Power production to get hurt in India

Indian government is tripping power as Summer started approaching. The reason only being the shortage of fuel – coal.

As reported, ‘Coal India Ltd.’ may fail to supply adequate amount of coal for satisfying requirements. Thus some 17,000 MW of generation are in pipeline. In India, about 70% of the power requirements are satisfied by coal. So a shortage of coal production may worsen the summer ahead.

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Smartphone HTC Desire Z - Rs 25,590

Launched by cellphone giant HTC corporation in India, approx 6 month of its international launch.

** Android 2.2 Froyo operating system

** 3.7 inch touch screen
** QWERTY keyboard
** HD video recording
** 5-megapixel camera with flash, auto-focus and face recognition
** 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 microprocessor
** 512MB RAM
** Dimensions 119 x 60.4 x 14.2 mm
** Weight 180 gm
** Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300mAh
** Stand by up to 430 h (2G) / Up to 430 h (3G)
** Talk time up to 9 h 50 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 40 min (3G)

Get more detail directly from HTC website http://www.htc.com/www/product/desirez/overview.html

Volvo S60

Clamming itself as one of the sportiest sedans ever in luxury car market in India.

Price starting from Rs. 27 lakhs

Volve S60 comes under mid sized all rounder Sedan. It will be launched with both the variants – Petrol and Diesel.

• T6 AWD Petrol with 304 hp and 440 Nm
• D5 Diesel with 205 hp and 420 Nm

Other features
- Most powerful petrol engine in its segment- Pedestrian Detection’ with full auto brake
- Advanced Control with Torque Vectoring
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)
- Laser Assisted Automatic Braking
– City Safety
- Turn with steering lights (Active Bending Lights)
- seven-spoke turbine-inspired 18-inch wheels

- drooping headlamp cluster paired with LED fangs- thin-topped eagle's head taillamps

Model Ex-showroom prices (Mumbai)

Volvo S60, D5 Kinetic Rs. 27 lakhs

Volvo S60, D5 Summum Rs. 32 lakhs

Volvo S60, T6 SummumRs. 34 lakhs

Air India loosing ground

Earnings 36 crore a day, Expenditure 57 crore a day!!

Air India admitted that they are in a situation where they are earning Rs 36 crore a day against an expenditure of Rs 57 crore, a daily loss of Rs 21 crore

Also oil companies has put Air India (AI) on cash and carry. This mean they are paying about Rs 12.5 crore daily to keep their planes on runway. These oil companies easily provide their supply of fuel on credit basis to the private carriers. But after getting into a debt of Rs 2280 Crores they refused to go any extra mile with Air India.

But all these claims by aviation ministry departments to media are just results. No one, for any ministry, or infact not a single politician is ready to look into the matter. Because everyone know what is the main problem. And raising the voice on issue can ultimately harm their luxurious lifestyle.

Indian Government provides certain aids to the official people, i.e. high rank government employees & politicians to travel for free and sometime at negligible cost with their families. Most of the time a fix number of Seats are left vacant considering a last-minute-emergency condition of a VIP.

New Delhi being one of the most important destinations for Air Travelers. So there is surely lots of people going to and fro from New Delhi each day for which planes are never sufficient. Instead of utilizing these facts, an AI flight to Delhi is always full of free-travelling politicians that claim to attend assembly to solve issues for the people of their respective territory.

This is most likely that a regular customer in aviation industry is a businessmen or high grade professional. These people do respect their time, and so the time used by the carrier they are choosing. In most cases, an AI flight has to get delay because of some VVIP is expecting on-board.

Multi Brand Retailers to affect Indian Economy

Indian Government may permit FDI (Foreign direct investment) very soon in multi brand retailing segment so that the country can attract more overseas investors.

Presently only big players are allowed to sell directly to bulk customers like – Hotels, Restaurants, Canteens and local small or mid-size retailers.

It is quite obvious that with this the end benefit will go to the consumers. With more and more global products in the market, a sense of competition will lead the brands to provide better quality at reasonable costs. As the competition is rising there will be more focused products for each niche.

But on the same side, this will affect a huge chunk of people earning on a daily basis by selling these commodities on very small scale. People selling fruits and vegetable at road side, small shop retailers, and other small players in the category.

People working as middle person between farmers and marketers will get hit very badly. As these retailers may employ their own selected person. And that person is capable of buying all that is for sell, for low price and with his better negotiating strategies.

Talking on packed food, China will get definitely direct advantage of it. As china produces everything on large scale, it is very easy for them to bring down selling cost. So again an added threat to Indian packaged food industry.

As everything else, this change also has power to add benefit by providing better mean & services to consumers in India, and also has potential to badly affect the economy by creating lots of unemployment in India.

But the main question to think about the subject is, you and me after knowing this, if next time go to purchase something, we will approach a local shop with local product or a good value for the money we are spending??

Similarly, a question stands for the local retailers, shopkeepers and manufacturers, Do they have to wait someone to come and destroy their business, before they think of offering a better value to their country and their customers.