Thiruvananthapuram, on October 1. A study on stress in mid-level executives from 96 companies in India and Kenya showed that tensions in the workplace might also a cascade of negative impact on gross national product (GNP).

Mukunda V. Professor, Faculty of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM K), led by the study was conducted, said that stress Business Line offers negative effects on health, with consequences harmful to individual productivity.

Research at the USA revealed that the opportunity cost of stress because of the offer amounts to no less than 10 per cent of gross national product of the country. Other studies, under the direction of medical experts have shown that 50 to 70 per cent of all forms of physical illness directly attributable to an increase in the burden.

Indeed, if the teacher is a pointer to the nature and intensity of pressure at work because of competition from increasingly in a global economy.

The study, in which a Kenyan scholar, M. Charles M. Zakayo, also participated, found that the causes of the significant jobs in the Indian and Kenyan Manager at the frequent failure final decisions and strategies, poor career growth, mismanagement of time, removes anger and frustration at the workplace hostile and the trade union movement.

While the average in the two nurseries in India and Kenya has suffered from high stress at work, there were differences in the relative stress.

A greater proportion of medium-level leaders of India lived stress compared to those in Kenya.

The study focused on 95 companies from both countries and had 480 managers at the central level, as respondents.

Its main objectives was important causes of stress at work, a relative measure of stress, and to discover if Manager, stress management techniques practiced muted at best manage the situation of these steps.

According to the professor, activities of each agency are all interrelated and lack of mutual understanding between staff would have the effect that stress for all, regardless of the hierarchy.

But a high level of flexibility in their policies and regulations tend their managers at the central level a certain degree of freedom for the tasks assigned to them.

The study suggested that more organizations in India and Kenya are conducting programs to reduce stress jobs not only for their executives at the central level but also all other employees.

Two factors will implement the different environments in both countries. They are (1) The sexual harassment in the workplace is much higher in Kenya, and (ii) trade unions were hostile India curse.

Effective time for planning and management can help reduce stress, “said Prof..

The study found that managers had a clear plan for the use of their time, before the real work begins, and as much as possible, glued to plan their time, had less stress than the others.

The bridges have been removed, for the gradual establishment of a system of electronic governance to the decentralization of tasks Corporation Thiruvananthapuram and citizens to improve the structures to provide services through a network of computers zonal centres liaison with the plant.

The first phase of the project, included in the road map is expected that his work since early August. An amount of Rs.1.5 crores for the programme. The tenders were issued for the provision of computers and servers. Information Kerala Mission, the software offers care, has already applied packages for the various functions and projects Kudambasree work overtime for data entry.

The first phase of the project involves the computerization of health services and revenues. The issue of birth and death would be the first request, except to take the system. Urban planning, engineering and information technology sections are generally later.

The counter tax collection system friends citizens-Service Center is replicated in the Corporation.

Moves on transforming the lobby of the headquarters at Palayam in an installation of modern computers and enough seats for visitors. The Front-Office, first with four computers equipped with 30 employees. The number of counters on 12 will be gradually increased.

The computer training in the direction of the Corporation is already computer knowledge base to more than 250 employees in different departments. A nucleus of the team selection of personnel for the modular training to prepare the new system.

The Mayor, J. Chandra, said e-governance system, in order to strengthen activities under the road map in the 81 stations. She said, the problem of staff shortages in the zonal offices could redistribution of employees of IT services after talks with unions.

When entering data for land tax was seen as part of updating the registers DCB, it is necessary to adapt the software applications. Back records for business taxes are also a war.

The company has leased 30 computers for work and data entry of additional layers to work for the job. The office Kadakampally zonal data sheet most discs at work is progressing in the rest of the area.

The computer system will put an end to project monitoring, planning, management retreats and social systems, revenue, finance and accounting systems, public administration works, handling and the establishment Question community information systems.

The functions, including tax collection, compilation, workflow, accounts, construction and decision support. The mission IKM in the working group has a workflow engine for file management and monitoring. Another package for the registration and certification and management of pension and social systems is complete.

Companies with a digital collection of laws and other relevant documents on local institutions, including constitutional provisions, laws, regulations, commissioned by the government, circulars, guidelines, communications, decisions of courts, application forms manuals of procedures for office and general information.

