Coffee Day in Trichy ?

Cafe Coffee day is planning to introduce its flag ship Coffee shops in Tier II cities. What better place to introduce them other than in Trichy. We have tourist population,International airport , Sizable tourist population willing to spend more money, Very active and enthusiastic student population and the impeding IT population. It will be great to have more of such hip joints in our city. It is in no way reduce the great coffee you can get in Vasanth Vihaar or Sangam.. ( but still they don’t match the one u used to get in yesteryear’s Padma cafe.) , but it will be cool for tiruchians to chill out in place like Cafe Coffee Day.

I love their environment and pastries along with coffee when I travel between Mysore and Bangalore or while in Coimbatore.

 

AU – Trichy Starts new Engg College

AU – T is starting a constituent Engg college in Ariyalur from the coming academic year which will function in the Govt Arts College campus for now. Civil Engg, mechanical Engg, Electronics and Communication Engg and Computer Science Engg will be the four disciplines that will be available for the students. Each will have a strength of 60 students. There will be a new campus constructed and the college will be moved there eventually.

 

Trichy Airport Runway Expansion

Trichy Airport has plans to extend its runway from 8000Ft. to 12500 Ft and work was in the plans to acquire land in the west side of the airport adjacent to the front of the airport. But due to stiff opposition from the public in acquiring the residential lands, the  AAI and the state govt. officials have decided to shelve that plan and acquire the lands on the eastern side of the airport. The only impediment seen there is the uyagundan channel running across and the plans are to lay out a bridge over that to get over the other side. However, providing a diversion to the Tiruchi-Pudukottai National Highway, running close to the airport on the western side, could not be avoided.

AAI officials would now reassess the land requirement on the eastern side and the expansion project would take off, once the fresh proposal was approved by the AAI and the State government.

The wait continues….

 

More International Flights from Trichy

Air India Express is planning and submitted request for approval to AAI for starting a service from Trichy to Abudhabi and Kuala Lumpur.  Other than the flight carrier type,     (737-300) no other information is available that we could use.

Air Asia is also planning to add a service between Kuala Lumpur and Trichy soon. No ETA on this yet.

If nothing else this news reemphasises that the airlines industry has not forgotten about Trichy and are planning to add more services

 

Anna University – Trichy – News

The TN govt has announced the VC for “Anna University” – Trichy. It will be Dr. V. Ramachandran, a current faculty of the Original Anna University.

Following is the excerpt from a news item on this,

Mr. Ramachandran joined the Ramanujan Computing Centre as System Assistant in 1982. He served as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and associate professor in the Department of Information Technology. He obtained his doctorate degree in Computer Applications in Power Systems from Anna University in 1991 and served as visiting professor in several national and international institutes. He has authored several research publications. “

I quickly googled to look up some of his research papers ( below is some of them) . He has some impressive work published in prestigious journals.

> Security for XML messaging services: a component-based approach

Journal of Network and Computer Applications archive
Volume 26 , Issue 2 (April 2003) table of contents
Pages: 197 – 211

Year of Publication: 2003

> Evolutionary programming based economic dispatch of generators with prohibited operating zones

Source: Electric Power Systems Research, Volume 52, Number 3, 1 December 1999, pp. 261-266(6)

 

> A Comparative and Performance Study of On Demand Multicast outing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks

 

It is great to have a person with IT / Computer background in this position at our city. Again, may be I am naive to think that his academic skills will translate here in this political post.

We’ll see.