Madurai Poll No.1

Advice for Credit Card Users – Madurai Money Wisdom

Smart Tips for Credit Card Users

Credit cards can help build a good credit history but improper use can be disastrous. It can be said that credit card debt is easy come and not so easy go. Being knowledgeable and reading the fine print may save you money and may prevent unnecessary expenses when it comes to using plastic.

If you own one or more credit cards, consider the following tips:

1) Most credit cards offer rewards such as airline tickets, cash back, car insurance and other incentives.
2) Paying off your monthly balance to avoid interest will allow you to fully reap the benefits of the card.
3) Credit card applications may often contain low interest rates to attract customers. Before you sign, research: varying interest rates, minimum payment requirements, grace periods, annual fees and credit limits.
4) Understand the impact that cancelling a credit card will have on your credit score. If the card is one that you’ve had for awhile and consistently paid off, it could negatively affect your credit rating.

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non-IT folks in Madurai

There is always an opinion that IT and ITeS people earn more than required/average in their jobs and they make lot of money. This has been the situation compared to other jobs from the time IT came into popularity.

All non-computer science graduates, bank employees, B.Com graduates, B. Sc graduates, mechanical engineers, only school educated people – everyone, irrespective of their education, they all moved to IT and ITeS(Software) companies for jobs.

As it is generally considered, in an economy all the sectors has to grow. But, that was not the case in our economy. Software and BPO sectors were growing too fast, but other industries did not see that much growth.

Considering the current situation of the IT economy –
1) Global Economy slowdown
2) IT Services Major Satyam in deep trouble
3) Job loss and Unemployment increasing

These things happen in services industry. Non-IT people, who have not come into IT in their lifetime, would sadistically like this situation because this is not a great situation for IT, while IT folks has been showing off a lot during their good times.
People think about only IT and related and not other industries at all, in terms of education or even jobs or investment.

For example, if a parent wants to enroll his son/daughter into the college, they choose only IT or IT related courses. This is not good for the economy. The choice has to be varied and not just concentrated on one field. That is not good for the economy.

There is a similar situation in Sports in India. Everyone like Cricket and media covers only Cricket news. There are n number of sports in the world, but we don’t care about it and it is not healthy at all. This is not good either.

Whenever is a problem realized, there is always solution following it. So, hopefully this wave of IT slowdown will bring some solution, I believe.

Thank you for listening.

List of Madurai Collectors in 21st century

List of Madurai Collectors from 2001 to 2008

Madurai Times bloggers (online reporters) researched and have got a list of Madurai Collectors. If there is any mistake, please correct us…

2001 V. Thangavelu
2002 S. Ramachandran
2003 Dr B. Chandra Mohan
2004 D Raajendiran
2005 D Raajendiran
2006 T Udhayachandran
2007 D Karthikeyan
2007 S S Jawahar
2007 G. Sundaramurthy
2008 P Seetharaman

Hopefully, this is a helpful information for our visitors…

Tirumangalam election update: Madurai Politics

Thirumangalam election update

1) Almost 90% of the constituency voters voted yesterday.
2) January 10th is the election result
3) DMK, ADMK and DMDK is curious about the whole result.
4) DMK and ADMK is considering this election as semi-finals before the lok sabha election.
5) DMDK is looking for a great turning point
6) Poll went on peacefully, and no discrepancy happened on the election day.
7) However, there are lot of complaints until the election day before’s night.

Will update the consequences of the election result, once the result is out!

Business Success Case Analysis – All about people – Madurai Business Wisdom

A business evolves from an idea. An idea originates on a person’s mind, while he/she sees a problem and there are too many people who would want that problem to be solved. Of course, the person who comes up with this idea is passionate about the whole thing.

As long as the person is a passionate about the idea, then if (s)he keeps working on that idea. The real turning point happens, when more people get attracted to the solution. People think that he is really solving the problem. This is the case when the business goes into success stage. More people get attracted into the business – automatically things would work out.

For example – Craigslist.org’s Craig created the classifieds website and gave it free for all the users and visitors, while all the classified websites were asking money. Craig made the user interface simple that anybody could use it. Simplicity in doing things and do not complicate things. Now, Craig charges the “Post Jobs” feature only and that company is successful.

That is the idea. Say – you have a website – once you have considerable number of visitors, automatically you can convert that website into a business and it will fetch you revenue.

That is what I am talking about. Get many people know about business and that will reach as many people as needed and in fact much more than needed.

Overall Business Thumb rule is – Get more people to know about your business and use your services at low cost or free and they will come to know how special you are – and you will be successful, provided you serve what they need in right manner.

Madurai Family Administration

I was imagining, if a family administration is done, similar to a corporation(city) administration. That would bring lot of organization in family. In fact, everyone would be already following this in their own family administration. However, they wouldn’t have realized that they are doing this already.

I was looking into the madurai corporation administration and its several departments for running Madurai Corporation. Here are the departments in the family.

Departments:
Accounts,
Council,
Education,
Engineering,
Health,
PRO,
Revenue,
Town planning, and
Transportation

Council:
1) Family care and Love
2) Mostly taken care by the woman folk of the family.

