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Thursday, November 10, 2011

IRCTC Services - Book tickets Online or Call now to 138

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)

Railway inquiry number (139), which offers basic service like PNR details, will continue. Initially, the service will be available in English and Hindi, and will be gradually extended to all regional languages. It handles more than 8 lakh calls per day.

The new number (138) is likely to reduce the load off the existing rail enquiry number (139). Rail passengers can have access to host of travel information - availability of accommodation, tatkal booking, train number and its name running between two destinations, concessions and cancellation rules - thanks to this premium service. Passengers can book the tickets through the IRCTC cash cards bought from IRCTC counters.

Calls on the new number, which aims to provide faster services to the passengers, can be made from all telecom operators

IRCTC is moving towards a multiple-number inquiry system that will ensure easy accessibility for passengers. It will ease passengers' woos during festive seasons and holidays when there is heavy traffic. It will also ensure hassle-free service when rail services and operations get disrupted like dense fog during winter that leads to congestion in the system.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Access Indian Government services online

Got some useful information through group email so thought of sharing the content here.

For reference purposes, bookmark this post so that you can refer to it as and when required

* Search More - How do I <http://www.india. gov.in/howdo/ advancedsearch. php>

* Uttar Pradesh: https://fcs.up.gov.in/FoodPortal.aspx

Friday, August 26, 2011

Online Search for Birth or Marriage Registrations

Search Birth Records

Hyderabad Area: http://www.ghmc.gov.in/births/birthsearch.asp
Vijayawada Area : http://www.ourvmc.org/ph/bdet.asp
Guntur Area: http://www.gunturcorporation.org/BirthsandDeaths/bdsearch.asp
Guntur Area (Reg No): http://210.212.227.100/gmc/rbd/bdregrecord.php?type=1
Rajahmundry Aread: http://bd.rajahmundrycorporation.org/BirthSearch.aspx
Rajahmundry Area (RegNo): http://bd.rajahmundrycorporation.org/SearchByRegNo.aspx
Kerala Area: http://cr.lsgkerala.gov.in/Pages/SevanaBirthRegistration.php

Request for Birth Certificate:
Hyderabad Area: http://www.esevaonline.com/htmlpages/ghmc/ghmcbirthdeathreq.html

Marriage Certificate Records:
Kerala Area: http://cr.lsgkerala.gov.in/Pages/SevanaCmnRegistration.php

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It

How to check the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) Balance Online:
Kerala : http://epfmalabar.nic.in/balance.html

Search Advocates based on Bar Association:
http://www.barcouncilap.org/searchSwfByBar.aspx

Deaths Records:

Hyderabad Area: http://www.ghmc.gov.in/deaths/deathssearch.asp
Vijayawada Area: http://www.ourvmc.org/ph/ddet.asp
Guntur Area: http://210.212.227.100/gmc/rbd/deathrecreport.php?type=ind
Gunture Area (Reg No): http://210.212.227.100/gmc/rbd/bdregrecord.php?type=2
Rajahmundry Area: http://bd.rajahmundrycorporation.org/DeathSearch.aspx
Kerala Area: http://cr.lsgkerala.gov.in/Pages/SevanaDeathRegistration.php

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

How to pay electricity bill online

Several times I have searched myself for the options to pay utility bills online. Especially Electricity/Power Bill. Electricity Bill is something everyone has to pay as it is one of the basic needs now, without which we cannot have our day to day life.

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Required Information

Inorder to pay the electricity bill online, you need the following

1. Register and create a profile with username and password (keep these details safely you need this every time you pay your bill)

2. Service Number

3. Circle/Billing Unit/Division (for e.g. For Chennai city, there are multiple circles - Chennai South, Chennai North etc)

4. Credit Card/Net Banking Details while paying the bill (required each time in some cases)

Important: Please note that when you provide Service number and circle information some of the details like registered person name and address should be pre-populated to make sure whether you got the right service number and site correctly. Also remember to take the screenshot of the bill receipt at the end of the payment so that you can have a proof of your online payment.

Here are some of the sites which allows users to pay your electricity bill online.

