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Reg: Openness 'needs both political will and technical skill, fortunately ICRISAT has had both' an interview with Mr. M Madhan
by sanat kumar Behera 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Dear Sir: I would be grateful if you can share with our LIS professionals. Open Access Interviews@AIMS: a new service on AIMS Wed, 27/03/2013 — AIMS AIMS announces the introduction of 'Open Access Interviews@AIMS ' as a new quartely service. The objective is to publish use cases on various open access issues affecting access to agricultural research outputs and share experiences on the uptake of openness by institutions in the agricultural domain. This service will share these experiences by means of structured interviews. The inaugural interview focuses on the experiences from the International Crops and Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics<http://oar.icrisat.org/> (ICRISAT), in India - read the interview here<http://aims.fao.org/community/blogs/aims.fao.org/community/open-access/blog…> . Openness 'needs both political will and technical skill, fortunately ICRISAT has had both' an interview with Mr. M Madhan http://aims.fao.org/community/open-access/blogs/openness-needs-both-politic… Thank You Regards Mr. Sanat kumar Behera Research Fellow J.S.K. Library ICRISAT Patancheru Hyderabad India S.Behera(a)cgiar.org Sanatku.behera(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] kindly mail 2 forum members. Open source software
by G.K.MANJUNATH 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

I do not agree with Mr.Arunachalam's remarks - "Many Institutions have squandered public funds ". Open source software, whether Operating System or Applications software, are available for many other applications too and only for libraries. I would like to highlight few of these: According to some experts, 'R' is a good open source software available for statistical analysis. But, how many of the statisticians and social scientists from the publicly funded institutions and Government Departments are using it ? Why majority of them still demand for and use expensive commercial software such as SPSS, Matlab, SAS, Gauss, Stata, Mathematica, LIMDEP, GAMS, etc.? Linux is an open source Operating System. How many of the publicly funded institutions have completely abandoned Windows OS and are using OSS for workstations /PCs or for server applications? How many of these institutions are using Open Office instead of MS-Office. If not, why ? Why majority of the libraries in United States and European countries are using commercial software ? I do not have any empirical evidence to quote the numbers. However, my observations and discussion with professional friends during my visits to some of the these places revealed that majority of the big libraries in these countries prefer commercial software. It is an understatement to say that people are now seeing the light at the end of tunnel. I would like to delineate reasons and compulsion Indian libraries had to use the commercial software and to continue with it. When no suitable open source software meeting all the local requirements was available to libraries, there was no option but to go in for commercial software. Library automation using commercial software began some time in late 1980's and during this period no open source software was available. For that matter, no user friendly, easy to install and ready to use OSS was available till 2006 or so. Lots of experiments have been conducted on OSS, some with success and some with no or limited success.We always proudly share our success stories with others, but refrain from sharing the failures. Authorities in many institutions insist on quick implementation using a tested commercial software rather on experimenting with OSS, indefinitely. Secondly, it is slightly difficult to migrate to OSS or any other software when one is highly conversant with the existing one. Therefore, I would like to know from those libraries, who migrated from commercial software to Open source software, the following : 1. How much money ( Direct and Indirect cost ) and time was spent on data migration and customization? 2. Whether librarians themselves did the job or took help from computer professionals ? 3. Whether they could convert all the time-series administrative data or only the bibliographic data ? How do they retrieve administrative data, if it is not transferred during migration ? 