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Gurgaon is home to many a BPO, MNC and IT office. Employees based out of the millennial city have to continue working from home until the end of July, according to state officials. Around mid-March, the Gurgaon district administration has issued an advisory asking companies to allow their employees to work from home. “As of now, it appears this advisory for work from home will continue till the end of July. All those who have offices in Gurgaon should continue to work from home to the extent possible,” said Gurgaon Metropolitan Development Authority CEO V S Kundu. He is in charge of handling the COVID-19 crisis in the district. Most companies have already declared that working from home may be the ‘new normal’ for them. They have also highlighted how there’s been an increase in employee productivity since the commute time has drastically been cut down. Most people, it would take at least one-and-a-half to two hours in either direction to travel between office and home. However, he pointed out that many real estate projects, including those which fall under DLF, will be allowed to resume work provided they follow all social distancing norms. “Construction sites where labourers are already staying on the site or those where labourers stay within walking distance are allowed to resume work while adhering to social distancing norms,” said Kundu. So far, there have been 51 reported cases of the Coronavirus in Gurgaon. Of these, 35 have recovered. Nonetheless, it has been declared a red zone by the Harayan government since it’s one of the worst affected districts in the state alongside Nuh, Palwal and Faridabad. Kundu described the situation in Gurgaon as “fairly under control” and said there is no evidence of community transmission. Gurgaon has effectively been under lockdown since March 22 – two days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of a pan-India shutdown to stem the spread of the disease. This gave the administration a head start and enabled it to handle the situation effectively, the official said. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/dhfls-kapil-and-dheeraj-wadhawan-taken-into-custody-by-cbi-for-role-in-yes-bank-scam-case/articleshow/75388823.cms">DHFL's Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan taken into custody by CBI for role in Yes Bank scam case</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/pm-modi-says-indias-fight-against-coronavirus-is-people-driven/articleshow/75387305.cms">PM Modi says India's fight against Coronavirus is 'people-driven'</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/lockdown-may-be-extended-in-covid-19-hit-urban-areas-of-maha/articleshow/75386981.cms">Coronavirus lockdown may extend beyond May 3 in urban areas of Maharashtra</a>

Gurgaon-based employees may have to ‘work from home’ until the end of July, according to Haryana officials

<keyword id="3711125" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Pod-taxis">Pod taxis</keyword>, a result of a project called the Metrino-a PRT system in which pods are suspended from an overhead rail -has been under consideration for a while and will finally debut in <keyword id="6361586" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gurgaon">Gurgaon</keyword> 
 The <keyword id="87432" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Highways-Authority-of-India">National Highways Authority of India</keyword> has laid the groundwork to roll out India's first personal rapid transit (PRT) network and will invite global bids for the project within the next fortnight. The pilot project will span a 13km stretch from the Gurgaon-Delhi border to Badshapur Mod on Sohna Road and is estimated to cost Rs 850 crore. 
 
Every pod can take up to five passengers. For the pilot project route, 16 stations have been planned, starting near Ambience Mall. A personal rapid transit (PRT) network is made up of small automated vehicles running at close intervals on a guideway with docking stations for passengers to get on and get off.While a pod can accommodate up to five people, there there is also an option to hire an entire pod that will take a passenger straight to the destination, skipping the scheduled stops. The average speed of the pods is 60kmph. 
 
A senior NHAI official said the network would be built within a year of the contract being awarded. "Pod taxi systems are best suited for this. We are keeping our options open, though, so that private players can come up with best system, including skyrail," the official said. A skyrail is also a PRT system, but is more similar to a ropeway . 
 
The NHAI official said land required for the project is already available with it and Haryana government agencies. The project does not need forest and environmental clearance. As for financing, the entire investment will be made by the private company that sets up the PRT. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will recover its investment in 25 years through tickets. 
 Union road transport and highways minister <keyword id="26680" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nitin-gadkari">Nitin Gadkari</keyword> had announced last year that Metrinos will run between Dhaula Kuan in Delhi and Manesar. The overhead network for Metrinos has been planned along the expressway . Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> had travelled in a pod in Masdar City during his last visit to the United Arab Emirates. 
 
The Punjab and Haryana governments had, in the past, announced a rollout of pod taxis in Amritsar and Gurgaon, but these never came to fruition. 
 According to estimates prepared by the NHAI, while while building a kilometre of Metro costs at least Rs 250 crore and of monorail Rs 200 crore, the <keyword id="6714406" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Metrino">Metrino</keyword> system can be built with just Rs 70 crore. It's lighter as well. 
 
