Gokak to recruit 400 hearing and speech impaired personnel

BANGALORE: As part of its corporate social responsibility agenda, Gokak Textiles Limited today announced its plan to recruit 400 hearing and speech impaired personnel to work in their company.

The company has written to three deaf and dumb institutes in Karnataka about their plan to recruit deaf and mute workers. "However, we have still not been able to fill in all the 400 positions," said H S Bhaskar, CEO, MD GTL.

The hearing and speaking impaired candidates will be trained in tailoring for one year at the company's training institute for one year. The trainees would receive a stipend.

Candidates between the 18-26 age group, who have passed their 10th standard examination, would be eligible for recruitment, he said and the candidates would receive a salary as prescribed by the government rules.

"Last year we had recruited around 30 such personnel and found them easily suited to the job of tailoring. Those with other impairments like visual or handicapped would not be in a position to undertake this work. Hence we decided to restrict ourselves to the hearing and speech impaired", he said, adding that they would also help the candidates find accomodation in Belgaum, where they will be posted.

The initiative is part of the company's corporate social responsibility. Its other activities under this category include running educational institutions, hospitals, ensuring tree plantation among others.

High-speed rly corridor gets Centres approval

High-speed rly corridor gets Centres approval
DH News Service,Bangalore:

The Railway Ministry has agreed to the State government’s suggestion to set up a high-speed railway corridor between Bangalore and Hubli and Hubli and Pune besides extending it to Mysore from Bangalore.Participating in a discussion on the railway projects in Karnataka organised by the State Council Secretariat, Principal Secretary to Department of Infrastructure V P Baligar said that a joint survey for setting up the corridor would be taken up soon.

Earlier the Centre had shown reservation to the State’s suggestion made in this regard. In fact the Centre had proposed a high speed railway corridor between Bangalore-Chennai and Bangalore-Cochin. But Karnataka had told the Centre that it would not participate in the project as it would not benefit the State.Similarly the State has also suggested for setting up a flight corridor between Bangalore -Hubli and Hubli to Pune. Baligar said that a feasibility study would be conducted regarding laying of a railway line upto the Jog Falls.

At present the railway line is being laid upto Talaguppe, which is about 14 kms from the Jog Falls. “This step is being contemplated to boost tourism,” he added.Baligar said the State had suggested to the Centre to take up Gadag-Haveri, Kushalnagar-Holenarasipura, Shimoga-Harihar, Dharwad-Bailahongal-Belgaum, Shahabad-Bagalkote-Kuchi and Talaguppa-Honnavar lines. Already survey had been ordered in case of Talaguppa-Honnavar line.

Inox looks at tier II cities for expansion - Belgaum & Hubli may get by Mid 09

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Multiplex scene may be getting crowded in places like Mumbai, but in Bangalore and other cities multiplex operators see a big untapped market waiting to be explored.

Bangalore, which many of the multiplex operators believe, is underscreened has space for another 15 or so multiplexes. Hence, there is lot of action being seen in the state.

Multiplex operators are taking their operations to tier II cities now. Inox, the multiplex operator, which claims to be the first to move into untapped markets, now plans to enter Belgaum and Hubli with multiplexes of 4-screen.

It has two multiplexes in Bangalore and plans to add another one in the city, adding six screens to its capacity in Bangalore. It plans to have a four-screen multiplex in Belgaum and another four screens in Hubli.

In January, it added three more screens in Bangalore with the start of its three-screen multiplex in Jayanagar in Bangalore. With that it now has eight-screens in Bangalore, with five screens in Garuda Mall.

It has signed up developers in Hubli and Belgaum for setting up its multiplexes. The eight screens will be operational by February-March ‘09. The multiplex operator spends an average of Rs 2.5 crore per screen.

By March 2009, Bangalore will see Inox adding another five screens in Bangalore with the expansion of its facility in Malleswaram in Western Bangalore at a Mantri Developers’ property. By July 2010, it is set to have its five screen multiplex up and running in Mangalore.

As of today, it has 26 properties running in the country, with 93 screens. Alok Tandon, COO, Inox Leisure said, “We have always believed in being the first to enter a market.”

In Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, it plans to set up around 50 screens and has already signed up properties. Inox looks at a payback time of five years.

Inox’s expansion plans for Bangalore comes close on the heels of major developments in the city on the multiplex front. Shringar Cinemas recently opened a multiplex at Fame Lido and is planning another one which is set to come up where once stood the Symphony theatre.