So What have I been doing ?

No new posts  . Letter to Editors or any thing else for a long time.
The end result of all that few months activities has culminated in the following contribution to wikipedia.

Dams in Amravati District

Following Table gives List of Dams built with a height of 10 Meters or above as Irrigation Project Dams in Amravati District.The table also gives nearest city , Taluka and Location in Latitude and Longitude of the dam. Search in Wiki / Google Maps with given Latitude and Longitude will take you to the location in the respective Maps . Google Map will only indicate name of the Irrigation Project . In Wiki Maps left click on the mapped feature will open a window giving salient features of the Irrigation Project.The data has been extracted from the web site of The project “Generation of Database and Implementation of Web Enabled Water Resources Information System in the Country” short named as India-WRIS WebGIS is a joint venture of the Central Water Commission (CWC), Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Department of Space, Govt. of India,

Sl No	Name of the Dam	Nearest City	Taluka	Location on wikimapia and google Map
1	Mandwa	Dharni	Melghat	21°31'28"N 76°55'49"E
2	Jutpani	Dharni	Melghat	21°30'32"N 76°55'46"E
3	Berda	Dharni	Melghat	21°30'42"N 76°58'50"E
4	Bobdoh	Dharni	Melghat	21°28'28"N 76°52'51"E
5	Salai	Dharni	Melghat	21°27'51"N 76°52'0"E
6	Khari	Dharni	Melghat	21°27'29"N 76°50'21"E
7	Sarabadi	Dharni	Melghat	21°26'33"N 76°48'15"E
8	Golondoh	Dharni	Melghat	21°26'25"N 76°47'5"E
9	Rabhang	Dharni	Melghat	21°25'43"N 76°52'5"E
10	Mogarda	Dharni	Melghat	21°25'57"N 76°56'29"E
11	Sawalikheda	Dharni	Melghat	21°21'4"N 76°41'43"E
12	Sapan	Example	Example	Under Construction.
13	Gondvihir	Example	Example	21°21'46"N 77°30'4"E
14	Chandrabhaga	Example	Example	21°20'14"N 77°22'33"E
15	Gondwagholi	Example	Example	21°15'42"N 77°21'19"E
16	Khatijapur	Example	Example	21°16'33"N 77°23'35"E
17	Shahanoor	Example	Example	21°16'4"N 77°19'6"E
18	Tongalphodi	Anjangaon Surji	Chikaldara	21°34'35"N 78°17'6"E
19	Sawarpani	Anjangaon Surji	Chikaldara	21°14'0"N 77°13'36"E
20	Khairkund	Akot	Chikaldara	21°13'35"N 77°10'39"E
21	Purna	Work Not Complete.
22	Chargad	Amravati	Achalpur	21°22'42"N 77°49'3"E
23	Upper Wardha	Amravati	Achalpur	21°19'1"N 78°7'44"E
24	Jamgaon	Warud	Example	21°35'43"N 78°24'9"
25	Wai	Warud	Chandurbazar	21°34'51"N 78°20'58"E
26	Pusli	Warud	Chandurbazar	21°33'48"N 78°18'10"E
27	Satnoor	Warud	Chandurbazar	21°34'35"N 78°17'6"E
28	Shekhdari	Warud	Chandurbazar	21°31'52"N 78°11'43"E
29	Kekatpur	Amravati	Amravati	21°5'41"N 77°57'19"E
30	Dastapur	Amravati	Amravati	21°6'46"N 77°58'6"E
31	DahigaohDhanora	Amravati	Amravati	20°59'6"N 77°59'12"E
32	Malegaon	Amravati	Amravati	20°56'17"N 77°59'15"E
33	Gharkhed	Amravati	Amravati	20°56'7"N 77°51'15"E
34	Amdori	Amravati	Amravati	20°51'48"N 78°1'59"E
35	Sarswati	Amravati	Amravati	20°50'54"N 77°58'56"E
36	Baslapur	Amravati	Amravati	20°51'20"N 77°56'11"E
37	Malkhed	Amravati	Amravati	20°50'33"N 77°54'32"E
38	Takli	Amravati	Amravati	20°48'23"N 77°52'41"E
39	Lower Wradha	Example	Example	Under Construction
40	Lower Pedhi	Example	Example	Under Construction.

