Uppinangady, : Senior police officers visited the
SC/ST Colony in Ammudange Mucchiradka near Shishila, Belthangady, having heard
that a Naxal group had recently visited it.
Reportedly,
Aravind, son of Mucchiradka Charumba Mugera, had gone to wash clothes in a
stream in the forest when he came across a group of Naxals, who had arrived
from the Miyar Reserve Forest. They followed him and visited his house on the
evening of Tuesday. The news spread rapidly and an Anti Naxal Force (ANF) team
under the leadership of Inspector Prasanna Kumar visited the region and began
combing it.
The villagers were terrified when they saw the police. They huddled in groups
in front of shops and hotels on Wednesday and discussed the recent happenings.
Anucheth, ASP for Puttur, organized a meeting of village leaders in the
premises of the Gram Panchayat (GP) and urged the villagers not to support the
Naxals. He urged them to quit worrying and inform the police if they come to
know of any Naxal activity in the region. The villagers assured the police that
they will not support any Naxal and urged them not to torture them in the name
of Naxals.
Speaking about his experiences, Aravind said that he came across the Naxals
when he was washing clothes in a stream in the forest. The group, which
comprised 3 armed men and a woman, told him that they were Naxals and asked
questions about problems in the village. Aravind said that he was too scared to
speak to them and ran away to his house.
Aniyara, mother of Aravind, said that her son was so scared that he left the
clothes beside the stream and came running home. The Naxal team brought the
clothes to their house and kept the bundle on the verandah. She said that the
woman in the team spoke Tulu.
The villagers informed the police that the forest has a trail from Kudremukh to
Holegundi through Kuthloor, Neriya, Gandibagilu, Amedikallu, Kallaru,
Ambudedange, and Holegundi. They also said that there is a road from Amedikallu
to Mudigere through Yettinabhuja, Bairapura, and Mudigere.
BANGALORE: Infosys
has promoted another 4,000 people taking the total number of promotions
this year to 20,000, effective July 1, 2012. This is about over 13% of
the company's total strength of 1,51,151 as on June 30.
"We
have done the promotions and progressions as we talked last time, we
have done 20,000 across the corporations," Infosys CEO S D Shibulal said.
The company had earlier said it would review the wage hike decision
depending on the company performance. However, with lower-than-expected
earnings and forecast, in dollar term, the company will not lift its
freeze on salary hike any time soon.
Infosys and its
subsidiaries added 9,236 (gross) people in the first quarter of FY'13,
while the net addition during the period stood at 1,157 employees. The
rate of attrition during the quarter was marginally higher at 14.9%
against 14.7% in the January-March quarter of 2011-12.
"Typically, attrition in the first quarter (of a fiscal) goes up because
people tend to go for higher studies. About 30% of our attrition was
due to this reason," Shibulal said.
Meanwhile the country's lead tech player Tata Consultancy Services
has continued to hire to support business growth. With campus trainees
joining the company from the beginning of July-September quarter,
lateral hiring accounted for 75% of total hiring in Q1. There was a
total gross addition of 13,831 people (net addition of 4,962), taking
the total employee strength of 243,545 on a consolidated basis.
The utilization rate (excluding trainees) was at 81.3% and that
including trainees was 72.3%. The attrition rate (last twelve
months-LTM) was 12.0%.
"We have been able to effectively
increase our retention rate in the first quarter to over 88% and
increase our utilization rates further. The on-boarding of current
year's trainees has begun," said Ajoy Mukherjee, executive
vice-president and global head, human resources.
