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Modi travels by night, sleeps on flights to save time
Aman Sharma | ET Bureau | Apr 9, 2016, 08.49 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Check-in bags are not coming off Air India One these days, as on most of the nights, the Prime Minister aims at sleeping on the plane rather than in foreign hotels to shorten his trips.
In his latest trips to Belgium, US and Saudi Arabia between March 30 and April 2, Narendra Modi spent three nights on Air India One - while in transit from Delhi to Brussels, from Brussels to Washington DC and from there to Riyadh.
He just spent two nights at hotels - one in Washington and one in Riyadh. "It is unprecedented to complete a PM's multination trip involving US in just 97 hours. If the PM had not chosen to sleep on the plane, we would not have been back for at least six days," a senior government official told ET.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh's visits were longer and largely summit-related with single-city engagements. Overnight travel was occasional. But foreign schedules are now short and packed as per Modi's directions to save "unproductive night stay in foreign hotels" and use it for air travel, multiple senior officials told ET on the condition of anonymity.
In his first two years, Modi as the PM would have spent 95 days abroad much more than Singh's 72 days abroad in his first two years in UPA-1and UPA-2. But Modi has covered far more ground by visiting 40 countries in his 20 trips. Singh could visit 18 countries in 15 trips in UPA-1and 24 countries in 17 trips in UPA-2 in the first two years.
"Modi says he wants to push maximum buttons...he has unending energy," an official said. He chose to take a midnight flight on March 30 to Brussels to use the nine-hour flying time to sleep and land there at 6 am local time. Initially, a night stay and community address the next morning was planned in in Brussels.
But March 31 was a working day and Modi did not wish that the NRIs take the day off to come to listen to him. "PM said he could easily spend consecutive nights on the Modi Travels by Night, Sleeps on Flights to Save Time aircraft," an official told ET.
The community address hence happened on March 30 at 9 pm after back-to-back meetings. Modi left for the airport and took a 10-hour flight to US. Check-in bags of the delegation were not taken off Air Force 1in Belgium (but in Washington) and officials packed in an extra piece of clothing in a hand baggage.
Sleeping through time zones, PM landed in the wee hours of March 31, in the US for yet another busy day.
On the plane too, Modi does not sleep throughout the time on his flat-bed cabin. "He wants a detailed debriefing on the plane after one leg of the trip is over. There is no luxury to return to India and then prepare for the debriefing," an official said. The PM wants a briefing within 30 minutes of checking into a foreign hotel too before the bilateral commence.
"A night should be spent in a foreign hotel only if there is an engagement scheduled the next day," an official explained Modi's line of thought. On April 1, the PM was in Nuclear Security Summit till 5 pm.
He reached the airport straight from the venue to fly out of Riyadh at 7 pm. He slept on the 12-hour flight again to save a day. Modi arrived there on April 2 afternoon, spent the night and held talks the next day. At 7 pm on April 3, the PM flew back and arrived at Race Course Road at 2 am. He had meetings scheduled the next morning. But what about jet-lag of travel to-and-fro US time zones? "Before jet lag hits reverse jet lag comes into force," an official quipped.
Modi travels by night, sleeps on flights to save time - Times of India
Aman Sharma | ET Bureau | Apr 9, 2016, 08.49 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Check-in bags are not coming off Air India One these days, as on most of the nights, the Prime Minister aims at sleeping on the plane rather than in foreign hotels to shorten his trips.
In his latest trips to Belgium, US and Saudi Arabia between March 30 and April 2, Narendra Modi spent three nights on Air India One - while in transit from Delhi to Brussels, from Brussels to Washington DC and from there to Riyadh.
He just spent two nights at hotels - one in Washington and one in Riyadh. "It is unprecedented to complete a PM's multination trip involving US in just 97 hours. If the PM had not chosen to sleep on the plane, we would not have been back for at least six days," a senior government official told ET.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh's visits were longer and largely summit-related with single-city engagements. Overnight travel was occasional. But foreign schedules are now short and packed as per Modi's directions to save "unproductive night stay in foreign hotels" and use it for air travel, multiple senior officials told ET on the condition of anonymity.