It can be found here as a wiki page.( It is 'my page' location , to come as an article will take some time)
As can be seen lot of editing and improvement is required.
How did this come about?
It is a long story . Follow these pages and I will unfold it for you .

Letter to Editor.

News items appearing now days have been cause for concern .Every item called for this concern to be shared . Finally statement of Home Minister acted as the last straw and so after along time wrote to the Editor.
Hope it finds favour.

Sir,

Death Anniversary of assassins of Indira Gandhi celebrated , Memorial to honour martyrs  of Ops Blue Star being constructed in Golden temple,Gen Brar attacked in London , Assassins of Gen Vaidya honoured and their death anniversary celebrated. Honourable Home Minister stating "Institutions have some constitutional rights .  Memorial to honour martyrs  of Ops Blue Star being constructed in Golden temple is there internal matter and Government of India will not interfere".

These are some of the news items to appear in last few days. The trend being indicated by such news items  clearly spell out danger signals, Of all these items what must cause greatest concern and worry is the statement made by no less authority than the Home Minister of India about " not interfering in the matter". It is conveniently forgotten that those killed in ops Blue Star were militants and terrorists they had desecrated the holiest of Sikh shrine . They had declared war against Indian Nation , threatening the sovereignty of India . They were no martyrs and only gullible innocent persons or persons with mischief in their heart will consider them as Martyrs.It is shocking to say that  Government of India & Its Home Minister have not learnt any lessons from history.How can any one forget Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. and the darkest period of a decade when militancy ruled and ruined the prosperous state of Punjab and thousands of innocents lost their lives.The trend indicated by these development call for immediate suitable and necessary actions by  moderate and sane thinking citizens of India in general and Punjab in particularly . Government of India, and  the Home Minister must not take cover under unacceptable excuses and  be a mute spectator of these dangerous developments. If no action is taken now the history may repeat itself.

PM Velankar, Nagpur.

Hats - Off - Mr Sharad Pawar. : Letter to Editor.

A topical write up for publication in Middlespace , letters or city mail as considered fit.

Sir .

It is very well known that Shri  Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar  is one of the  , or may be the shrewdest , politician of the modern political history.In a political career spanning more than four and half  decades (Starting 1967) plus he has been Chief Minister of Maharashtra , an incredible four times. His name even made rounds to be the PM after assassination of Shri Rajive Gandhi. In 1996 after winning Baramati seat he left state politics and joined Central politics.  He was Defence Minister of the Union of India.He is the Union Agriculture Minister since 2004 . Prevailing supply situation in the country not withstanding,as policy maker he has been instrumental is deciding  when to stop and when to permit  import or  export of agricultural products like onions, sugar , wheat , cotton etc etc. During this long career it was inevitable that charges of corruption , giving protection to criminals and lot of misdeeds would be raised against him , series of allegations for corruption were made by  Deputy Commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, G R Khairnar against him . However it is testimony to his uprightness and honesty OR shrewdness , depending on your thinking you can have your own pick , that except for purchase of team for IPL his name has never been associated with any scandal   !!! His acumen has helped him to change political alliance and parties at the most appropriate time .After imposition of emergency, when popularity of Indira Gandhi was at its nadir he joined Janata Sangh and became the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the first time .There after changes of parties or when that was not possible , creating a new party has been his modus operandii, all that has been possible due to his wisdom , detailed knowledge of psyche of common Indian and Indian political system.Mr Pawar's and Prafull Patels leaving the Government is the latest proof of this wisdom . All know that due to the events of the last couple years aam adami has become totally disillusioned with the UPA government and it is almost foregone conclusion that unless impossible happens UPA govt and the congress has no chance to win the forthcoming elections.This therefore must be the most appropriate time to leave the sinking ship.While doing so it is of great help to make the correct noises like , quote( from news paper report) " lack of coordination by congress with allies and governance in issues like excess food subsidy at the cost of funding water projects."  unquote . Again to quote( from news paper report) " The government should not go for excessively populist schemes at the cost of economy"unquote. What fantastic time for such announcements. This only goes to show the wisdom ,and acumen of  Mr Pawar , or his shrewdness . Take your pick.

