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Sep 21, 2006 : Kerala takes to Linux
30,000 computers in Kerala’s 12,500 schools teaching 1.5 million students, are switching from Microsoft’s Windows operating system in favour of the open source Linux. Microsoft offered ‘a competitive pricing-value model’ at Rs1,250 to 1,500 per copy. Linux more than matched it: its free! Education Minister M A Baby however said his greater concern was longer-term consequence of Microsoft’s dominance.This development follows the Life Insurance Corporation switching to Linux in 2005 and saving $2 million. BusinessWeek: “Linux spreads its wings”
Sep 18, 2006 : Eco clubs in schools
The National Green Corps intiative by the central Ministry of Environment and Forests [MoEF] has resulted in the creation of 70,000 eco clubs in schools across India since the programme began in 2002. The idea is to make children in secondary schools more sensitive to environmental issues and induce responsibe behaviour among them.Given the track record of MoEF in the last few years as a guardian of the environment, this may be no more than a lunge at tokenism. But often those that pay lip service are hoist by their own petard. Even marginal exposure to ecology can add members to help build the critical mass required to combat official ignorance and vandalism.
Sep 12, 2006 : NCDEX is third in the word
After just two years of operation, India’s National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited [NCDEX] has emerged the third largest online trading mechanism in the world. NCDEX is a private initiative floated by nine Indian financial institutions to offer a dynamic, transparent market for commodities. It deals in 56 commodities, the majority of which are farm produce. NCDEX ensures best current prices and assured future markets. UNCTAD says NCDEX has grown spectacularly, leaving behind the New York Board of Trade - and that, when India’s agricultural growth at 2%, lags far behind industrial growth. The potential for the future is therefore obvious.Now with a view to offer competition to NCDEX , India’s Forward Markets Commission is planning to encourage more such exchanges. NCDEX
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