Finance:
1) Save, Invest, Spend less
2) Find new ways for earning more – revenue
3) Personal Finance is very important for a micro-economy to function well.
4) Atleast one person has to be concerned about this, otherwise family would collapse. If both the members of the family are careless, it will be catastrophe.

PRO:
1) Connect with all friends periodically
2) Learn to talk nicely and elaborately

Transportaion:
1) Vehicle maintenance – bicycle, car, motor bike etc.,

Planning:
1) This has to be always ON and this has to be under the leader’s umbrella.

Education:
1) Everybody in the family has to be educated; need to learn more; Literacy is important for the family – both short-term and long-term.

Engineering:
1) Find new things
2) Build new things
3) Business development and improvement

Health:
1) Walking,
2) Cycling,
3) Healthy Diet,
4) Daily vitamin tablet,
5) less or no coffee,
6) weekly once drinking/mild drinking only
7) more vegetables and fruits

What does Satyam Computers’s situation mean to Madurai?

What does Satyam Computers’s situation mean to Madurai?

We all know the situation of Satyam today, due to mishandling of accounts/books in Satyam Computers. What does this mean to Madurai and other cities??

Please find a news article from 2007 about Satyam Computer Services in Madurai.

1) Satyam will not be buying any land in Madurai or give it up, 99%.
2) Employees from all cities and Madurai to Satyam Computers will be affected because of this already. They will be laid off and they should be searching jobs and be in job market.
3) Potential Job Oppotunities in Madurai is devastated now.

Pity situation for everyone!!

A news article from mid of 2007 –

Satyam to start center in Madurai

Satyam Computer Services will open its development center in Madurai, reports Press.

The company applied for 50 acres under ELCOT scheme proposed in the university land on Theni road. The company would commence work as soon as the government announces the approval.

The proposed campus would initially accommodate 5,000 and would be developed to 10,000-seater over a three-year period.

The company made a proposal to establish an autonomous IT academy in Tamil Nadu, under the public-private partnership funding to the Chief Minister.

Plastic Recycling in Madurai

Solid Waste Management and Plastic Recycle in Madurai

Even as a modernising India and every district like Madurai roars ahead, it is leaving a trail of plastic waste everywhere. Bottles, bags, buckets, shoes and garments are thrown away by the rich and the poor. Luckily, India has already exhausted that reflex reaction of shallow thinkers: ‘ban plastics!’ And even more luckily, some sober minds are focused on creative solutions to the problem. In terms of reclycling research – there are two initiatives which has come out of the labs.

Prof Vasudevan in Madurai, Tamil Nadu had proposed blending plastic waste with bitumen and rock aggregate used in paving roads. He said this improves bonding and make the roads survive the monsoons better. A small stretch of road was paved early this year to prove the concept. Now there is news that the practice may be spreading.

While that approach has to do with disposal, Alka Zadgaonkar’s is do with reuse. An academic and a researcher in Nagpur, she has gained a WIPO patent for her process to convert all manner of plastic wastes into petrochemicals. For eight years she and her husband Umesh have worked on perfecting the process. They then demonstrated it to many critical audiences. And now news comes that their doggedness may be paying off. Indian Oil Corporation [IOC] has signed a deal with her.

That apart – what is the measure done in Madurai for recylcing?
As “The Hindu” reports in June 2008, Average quantum of waste generated from each household is around 2.5 kg. Individually, nobody puts it into separate containers or places for recycling, like other developed nations do. In fact, the special rag pickers pick the plastics and recyclable wastes and get money for that from the organized recyclers.

A comprehensive solid waste management policy is on the anvil to halve the waste generated by houses in town panchayats by 2015, K. Gopal, Commissioner, Town Pachayats, has said.

The policy would be based on three R’s: reduce, recycle and reuse. Awareness and training programmes would be conducted for stakeholders.

Each district would have at least one plastic recycle unit, he said. Residents would be encouraged to hand over non-degradable waste to these units through organised rag-pickers. We need to make it to one kg per household, instead of 2.5 kgs.

This is more of lack of awareness. Till date, there are many people who do not even know that there is a recylcing concept and also how harmful it is to the environment, if we ignore it. If you are interested, we wrote an article about clean and Green Madurai, sometime back.

After a little research online, Madurai Times bloggers(reporters) found out some recyclers. If you are a recycler and want to be listed, let us know at maduraitimes@gmail.com.

Madurai Metal Recycling , Estd. 2007, (Raja)
Importers of Waste Papers and Plastics.
Address: 69,Kamarajar Salai, East Gate,India,MADURAI,TamilNadu

Deepam Polymers & Chemicals
Munichalai Road, Madurai-625009

Sheila Sons
73, Abrami Street, Narayanapuram West,
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, 625 014.
Manufacturer / Supplier / Exporter of : medicinal Plants.,Plastic recycled materials.

SK Industries (Madurai)
Madurai TamilNadu
India

Economic Stimulus Package in Madurai??

A vote in Thirumangalam election is worth Rs.1000 from one party.
Say Party A gives Rs.1000, at the sametime Party B also give Rs.1000 for the same person.

A single family has husband and wife. If that family includes parents as well, then it is probably worth Rs.4000 or Rs.5000.

All the businesses, theaters, hotels, restaurants, alcoholic bar shops etc., are getting good business.

Is it a stimulus package for Tirumangalam constituency – Madurai!!!???