My first vocational day included visits to Bombay Rayon, a textile manufacturing business, and ACE Carbo Nitriders, a heat-treatment and metallurgical services company. Both companies were extremely diverse in both the products they produce and the way the environment is managed. Both have significant demands in terms of energy use, raw materials and in the textile factory, the volumes of water and effluent produced. Both companies had a high level of environmental awareness and what surprised me was the fact that as many materials as possible are reused and recycled.
In Bombay Rayon's case, they even went as far as installing a 3 phase water recycling plant where 85% of the factories liquid effluent, black with synthetic dyes and chemicals, back is cleaned and pumped back in to the factory clean.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Tracey's first vocational day - State Electoral Commission
No photos available for today - the three members of staff I visited requested their images not to be published. Time was made available to me and my host for the day, Mr R Bhaskaran, to talk through the elections system in Bangalore and across the whole of India. They were kind enough to give me a presentation on how each level worked, how voting was conducted and how people could be nominated. I asked lots of questions about equalities issues - representation of women and disabled people amongst the candidates and the system allows anyone to stand, from all classes and abilities either as a member of a recognised party or as an independent. Sometimes upto 30 candidates can stand for a seat and on average, upto 1200 people visit each polling station during its 8 hour opening time - there are queues!! Bearing in mind that just in the Karnataka area there are 60 million people the scale of the operation even for local elections is staggering. Thank you to the Elections staff for their time (and lots of websites to look up in England!), to Mr Bhaskaran for his hospitality and the opportunity to meet his family after the meeting.
Joint Meeting 1, 03.02.10
Our first joint meeting hosted by the President's of Rotary Whitefield, Kalyan, Peeyna, Ramurthynagar, South Parade and Kumarapark, was a great success. The team received many gifts to take back to our sponsoring clubs and the evening was an opportunity to share food, friendship and fellowship with Rotarians and their families.
Dinner with Outgoing Bangalore Team to UK - as their guests
On the evening of day 3, we were lucky enough to be hosted by Chandru and his team at the Century Club. It was great to meet the team and we had a very enjoyable evening discussing Bangalore and England and tried to point out some of the quirks of English life and what East Anglian is like. Looking forward to seeing them all again at the conference.
Party at Alder's host in week 1 - Deva's family
All of us and our hosts were invited to Deva's house for a meal - with the invitation to wear indian dress. All of the ladies in each family were good enough to loan saris and selwars (please forgive the spelling) and the evening was a good opportunity for us to talk more with every host and catch up with each other after our first real day in India.
This photo is for Ann and for Nick Corke's home rotary club in Framlingham
Dear All - please forgive this frivolous picture on the blog but I thought it would be worthwhile to show Nick in a whole new light and enjoying very new experiences .... ironing of course!! This was for a party at one of our host houses - next blog will show what we all look like after the ironing (Day 2)
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