List of case-based operating procedures in all PCR vans

Every PCR van will now have a set standard operating procedure (SOP) to attend to calls related to women in distress. The decision will help reduce room for error and PCR reaction time, police said.

The new system will ensure that each PCR van has notices that explain, in bullet points, the operating procedure to attend to a distress call. There is a separate SOP for every distress call, particularly those of molestation, rape, domestic violence and threat calls.

“For instance, if the call is about a rape incident, then the operator need not waste time (waiting) for a briefing from his supervisor to react. The SOP would guide the operator as to what he should do,” T N Mohan, Special Commissioner of Police (Operations) told Newsline.

Meanwhile, Delhi High Court on Thursday asked government and police to ensure that there is proper publicity to its orders that all hospitals, including private ones, cannot deny treatment to victims of criminal offences.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/list-of-casebased-operating-procedures-in-all-pcr-vans/1081445/

Ankesh Shahra receives CSR Award for Community Development

Mumbai, February 20, 2013: Ruchi Soya Industries Limited (Ruchi Soya) has been felicitated with the CSR Award for Community Development during the World CSR Congress. Mr. Ankesh Shahra who manages the international businesses of Ruchi Soya and participates in the CSR activities of the Company was honoured with the felicitation at a glittering event in Mumbai. Dr. Christoph Stueckelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics and Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Director General & CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs handed over the trophy and citation to Mr. Ankesh Shahra.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr.Ankesh Shahra stated, “I am very for honouring Ruchi Soya with the award for Community Development. Ruchi believes in sharing its growth with every stakeholder and giving back to the society in a sustainable and transparent manner. A big congratulations to the team.”

An Integrated player from farm to fork, Ruchi Soya has secured access to oil palm plantations in India and other important parts of the world. Besides being a leading manufacturer of high quality edible oils, soya foods, vanaspati, and bakery fats, Ruchi Soya is also the highest exporter of soya meal, lecithin and other food ingredients from India. Ruchi Soya is committed to renewable energy and exploring suitable opportunities in the sector.

Featuring among the top five FMCG players in India, Ruchi Soya is India’s number one cooking oil maker and marketer through popular brands like Nutrela, Ruchi Gold, Mahakosh and Sunrich. Ruchi Soya is working closely with the communities around its plants in Patalganga and Nagpur in Maharashtra. Ruchi Soya believes in the concept of ‘Giving back to the Society’. The corporate social initiatives of Ruchi Group are executed through Shri Mahadeo Shahra Sukrat Trust with the focus on three core areas of Health, Education and Women Empowerment.

Source: http://planetcorporatenews.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/ankesh-shahra-of-ruchi-soya-receives-csr-award-for-community-development-at-global-csr-congress/

Review panel report in: Liquid oxygen tanks must in 100-bed govt hospitals

Almost two months after four patients at the Sushruta Trauma Centre died when oxygen supply to the ICU they were admitted in failed, a four-member expert committee constituted to review critical care facilities in Delhi government hospitals has completed its report. Health officials maintained they would begin implementing committee’s recommendations soon.

Health Minister Dr A K Walia told Newsline that the committee had completed the report and submitted it to the Health department last week. “The committee has recommended changes and upgrades in the system as well as improved training for staff manning critical care systems. The Health department is already working on implementing the committee’s recommendations,” Walia said.

The recommendations include installing liquid oxygen tanks, purchasing more anaesthesia machines and training the staff to handle oxygen supply and operation theatres.

The committee has urged the government to install liquid oxygen systems in all Delhi government-run hospitals with more than 100 beds. Of the 38 government hospitals, 15 have more than 100 beds. “Eight of these hospitals already have liquid oxygen supply system. We are working on installing it in the remaining hospitals. The committee has also suggested standard oxygen pipelines and ducting in other hospitals,” Walia said.

Sources in the Health department said some Delhi hospitals are still working on older manual manifold-operated oxygen supply systems. “An automatic system of oxygen supply will be installed and the older system can be used as a back-up,” a senior official said.