4. After migration, whether they have totally discontinued the earlier software or still using the old one for some reasons? Going by certain observations and genuine reasons, it will take some more time for the LIS professionals to learn, test, understand, implement and successfully use open source software. "Never be the first or never be the last. Learn from others experience", said some one. Therefore, I do not think the main intention would be to squander public funds. With great appreciation and due respect to all those who developed or contributed for further improvements of Koha, I have few observation to make. No doubt Koha is an excellent software built on sound architecture and proven technology and has great potential to become the most preferred OSS. However, from my personal experience, I hesitate to accept Koha in its present format. The flow of work in Koha's acquisition and serial control module is not suitable for Indian libraries. I feel, these modules need lots of customization. Same is the view expressed by some of my senior professional friends who have tested it. Many libraries who have opted for Koha are directly cataloging the books and using only the circulation module and OPAC. Following are some of the requirements to make Koha more popular and acceptable without any apprehension : 1. An institution (S) to provide support such as data conversion, migration, customization and online support, for a nominal fee. 2. A Government institution to fund periodic regional Workshops and training programmes on Koha, the way CDS/ISIS was promoted by NISSAT. Opportunity may be given to professionals to give demos of additional utilities developed by them. NISSAT did this during the CDS/ISIS workshops. 3. Ready to use SQL statements to generate certain outputs/queries which are not possible at present. Such statments can be run either from MySQL prompt or from Koha's customised menus. 4. Directory of Indian experts in Koha who can offer help voluntarily. 5. A team of librarians to suggest required customization to suit requirements of Indian libraries. 6. Directory of companies who offer Koha services on cloud or at sites. 7. Directory of institutions who are using all the modules of Koha. 8. Introducing Koha or any OSS in LIS syllabus. thanks, G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Mailing List Admin wrote: > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 02:10:34 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> >> >> At last people are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel! Many >> institutions have squandered public funds - all coming from taxpayers - on >> commercially marketed software when excellent software is available for >> free. Prof. ARD Prasad, Director of DRTC at ISI, B'lore, has been advocating >> the adoption of open source software for years but barring a few others have >> ignored his recommendation. Yes, go for KOHA. There is a worldwide community >> of KOHA users and you can always learn from each other.� >> >> SA >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: ARAGONDA L MOORTHY <almoorthy52(a)gmail.com> >> To: Swati Bhattacharyya <swati(a)iimcal.ac.in> >> Cc: Dr. Rama K C Patro <rkcpatro(a)iimtobu.ac.in>; >> lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 14:06 >> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] kindly mail 2 forum members >> >> Dear ALL, >> This is reg LibSys. We too faced problems in using the software in 2005-06 >> at DRDL, Hyderabad. We switched over from Libris to LibSys. For data >> export, they took enormous time. The Engineer who visited DRDL, Hyderabad >> took data on CD to facilitate export of OPAC data. But after 6 months >> expressed inability to export saying some lame excuse. Again they took the >> data and took more time. Meanwhile I joined DESIDOC in 2006, and was able >> to call their senior executives to solve the problem. All this took more >> than 1 year. Again they charge exorbitantly for maintenance. I understand >> it has the largest customer base in India and so they are dictating term >> (Monopoly). LIS professionals have to unitedly take on such issues raising >> in National Forums like Conferences, etc. >> Whenever we suggest a new facility--utility--improvement, they take and >> improve the software. But our intellectual capital >> (suggestions/improvements) do not get any rewards. The are used to bring >> new release with increased price tag. >> Why can't we use KOHa or NEWGENLI--the open source software???? >> AL MOORTHY >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reg: Openness 'needs both political will and technical skill, fortunately ICRISAT has had both' an interview with Mr. M Madhan