"The NHAI will roll out the project soon. We have set a target of a year. Subsequently , we could extend this to Dhaula Kuan and Manesar on each side," said the NHAI official. 
 
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Say goodbye to traffic: Pod Taxis to debut in Gurgaon

Even in this age of jet travel and space tourism, highways hold an irresistible charm for travellers out to have an up, close and personal experience of the wide roads stretching ahead for miles, uninterrupted views of a breathtaking landscape, the occasional flyways and the not-so-familiar villages and towns rushing by. It’s even better than chugging along the countryside in a train. You can stop any time you want – to sample some chatpati chaat and a steaming cuppa of chai at a roadside dhaba; to talk to people; to take a dekko at local interests or simply laze an hour or two in shine or rain with the greens around you and the fresh smell of soil floating in the air. 
 
Now that our <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Chugging-Up-7-Mesmerising-Mountain-Train-RidesIn-India/articleshow/24288850.cms">train series</a> is over (but we promise to bring you more as soon as new and exotic routes come up), we are back with a more exciting roadmap of <keyword id="168020" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="expressways">expressways</keyword> that criss-cross the entire country, connecting the four metros and many of the Tier I cities, and going much beyond the urban landscape. Infrastructure development in India has undergone a sea change over the past few years and the country currently boasts the <keyword id="2034191" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Second-largest-road-network">second largest road network</keyword> in the world, with a road length of over 4,689,842 km, as per 2013 data from the <keyword id="6404450" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Road-Transport-and-Highways">Ministry of Road Transport and Highways</keyword>. 
 Starting from FY2012-13, the <keyword id="44734" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Indian-Government">Indian government</keyword> will be also putting $17 billion over the next five years, being sourced through public-private partnership (<keyword id="6361580" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="PPP">PPP</keyword>) road projects. This will be used by the <keyword id="87432" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Highways-Authority-of-India">National Highways Authority of India</keyword> (<keyword id="49448" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="nhai">NHAI</keyword>) for the planned series of <keyword id="174913" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BOT">BOT</keyword> (build, operate and transfer) highways. In spite of several bottlenecks, the NHAI has set up impressive targets and aims to develop 20 km/day, in a bid to fast-track the country’s <keyword id="2034194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Road-network-expansion">road network expansion</keyword>. 
 As of July 2013, <keyword id="6373156" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Highways">national highways</keyword> account for 79,116 km, connecting all major cities and state capitals. Expressways, however, differ a bit in the sense they are controlled-access highways like the <keyword id="610047" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="freeways">freeways</keyword> or <keyword id="1333990" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="motorways">motorways</keyword> or autobahnen in the US and Europe, essentially designed for high-speed traffic. As of now, most of the expressways in India are 6-8 lane <keyword id="120837" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="toll-roads">toll roads</keyword> and cover a total distance of nearly 1,208.19 km. India expects to add another 3,530 km of expressways by 2014 as projects under construction get completed. Another massive programme is also under way to expand the network and the Indian government plans to add an additional 18,637 km of expressways by 2022. 
 So are you ready to emerge on another breath-taking <keyword id="6374782" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="journey">journey</keyword> with us, literally a journey of thousand miles and more? We will bring you the super expressways zone-wise – so that you know which route to choose when travelling North or South, East or West. And it will be a beautiful journey as art and cultural critic <keyword id="2034192" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dave-Hickey">Dave Hickey</keyword> so rightly said – Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway. 
 
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Taxi-hailing app <keyword id="1042120" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Uber">Uber</keyword>'s new <keyword id="3303159" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="bike-sharing-product">bike sharing product</keyword> '<keyword id="3259663" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="uberMOTO">UberMOTO</keyword>' can now be enjoyed by <keyword id="6361586" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gurgaon">Gurgaon</keyword> commuters. 

	“Uber today announced a pilot of Uber’s bikesharing product — 'UberMOTO' in Gurgaon... This follows our agreement with the government of Haryana to introduce technology based ride-sharing services in the state,” it said in a statement.
 

	The company has set minimum fare at Rs. 15, followed by Rs. 3 per km and Rs. 1 per min of ride-time charges. The minimum fare is Rs. 20. It will compete with companies like Baxi.
 

	“UberMOTO works towards the vision of reducing congestion by helping fill every empty seat on the bikes on road. It enables riders to push a button and share a motorbike ride within minutes,” Uber Delhi General Manager Gagan Bhatia said.
 

	It’s a great way for people to save time and money on short trips across town and provides last mile connectivity — especially to and from the metro stations, he added.
 