The committee recommended that only maintenance of services should be outsourced to private contractors, but the staff should be government employees.

At Sushruta Trauma Centre, maintenance and oxygen supply had been outsourced to PES Installation Pvt Ltd, which has been blacklisted.

The Health department has decided to bridge the staff shortage in Delhi hospitals and impart regular training to all technicians.

The Health department has also decided to double the number of anaesthesia machines in government hospitals. Senior officials said machines would soon be purchased for all hospitals — for ICUs and operation theaters.

The four-member committee, with MAMC Dean Dr A K Aggarwal as its chairman, included Dr Deepak Tempe, HoD (Anaesthesia) GBP Hospital; Dr U C Verma, HoD (Anaesthesia) MAMC and LN Hospital and Dr A K Sethi, HoD (Anaesthesia) GTB Hospital.

Committee recommends

InstalL liquid oxygen tanks in hospital that have more than 100 beds

Standard oxygen pipelines, ducting in other hospitals

buy more anaesthesia machines

Training staff to handle oxygen supply, operation theatres

Only maintenance of services should be outsourced

The committee has recommended changes and upgrades in the system as well as improved training for staff manning critical care systems. The Health department is already working on implementing the recommendations

Dr A K Walia,

Delhi Health Minister

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/review-panel-report-in-liquid-oxygen-tanks-must-in-100bed-govt-hospitals/1072351/0

Drought hits academic terrain

Time table of 450 polytechnic institutes tweaked

In a direct impact of the drought in Maharashtra on the education sector this year, the time-table of the second term of more than 450 polytechnic institutes in the state has been tweaked by the Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE) to battle the water crisis.

MSBTE, which conducts examinations and declares results of polytechnics, has asked these institutes to shrink the second term by a week and conclude the final written examinations in two weeks by April 21. The examinations were earlier scheduled to end by May 9.

The board also announced that students need have to appear for examinations of two papers on single day for some part of the final examination.

Importantly, teaching and non-teaching staff of polytechnics have been asked to work even on Saturdays and Sundays and for two hours extra each day until term-end to ensure the stipulated minimum of 90 days of working to achieve the deadlines set as per the revised time table.

As per official records, MSBTE has around 489 affiliated polytechnic institutes for Engineering/ Technology which have 14,6,841 seats.

Speaking to Newsline, MSBTE director PM Khodke said polytechnics from at least half-a-dozen districts in Maharashtra were facing acute water shortage by December-end and the overall situation was likely to worsen in summer.

“We have rescheduled the time table of second-term of polytechnics in the wake of the water crisis. There are polytechnics from districts such as Beed, Jalna, Osmanabad, Nanded, Solapur and Nanded where drinking water is not available in institutes. Authorities concerned are not able to supply water to students in hostels. The situation is going to turn grim and therefore we have decided to alter the time table,” he said.

Khodke said a special squad would be formed to verify whether affiliated polytechnics have taken measures like working on weekend days.

The principal of Government Polytechnic Latur, Balbhim Kumbhar, said the water scarcity was likely to become more critical, and therefore his institute was complying with MSBTE norms.

The MSBTE move to alter the time table of polytechnics has not gone down well with a large section of the staff.

They questioned the rationale of changing the time table of all institutes across the state and raised doubts whether effective teaching-learning process would take place as the students and staff would be burdened with extra working hours.

Khodke, however, said it was a well-thought decision taken as a part of the contingency plan to address water scarcity in educational institutions.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/drought-hits-academic-terrain/1068646/0

E-fraud: Rs 46 lakh transferred to 12 accounts

Police on Friday arrested a man in connection with a fradulent electronic cash transfer from the account of a company director. The Mulund police is probing to find whether it was a racket that operated on a larger scale.

Investigations have revealed that the amount was transferred in a span 40 minutes to 12 separate accounts through Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) from the account of 29-year-old Ankur Korane, director of a cosmetics company.

