMaharaj Agarsen Collegehas come up with his ownphoto studio

This 21-year-oldphotographer started hiscareer with ldquozeroinvestmentrsquorsquo using themoney won in 36competitions ndash a sum ofabout Rs36000 ndash to buyhimself a Canon 600D

He has covered somemajor projects and insiststhat determination was hismantra

For 23-year-old RuchikaBatra who loves to

lsquomeditate and do yoga in heroversized T-shirtsrsquo as perher twitter profile thepassion to help people madeher launch ldquoYoga ofmiraclesrdquo website

She started with a websitein her name and nowconducts yoga workshopsand life coaching sessionsfor youngsters in 20-30age-group

ldquoIt took me a while tobring traffic to my websitespecifically because of myyoung age but the future isbright for online businessesand if it serves the society itis sure to go bigrdquo insistedRuchika

Team work is animportant pillar of strengthfor youngsters who dabblein business

Custom T was co-foundedin 2012 by three friends whosought to simplify the waypeople order custom T-shirts online

Videt Jaiswal from NSITDelhi and co-founder of themerchandising venturesaid ldquoWe all were in ourfirst year of college and westarted with a gruesomeexperience with a localdealer who ruined oursociety t-shirts We hadspent a week designing thet-shirts and collecting the

money from our batchmates but when the t-shirtscame post-printing after 14more days they werehorrific This incident wasan inspiration and wetranslated it into actionrdquo

Since youngsters arepassionate about sportssome have identifiedlucrative businessopportunities in this

Pranav Harmilapi 21founder Delhi SoccerLeague says ldquodont losehoperdquo is the moral thatdrives him

ldquoIt all started when I wasrepeating Class XI I wasunder peer pressure andknowing that I had flunk inthe class I was determinedto prove that I was waybetter than others I wasmotivated to do somethingin life and never let failureaffect merdquo he said

He has done around 20events since November 2010and hopes that DSL Season7 will be another triumph tohis kitty

Some youngsters havealso used technology andscientific advancement tobuild their own careerswhile bridging the gapbetween innovation andtechnology

Aishwariya Goel founder

of EmbedLearn is anengineer by profession whorather than taking up a jobdecided to build her ownbusiness

She has since organisedaround 20 workshops andwinter camps in Delhi foraround 1000 students

EmbedLearnLaboratories was conceivedwith a dream to improve theelement of ldquoLearning byDoingrdquo pedagogy in theIndian education systemThrough her venture shestrives to provide qualityeducation by ensuring thatstudents get adequatepractical knowledge apartfrom academic learning

Now Aishwarya said sheis ldquoworking to set upcustomised Labs in differentparts of Delhi By mid-Junewe will be launching ourfirst IDiscover Lab in anNGO in Karol Baghrdquo

The rise youngentrepreneurs in theNational Capital is a sign ofeconomic development Itreiterates the belief thatemployment is notgenerated but created andfor it to happen it is veryimportant to have a climatewhere young entrepreneursnot only grow but are alsoable to sustain their growth

Young entrepreneurs and their talesLakshi Bhatia and Parul Garg

NEW DELHI Aspirants of bank-ing exams made a bee-line onSunday morning for thebanking seminar organisedby Career Launcher in collab-oration with The Hindu Thejam-packed Kamani Audito-rium eagerly awaited Abhish-ek Gaike a serial bankingexam topper to begin with thesession

Mr Gaike talked about thevarious opportunities in thebanking field Mr Gaike is aformer manager of ICICIBank Mumbai and holds aPost-Graduate Diploma inBankingThrough interactionwith the participants he alsoclarified several myths asso-ciated with banking examsand gave the aspirants a newperspective towards thebanking field

Besides Mr Gaike PraveenTyagi was also part of the ses-sion As an academician whohas been associated with CLover the past 11 years MrTyagi shared techniques thatwould help aspirants in mak-ing speedy calculations dur-ing entrance examinationsMr Tyagiexplained in detailhow with ldquosmarter question-solving techniques one canavoid tedious calculations

Smarter way tocrack bankingexams Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI In the last threeyears Venkatesh Kandunooriand his friends have travelled toeight States with his largesketch of cricketer Sachin Ten-dulkar and collected 98 auto-graphs of national andinternational personalities onit All thatrsquos left are autographsof Prime Minister NarendraModi and Congress presidentSonia Gandhi After gettingthese Venkatesh plans to pre-sent the painting to PresidentPranab Mukherjee

However after spending for-ty days in the Capital Venka-tesh has still not got anappointment with either leaderWhile Mr Modi is expected toreturn from Bhutan by Tues-day Ms Gandhi is leaving forthe United States for medicaltreatment and will only returnafter three weeks

ldquoI started on this sketch justbefore the cricket World Cup in2011 It took me six months tocomplete it In the last threeyears I have spent Rs 5 lakhtravelling and approaching re-nowned persons to sign mypainting I financed this by sell-ing other works of minerdquo Ven-katesh told The Hindu

The four-and-a-half foot por-trait of the legend is surroundedby national symbols and small-er sketches of personalitieslinked to cricket Sachin or thenation

These include former cricketcaptains Kapil Dev and SunilGavaskar national and spiritualpersonalities like MahatmaGandhi Swami Vivekanandaand Sathya Sai Baba Indiarsquosfirst cricket captain CK Nayu-du Sachinrsquos first coach Rama-kant Achrekar cricketers DonBradman and Vivian Richards