In his first two years, Modi as the PM would have spent 95 days abroad much more than Singh's 72 days abroad in his first two years in UPA-1and UPA-2. But Modi has covered far more ground by visiting 40 countries in his 20 trips. Singh could visit 18 countries in 15 trips in UPA-1and 24 countries in 17 trips in UPA-2 in the first two years.
"Modi says he wants to push maximum buttons...he has unending energy," an official said. He chose to take a midnight flight on March 30 to Brussels to use the nine-hour flying time to sleep and land there at 6 am local time. Initially, a night stay and community address the next morning was planned in in Brussels.
But March 31 was a working day and Modi did not wish that the NRIs take the day off to come to listen to him. "PM said he could easily spend consecutive nights on the Modi Travels by Night, Sleeps on Flights to Save Time aircraft," an official told ET.
The community address hence happened on March 30 at 9 pm after back-to-back meetings. Modi left for the airport and took a 10-hour flight to US. Check-in bags of the delegation were not taken off Air Force 1in Belgium (but in Washington) and officials packed in an extra piece of clothing in a hand baggage.
Sleeping through time zones, PM landed in the wee hours of March 31, in the US for yet another busy day.
On the plane too, Modi does not sleep throughout the time on his flat-bed cabin. "He wants a detailed debriefing on the plane after one leg of the trip is over. There is no luxury to return to India and then prepare for the debriefing," an official said. The PM wants a briefing within 30 minutes of checking into a foreign hotel too before the bilateral commence.
"A night should be spent in a foreign hotel only if there is an engagement scheduled the next day," an official explained Modi's line of thought. On April 1, the PM was in Nuclear Security Summit till 5 pm.
He reached the airport straight from the venue to fly out of Riyadh at 7 pm. He slept on the 12-hour flight again to save a day. Modi arrived there on April 2 afternoon, spent the night and held talks the next day. At 7 pm on April 3, the PM flew back and arrived at Race Course Road at 2 am. He had meetings scheduled the next morning. But what about jet-lag of travel to-and-fro US time zones? "Before jet lag hits reverse jet lag comes into force," an official quipped.
Modi travels by night, sleeps on flights to save time - Times of India
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saw the news yesterday.
remember you had told me when this originally happened that the saffronis will coerce people into lying and will make people disappear?? that happened then - witnesses and victims turning hostile and some being not available.
remember when the nationalists on pdf and outside were turning the delhi dentist lynching by a criminal mob into a "muslims terrorizing the hindu doctor" theme??
remember when the same nationalists first turned the jharkhand lynching/hanging of the duo into a "evil cow killers" theme and then into a murderous conspiracy by congress and aap??
how about the poona burning of the rag-picker youth with the nationalists suddenly developing solidarity with his dalit-ness??
how about the haryana burning of the dalit infants where subramanian swamy "discovered" ( and his pdf fans crowed faithfully ) that the attackers and the attacked were both christian and the incident was just another small-time event that must be brushed away like one flicks away a pestering fly??
and the "discovery" by pdf nationalists that rohit vemula is not a dalit technically ( some convoluted logic ) and therefore his suicide must be seen as a ridding of another anti-national.
oh we can cover a lot of stories this way going decades back.
does it mean the primary tv nationalist has lost his newly acquired adoring anti anti-national masses??
i wonder when will commando/nationalist dhoni express sadness about the wastage of water by indian cricket and the farmer suicides and hunger deaths in maharashtra and elsewhere in india and make direct-action against the capitalism/capitalists causing this unnecessary and unnatural misery in india since 1947.
or does he just want to take his video game patriotism to the indian borders and beyond and kill some pakistanis, chinese, russians, north koreans, syrians, libyans, iraqis etc??
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No such thing has taken place.
The initial reports were fabrication, and the women who cried rape had done so against same accused in past and was found lying by court.