As part of its efforts to bridge the digital divide, TeX Users Group (TUG) has decided to tackle the geographical divide. For the first time, the annual meeting of the TUG is to be held at a venue outside Europe or North America. The 23rd annual conference of this free software users association will be held in Thiruvananthapuram Technopark this week, Mr Dominik Wujastyk, Director, Welcom Centre of Medicine, University College, London told a press conference, here. Mr Wujastyk, a Sanskrit scholar and a member of the programme committee of TUG-2000 said the three-day meet starting September 4 will be chaired by Mr Sebastian Rahtz, Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services. The conference will have 32 delegates from Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. There will be 32 Indian delegates too. In India, TeX is widely used in institutions like the IITs, the Indian Institute of Science, Saha Institute of Theoretical Physics, and the Indian Statistical Institute. In Thiruvananthapuram, the Centre for Mathematical Sciences has long used TeX, as has Focal Image Pvt Ltd, an Indo-UK joint venture that has been using TeX for over a decade to run a profitable text processing venture. Mr Satheesh Babu, chairperson of the TUG-2002 organising committee said the meet would give a fillip to the wider utilisation of TeX in India. The organisers of the meet in India are Indian TeX Users Group, department of IT of the Kerala government and Thiruvananthapuram Technopark. The conference will be preceded by three days of tutorials, said Dr Srivatsan, Director, IIITM-K (Indian Insitute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala). Around 22 Indians have registered for the tutorials. Apart from the more specialized talks devoted to technical aspects of TeX, TUG 2002 will feature talks on typesetting traditions in India, an overview of TeX usage in India, an Indian perspective of new horizons in free software, fonts and packages to typeset Bengali script using TeX, and typesetting in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian. TeX (derived from the Greek letters “tau”, “epsilon” and “chi” and pronounced “tech”, also alludes to “techne”, the Greek root meaning art as well as technology) is a computer program written and designed by famed computer scientist Donald Ervin Knuth of Stanford University for preparing publishable documents, especially those of a technical or mathematical nature. TUG, the TeX Users Group, is an international association of individual and institutional members who promote TeX, and discuss issues and problems related to TeX, principally through TUGboat, the quarterly publication of TUG.

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 27 The cross also born E-networks (TENs), the first product of the incubation programme of the company in the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), has announced its intention to implementation of an employee of participation (ESOP) Programme.

Ten offers products and solutions for e-learning, digital library of knowledge and information portal enables enterprises to the economy, industry, research and development organizations and academic institutions.

Speaking to-Business Line, M. Manjul Sahay, Chief Technology Officer, ten, said that the company has established consultants Deloitte, Haskins and sells the program structure would ESOP programme.The Roll-out within one month for the first When a technology park - undertakings proposed to carry out a concrete plan ESOP.

Mr. Sahay this at the launch of formal operations of the company Techno Park.

Inkubiert and developed in the IIITM-K as the first product of industry and academia, ten was officially supported by the U.S. Technology Group owns the company as the USA and software Toonz Animation of India, the two modes of operation of Techno Park.

At the opening ceremony, Mr. KPP Nambiar, president IIITM-K, said that India was back in an official form between industry and universities to participate in new ideas, drawing on them and through the, where they enjoy.

Dr. K.R. Srivathsan, Director, IIITM-K, said that ten was brought to the activity of constraints dictated that the country could not hope to survive on software services for the continued relevance in a competitive market.

“Requirements of the value chain are now asking that the country immediately places emphasis on leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The challenge is to facilitate IT and India.”

According to Mr. G.A. Menon, president of the U.S. Technology Group, U.S. companies spent $ 8 million for marketing various products group companies.

Ten-products in their repertoire, he said and added that these products have already attracted great interest from some Fortune 500 companies.

“They are 10-20 times less expensive than competing products to the USA, and provide consistent quality and lowest possible cost, large customers.”

Pramati, IIMS between partners: Specializes in e-learning, knowledge management and Enterprise Information Portal Solutions, ten announced a series of partnerships with key industry players.

The company is a partnership with the Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies offers its solutions on Pramati Application Server. Pramati is an End-End-to-business provider of Java platform.

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) with the help of e-learning platform Acado ten, of course, for the creation, deployment and management of the classroom complement learning.

THE Kerala Government proposes to start a pilot tele-medicine project in the State as part of its efforts to utilise the immense possibilities of information technology in healthcare and education areas.

Replying to a calling attention motion in the State Assembly on Wednesday, the Health Minister, Mr P. Sankaran, said that the project would be a collective venture of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, Sri Chitra Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Regional Cancer Centre and Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IIITM-K).

The Government would shortly submit a proposal in this regard to the Centre, the Minister said.

Under the project, the Medical College will function as a tele referral centre and a few public health centres in the district as remote tele consultation centres.

The project is expected to cost Rs 58 lakh.

The Minister said that the tele-medicine practice had already been implemented in States such as Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and at Apollo Hospitals.

