Dhyaan and Dhirendra in morning walk

Shivam with dad Dhirendra on 31-12-2009

Shivam with dhirendra on last day of 2009.

Happy New Year To All

Wishing you all

the joy this coming year.

Have a blessed and wonderful

New Year!

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Gujarati Traditional Art Work-1

Dhirendra at anjar with gujarati traditional work

Dhirendra on way to Anjar-kutch

Dhirendra going to anjar-kutch

Dhirendra with green nature

Dhirendra with green nature at manav parivar matar

Dhirendra @ free medical camp

Dhirendra doing volunteering @ free medical camp

Dhyaan Dhirendra Patel ridebike and falling down on 221209

Bravo Dhyaan

Dhyaan Dhirendra Patel on bike on December 22, 2009

Dhyaan Dhirendra Patel Falling from his bike on December 22, 2009.

Dhirendra with effect on 25/12/09

Dhirendra with all @ village

Traditional dress for Prithvi Gandhi

Good morning friends. Different countries has been tackling the climate change which was held in Copenhagen. India’s concerns on non-biding emission cuts met at the Summit.

India's concerns on non-binding emission cuts have been met at the Copenhagen summit though the climate deal does open a window for a new legal treaty that may kill Kyoto Protocol based on the principle of equity, a top government climate expert said on Monday.

Rejecting allegations that India has succumbed to US pressure at the meet, Rajni Ranjan Rashmi, Joint Director, Environment Ministry, maintained that the way talks were going, India was expecting nothing but equity. "And equity has been ensured by limiting temperature level to 2 degree Celsius which has been agreed by all the nations, both developing and developed," Rashmi, who was part of the Indian delegation at the 12-day meet said on Monday.

The official, while admitting that it was not a win-win situation for India since it was a global accord with positives and negatives in it, said "No binding commitments have been imposed upon the developing nations. This has been a major success for India as promised (by the government) in Parliament.

"Also, survival of Kyoto Protocol has been ensured despite persistent attempt by the European Union to junk its mandate of equity but differentiated responsibilities," he said on the outcome of the Summit.

The third major achievement for India was that it managed to avoid global emission cuts of 50 per cent by 2050 as demanded by the US and other developed nations.

"Hence, while the Summit set a commitment to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, it did not spell out the important global emission targets for 2020 or 2050 that are the key to holding down temperatures," he said. -Yahoo

Baby Jr. Dharmendu Patel

Little Patel Angel in his sleeping time. Welcome to the world ... Jr. dharmendu Patel. We all love you.

Jr.dharmendu

17th member of our family

Ram-Roti- free food for homeless people

D with volunteer, distributing free food to homeless people on 17-12-2009

Dhyaan at Manav Parivar, Matar

Dhyaan is sitting comfortably in that chair, while he was watching people cooking.

Kajal with Dhyaan on 14-12-09

Kajal Patel with younger son Dhyaan

Dhirendra @ weeding

Dhirendra @ weeding

Indian Cricket Wins

A Wining moment to Indian Cricket Team . . . .

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S!

Happy Sunday 2 All

Dhirendra wish a happy sunday 2 all.

AMC in dilemma over streetlight energy savers

Good morning friends. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is in dilemma over a streetlight energy savers. It’s good to know that the Municipal is doing all the best they can as many will benefit on it.

A debate has ensued in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on installation of energy savers for over 90,000 streetlights for the city. The choice is between a system that costs Rs 5 lakh and saves 32 per cent electricity and a system that costs Rs 2.75 lakh and saves 44 per cent electricity.

AMC today has to spend more than Rs 1.1 crore of taxpayers' money on electricity bills every month. AMC's standing committee recently awarded a paid pilot project contract to streetlight energy saver that costs Rs 5 lakh a piece and saves anywhere between 28-33 per cent electricity. Each energy saver can efficiently save almost 20 to 80 streetlights of 250 watts and more depending on kilovolt Ampere electricity load.

In March this year, Hyderabad-based Light Matrix Street Lights Private Limited, had installed their energy savers near Kankaria Lake between March 28 and April 14. AMC's streetlight department has certified energy savings of up to 44.21 per cent at a cost of Rs 2.75 lakh. But strangely another company was approached and given a paid pilot project for equipment worth Rs 5 lakh which saved anywhere between 28 per cent initially and scaled up to 32 per cent savings till recently.

The technology is called streetlight automation and energy savings system (SLAES) and has been installed at Victoria Garden, Kankaria Lake, Gomtipur, Satellite, Kuberpur and Meghaninagar. "We are analyzing proposals of both the companies and trying to evaluate the best option. This is a preliminary stage. We will finalize the projects after the Kankaria festival," says a senior assistant city engineer AC Shah.

"The present system installed works on GSM technology and generates SMS reports about the condition of streetlights for mobile phones thus informing engineers about any technical fault. While Light Matrix has a GPRS-based technology of reporting via e-mails and SMSes when computer servers fail," said a senior engineer with the street lights department of AMC.

SLAES equipment generally reduces voltages of streetlights during off-peak hours and maintains required light intensity levels. The electricity load is maintained at threshold levels' which helps increase life of the cables and streetlights and bring down maintenance costs. Each energy saver device is manufactured according to the number of streetlights that need to be monitored. Each system can monitor anywhere between 40 and 90 and above streetlights at a single go. -The times of India