by sanat kumar Behera 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Dear Sir: I would be grateful if you can share with our LIS professionals. Open Access Interviews@AIMS: a new service on AIMS Wed, 27/03/2013 — AIMS AIMS announces the introduction of 'Open Access Interviews@AIMS ' as a new quartely service. The objective is to publish use cases on various open access issues affecting access to agricultural research outputs and share experiences on the uptake of openness by institutions in the agricultural domain. This service will share these experiences by means of structured interviews. The inaugural interview focuses on the experiences from the International Crops and Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics<http://oar.icrisat.org/> (ICRISAT), in India - read the interview here<http://aims.fao.org/community/blogs/aims.fao.org/community/open-access/blog…> . Openness 'needs both political will and technical skill, fortunately ICRISAT has had both' an interview with Mr. M Madhan http://aims.fao.org/community/open-access/blogs/openness-needs-both-politic… Thank You Regards Mr. Sanat kumar Behera Research Fellow J.S.K. Library ICRISAT Patancheru Hyderabad India S.Behera(a)cgiar.org Sanatku.behera(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy
by mukesh jha 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Dear Professional Library Internship Advertisement No. IDSA/066/2013 *Vacancy*: 02 Post of “LIBRARY INTERNSHIP” Appointment to the post will be made on contract initially for a period of one year. *Pay*: Rs.12, 000/- per month *Essential Qualifications and Experience* - Degree of a recognized University or equivalent. - Degree or equivalent diploma in Library Science from a recognized University/ Institution. *Desirable* - Conversant/ familiar with computer operations. - Experienced candidates. *Job Responsibilities* - Classification, Cataloging and processing of books. - Monographs, journals shelving. - Compiling bibliographies. - Database creation, journal article Indexing, scanning and Web Indexing. Applications may be sent on plain paper, neatly typed, clearly mentioning on the envelope “Application for the Post of Library Internship” and giving details like (a) Name, (b) Date of Birth, (c) Address, (d) Nationality, (e) Educational Qualifications (Name of degree, Year of passing, Subjects studied and Percentage of Marks) and other relevant details like career profile and experience etc. Web link: http://www.idsa.in/jobs/LibraryInternship Wg Cdr (Retd) Hemlata Lohani Assistant Director The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses 1, Development Enclave, Rao Tula Ram Marg New Delhi 110 010 With Regards Mukesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for full text an article (Kotesh B)
by Kotesh B 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Respected Library Professionals, One of our Faculty member urgently needed the below mentioned article. It is great help to me and our faculty if anyone sends this article to me. Please send me the soft copy of full text article to my email. Title: *Constructing multiple choice questions of the multiple true/false type* Author: RONALD McG. HARDEN Journal: Medical Education *Volume 13*, *Issue 4*, <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.1979.13.issue-4/issuetoc> *pages 305–312*, *July 1979* DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1979.tb01517.x http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1979.tb01517.x/abstr… With Regards, Email.koteshlibrarian(a)gmail.com -- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. KOTESH, B. Research Scholar and Project Fellow U.G.C Major Research , Institutional Repositories (IR) Department of Library and Information Science, Jnana Sahyadri, Kuvempu University -577 451 India. Mobile: +*919449177946* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: IATLIS-Prof. Jagindar Singh Ramdev Lifetime Achievement Award-2012
by Jagtar Singh 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Dear All, I am pleased to inform you that Prof. PSG Kumar, Former Head, Department of Library and Information Science, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur received the prestigious, "IATLIS-Prof. Jagindar Singh Ramdev Lifetime Achievement Award-2012" at the Inaugural Session of the XXIX IATLIS National Conference on the theme, "Contemplating Persistent and Debatable issues of Library and Information Science (LIS) Education and Research" held at Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore from 20 March 2013. Prof. NSN. Shastri conferred this Award on Prof. PSG Kumar. Besides Prof. PSG Kumar, others seen in the picture (from left to right) are: Dr. Baljinder Kaur, Dr. Navkiran Kaur, Prof. ARD Prasad, Prof. Jagtar Singh, Dr. HPS Kalra, Prof. IV Malhan, Prof. NSN Shastri, and Prof. Trishanjit Kaur. Prof. Jagindar Singh Ramdev an NRI and a great philanthropist from Chicago (USA) donated Rs. 1, 00, 000/= to the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) to institute this Award. Prof. PSG Kumar is the first library doyen to receive this prestigious Award. Prof. SM Shafi, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar recieved the "IATLIS-Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award-2012" at this occasion. Mr. Khushpreet Singh Brar, UGC JRF, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala received the "IATLIS-Prof. SP Narang Research Promotion Award-2012. --------------------------------------- Profound regards, Jagtar Singh Dr. Jagtar Singh, President, Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS), President, Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship (SATKAL), President, Punjab Library Association (PLA), and Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for full text article