PM Velankar, Nagpur.

Letter to Editor : Who is the better citizen !!

Sir.

Following may please be considered for publication in middle space or city or letter to editor , as you may consider fit and appropriate.

During my morning walks I have noticed a very interesting phenomenon .On my route there are couple of road crossings with traffic lights.At that time , around 0530 to 0600 hours , traffic density is very low and there are times when there are no vehicles at all to stop for "Red" or go through the "Green".With such low density of traffic , logically, one would not like to ' waste ' 45 to 90 seconds by waiting at the "red".However rules dictate that not withstanding traffic density, vehicles have to stop at " red". We Nagpurians,irrespective of what we own , a luna costing few thousand rupees or top of the line luxury car like Skoda, BMW , Audi or Mercedes costing few lakhs,  are very logical people. Being logical we zip and zoom across no matter even if the light is bright red and rules say to stop.Then along comes couple of heavy duty trucks. They are huge with 16 to 18 wheels , registration numbers may be from Kerala , Himachal or from West Bengal which would indicate that they have been "on the road" for may be couple of days.The light turns red , there is no traffic/ vehicles any where in sight, but lo and behold, the trucks stop !! Light turns green and the trucks proceed on their way .A owner driven Skoda comes from the cross road . Avoiding the trucks the Skoda zooms through the red light and is on its way. I have noted that the long distance truckers , almost all of them, sincerely follow the traffic rules . Generally the truckers are considered illiterate , uncouth and ill mannered .On the other hand the owners of super luxury car would be thought of as highly mannered, educated and leading light of the society.And this what I see during my morning walks  I consider as an interesting phenomenon.Then I wonder who is a better citizen the trucker or the social leading light driving a Skoda. 

PM Velankar, Nagpur.

It is after along time that I sat on the key board to write a post .So here is what I write.

Quo Vadis - Defence Services.Letter to Editor

Sir,

The Defence Services have always enjoyed the trust and esteem of 'aam adami' for its up-rightness, Honesty and Integrity . I am very proud to have belonged to one of the three arms of that Institution.It is therefore with heavy heart and extreme sadness that I read, with increasing frequency, the news of Serving Officers of Defence forces,(CSD & NDA)  being caught taking bribes.Even though it is a cause for sadness , the writing has been on the wall for quite some time . It is a true adage which says "a bad apple spoils the whole basket" . Unfortunately it is our great misfortune that  in case of our Country and the Defence forces ,it is a case of there being only "one good apple in the basket of whole heap of rotten apples" . It is only because of strong moral fiber and value based traditions of the Defence forces that has taken 60 odd years for this rot to set in .This should ring loud , very loud ,warning bells in the corridors of power, in the offices of political parties and the babus to clean up their act and uproot the corruption at the earliest.It is obvious to all the right thinking people unless the babus , the politicians do no clean up their act , Defence Forces can no longer remain unaffected by all pervasive disease of corruption .Godforbid that day when the one of the last bastions of clean image looses public faith . When that day comes even God may not be able to save this country. 

PM Velankar,Nagpur.

Joke of the day .( Letter to Editor.)

Sir, 

The joke for the day was cracked by honorable Finance Minister . 

"India has a very powerful , strong and acceptable PM."

Acceptable is agreed , but , It is a sad day for the country when people who consider themselves as responsible citizens have to report such statements as joke of the day.

PM Velankar.