Today, companies that offer facility services are numerous and varied, but not all of them are professionally managed. Prashant Sule, Managing Director of Pest Control India Environmental Services (PCIES) stresses that it is critical for clients to understand all about outsourcing services, contracting terms and their implementation.
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.
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…
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…
Suresh Kumar Sundarani, the Municipal Commissioner of Durg in Chhattisgarh, has not only succeeded in disposing off garbage of the city but also found novel ways of generating revenue for the municipal body by converting the garbage into organic manure.
The recent study on the growth of some of the major industries down South has created a buzz on the increasing cleaning opportunities. Especially with the textile industry registering 1.5 times more growth over the decade in Coimbatore and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu compared to Surat and Ahmedabad in Gujarat, the cleaning market is shifting focus to South India.
Benchmarking is a form of measurement – where you measure against something else to see where you are lagging, identify the areas and take corrective action. Now the question arises: Why should you benchmark? Measuring results is the best way to improve what you are doing. This is the core of almost all quality management systems. Service providers can benefit most by benchmarking. Michel Theriault, Principal of Strategic Advisor talks about what benchmarking is all about.
Only in the recent past has Facility Management been recognised as a core function in an organisation which can have a bearing on the bottom line. Apart from bringing down costs, good FM practices help make work place safe, comfortable and productivity-focused, says Aravind R Babu, Corporate Admin & Facilities, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, Hyderabad
Established in 2004, during the real estate and tourism boom in the UAE, Grako LLC specialises in cleaning at heights. Over the years, the company has established itself as one…
UDDT, a programme of Ecosan Promotion Project or EPP, is an alternative sanitation solution which not only provides better sanitation facility but also creates awareness among schoolchildren in Kenya. A report…