by Ravi Hullur 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Dear Professionals, One of our research faculty members required following journal articles, please send this article and help me and our research faculty Tulika Gupta, Anjali Aggarwal, Daisy Sahni Surgical anatomy of the frontal sinus outflow pathway: a cadaveric study Eur J Anat, 17 (1): 29-34 (2013) -- ** ***** Regards Ravi Hullur Asst.Librarian KLE University, Belgaum Mob.No.9740638831 Blog:http://ravihullurs.blogspot.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Anomaly in the Implementation of UGC Scheme (1986, 1996, 2006) in Kerala
by Dr. A.T. Francis 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Dear Professionals, I would like to highlight a serious anomaly happened and still continuing in KeralaState on the implementation of UGC Scheme (1986, 1996 and 2006) for librarians in universities and colleges in Kerala. Though there is no provision in the UGC Scheme for the promotion from the lower cadre to the UGC Entry Cadre of Asst. Librarian/ College Librarian, in Kerala it is still continuing. While implementing UGC Scheme, in the case of other teachers, the existing Non-UGC Cadre posts like Junior Lecturer and Junior Asst. Professor have been upgraded to Lecturer and Asst. Professor respectively and all the incumbents in the Junior Lecturer and Junior Asst. Professor cadres possessing Masters Degree in the concerned subject (Exempted NET) have been inducted to the UGC Cadre and the then cadres in the Pre-UGC Scheme like Junior Lecturer and Junior Asst. Professor have been closed for ever. Due to some unscientific administrative reasons, either this type of induction to UGC Scheme was not done in the case of librarians or the NET was not insisted to the entry cadre of library professionals like Library/Professional/Reference Asst. Ultimately, now the professionals are divided into several classes and groups and many court cases have emerged only because of the system generated issues. Hence, most of the professionals, instead of concentrating in documentation and information services, they are gathering, thinking and acting on the issues on how get rid of these issues. The only way to solve these issues permanently is implementing UGC Scheme to librarians as envisaged in the Scheme. The following are the actions needed in this regard: 1. As in the case of other teachers, all existing incumbents in Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. should be inducted to UGC Scheme as on the date of possessing Masters Degree in the concerned subject (Exempting NET). 2. To accommodate all incumbents in the Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. cadres on induction to UGC Scheme, sufficient number of posts should be upgraded to Asst. Librarians as super numerary. 3. The existing cadre of Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. may be closed by upgrading few posts as Asst. Librarian and the remaining posts should be downgraded to Jr. Professional/Technical Asst. (JPA/JTA) for CLISc holders. All Dept. Libraries working in one shift should have one AL and JPA/JTA each and all College Libraries and Divisions of the University Library working in two shifts should have two AL and JPA/JTA each (one each for one shift) and the existing posts of Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. may be upgraded / downgraded accordingly. 4. It is also suggested to introduce Time Bound Promotion on completion of 5 years for JPA/JTAs, instead of the existing system of Ratio Promotion or vacancy/retirement based promotion. Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY & IT NODAL OFFICER College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Details of Faculty Status for Librarians is required
by Dr. A.T. Francis 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Dear Professionals, Please let me know and provide the details of Universities in India having Faculty Status (Teaching Staff) for Asst. Librarians, Deputy Librarians and Librarians. If there, please provide copies of decisions and/or orders of the University, Governments, Courts or other agencies in this regard. If librarians are designated as Asst. Professor, Assoc. Professor and Professor, available information of the same also may be given. With regards,Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY, IT NODAL OFFICER& WEBADMINISTRATOR College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] [nmlis] Fwd: Prevalent Practice of Plagiarism: Is there a Solution ?