	Also, Uber will not charge any service fee for the duration of this pilot and will submit a key findings report to the Government, analysing the benefits of bike-sharing in the city.
 The U.S.-based company had launched a pilot for the product in <keyword id="6354321" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bengaluru">Bengaluru</keyword> earlier this month but state road authorities had complained that it lacked requisite permissions to offer two-wheeler taxi service. 

	Uber said it had extensive discussions with the relevant authorities and made modifications to the pilot service.
 

	It had said it will also not charge any service fee for the period of this pilot and was essentially encouraging “bikepooling” aimed at decongesting city roads.
 

	The company will prepare a similar report addressing the viability of the product for Bengaluru as well.
 

	Uber’s rival, Ola had also launched a similar bike-sharing service in Bengaluru. However, following the complaint, the Softbank-backed firm had discontinued the service.
 

	To book a bike ride, users can choose the ‘UberMOTO’ option from the Uber app and enter their pickup location and payment method and request a ride.
 

	Similar to cabs, users will get driver’s details straight like name, photo and details of the motorbike.
 

	Uber’s standard product safety features include GPS tracking, 2-way feedback and the ability to share trip details with family and friends.

	 
	 
	(Image credits: indiatimes)

UberMOTO enters Gurgaon

Completely irked and rattled by her homework to write a speech, a girl asked her mother, ‘Why is public speaking so important for me? It's not like I aspire to become Darren Tay one day’. Keeping her calm, the mother chuckled at the little girl’s innocence and said, “How would countries gain great leaders in the absence of great speeches? How would the global and social issues draw attention if no one voiced them out? If speeches aren’t important, why are TED talks watched by millions? Think about it!” I bet, the little girl in this introduction is not the only human alive who questioned the importance of public speaking. You, too, might have found yourself asking the same questions. A lot of us tend to look at public speaking as a burden more than an opportunity, but clearly, it is a necessary life-skill. Communication is the one thing that helps us connect with others, and persuade and motivate them. A world without communication is unimaginable. To share ideas, emotions and establish connect with fellow humans, communications skills are necessary. Public speaking is a much feared form of communication, but a vital skill to have and hone. We need this skill to be effective in classrooms, in meetings and even in building interpersonal relationships. With the passage of time, civilizations have risen and fallen, kings have come and gone, politicians have made promises and disappeared but there is one thing that has remained faithful to mankind’s success – Public Speaking. Be it the great emperors of yore, the business leaders of today, your favourite professor in class, or <keyword id="6399841" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Meryl-Streep">Meryl Streep</keyword> delivering a speech at the <keyword id="3554" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Golden-Globe-Awards">Golden Globe Awards</keyword>, public speaking has continued to help us influence, inform and connect with people at social, mental and emotional levels. Not only in the past or present, but till posterity, public speaking will be an indeed significant, valued and useful skill in all domains of life. Though speaking in front of an audience can get palms sweaty, knees buckling under pressure and heartbeats frantically faster, it is one of the most essential parts of the working world. Some people are born public speakers, but it is also a skill you can develop; the more you do it, the more you master it. What <keyword id="360433" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Robert-Brown">Robert Brown</keyword> says in undeniably true, “If you can speak, you can influence. If you can influence, you can change lives.” Do you think <keyword id="1412479" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Malala">Malala</keyword> would have been who she actually is if she hadn’t boldly raised her voice? As she stood up, she influenced people, and brought about winds of change for those young girls. While, the world today is bombarded with over millions of social media sites, the significance of public speaking remains completely unique; it is the only tool in this world that gives us the power to change the way one person views an idea or situation based on a mere ten-minute speech or conversation. In this 365/24/7 dialogue of life, one’s ability at engaging and influencing a mass of people can go a long way in determining his or her future. (The article has been authored by <keyword id="4676892" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="ipsa-yadav">Ipsa Yadav</keyword>, a class 10th student of Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon)

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One is a Millennium City and other one is India’s startup hub. Gurugram and Bengaluru, two cities that house world’s best companies, have one major issue to deal with and it is not even funny. 
 
Incessant rains in both the cities has brought normal life to a grinding halt as Gurugram and Bengaluru are flooded, leaving residents high and dry and daily commuters stranded in traffic for nearly six hours. 
 
On Thursday evening, the situation in Gurugram turned worse when it rained cats and dogs in the Millennium City. The roads were flooded, people were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for six hours. 
 
The heavy rains exposed the lax attitude of civic authorities who continued to play the blame-game over the nuisance. Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar blamed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The Haryana Government says a large amount of water exits Gurugram through the Najafgarh drain, which flows through Delhi but is blocked partly, which inundates the city. 
 