Police sources said the transfer was for Rs 1 crore but before a stop-payment request could be effected, Rs 46 lakh had already been transferred.

A man who walked to the bank’s Borivali branch Friday morning, allegedly one of the 12 account-holders, has been arrested by police.

Taking the help of banking officials police are now trying to understand the levels involved in this kind of transaction. Police have also tracked down the IP address used for the transfer. The probe so far revealed that the password Korane chose to net bank was compromised and hacked into. Police is now trying to ascertain at which stage the password was compromised.

Korane, who got text alerts of huge transactions, rushed to the bank and was told to approach the Cyber Cell. He was redirected to Mulund Police station, as the branch where he held his account was in Mulund.

“We registered a complaint and issued a stop payment order to the bank immediately. A total of Rs 1 crore had been shown as transferred by then Rs 46 lakh was actually withdrawn,” said Quaiser Khalid, Addl CP (East) Region.

The probe being conducted by three teams found a link between arrested man and the remaining account-holders. The case has been registered under the Information Technology Act under cheating and forgery using impersonation charges.

“All 12 had accounts with some amount in them. All of them have approached banks for withdrawal and all of them seem to know each other and about the transaction,” said Khalid. According to cops, one of the leads show that the 12 had opened accounts for such online transfer with a nominal commission also sought for usage of accounts.

Assistant Commissioner of Police N S Madne confirmed the arrest and added that a few more arrests are expected in the city. “The identity of all the 12 is the main focus for now and we are trying to bridge them and understand where the account was hacked,” he added.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/efraud-rs-46-lakh-transferred-to-12-accounts/1068624/0

Securing Origination: Ankesh Shahra at the Rabo Bank Advisory Board Meeting in Hong Kong, 2012

December 28, 2012: Shahra – Director, Business Development for    Ruchi Agritrading Pte Ltd, Singapore were invited to attend the prestigious Rabo Bank Food & Agribusiness Advisory Board Meeting that was held in Hong Kong in November 2012. The Theme of the meeting was ‘Burgeoning world food demand and the shrinking  corporate universe” and Ruchi was specifically asked to present their views and perspectives on the importance of M&A for Ruchi across the Food and Agriculture supply chain.  Spread across two days, there were several important thought provoking issues discussed between the key decision makers of the largest Food and agribusiness companies from Asia and the world.

Mr. Dinesh Shahra spoke about the importance of acquisitions at the low end of the business cycle and the value that high quality upstream assets at origination offer for companies such as Ruchi. In  a discussion moderated by x-CNBC anchor Ms. Lorraine Hahn, Mr. Dinesh Shahra mentioned that Asian companies should continue to vertically integrate but in order to remain sustainable, they must combine this integration with specialization down the chain. This is to ensure that they remain the most efficient users of the capital they possess, as niche/specialized companies are on a growth trajectory and are delivering exceptional returns.

Government Approved various Certification courses for Shahra Trust

Shri Mahadeo Shahra Sukrat Trust is a Public Charitable Trust duly registered by Registrar of Public Charitable Trust, Indore, and was formed in 1976 specially to initiate the corporate social responsibility initiatives of Ruchi.

Government of India has approved various certificate courses like “Beauty Culture and Health Care” and ”Fabric Painting and Warli Painting” which was conducted by Shahra Trust. The Trust initially undertook relief work for the underprivileged in the areas of health, education and other sectors at Manglia, Indore, Madhya Pradesh where the largest and first production plant of Ruchi is situated. Dinesh Shahra and Ankesh Shahra are part of Shahra Trust.

Ruchi Group: Spreading Prosperity, Fostering Growth, Enriching Lives

Ruchi Group of Industries is a well-known Indian conglomerate with business interests in diverse field like FMCG, Oils, Steel, Cement, Power, Information Technology, Real Estate, Dairy Products, Agro Commodities, Logistics and Warehousing. The group has its corporate headquarters in Indore, with offices and plants located at major business centers in the country. Ever since our foundation, we have pursued an untainted path of growth despite national and international competition.