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JFSL expansion plans for 2015
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 16:21 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Jyothy Fabric-care Service Ltd (JFSL), subsidiary of Jyothy Laboratories, is setting up at least 500 Fabric Spa stores by 2015. From washing 16,000 pieces per day for institutional clients last year, the facility now washes 25,000 pieces a day. The company’s clients include airlines, 5-star hotels, retail chains and the Indian Railways JFSL will venture
Alliance-Ramsons joint venture
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 16:20 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Bangalore-based Ramsons Garment Finishing Equipment Pvt Ltd has entered into a joint venture with Alliance Laundry Systems, the US – based commercial laundry equipment manufacturer. Ramsons will be the sole distributor of Alliance’s IPSO brand laundry equipment – and it will also maintain exclusive rights to manufacture and market D’Hooge washer-extractors and ironers, in addition
Cleanliness Confusion At Commonwealth Games
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:59 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
The Commonwealth Games has started off with a bang. By the end of 10 days, all those talks of “unclean and unhygienic facilities” at the Games Village would have disappeared. However, CIJ feels that an opportunity to showcase India’s growing cleanliness and hygiene standards by the Indian Cleaning Industry was missed out, perhaps due to
Plane emission killing Indians
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:38 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Thousands of people in India and China are being killed as airplanes flying above North America and Europe are emitting pollutants that are poisoning the air in these Asian nations. Due to high speed winds that flow East, the air pollution caused by these planes impacts air quality in India and China, killing nearly 3500
More toilets for eves
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:35 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Eleven more toilets are to be constructed for the exclusive use of women in Kozhikode’s Corporation area. Since there’s lack of clean toilets for women, the Ombudsman for Local Self-Government Institutions has ordered the City Corporation authorities to complete the construction within three months.
Few food inspectors
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:35 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Bangalore Municipal Corporation has only six food inspectors in the health department to check around one lakh city eateries. Food inspectors are supposed to conduct regular checks to inspect how food is being cooked and ensure cleanliness both inside and outside the eatery. However, the BBMP is facing an acute shortage of food inspectors. The
No loos, no school
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:35 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Lack of toilets in primary and upper primary schools under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) has been reflecting on the enrolment and drop-out rate of girl students in Orissa’s Sambalpur district. Around 55% of schools in the district are without toilets even as construction of additional classrooms is being carried out under SSA. Schools having toilets
Clean Revolution
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:35 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Tea garden workers and ex-worker communities in Assam are set to witness a “clean” revolution in the garden areas. The tea tribes welfare department of the local government and Unicef have initiated the revolution and constructed 13,786 indoor toilets for the members of the communities in the last financial year in five Upper Assam districts
Callous civic body
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:35 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
Filth and stink greeted the Jaipur Municipal Corporation officials on their recent whirlwind tour of the city. It exposed the callousness of the civic administrators prompting the JMC top brass to serve notices to sanitation inspectors on the sorry state of affairs. After the day-long tour and surprise inspection, petty shopkeepers and food vendors however
Clean Ganges
Published on 1 Oct, 2010 at 14:35 in News | Viewed times | No Comments
The Central Government has identified three towns in Uttarakhand for the implementation of its urban sanitation plan. The project aims to prevent solid waste and sewage from being dumped into the river Ganga and facilitate civic sanitation in Rishikesh’s Munikireti area. Around 750 homes were surveyed as part of the implementation of the first and