Meanwhile, Traffic Police worked tirelessly to help move the choc-a-bloc and even advised commuters to stay off roads on Friday. Schools have also been ordered to remain shut. 
 
The situation in Bengaluru is also quite grim as authorities are using boats to rescue people stranded in the rain. 
 
These pictures will clearly tell you what the situation is. Will our civic authorities turn a blind eye to this also?

IN PICS: How Gurgaon and Bengaluru turned into giant swimming pools

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet." 
 Asked Juliet one of Shakespeare's heroines- Well if you believe the current dispensation, everything. The 'symbolic' has become the real while the real issues are increasingly being relegated to the corners as non-issues. Case in point - '<keyword id="6361586" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gurgaon">Gurgaon</keyword>' or rather the new '<keyword id="6356789" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gurugram">Gurugram</keyword>'. Makes one think of 'Rishis, Ashrams, and the Mahabharata'. 
 Not the Millennium city it was once touted to be unless somehow the association in somebody's brain takes him to 'Instagram' the online photo sharing portal. Then too a little bit of thinking in this postmodern image driven world would reveal it is still not any closer to millennium city as was the original Gurgaon or the newer Instagram sounding 'Gurugram.' Amidst the jokes and the historicity debate that is being witnessed on social media about the renaming let us take a satirical look at the latest 'revolutionary step' of the <keyword id="74452" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haryana-government">Haryana Government</keyword>. 
 
First, the decision to rename tells that we as a society have locked horns not only with our neighbours (which is justified considering they are also in equally adamant in locking horns) but also with our own past. 
 
This trend is a bit unsettling. Do we want to forge ahead and debate the city's or the gram's squalid infrastructure, and its problems of electricity, waste collection problems, problems of slums, health and dirt and dust one witnesses when one moves on the iconic roads here or do we want to debate the guru-shishyaa parampara of the yesteryears? And if we want to discuss both then in what order? Our problem it seems is that we want to correct all that is 'wrong' with our 'long' past and take India into a glorious future. But that cannot be done only by changing names (naam) but with some work in the city (kaam). 
 
Second, we tend to agree with the government's rebranding, not because of the sacred geography argument of scholars like Diana Eck, which lends credence to the view that ancient/ mythical is embedded in the geographical places of India. But because we tend to agree with Haryana government as it resets the narrative to the low expectations we should have of our cities and its people. 
 
The symbolic idea of renaming the millennium city 'Gurgaon' to a 'Gurugram' showcases the low expectations we have of our chosen policymakers and ourselves. Gurgaon, the millennium city, is to be replaced with 'Gurugram' the eternal village of the Guru. And being a resident of Gurugram all we can say is that since no work is being done on the ground, barring the perennial digging up and filling up of sections by private contractors the government feels that changing the name can work wonders. Sadly, it doesn't. All it does is that it makes things worse by focusing on the wrong set of challenges. The problems people face are not of a symbolic nature but of a real one. 
 
Third, the chain reaction post renaming of Aurangzeb road should not be stopped with immediate effect. After all Aurangzeb road as one of the main boulevards of Delhi was symbolic, and its replacement was symbolic, but replacing older names with newer ones for all cities and the boulevards, only shows we as Indians are engaged in mythical battles with our past. So we have had lesser battles on the left and right of the country's borders, and therefore, we have taken up imaginary ones with our past. And that is the third reason to go ahead and rename all the historical places with ‘correct versions’ however even post that the problems within places will persist. 
 
In a brilliant documentary on Richard Feynman, the physicist Nobel laureate - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Feynman narrates the story of his father telling him about what a bird is. He goes on explain that when you know what a bird's name in various languages you really don't know anything about the bird- all you know about is what humans call a bird in different languages. 
 
So he goes on by mentioning that there is a difference in knowing the name of something and knowing something. The same is true with knowing the problems of Gurgaon and naming/ renaming Gurgaon. The renaming makes no sense until unless the basic problems of people are understood and taken care of by policymakers. And the role of government is not changing names of locations or boundaries under its rule the role of government in a democracy is to deliver on basic services like safety and security, healthcare and education to people. Hopefully, the government takes a cue and moves in the direction of working (kaam) and not just naming (naam) of places. 
 
(The article is co-authored with Sankalp Sharma, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Competitiveness, India. Amit Kapoor is Chair, Institute for Competitiveness &amp; Editor of Thinkers. The views expressed are personal. Amit can be reached at <a href="mailto:amit.kapoor@competitiveness.in">amit.kapoor@competitiveness.in</a> and tweets @kautiliya)

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