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Showcasing Indian property in Dubai |
Builders in India may capitalise on a unique opportunity to sell their residential property to non-resident Indians in the Gulf by showcasing their projects in the forthcoming Indian Property Show in Dubai. An estimated 14 lakh NRIs live in the UAE.
Said to be the biggest of its kind, it will be held from November 1 to 3 at the Airport Expo, a huge pillar-less building in Dubai close to the city’s international airport. Builders from different states in India will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis, according to the organisers. With a series of advertisement campaigns planned, around 25,000 NRI visitors are expected to invest over Rs 1,600 crore on the spot, said Sumansa Events’ CEO, Sunil K. Jaiswal. Many of the NRIs in the UAE are said to be keen to invest in Indian properties. But most of them postponed to their decisions in the absence of the required information. |
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A booster shot from Indian American docs |
| EMS is able to save lives or prevent major disabilities in over
40% cases through paramedics before hospitalisation |
Instead of focusing only on improvement of primary healthcare as committed under a memorandum of understanding signed on January 7 during the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas — the annual conclave of the Indian diaspora — with the government, the American. Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) has decided to expand the scope of its work to help in early detection of diseases that are major killers in the country.
“We have selected six specific areas - carcinoma of cervix, carcinoma of prostate, heart diseases, diabetes, deafness at birth and emergency medical system (EMS),” says Hemant Patel, vice president of AAPI. The pilot projects will be launched in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
To be monitored by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, “the protocol, the parameters and training programme to be undertaken would be finalised during the AAPI silver jubilee seminar from June 20-July 7”, says Vijay Koli, president of AAPI
During the meeting, the core group will spread the message across AAPI members, numbering over 45,000, and select those who would be helping to train young doctors and medical students and set in place the protocol of screening of people in the two partner states. “While five or six people will be contact persons, we are going to look for a team of people to provide these services,” said Koli.
The pilot projects will see all people in a village each in 38 districts of Bihar and 23 in Andhra Pradesh being screened for some of the major life threatening problems which if detected early can be treated, said S. Balasubramaniam, who has been piloting a very successful EMS programme in Pune for the last four years.
He said the EMS programme is able to save lives or prevent major disabilities in over 40 per cent cases through timely intervention of paramedics before expert help can be provided in a hospital. Admitting that the projects would be a challenge, the specialists expressed keenness to help improve the healthcare system in their homeland.
I.V. Subba Rao, principal secretary (health) of Andhra Pradesh, said the pilot project would be twined with the hospitals and medical colleges in the state to improve facilities in both urban and rural areas. The progress of the pilot project will be reviewed after a year and AAPI members are hopeful of extending the partnership project to one more state every year. |
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NRI aviator plans US-India airline |
A US-based entrepreneur is all set to join the burgeoning list of wannabe Indian aviators. But this former pilot-cum-hotelier plans to go a step further and float an international low-fare airline that would mark its debut with direct flights between US and India. Rahul Puranik backed by equity investors from America and UK has sought the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) nod to set up this new airline venture, named Sapphire Airways. “It will be a venture with $100 million start-up equity capital,” says
Puranik.
The airline, he says, intends to use the Indo-US open sky arrangement to start direct flights between India and America within the next 15-18 months. connecting at least four metros — Delhi,
Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore. “In the next phase, our plan is to expand to Africa and rest of Asia, to connect Nairobi, South Africa, Dubai and China,” he says. |
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NRI scientists necessary for India’s development |
The time has come to get the scientific community of Indians overseas engaged in the development of India, leading NRI industrialist and chairman of Hinduja Group, S.P. Hinduja told an NRI Convention in Hyderabad. “For India to succeed in the coming decades, “the vast pool of scientific Indian manpower in foreign lands can be channelled to constitute the cutting-edge of technology for solving India’s many social problems such as drinking water and sanitation”.
This pool of scientific talent can propel India into the forefront of the new age with alternative sources of energy or with biotechnology, Hinduja said. Hinduja further said big opportunities await NRIs in furthering the acceleration of India’s trade and economy. The volume of such remittance into India by overseas Indians has increased fourfold in the last decade to reach their present annual level of $20 billion, he added. |
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ProV Intel to set up development center |
The US-based ProV International, a leading healthcare software solutions company, is proposing to set up multiple development centres with a total people strength of over 1,000 in India. The company has identified two locations in the south—Thiruvanantha-puram and Coimbatore are the proposed centres. The company, which is seeking Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval, would be making a capital investment of about Rs 45 to 50 crore in the initial phase, which is to be completed by December 2006. Ajit Nair, a US based non-resident Indian (NRI) entrepreneur and the CEO of ProV International, said the company was looking for a major expansion in the offshore development area since its client base has been on the rise and includes US’ top healthcare companies.
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