And this tale of anonymous rapes is even more pathetic. Some saying that he heard from someone that someone was raped is as reliable as existence of unicorns.
And this case is subjudice. Unless Police has concluded its investigation in every hair-brained rape allegation, they could not state in court that they are 100% sure that there was no rape. It would be perjury, and "probably there may have been a ..........." is standard statement . If you put maybe/possible/probably in your comment, you could make any assertion.
"Possibly Unicorns exist". It is open challenge to all members of this forum to prove this statement wrong.
Though being a women who love to play victim ( Your status update a couple of days ago was about women getting blame for everything, a classical victimhood peddling), I do not expect you to be rational. For women who love to play victim; accusation of rape is rape itself as certainly women could never lie.
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i wonder when will commando/nationalist dhoni express sadness about the wastage of water by indian cricket and the farmer suicides and hunger deaths in maharashtra and elsewhere in india and make direct-action against the capitalism/capitalists causing this unnecessary and unnatural misery in india since 1947.
or does he just want to take his video game patriotism to the indian borders and beyond and kill some pakistanis, chinese, russians, north koreans, syrians, libyans, iraqis etc??
Because his thought process is different from yours, he loves dogs.
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The Narendra Modi government is trying to solve India’s electricity problem by pushing for more efficient appliances.
Just last year, Asia’s third largest economy faced a 3.6% deficit in peak-hour energy supply. Such a shortfall not only affects manufacturing and industrial productivity but also inconveniences millions of Indians, particularly during the torrid summer months. And this even as over 280 million people are yet to have access to electricity in India.
Since taking reins in May 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has focused on fixing this crisis, dabbling with everything from turning to solar power toproviding financial incentives to power distribution companies.
Now, as India’s power requirement is slated to grow at an average of 5.2% between 2014 and 2024, the Narendra Modi administration is increasingly turning its focus towards saving more power.
In January 2015, the government had launched the National Programme for light emitting diode (LED)-based home and street lighting. Under this, conventional lamps, which typically use more power, will be replaced by LED lamps that consume 80% less energy.
Last week, the government initiated two more similar schemes: one aimed at replacing inefficient agricultural pumps and the other replacing ceiling fans with more energy-efficient ones.
These will be implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture under the union power ministry that is also undertaking the LED project.
Better agriculture pumps and fans
The National Energy Efficient Agriculture Pumps Programme will replace inefficient pumps with ones that are better-rated, for free. The new ones will feature a smart control panel and a SIM card, enabling their control from homes. Currently, India’s outdated agricultural pumps are estimated to consume 170 billion units of energy.
“EESL will distribute 200,000 BEE star-rated pump sets to the farmers under this programme, which will lead to 30% of energy savings by 2019. This translates into annual savings of approximately Rs20,000 crore ($3 billion) on agricultural subsidies or a saving of 50 billion units of energy every year,” a government statement said.
A new scheme—the National Energy Efficient Fan Programme—has also been launched, under which, energy efficient ceiling fans of 50 watts will be provided at Rs60 per month or a one-time payment of Rs1,250 ($19). These fans are being produced by domestic fan-makers such as Usha and Bajaj.
“The government estimates that the use of these fans will lead to savings of Rs700 ($10.5) a year on their electricity bills. This means, a consumer can recover the cost of this energy-efficient ceiling fan in less than 2 years,” the statement added. The program has so far been rolled out in Andhra Pradesh in south India and Uttar Pradesh in the north.
Energy efficient appliances are often expensive, keeping many away from such products. However, these appliances are crucial to helping India curb the crisis. As a 2013 report(pdf) from the World Resources Institute notes:
“India’s residential sector accounts for approximately 39 percent of the country’s final energy consumption. If all the appliances purchased in India over a three-year period were energy efficient, India could avoid new capacity requirements of over 25,000 MW—close to an eighth of India’s total installed capacity.”