It is expected to be successfully introduced in Kerala considering its size and the progress it has achieved in the area of healthcare.

As a first step towards realising the goal, the healthcare and education areas need to be modernised by extensive application of information technology.

For this purpose, the Health Services Directorate would be converted into a Planning and Monitoring Cell.

Besides, for creating the necessary infrastructure, the Government has earmarked Rs 40 lakh in the current year, the Minister said.

The Electricity Minister, Mr Kadavoor Sivadasan, said that the Kerala State Electricity Board would reduce the power tariff of fishermen using Chinese net from Rs 7.25 to Rs 2.75 per unit.

In reply to a submission, the Minister said that such fishermen would be brought under Category Four from the current Seven-A category.

Replying to a question, the Minister for Welfare of Backward and Scheduled Communities, said that a centre of excellence for encouraging SC/ST students for higher studies and research would be established at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

He added that preliminary work of the centre had started and admission of students would commence soon.

Of the Rs 5 crore earmarked for the centre, Rs 75 lakh had already been allocated, he informed the House.

THE Kerala government to invest in R 30 crore this year, to develop export promotion Kinfra Park in Kochi as a major centre for IT-enabled services (ITES).

At this announcement during its chairman, address, as the inaugural function of two years, Kerala 2002 show in the Technology Park, Chief Minister AK Antony, said that in the first phase, 100 hectares of land, except for the development of the Establishment.

The planning and construction with the highest international standards.

A special “Fast-Track mechanism will be established to ensure timely completion of the project.

“As the technology park to continue to remain flagship of our initiative, we propose to develop, Kochi ITES as the first goal. Kochi today adopted a communication of the most modern infrastructures in the country and the efforts underway for more complement and consolidate this advantage, “said Antony.

The government will shortly present a comprehensive training and ITES Human Resource Development Programme, in collaboration with key stakeholders in the private sector.

“We hope that the 50000 jobs in ICT sectors in the next four years. We are open to the economy,” said the Chief Minister.

Kerala IT-2002, in the wings of the State seek a frontline to target information technology investors.

The government has an intense drive in pursuing that goal, according to the Chief Minister.

As in the case of Techno Park, the second phase of enlargement is also setting up a technology and founder of the Centre for developing a new and sustainable campus Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala ( IIITM-K). The government is also considering the technical expertise of young professionals in the USA and other overseas destinations to create networks of remote monitoring to support start-up units here.

In his inaugural address, Karnataka Chief Minister, M. SM Krishna, was the chief guest, said he was proud of the provision, that the four southern states were the leaders of the revolution.

Together, they have the clock R 18000 crore in software exports during the last year - 50 percent of total revenue across the country.

It was true that Indian software engineers, the result would be much weaker dollar, the quality of work product remains one of the best in the world. This is justified by the percentage of Indian companies which have achieved certification CMM Level 5.

According to a study by McKinsey & Co., at least one million new jobs are created in Karnataka in the next 10 years.

One way, the state has been attracting 100 percent FDI in the sector every week during the last 104 days.

The ITES industry is ideal for making full use of potential graduates of Kerala.

The rate of employment generation potential in this sector over the next five years, it is expected that millions more than the mark, “said Krishna.

The Office of the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has a player for the creation of State Export-wise data which will help in the process of distribution of credits under the system of assistance to states for infrastructure and Export Development (ELIMINATION) Based on an individual export performance.

This was announced by Mr. L. Mansingh, DGFT in a one-day interactive session on “Eximbank as engines of growth” organized jointly by the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra), Trivandrum of the Chamber of Commerce and the National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM ).

Mr. Mansingh was seen as a response to a few points above that of Mr. Gopalkrishna Pillai, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, said that governments of countries is not yet able to take advantage of what are widely through initiatives such as promoting export processing zones (EPZ) And Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in spite of “sacrifice” their own interests on the altar of the central government amenities.

The development, Mr. Pillai said that States had land and other infrastructure of these mega-projects and has even announced various taxes and fees franchises.

States should, quite rightly, for their efforts was also central to benefit from currency and other trade products, these specific areas, he added.

In his response, Mr. Mansingh said that the system has been specially ELIMINATION say to ensure a greater role for states in export promotion as part of the country’s efforts for a cumulative amount of $ 82 billion in 2007.

India’s share of world trade implies that currently 0.67 percent to one percent in a respectable during this period.

To that end, exports are growing, paid to average annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.9 per cent.

At current growth rates of the year 2007 is eminently expects to achieve after the DGFT.

Under the scheme ELIMINATION, 80 percent of funds are sought, provided the related export of their individual performances.

