The onset of summer has often been referred to as the doctor’s season with enormous number of people falling sick.
The sudden change in temperature results in the outbreak of several diseases and infections, say city physicians and paediatricians.
Change in temperature is the root cause of viral fever. “Especially in the mid-February, people get body ache, throat infection, sneezing, gastroenteritis, skin-related problems since around this time there is a sudden change in temperature, especially in southern India.
People sometimes develop asthma due to the hot and dry temperature and pollen from flowers infects the eyes too
As a precautionary measure “One should be very hygienic, especially during this season.
One should drink plenty of clean water and fluids, fresh cooked food is preferred over street open foods.
Covering one’s head while going out helps prevent heat stroke”.Children, especially with both working parents, are among the worst affected during the season. Diarrhoea, fever and upper respiratory track infection are among the major diseases, that children complain of.
Keeping children away from roadside food and allowing them to have plenty of boiled water and home made juices would help prevent dehydration and constipation among children.
Skin infection is yet another problem that crops up during this particular summer season. Fungal infection, prickly heat (miliaria rubra), excess sweat, acnes and sun burns, are among the major skin related diseases that crop up once the summer starts.
Cotton clothes are better than synthetic ones. Taking bath with lukewarm water, and increase in the intake of liquids and leafy vegetables could be followed to prevent all skin related infections during the summer.
Common ailments Acute dehydration leading to headache, bodyache and fever Heat strokes, sun burns Stomach infection (gastroenteritis) Oral diseases, mostly cold, cough and respiratory ailments Jaundice and typhoid Eye infection Drying of skin
Precautions Increase in liquid intake Be fully covered in sun Avoid eating out at unhygienic places Avoid drinking water outside. Even at home stick to boiled water.
Avoid intake of alcohol.Do not shock your throat and body by exposing to extreme temperatures Wearing light coloured clothes preferably cotton clothes.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
NLC Tuticorin Coal Based Thermal Power Plant
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said “We will be in need of 8 lakh MW by 2031-2032 as per the Integrated Energy Policy Report, requiring a whopping Rs.6 lakh crore.”
Union Minister of State for Coal Santosh Bagrodia said NLC officials had been instructed to initiate steps for the mining of 13.50 million tonnes of lignite at Jayamkondam to establish a 600-MW power plant there. “I’ve also told them to mine 20 million tonnes of lignite in the Mannaarkudi area using clean coal technology to reach deep-seated coal.”
State Minister for Electricity Arcot N. Veeraswami said steps had been taken to generate additional power through new coal-based thermal power stations and Tamil Nadu would be in a position to spare 20,000 MW to the Central pool in the next four years.
NLC Tamil Nadu Power is a joint venture of Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. NLC has a 89 per cent stake in the equity. The project is being set up at a debt-equity mix of 70:30. The entire debt of Rs 3,437 crore comes from Rural Electrification Corporation, a government of India undertaking.
The public sector power equipment major, BHEL, has bagged the order for the supply of boiler, turbine and generator. The order is worth Rs 3,196 crore.
On Wednesday, another company, Coastal Energen, announced the setting up of a 1,200-MW power plant at Tuticorin, with Chinese equipment, at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore. Asked whether the project cost was on the higher side, a senior official of NLC told Business Line on Saturday that the company’s project included two cooling towers, a gas-insulated switchgear of 400 Kva capacity and a desalination plant for water supply.
Union Minister of State for Coal Santosh Bagrodia said NLC officials had been instructed to initiate steps for the mining of 13.50 million tonnes of lignite at Jayamkondam to establish a 600-MW power plant there. “I’ve also told them to mine 20 million tonnes of lignite in the Mannaarkudi area using clean coal technology to reach deep-seated coal.”
State Minister for Electricity Arcot N. Veeraswami said steps had been taken to generate additional power through new coal-based thermal power stations and Tamil Nadu would be in a position to spare 20,000 MW to the Central pool in the next four years.
NLC Tamil Nadu Power is a joint venture of Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. NLC has a 89 per cent stake in the equity. The project is being set up at a debt-equity mix of 70:30. The entire debt of Rs 3,437 crore comes from Rural Electrification Corporation, a government of India undertaking.
The public sector power equipment major, BHEL, has bagged the order for the supply of boiler, turbine and generator. The order is worth Rs 3,196 crore.
On Wednesday, another company, Coastal Energen, announced the setting up of a 1,200-MW power plant at Tuticorin, with Chinese equipment, at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore. Asked whether the project cost was on the higher side, a senior official of NLC told Business Line on Saturday that the company’s project included two cooling towers, a gas-insulated switchgear of 400 Kva capacity and a desalination plant for water supply.
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