How Narendra Modi is getting India to save on electricity
Just last year, Asia’s third largest economy faced a 3.6% deficit in peak-hour energy supply. Such a shortfall not only affects manufacturing and industrial productivity but also inconveniences millions of Indians, particularly during the torrid summer months. And this even as over 280 million people are yet to have access to electricity in India.
Since taking reins in May 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has focused on fixing this crisis, dabbling with everything from turning to solar power toproviding financial incentives to power distribution companies.
Now, as India’s power requirement is slated to grow at an average of 5.2% between 2014 and 2024, the Narendra Modi administration is increasingly turning its focus towards saving more power.
In January 2015, the government had launched the National Programme for light emitting diode (LED)-based home and street lighting. Under this, conventional lamps, which typically use more power, will be replaced by LED lamps that consume 80% less energy.
Last week, the government initiated two more similar schemes: one aimed at replacing inefficient agricultural pumps and the other replacing ceiling fans with more energy-efficient ones.
These will be implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture under the union power ministry that is also undertaking the LED project.
Better agriculture pumps and fans
The National Energy Efficient Agriculture Pumps Programme will replace inefficient pumps with ones that are better-rated, for free. The new ones will feature a smart control panel and a SIM card, enabling their control from homes. Currently, India’s outdated agricultural pumps are estimated to consume 170 billion units of energy.
“EESL will distribute 200,000 BEE star-rated pump sets to the farmers under this programme, which will lead to 30% of energy savings by 2019. This translates into annual savings of approximately Rs20,000 crore ($3 billion) on agricultural subsidies or a saving of 50 billion units of energy every year,” a government statement said.
A new scheme—the National Energy Efficient Fan Programme—has also been launched, under which, energy efficient ceiling fans of 50 watts will be provided at Rs60 per month or a one-time payment of Rs1,250 ($19). These fans are being produced by domestic fan-makers such as Usha and Bajaj.
“The government estimates that the use of these fans will lead to savings of Rs700 ($10.5) a year on their electricity bills. This means, a consumer can recover the cost of this energy-efficient ceiling fan in less than 2 years,” the statement added. The program has so far been rolled out in Andhra Pradesh in south India and Uttar Pradesh in the north.
Energy efficient appliances are often expensive, keeping many away from such products. However, these appliances are crucial to helping India curb the crisis. As a 2013 report(pdf) from the World Resources Institute notes:
“India’s residential sector accounts for approximately 39 percent of the country’s final energy consumption. If all the appliances purchased in India over a three-year period were energy efficient, India could avoid new capacity requirements of over 25,000 MW—close to an eighth of India’s total installed capacity.”
How Narendra Modi is getting India to save on electricity
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can you tell me what is missing from this "smart" approach??
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Gaien here means Gashti or Slut-
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Superb:
Walk The Talk With Former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani
-AADHAR completed ahead of time
-50% under budget
-already saving $2BN/ year in LPG subsidy
- In 2-3 months the UIDAI will cross the 1 billion enrolment mark
+It's not saying a huge amount but Modi is the right man for the job he has now (I say this because of Mr Nandan Nilekani's comments of Modi).
@PARIKRAMA @Levina @ni8mare @axisofevil @Blue Marlin @acetophenol @ranjeet @Parul @Water Car Engineer @Desertfalcon @Taygibay @Koovie @waz @MilSpec @nair @AUSTERLITZ @ayesha.a
Walk The Talk With Former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani
-AADHAR completed ahead of time
-50% under budget
-already saving $2BN/ year in LPG subsidy
- In 2-3 months the UIDAI will cross the 1 billion enrolment mark
+It's not saying a huge amount but Modi is the right man for the job he has now (I say this because of Mr Nandan Nilekani's comments of Modi).
@PARIKRAMA @Levina @ni8mare @axisofevil @Blue Marlin @acetophenol @ranjeet @Parul @Water Car Engineer @Desertfalcon @Taygibay @Koovie @waz @MilSpec @nair @AUSTERLITZ @ayesha.a
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