Chennai and TamilNadu

https://www.tnebnet.org/awp/login

Hyderabad and AndhraPradesh:

http://www.apcentralpower.com/

http://esevaonline.com

https://secure.aponline.gov.in/CitizenPortal/UserInterface/Citizen/LoginForm.aspx

Karnataka

Bangalore: Recenty BESCOM updated its online portal covering more division/sub-divisions

http://www.bescom.co.in/SCP/Myhome.aspx -

If the above link not covering your division/sub-division you can continue to use the below links.
http://www.bescom.org/

http://www.billdesk.com/Bescom.htm

www.bangaloreone.gov.in/ (for bangalore only)

Himachal Pradesh (Shimla only) : http://www.hpseb.com/mybill/

South Haryana (Bhiwani, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Narnaul, Sirsa)

http://202.56.120.172/elpsoftmis/WebPages/ConsumerInfoStart.aspx

North Haryana (Ambala, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat, Rothay, Jhajjar, Panchkula and Jind) : http://124.124.217.158/epay/

Jaipur, Rajasthan: http://www.jaipurdiscom.in/jccbill.htm

Chattisgarh: http://www.cseb.gov.in/billing/PayBillonline.htm

Noida: http://www.noidapower.com/login.asp

Ahmedabad, Gujarat: http://www.torrentpower.com/customers/customers_ahd_onliepay.php

Note: This links provides the procedure to enable the ECS through banks.

Madhya pradesh:

https://www.mponline.gov.in/Portal/Services/mpeb/citizen/billpay/Default.aspx?langid=en-US&Dist=BPL

Maharashtra:http://billing.mahadiscom.in/

Delhi: http://www.delhigovt.nic.in/bijli.asp

Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala: Can be payed through Akshya e-centers.counters

Punjab: http://www.pspcl.in/docs/online_bill.htm

Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce

How to pay multiple utility bills?

Following are some of the websites which you can connect and pay multiple utility bills through single username and password details but may charge some additional service charges for the paying online and this may be limited to some major cities only.

www.billdesk.com

https://www.billjunction.com/NewBJ/index.jsp

Hyderabad

http://esevaonline.com

https://secure.aponline.gov.in/CitizenPortal/UserInterface/Citizen/LoginForm.aspx

Online Bank Bill Payments

Last but not the least. Most of the banks allows you to pay your bills through Online banking facility (like Bill Payers etc). For this you need to explicitly subscribe to Billers(using the Essential details listed above)

Benefits:

There are few benefits if you pay the electricity/utility bill online.

In some states and cities, they offer about 1% discount in the total bill amount. (e.g. BSNL payment gives 1% discount in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh).
Banks also provide reward points for the payments done through the credit card/debit card/Electronic Clearance Service(ECS) which you can claim as gift vouchers or cash back over the period of time.
Of all, it gives a convenience of paying bills from any place(with internet) and at any time.
Standard Chartered, ICICI banks are providing a rewards and cash backs for using there Internet Banking, Credit Cards

Disclaimer: The above listed websites are collected from various sources and consolidated here in this blog. Neither the owner of this blog/blog will take responsibility for the any financial loss due to mislead online transaction payments.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

How to get online medical consultation/healthcare

Introduction to Online Medical Consultation
Have you ever tried or seen people getting second opinion on small problems like body pains, headache for which normally people use over-thecounter medicines (e.g. Paracetamol, ibuprofen etc). In-case of minor-to-major surgical procedures, I'm sure we would be cautious enough to consult multiple doctors to confirm the need for surgical procedure and to find out alternative ways to avoid surgery (that would be last option people will go for).

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Just think how it would be if you can get the consultation/second opinion from specialist who sits in different geography and diagnosis your problem and recommends a different view point of your/someone problem which can be solved with a simple medication instead of surgical needs.

For e.g.

"If someone had seen three doctors in multiple places for the pain and was told he had a clot and needed surgery, Two experts from online consultation website doctor's panel - a cardiologist and an orthopaedic surgeon, neither of whom was based in the same geography - reviewed the patient case online after his test reports, including results of his ECG , stress test, and on the orthopedics's advice, an X-ray of his shoulder, on the website. The experts examines the reports and diagnosis as : a frozen shoulder".

Just think how useful this form of online consultation will be to get the second opinion for the above example?

