At Last New Town is announced as smart city.

জানুয়ারিতে ফেল। মে মাসে পাশ।

অবশেষে ‘স্মার্ট সিটি’ হলো নিউ টাউন। মঙ্গলবার কেন্দ্রীয় নগরোন্নয়ন মন্ত্রী এম বেঙ্কাইয়া নায়ডু স্মার্ট সিটি মিশন প্রকল্পে আরও ১৩টি শহরের নাম ঘোষণা করেন। তার মধ্যে নাম রয়েছে এ রাজ্যের নিউ টাউনের।

স্মার্ট সিটি মিশন প্রকল্পে প্রাথমিক বাছাই করা মোট ৯৮টি শহরের মধ্যে চলতি বছরের জানুয়ারি মাসে প্রথম ধাপে সুযোগ পেয়েছিল ২০টি শহর। এ রাজ্য থেকে প্রতিযোগী কোনও শহরই ২০-র তালিকায় ঢুকতে পারেনি। তা নিয়ে ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করেছিলেন বিদায়ী পুর ও নগরোন্নয়ন মন্ত্রী ফিরহাদ হাকিম। কেন্দ্রীয় নগরোন্নয়ন মন্ত্রী অবশ্য সে সময়ে জানিয়েছিলেন যে, পরবর্তী ধাপে নিশ্চিত ভাবেই এ রাজ্য এই প্রকল্পের সুযোগ পাবে। নিউ টাউন কলকাতা ডেভেলপমেন্ট অথরিটি (এনকেডিএ)-র চেয়ারম্যান দেবাশিস সেন এ দিন জানান, শুক্রবার থেকে ডিপিআর তৈরির কাজ শুরু করছেন তাঁরা। এনকেডিএ সূত্রে জানা গিয়েছে, আগের ধাপে স্মার্ট সিটি বাছাইয়ের মাপকাঠির ক্ষেত্রে রাজ্যের তরফে শুধু তত্ত্ব এবং প্রযুক্তির উপরেই জোর দেওয়া হয়েছিল। বাকি শহরগুলি সেই সময়ে প্রয়োগের দিকটাতেই বেশি গুরুত্ব দেয়। এই ধাপে ভুল শুধরে নিয়ে তত্ত্ব ও প্রযুক্তির প্রয়োগে নাগরিকেরা কী ভাবে উপকৃত হবেন, তা-ও বলে  দেওয়া হয়েছে।

এ দিন কেন্দ্রীয় নগরোন্নয়ন মন্ত্রী জানান, ফাস্ট ট্র্যাক প্রতিযোগিতায় এই ধাপে সুযোগ পেয়েছে ১৩টি শহর। সেগুলি হলো— লখনউ, ওয়ারাঙ্গল, সিমলা, চণ্ডীগড়, রায়পুর, নিউ টাউন, ভাগলপুর, পানাজি, পোর্ট ব্লেয়ার, ইম্ফল, রাঁচি, আগরতলা এবং ফরিদাবাদ। প্রকল্পের প্রথম ধাপে সুযোগ না পাওয়ার পরে উন্নয়নের পরিকল্পনার দুর্বলতাগুলি শুধরে নিয়ে প্রতিটি শহরই গুণগত মানের ক্ষেত্রে ২৫ শতাংশেরও বেশি উন্নতি করেছে। উন্নয়নের নিরিখে প্রথম স্থানে রয়েছে লখনউ।

