Swachayata Abhiyan Program was orgainsed on the occassion of National Service Scheme Day. Being a part of it was a great privilage to clean the college playground and its premises. We all Nss members took oath to work for the cleanliness of our surroundings and to work for 100 hours per year to make our nation "CLEAN".
Making our nation clean would lead us to attract the tourism as well as we all would eliminate the infectious disease from our surroundings which would help us to overcome the health problems too.
So I request you all to keep our surroundings clean and motivate others to maintain cleanliness.
Seminor On Geotechnical Engineering Applications and Opportunities.
session 1: Application of Geotechical Enginnering in Konkan Railways.
Speaker : Dr Ketan Gokhale the Ex Managing Director of Konkan Railway, Currently Director of Dimple International Pvt.Ltd Pune.
- In this session the speaker addressed us with different types of geotechnical aspects of konkan railway project. He told us about the different Innovations in railways as per time like Re-sloping, Grading, Catch-water Drains.Some methods of avoiding soil eroision like plantation, Toe walls implementation etc which further helps in avoiding landslides of rocks on railway tracks. He also shared his experience of working in Kashmir Railways and showed us the Arch railway Bridge of span 359m high from ground level through Ppt.
Speaker: Annapoorni Iyer, Assistant General Manager Maccaferri Enviormental Solutions Pvt Ltd India.
-In these session speaker asdressed us on the Basal Reinforcement techqunies. She told us about the different techniques of hardning the soft soil. She thought us the preparation of basal reinforcement by geosynthesis materials. She also shared the standard IRC 113 code. She shared the case study and making of Sikkim airport through her ppt's.
Session 3: Rock fall Protection
Speaker: Tiru Kulakarni, President Gaware Wall Ropes Pvt Ltd
--In this session speaker addressed us with different landslide protection techniques. He shared the working process of site reconnaissance in which the Block size, Interface friction,Slope conditions, weak rock mass identification etc.
It was a great learning experience to get detail application knowledge about Geotechnical Engineering.
Today we have become a nation completely in love with the word "SMART". we want smart phones and smart cities with glitz and glamour of skyscrapers and shiny offices.
But what about smart villages?
To have proper balance growth of the country there is need to develop smart villages
Why do we need smart villages?
we need smart village since it helps us to avoid the today's major problem of attraction of crowd to cities.If we just go on with the smart city concept then in future there will be again the need of replanning of cities due to increase in population of smart cities from rural sectors.
Smart villlage concept:
1)To make smart village proper planning and study of particaular village shall be done.
2) To have proper implementation of Goverment programes which are benifical for farmers.
3) To have educational institutions in village
4) To have internet facilities in village to have proper communication.
5) Industries should be attracted to villages
6) There should be avability of water and electricity facilites in village.
7) New technologies should be brought in villages.
8) Proper Roads should be there for better transport in villages.
9) Avability of resources.
By implemnting these steps there will be equal growth of villages which can lead to proper and balance development of country. If we concentrate more on smart villages then automatically smart cities can be developed.
STRUCTURE RELOCATION' is the new innovative technique in civil engineering feild. This technique will play a very important roll in the 'INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT' of any country in upcoming years.This technique will help us to implement proper TOWN PLANNING of a city as well as help us to Preserve our HISTORICAL STRUCTURES.This has meant that in past years, buildings have been needlessly lost, including buildings of heritage significance. Structural moving can be extremely cost effective, with the cost to move an average full brick house generally significantly less than new construction. Structural moving can also be significantly cheaper than dismantling and reconstruction of a structure.'
WHAT IS STRUCTURE RELOCATION ?
Structure Relocation is a process of moving a structure from one place to another without any destruction to its originality. This process is mainly applied for urban regeneration, to preserve historical monuments, to secure structures from flood prone areas.
WHAT ARE REASONS FOR RELOCATING A STRUCTURE?
There are several reasons for relocating a structure like
1] Relocation of structure from Flood-Prone areas
2] Relocation of structure for Commercial reasons
3] Relocation of Historical Structures for their Preservation.
WHAT ARE DIFFERENT METHODS TO RELOCATE A STRUCTURE?
There are two methods of relocating a structure
1] De-assembling and Re-assembling move.
2] Transporting the whole structure move.
This process is very useful in this era as many of the important structures like historical structures, important government buildings, houses which lie in flood-prone zones can be relocated than demolishing it and rebuilding it. Also many of the urban- regeneration projects can be successfully implemented.
Structure relocation is the key for the many problems. For Example TAJ MAHAL india’s one of the most popular and important historical structure which is getting affected due air pollution caused by surrounding factories can overcome this problem by applying the relocation process.
The following Video shows how Jacks are used for raising the structure