State-wise export data is on the path of established for this purpose. In addition to the regulatory ELIMINATION has also tried to authorize the States by the transfer of decision-making power to state-level committees on export promotion (SLEPC), headed by its Secretary General.

Step by step, a situation would be achieved if the central role in efforts to promote exports would be on third States and to authorize, for the rest for you.

At the same time, the disk drive to automate permissions and share new accounts are presented with added emphasis, which is expected to reduce transaction costs.

In this context, Mr. Mansingh said that the Ministry of Commerce recently had the mandate of KPMG to study the whole band of issues in relation with the State perceived sense of neglect Rub-off effect of mega-projects like EPZs / SEZs.

The “victims” by the government and the effects on the local economy are also searched are carefully studied.

Competition between states is the best case out of the opening of the economy. A good infrastructure and a pleasant atmosphere are two factors that discourage investors, especially at a State.

The Government is launching a major drive for promotion of exports from Kerala, the Industries Minister, P. K. Kunhalikutty, said here on Monday.

The Minister told mediapersons that the Government was expecting an assistance of Rs. 100 crores from the Centre for setting up various infrastructure and other facilities for exports. An amount of Rs. 16.5 crores had already been released for works to be undertaken this year.

Mr. Kunhalikutty recalled that the new exim policy had stressed the importance of participation of State Governments in export promotion efforts. Accordingly, the Government was taking a number of steps realising the importance of exports in a globalised economy. Through these measures, the Government expected to increase the value of annual exports from Kerala to Rs. 10,000 crores in two years.

In Kollam, the Government proposed to upgrade the laboratory for testing of cashew and other food products at a cost of Rs. 6 crores. Rs. 1 crore had been allocated under the Central-assisted scheme for this. Rs. 10 lakhs has been earmarked for setting up a modern weighbridge at Cochin port.

A modern laboratory for testing marine products would be set up in Kochi at a cost of Rs. 350 lakhs. This would be established under the supervision of the Sea Food Exporters Association of India with guidance from European Union and United States Food and Drugs Administration.

The Minister said that Rs. 6.10 crores had been earmarked for a major project of the Marine Export Promotion Development Agency (MPEDA) costing Rs. 14.20 crores. The project proposes establishment of about 30 pre-processing centres, upgradation of the MPEDA laboratory in Kochi and development of fishing harbours in Kochi and Munambam.

Besides, Rs. 1.95 crores had been sanctioned to the State Industrial Enterprises for development of export bay at the Air Cargo Complex in Thiruvananthapuram airport. Rs. 3.62 crores would be spent for water supply schemes of the Kinfra Techno industrial park at Kakkancheri in Malappuram district. The Government also had plans to set up an Indian Institute of Export Management at Kalamassery.

Mr. Kunhalikutty said the special export promotion zone coming up on the land given by the Kochi Port Trust would bring about major advances on the export front. A blue print was being prepared for increasing export of food products from Kerala. A masterplan for industrial development of the State would be presented at the Global Investors Meet in Kochi on January 18.

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) and the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, jointly organized a workshop on the theme “Information systems and knowledge management services for the health system “, the Centre Achutha Menon, SCTIMST, on December 7-8.

According to the coordinators of course, Dr K. Srivathsan of IIITM-K and Dr. SK SCTIMST of Jawahar, over 100 delegates expected that participation in the workshop.

They include doctors, health administrators, medical and paramedical students, super-specialists in various fields, Faculty of Medicine and Informatics of health personnel related to the industry and information systems .

The workshop aims to establish an overview of specialized fields such as application systems health information and services, information systems and medical information on the Internet, a doctor at the perspective of information technology in the field of health, tele-medicine, medical care and hospital records - information systems.

The procedure will strive for participants to just put the land in the modern and efficient organization of existing aspects and use of new information systems and services regarding various aspects of public health The coordinators added.

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) and the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, jointly organized a workshop on the theme “Information systems and knowledge management services for the health system “, the Centre Achutha Menon, SCTIMST, on December 7-8.

According to the coordinators of course, Dr K. Srivathsan of IIITM-K and Dr. SK SCTIMST of Jawahar, over 100 delegates expected that participation in the workshop.

They include doctors, health administrators, medical and paramedical students, super-specialists in various fields, Faculty of Medicine and Informatics of health personnel related to the industry and information systems .

The workshop aims to establish an overview of specialized fields such as application systems health information and services, information systems and medical information on the Internet, a doctor at the perspective of information technology in the field of health, tele-medicine, medical care and hospital records - information systems.

The procedure will strive for participants to just put the land in the modern and efficient organization of existing aspects and use of new information systems and services regarding various aspects of public health The coordinators added.