তবে এই প্রকল্পে এখনও বিধাননগর পুর-নিগম সুযোগ না পাওয়ায় হতাশ প্রশাসনের একাংশ। আগের বার প্রথম ২০-তে সুযোগ না পাওয়ায় কারণ হিসেবে প্রশাসনিক ব্যর্থতার দিকে ইঙ্গিত করেছিলেন স্বয়ং মেয়র সব্যসাচী দত্ত। এ দিন অবশ্য তিনি বলেন, ‘‘নিউ টাউন সুযোগ পেয়েছে। এটা অত্যন্ত আনন্দের। পরবর্তী ধাপে আশা করি বিধাননগরও সুযোগ পাবে।’’ এ বারের ফাস্ট ট্র্যাক প্রতিযোগিতার বাছাইয়ে বিধাননগরের ঠাঁই হয়নি। জায়গা পায়নি এ রাজ্যের প্রতিযোগী শহর হলদিয়া এবং দুর্গাপুর-আসানসোলও। এনকেডিএ-র চেয়ারম্যান তথা রাজ্যের নগরোন্নয় দফতরের প্রধান সচিব দেবাশিস সেন জানান, তিনটি শহরের পরিকল্পনার গুণগত মান বাড়ানোর দিকেই নজর দেওয়া হচ্ছে।

5 Habits That Made Elon Musk an Innovator.....

There are only 24 hours in every day, and you can’t squeeze out an extra second. Yet some people manage to be so productive and innovative they become billionaires at an age when most of us are still struggling to make ends meet. Even among billionaires, some stand out more than others, capturing the hearts of admirers everywhere.

Elon Musk is arguably one of the most well-liked and respected billionaires today. With Tesla’s recent Model 3 announcement, he continues to stay relevant. Let’s take a look at how Musk has stayed one step ahead of a very elite pack. What habits set him apart from his peers?

1. He reads the way most people watch TV.

Like Buffett, who claims to read around 500 pages a day, Musk is the definition of a bookworm. When he was in grade school, he was reading ten hours a day, devouring everything in his library and the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, and completed a six-month BASIC course in just three days.

Here’s a list of some of his favorite books, just in case you’re interested.

Related: How Reading Books Reduces Stress and Makes You Smarter at the Same Time

 

2. He doggedly pursues his own interests.

If his healthy reading habits weren’t already a giveaway, Musk is a true believer in self-guided learning. At the age of 12, he used his BASIC skills to program Blastar, a self-made video game which he sold to PC and Office Technology for $500. Musk also doubled majored in physics and economics, then interned for both ultracapacitor research and video game companies.

Today, he’s worth $14.5 billion and runs businesses that seem to have nothing to do with one another. Except they all do, of course -- Musk is genuinely interested in them. It’s no surprise that he’s the main inspiration behind Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man character.

3. He is tirelessly, unflaggingly optimistic.

While the first two traits are true for most successful businesspeople, Musk also has an ace up his sleeve -- he has a strong glass-half-full mentality. His Forbes profile sums this up best by describing two of his companies as “moonshot tech companies.” Except Musk doesn’t think of them as moonshots at all.

The secret to his innovation lies in his enthusiasm. This is a guy who grew up with an emotionally abusive father and was once bullied and beat up so bad that he needed to go to the hospital. “If you wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”

Related: Entrepreneurs: Your Irrational Optimism Is Necessary

Musk genuinely believes that what he’s doing is good for the world, and that it’s making a positive difference. In fact, he believes so much in SpaceX that there are two giant posters in his office: before and after scenarios of what Mars will look like once he’s colonized the planet. “I want to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

4. Yet he still believes failure is an option.

Countless people -- some of them very qualified experts -- told Musk his ideas were ridiculous and bound to fail. Yet Musk managed to ignore them all and do things the way he wanted.

Granted, some of his ideas never quite took off. But many more succeeded and are dazzling investors and consumers alike. “Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough.” Or, put another way, “There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

Related: Despite the Risks, Entrepreneurship Will Always Beat a 9-to-5 Job

5. And he really, really knows how to party.

Businessweek writer Ashlee Vance wrote a book about Musk titled Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and The Quest for a Fantastic Future that revealed some interesting insights into Elon’s private life -- especially how much of a party animal he is.

Here are some of the more fascinating factoids:

• He paid for college in Ontario by turning his frat house into a well-run nightclub.
• On his 30th birthday celebration, he rented out an English castle for a party of 20 and played hide-and-seek games until 6 am.
• He once threw a costume party in Venice (of course) and came dressed as a knight. Then he dueled a mini Darth Vader with a parasol.

