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Campaign Clean India: A holistic approach to cleaning

If the enthusiasm and commitment of the Minister of Tourism, Subodh Kant Sahai to make select tourism destinations in India clean & hygienic bears fruit, 2012 will definitely be the “Year of India” as envisaged by him. In an exclusive interview with Clean India Journal’s Jayaraman Nair and Mangala Chandran, the Minister explains how focusing on the upkeep of tourist destinations and the approach to those at the grassroots level would be the prime objective of Campaign Clean India. The Campaign to be launched in April this year will aim to double the number of inbound tourists to India from the present five million to 10 million by the end of 2016, which would be one per cent of all global travellers visiting India. He is also open to suggestions and road maps from Clean India Journal.

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Bhart Forge Ltd, Pune: Increasing productivity with Cleaner Workshops

One of the oldest known metalwork manufacturing processes where metal is pressed, pounded or squeezed under great pressure and heated into high strength parts is forgings. The domestic automotive sector and outsourcing have been the key drivers of growth for the forging industry in India with consistent increase in production, capacity utilization and exports. With the booming auto component industry with forging exports projected to touch US$5 billion (which is about 15% of the auto component exports) by 2015, the demand for forgings is expected to be at least 16% per annum. The forging industry is largely growing around automotive industry which is mainly concentrated in West as well as South India. But how are forging manufacturers maintaining the production premises? What is the cleaning technology being adopted? What are their specific cleaning requirements? Mohana M finds out…

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Outsourcing = Flexibility, Agility & Expertise

The decision to outsource a function by an organisation entails a multitude of considerations. Organisations decide to outsource for a variety of reasons, such as reducing costs, reducing internal resources committed to monitoring or operating non-core activities and gaining special expertise…

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Safety measures for High rise façade cleaning

With the rise in mega cities and tall structures, façade cleaning is getting more difficult and challenging. With no formal governing bodies there is an urgent need to have rules and regulations for high rise façade cleaning. Suhag Khemlani, Deputy Managing Director, Technoclean (India) Pvt. Ltd, takes us through some safety measures for high rise façade cleaning

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