Vishal Sharma / Agra December 29, 2008, 0:00 IST Govardhan Udyog plans to use cowdung to produce particle board. Faced with the task of developing environment-friendly technology for industry due to guidelines issued by the Supreme Court, entrepreneurs in Agra are realising the cost-effective potential of such technologies and innovations. Govardhan Udyog is one such unit which plans to use a non-conventional raw material, cowdung, to produce particle board and pharmaceutical products. The unit was inaugurated this week on the Agra-Delhi national highway near the Mathura refinery, about 55 km from Agra. Company sources said the basic raw material used in the manufacture of particle board will be cow dung. This will perhaps make it the first particle board manufacturing facility using cowdung as the raw material. Govardhan Udyog Managing Director SK Mittal said particle boards were emerging as a viable alternative in designing office furniture and automation products in the country as c...
VISHAL SHARMA AGRA. With the Rs. 85 crore power reform project for Agra to begin shortly under the Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (APDRP), the Agra based UP power discom Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (DVVNL) has decided to sub-let the tender for the testing of electrical appliances being installed under the programme to RITES, the consulting arm of Indian Railways. Talking to Business Standard , Kripal Singh, Managing Director, DVVNL said that lately, the power corporation had faced charges of installing sub-standard equipments under the various electrification projects being conducted by it. He said that since the electrification work to be done under the Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (APDRP) and Accelerated Rural Electrification Programme (AREP) was worth almost Rs. 200 crores in Agra alone, the company thought it prudent to invoke the help of an "impartial" and technically sound company to conduct test...
AGRA. It could serve as a well-placed slap in the face of the the groups of so-called women's rights activists who all too recently celebrated International Women’s Day, fervently praising the contribution made by women to the society and vowing to prevent violence against the feminine gender comfortably ensconced in luxurious clubs and hotels. While the world was busy celebrating women’s day, a young girl was murdered in cold-blood, torched to death by her in-laws in Kayamganj town of Farrukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh, alongwith a 6-month fetus inside her, just three years after marriage. Two weeks have passed since the grisly murder but the local police appears to be in no hurry to catch the absconding in-laws who doused the girl in kerosene and left her to burn and die on the street, making good their escape while the locals awaited for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the victim’s mother Archana Sharma has suffered from a strok...
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