Parties aside, Musk also just knows how to have a really good time in general:

• After selling his first video game, he started a video game arcade in South Africa as a teenager.
• He totaled an uninsured McLaren F1 doing tricks on Sand Hill Road en route to an investor meeting, and ended up hitching a ride instead. The sports car was worth $1 million.
• He’s going to build a roller coaster around the SpaceX HQ, just because.

You don’t have to have a PhD to be a pioneer.

Before he sold PayPal and became the multi-billionaire innovator we all admire, Musk decided to give graduate school a shot. He enrolled in a Stanford PhD program -- and dropped out after just two days. That’s all it took for him to realize that there probably wasn’t too much he could learn from the class that he couldn’t learn on his own.

Most of us, if we were fortunate and talented enough to be accepted by a PhD program at Stanford, probably would have attended. Musk didn’t because he already had all the skills he needed to be successful. He was laser-focused on his interests, intensely curious, unflaggingly optimistic, and unafraid to fail.

Construction updates of our Kestopur project named Uttoron.

Some recent pictures of 4th floor casting of our project Uttoron, which is located off VIP Road, Jagatpur.

Possession: December 2016

Birthday Celebrations of Red Ant Realty !!!!!!!

Metal foam handles heat better than steel, A study finds out.

A new study from North Carolina State University researchers finds that novel light-weight composite metal foams (CMFs) are significantly more effective at insulating against high heat than the conventional base metals and alloys that they're made of, such as steel. The finding means the CMF is especially promising for use in storing and transporting nuclear material, hazardous materials, explosives and other heat-sensitive materials, as well as for space exploration.

"The presence of air pockets inside CMF make it so effective at blocking heat, mainly because heat travels more slowly through air than through metal," says Afsaneh Rabiei, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work. The composite metal foam consists of metallic hollow spheres - made of materials such as carbon steel, stainless steel or titanium - embedded in a metallic matrix made of steel, aluminum or metallic alloys.

"We have developed two technologies for manufacturing CMFs," Rabiei says. "One is based on casting a low melting point matrix material, such as aluminum, around hollow spheres made of a material with a higher melting point, such as steel. This creates aluminum-steel CMFs, for example. The other technique is based on sintering, or baking, the matrix powder around prefabricated hollow spheres. This creates CMFs such as steel-steel, which consist of steel hollow spheres in a steel matrix."

In one test, researchers exposed samples of 2.5 inch by 2.5 inch steel-steel CMF that were 0.75 inches thick to a fire with an average flame temperature of 800 degrees Celsius for a period of 30 minutes on one side, and monitored the material to see how long it would take for the heat to reach the opposite side of the sample. For a piece of bulk stainless steel with the same dimensions as the CMF sample, it took only four minutes to reach 800 degrees Celsius through the entire thickness of the sample. But it took eight minutes for the steel-steel CMF to reach the same temperature.

"We already knew the CMFs are light-weight materials with outstanding high-velocity impact resistance, and effective radiation shielding, now we know that it can withstand high heat," Rabiei says. "This difference in thermal conductivity means that the use of composite metal foams could help avoid circumstances where accidents can lead to explosions."

The researchers also found that the composite metal foam made entirely of stainless steel expands 80 percent less than bulk stainless steel at 200 degrees Celsius - and the differential increases at higher temperatures. Another noteworthy advantage is that the composite metal foam expands at a fairly constant rate when exposed to high heat - whereas conventional bulk metals and alloys such as stainless steel expand more rapidly as temperature increases.

"Our findings suggest that CMF can offer extremely good thermal insulation, superior thermal stability, and excellent flame retardant performances as compared to commercially available materials such as stainless steel," Rabiei says.

The paper, "Experimental and computational studies on the thermal behavior and fire retardant properties of composite metal foams," is published in the International Journal of Thermal Sciences.

Credit: www.phys.org

Rajarhat is going to get a renouned hospital.

New Town is growing up as an Eco City.