It also features the Indian

Koh-i-noor Diamond on theBritish crown

ldquoThisrdquo according to Venka-

tesh ldquosymbolises that eventhough we donrsquot have the dia-mond with us these people are

our koh-i-noorsrdquoThose who autographed this

epic painting include PresidentMukherjee former PresidentAPJ Abdul Kalam the chiefministers of Andhra PradeshTelangana Tamil Nadu Mah-arashtra and Uttar Pradesh for-mer Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwalsocial activist Anna Hazaremusicians Lata Mangeshkarand AR Rahman the 2011 Indi-an cricket team which includesSachin himself and film starssuch as Amitabh BachchanMadhuri Dixit Nene HrithikRoshan Aishwarya Rai

The person who played themost hard to get so far was MrKalam ldquoIt took me two years toget his autograph Finally I gotit during this visit to DelhiTravelling everywhere by trainI spent sleepless nights protect-ing the painting I have donethis to attract government andthe public to support and fund

sportsrdquo explained Venkateshwho is currently put up withfriends in Saket

A student of the JawaharlalNehru Architecture and FineArts University in HyderabadVenkatesh has also created a re-alist statue of Sardar Vallabhb-hai Patel The foot-tall brassstatue which has lsquoUNITYrsquo em-bossed on its base in silver re-sembles Soviet-style statueswith flowing garments and chi-selled expressions

ldquoI have already planned mynext work It will be a timelineof Indian History from 3000BC But first I need these twoautographs to complete a cen-tury and give it to the PresidentI have already spent Rs 60000in Delhi A taxi to transport thispainting to and from various of-fices in order to get an appoint-ment with the leaders costs Rs2000 a day But I wonrsquot give uprdquohe told The Hindu

A long wait for the last two autographs to complete Sachinrsquos sketch Pheroze L Vincent

Venkatesh Kandunoori with his works in New Delhi mdash PHOTO RAJEEV BHATT

NEW DELHI The School of Open Learning (SOL)will finally open its admission gates on Tuesdaya day after Delhi University shuts its applicationprocess The move comes after a series of pro-tests by the Staff Association and the SOL Stu-dentsrsquo Union Previously admissions for SOLbegan along with the admissions for regularcolleges

As per the schedule application forms will beavailable online and offline

The online forms are free and the offlineforms are available for Rs 100 The online formswill be made available from Tuesday whereasthe physical forms will be available at the SOLonly from June 25 The last date for applyingwithout a late fee is August 21

Thereafter a late fee of Rs 200 will be chargedand the final last date for seeking admissions isSeptember 15

The SOL is currently offering courses like BAprogramme BCom BCom (Honours) BA(Honours) English and BA (Honours) PoliticalScience

SOL to issue applicationsfrom tomorrowStaff Reporter

NEW DELHI Everyday we con-sume copious amounts of in-formation from sources suchas the internet fora blogsweb applications podcastswebcasts news emails andthe significant social mediabandwagon including Face-book Twitter PinterestTumbler Becoming our ownlsquoassimilatorsrsquo we create a dig-ital identity for ourselvesldquoWe are lsquodrowningrsquo in the ageof information and yet starvefor knowledgerdquo remarkedAmerican author and publicspeaker John Naisbitt

Massive amount of infor-mation can be counter-pro-ductive and impact decisionmaking sensibilities Caughtin the uninspiring rut wehave witnessed the tempestu-ous loss of our very own tradi-tional habits such as readingoffline

From reading emails tomanaging updates we arebreathing walking and talk-ing information

Shruti a 20-year old DelhiUniversity student agreesldquoWhile there was a time whenaccess to information was al-most a luxury today evenwhile there is a glut of infor-mation it is sometimes a bit

of a letdown Revamped con-tent innumerable argu-ments different schools ofthought but no conclusionNo matter how much youhave read therersquos anotherperson who has dug in variedinformation and that personcan make us feel miserablerdquoshe says

Nabeel K Adeni a socialmedia evangelist and consult-ant agrees that with the in-cessant amount of contentcoming in through differentsocial media it has becomechallenging to consume in-formation

ldquoSocial Media has given thepower to every individual tocreate consume and sharecontent of all sizes and for-mats Like all good thingseven this has side effectsrdquosaid Mr Adeni

ldquoIt has become difficult todecipher knowledge infor-mation and data from eachother The information over-load has made it difficult tosearch for and process the re-quired information therebymaking it cumbersome to doanalysis and make decisionsThis is where we need to pickand choose our sourcesrdquo headded

Many ascribe the lsquoeasy ac-cessrsquo as the spoiler here oth-

ers feel that they have to becareful on the ill-effects it hason the stakeholders involvedldquoChildren are not equipped toseize information that theyview Any kind of informationarouses interest I have tokeep a constant watch onwhat my kids are doingrdquo saysShalini Manchanda a teacherand a mother of two

ldquoEven ldquotoo much informa-tionrdquo is good for me as it tellsme about different aspects ofthe same thing It facilitatescomparison Tabulating in-formation is the solution forme to deal with informationoverloadrdquo says Palash a mar-keting professional Otherssay they find it to use the in-ternet as and when it is re-quired

ldquoI donrsquot feel the need to re-main connected through so-cial media My work isenough to help me connectwith peoplerdquo says Rohit Bha-tia a Delhi-based propertydeveloper

But with a thousand voicestrumpeting from differentsides which one do you be-lieve The key is to be a know-ing observer who is awarecircumspect and can committo detachment from this for-ever-connected mode fromtime to time

Lakshi Bhatia

Perils of gleaning knowledgefrom a flood of information