Online Medical Consultation:
Some of the below sites which offer Medical consultation/provides some medical help:
http://www.mediangels.com/
http://www.healthcaremagic.com/
http://www.webhealthcentre.com/
http://www.webmd.com/
http://wacky5.com/

some sites also allows the user to register and store the medical profile in their sites (Storing the medical profile online is not recommended). Web MD (http://www.webmd.com/) is one website which I am aware of that helps you identify the problem based on your symptoms. Help you to get aware of the medicine such as what it is used for, various foms its available (liquid, tablets, etc), dosage, and side-effects.

How online medical consultation works?
Patient has to submit the query/detailed medical problem. These website will then assign the query to corresponding doctor (general or specialized based on the description of the problem). Doctor may provide the answers if they are simple or may request for more information(

How much it would cost to get online medical consultation/second opinion??
General queries: Rs.250 or $10 based on the doctors geographical presence
Detailed consultation: Rs. 500 or $100 where it would required detailed study of your medical reports
Doctors will also be available to give you second opinion on the medical consultation for which it would cost Rs.150-500 (approx) based on the problem.

Closing comments: Online medical consultation is at very preliminary stage in India compared to US/UK. Most of the above listed websites have more number of registered users outside India only. With highly specialized doctors with good track record would be of great help through this online consultations, but without physical examination with doctor, the online consultation may not be helpful in some cases. At this stage, I would say we can take the second opinion from this online medical consultation websites and to get some answers to general medical related queries but not for the full fledged healthcare services.

Disclaimer: Online medical consultation is not to substitute for any existing form of healthcare delivery such as physical visits to doctors, examinations or hospitals and the above websites have elaborate disclaimers on this too.

Important Note: This article does not recommend any specific online medical consultation/healthcare sites. Main purpose of this article is to give insight on the online medical consultation as an option and to provide some information around online medical consultation from different online or print media.

Friday, July 1, 2011

e-Challan: How to pay your traffic e-challan and how to search Lost Vehicle?

Do you want to check whether you/someone have done any traffic violations.?
You can check that using the below link by providing your vehicle registration number without spaces.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
http://59.90.212.185:8080/publicview/

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
http://59.90.186.136:7171/publicview/

Bangalore, Karnataka, India
http://125.17.140.50/bpsfinedetails/bpsfinedetails.aspx

Delhi
There is no e-Challan system for Delhi. People will get the challan by post to the address.(address according to the Vehicle Registration number). Challan can be payed by Cash or Cheque/ DD. You can pay the fine at any of the following 7 places:

Teen Murthy Traffic lines, Mother Teresa crescent
RK Puram Police Station, Sector 12
Office of DCP Traffic northern region, Court Road
Shakarpur Police Station
Keshav Puram Police Station
Traffic training park
Office of DCP Traffic Southern region, Sadiq nagar

You can get more details from their website: www.delhitrafficpolice.nic.in

Beat the Cops: The Guide to Fighting Your Traffic Ticket and Winning

These links takes you to the E-Challan System. Enter your vehicle registration number you will get the list of violations and e-Challan payment amount.

How to pay your challan/e-challan?
Most of the times, you need to enter the challan/notice number along with the registration number.
You will find the links to online payment options (like esevaonline, aponline, bangalore one portals to pay your e-Challan).

How to Fight Your Traffic Ticket and Win!: 206 Tips Tricks and Techniques

What happens if you don't pay the e-challan?
Traffic Clearance Certificate for RTA transactions like Duplicate RC, Sale ' purchase ' transfer, other state NOC, will not be issued henceforth to the violators. The vehicle may be seized and Court proceedings may be initiated. In extreme cases, the criminal case of cheating may be registered apart from steps to cancel the Driving Licence of the vehicle owner or even getting the RC of the vehicle suspended.

You can also search for the lost vehicle online
Hyderabad : http://apps.appolice.gov.in/ips/HyderabadSearchForms/InvSearchVehicleNew.aspx?ID=14
Madhya Pradesh: http://www.mppolice.gov.in/static/vehicle_enquiry.aspx
Delhi: http://delhipolice.nic.in/home/searchengine_stolen.htm

You can also retrieve details of the vehicle online by entering vehicle registration number

Hyderabad : http://aptransport.org/html/reservation_number_search.htm

"Safe Driving... Follow Traffic Rules....."

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

LATIN - Secret to General Electric (GE) Success

Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way: Innovation, Transformation and Winning in the 21st Century

L- leadership

A- Adaptability

T- Talent

I- Influence

N- Networks.