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Dear Professional friends I would like to share my opinion on the above issue that may lead to further discussion and help to reach a solution. Background: U.G.C. and managements are compelling the departments / libraries to organize conferences / seminars to get NAAC grade points and supporting financially. The organizers need participants hence accepting every paper that is submitted. The professionals need papers for their CAS promotions or selections and the seminars / conferences are a channel for fast track publication. Further they are submitting for journal publication also. These developments are indeed desirable for the development and recognition of the profession. Outcome: However the outcome is not that encouraging as expected to be. The quantitative growth lead to the qualitative depreciation. Reason: Many of the professionals are not familiar with writing standards and skills. They are not familiar with difference between research article and research paper; innovative ideas and opinion studies; pasting and logical presentation; copying and citing; arbitrary citation and standard citation using a style manual These are not a part of their studies. Even if so, one will forget after examinations. Therefore there is no opportunity for the professionals to learn and acquire the skills of writing and presentation and the standards to be followed. Hence the need is to train our professionals in these aspects. Only then we can expect true academic contributions. The way out: There may be many ways to improve the situation but submitting three propositions for discussion 1. Conducting workshops on preparation and presentation of research paper not for name sake but with real zeal. 2. Applying anti-plagiarism software and reject the identified papers. This is good from the quality point of view but may demoralize the professionals. 3. Having a panel of voluntary editors who will review papers and suggest revision / modification of papers instead of outright rejection. This will improve the writing skills of the author and encourage him/her for standard contributions. I think it is high time to find solutions to the problem and enhance the standard of papers. ThanksVaralakshmi Dr R.S.R.Varalakshmi Professor (Rtd) 54-12-64/5, Bhanu Nagar H.B.Colony Post Visakhapatnam - 530 022 To: nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com From: naglaxman(a)gmail.com Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:23:01 +0530 Subject: [nmlis] Fwd: [LIS-Forum] Prevalent Practice of Plagiarism: Is there a Solution ? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pandurang Konnur <pvkonnur(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:09 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prevalent Practice of Plagiarism: Is there a Solution ? To: lis-forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, francis(a)library.iisc.ernet.in Dear Friends, Dew to my busy schedule, I could not see the LIS Forum mail posted by Vasantha Raju and subsequent postings of Prof.Mallinath Kumbar and Dr.A.L.Murthy. I AM DEEPLY HURT BY THIS ACT OF PLAGIARISM. AS MY NAME IS TAKEN AS THE CO-AUTHOR, I OWN THIS RESPONSIBILITY AND PLEAD GUILTY FOR THIS ACT WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE. The first author was working for his PhD under my guidence and he was to publish two articles before his submission. He came to me with a request that he has made a survey on Education Institutions in Gadag City and written an article based on the survey and requested me to put a word to the editor of SRELS. When I looked at the article, I found that it is an empirical work based on a survey in the place where the author is working. Then I allowed him to use my name as second author and requested the editor to help the research scholar by publishing this article. No guide for that matter can check the authenticity of the article more than this and I did so. To day after reading these postings, I spoke to the first author. In the first instance, he declined the copying. I told him to go through both the articles and send me the truth by mail. I got the mail as under: *" Sir, As you phoned today regarding the article, I have taken/copied some (may be 15 to 20%) of the literature like abstract, references from the particular article but the data was from my survey I have copied the methodology only, not fully copied. And I used the same schedule to survey the colleges at Gadag City. One more thing that I referred all the references and collected the literature from references. It may be same what I had collected and the author of particular article copied from same references. Sir, Once again I wish to tell you that I have not copied full article as it is. I am very sorry for the same. Further, here onwards, I will not copy or put any same information what the other articles have. And the article published in SRELS was reviewed by experts also." Now I have two options before me: One to request the publishers of the journal to withdraw the article from the journal database. Two to surrender all my academic publications back to the profession. Because a sentence used by my friend has touched ma a lot. In my entire currier I have never taken any black spot like this. I have published more than 50 articles (most of them are available on Google scholar). If any of them are traced as pleagured, I will leave my profession on the same day. Just because of the foolish act of my student, I have to be targeted by immatured statements like: *"Those who have the power and money move up to the ladder no matter what their academic credentials are."* I do not know whome this statement is aiming at. But I request my younger generation Librarians to be little cautious while making statements in the forums like this. Secondly my request to all research guides to be cautious before allowing their Research Scholars to put their names as a co-author. *However I leave the judgement to the members of this forum and I assure that I will be abide by your judgement With very high regard to the profession at large. -- *Dr. P. V. Konnur* Professor & Director, School of Applied Sciences, Chairman Department of Library & Information Science, *Rani Channamma University,* Vidhya Sangama, Belgavi – 591 156 Karnataka State, (India) Phone : 91-831-2565216-17 Mobile : 91-9449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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