PMP Certification

PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam

PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification from PMI Organization is well recognized for the project management personnels. There are several other project management certifications like PRINCE2, ITILv2 (more for IT infrastructure).

Prerequisites:

4500 hours of project management work.

35 hours of project management training.

Fees:
PMI Membership : $129 (recommended)
PMP Exam Fee (for members) : $405
PMP Exam Fee (for non-members): $555

Application Process:

Most of the people have several questions on filling the application

I'm not in to development and working only in support projects. How can I fill my experience?
I don't know how much time I spent on each process group areas?

In the whole project work that you are doing, your work will always falls in all or some of the five process groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitor and control and Closing.

So you can categories the no.of hours for each process groups and fill in the hours based on percentages incase you are not sure about the exact no.of hours.

For e.g. *
Start Date: 01-Feb-2009
End Date: 19-Apr-2011
Total No. of Hours : 4616

This total no. of hours can be divided into certain percentage of effort that you have put in each process group and further divided into each item under each process.

Initiating: 10%
Planning: 30%
Executing: 20%
Monitor and Control: 30%
Closing: 10%

*Note: This example is for only illustration purpose. The hours and percentages may differ for each person and type of work.

Also you need to mention the person who can authenticate the details of the project that you are listing in the Application. Have the contact details of the person ( the person can be your direct supervisor, manager, or stakeholder)
.
PMI Audit:
PMI can audit the details that you have listed in the application at any time so give only the legitimate details.

The PMP Exam: Flash Cards (Test Prep series)

Preparation:

PMP Certification preparation does take some time, but its not that bad as we think (including me). It took a month for me to prepare for the exam after a PMP training from Progressive Ventures - Proventures (PMI R.E.P).

Here are few steps you can follow:

"My approach was to get brief first and then get into detail. So read one knowledge area at a time."

Start with the brief details first on each knowledge area so that you don't get too much at a time.
Take online exam to find the gaps.
Go through the PMBOK Latest Edition for the same knowledge area and try to get some answers to the gaps.
Certain Tools/techniques and terms may not very detailed in PMBOK, so use online resources like Google and Wikipedia (believe me there is lot of information available).
After detail reading, take practice test of 50-120 questions(specific to Knowledge Area) and try to analyze the incorrect answers.
Last day before the exam, you can try to do the exercise of listing down all project management processes associated with Process groups and knowledge areas.

Some Exam Tips:

You will get 15 minutes to get a feel of the online exam (how to use "Mark for review", and at the end to "Review all questions", "Review marked questions", "Review unanswered questions"). This will help at the end to review your questions and if you are short of time you can review only unanswered or marked for review questions directly.
In exam you get in-built calculator for any doing calculations.
Key is not to spend more time on each question instead you can mark it for review and can review later.
Some questions, we get almost all answers are wrong except one and for some two answers are correct. So in the later case, you have to use the judgement of what needs to be done first.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Google Doodles - Alam Ara, Womens Day and Cricket World Cup

Whether you are able to guess the logos, sure you got the essence of the current blog entry... yes its about Google Doodles.

First Ever Doodle:

Have you ever thought which is the first ever made Google doodle. Here is the first one and its introduced in Aug 30, 1998.

The man behind the Google Doodles is Dennis Hwang.

Yearly Doodle 4 Google Event:

Google conducts the Doodle 4 Google every year in India which is open to all students attending the school (1st to 10th Standard). Google will be judge the Doodles based on three groups (I, II, III).

If you are interested or you want your children to participate refer the Info for Students Section in Google's Doodle page for India here.

2001 Winner of Doodle 4 Google Event:

Winner of 2011 Google Doodle is 7 year old Varsha and the Doodle

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

PRP merged with Congress

*Image Courtesy from Mail Today

Thursday, February 3, 2011

3G Plans - BSNL, Airtel, Tata DOCOMO

Some of you might have alright switched/tried the 3G Network, Most of you may be looking for economical 3G plans. Following are few options:

*The data is extracted from the original source.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Aadukalam

Its being long time that I heard about a good commercial tamil movie(atleast its me). Lately I heard the songs of Aadukalam songs and they are simple and mesmerizing .. I liked Aayayo, and Yogi B number.
Its strange that Directors build a whole movie based on the single liner story but with a very strong screenplay.

You can hear the songs online here...
http://www.in.com/music/aadukalam-tamil/songs-78538.html.

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