Brigade sponsors CMCA Jatre
Extending support to children’s initiatives
for a better society

CMCA, Children’s Movement for Civic Awareness, conducts a Jatre (a Kannada word meaning yatra, mela or fair) every year, which brings together school children presenting their campaigns. This year’s Jatre was sponsored by Brigade Group. The programme was held on Saturday, 17 January, at Baldwin Boys High School. M.R. Jaishankar, MD, Brigade Group, and Chaitanya Hegde, RJ, RadioCity, were chief guests at the occasion.

CMCA, a joint initiative of the Public Affairs Centre and Swabhimana, conducts civic awareness programmes in schools. Groups of children from the 40 schools that have Civic Clubs presented their campaigns at the annual Jatre. Prizes were awarded based on the campaigns and presentations.

Brigade Runners Up in Cricket Tournament

Brigade Group were runners up in the Anchor Friendship Cup Cricket Tournament sponsored by Anchor Electronics and Electricals, which took place on 24 and 25 January 2004 at the Loyola High School Grounds in Bangalore.

The seven participatng teams were: Potential Service Consultants (P) Ltd, RMZ Corp, Brigade Group, A.N. Prakash Consultants, Mantri Group, Tyco Engineering & Constructions Pvt. Ltd and RSP Architects, Engineers & Planners Pvt. Ltd.

Tyco played an excellent game and won the trophy.

New Brigadiers come on board...

Marketing
M.H. Shylaja, Marketing Co-ordinator
B.M. Komala, Secretary
S. Sangeetha, Secretary

Hospitality
K. Srinivasan, General Manager (Woodrose Club)
Gurmeet Singh, Manager—Operations & Sales (Woodrose Club)

Engineers
Project Managers
Mahesh G. Konapur, S. Shashidhar

Project Engineers
M. Krishna Prakash, Praveen P. Deshpande,
D.S. Sathish, T. Shivakumar

Engineers—Quality Control
Arvind Kumar Sable, M. Bhaskar Reddy,
C. Halarameshwara, K. Muruganantham,
L. Poorna Chandra, K. Ravindranath,
S.R. Sreenivas Murthy, C. Sudarshan,
S.S. Vasanth Kumar, G. Vivek

Technical Assistants
G. Gayathri, Satyam J. Vora
Quantity Surveyor
Koppu Leela Kumar

Brigade School Report Card

With the last faculty recruitments underway, building nearing completion and admission processes moving along smoothly, Brigade School is readying itself for the start of its first academic year.

Brigade School, which follows the CBSE syllabus, will open with Pre-kg to Standard 8 levels. Standard 9 will commence in June 2005 and Std 10 a year later.

For more information on the school, availability of seats and admission procedures, visit http://www.brigadeschools.org

Two more programmes by Brigade-CTVTI

Brigade Construction and Vocational Training Institute (Brigade-CTVTI) has been set up by Brigade Foundation in collaboration with NICMAR (National Institute of Construction Management and Research), Pune.

After Brigade-CTVTI conducted its first Management Development Programme, (MDP) two more programmes have been conducted.

One MDP on Financial Management for Construction Engineers was held between 29 and 31 January 2004. The Programme was attended by 20 delegates from organisations like Sankalp Group, A.N. Prakash Consultants, Bharat Builders, Prestige Group, Embassy Group, Gesco Corporation, Brigade Group, Yashaswi Constructions, Krushi Builders, Surfa Coats Ltd, Santech Engineers, Laxmi Nirman Pvt. Ltd, JMC Projects and Salarpuria Properties Pvt. Ltd. The programme was held at Hotel Atria.

35 students attended the Regional Contact Seminar (RCS) for Centre of Distance Education (CODE). The preceding CODE exams were held between 16 and 20 December 2003 in the Brigade Millennium campus.

Roads to Whitefield being upgraded

Whitefield today is a hub of commercial activity. At one end of the IT Corridor, this locality has over the recent years developed into a nerve centre. The International Tech Park, a state-of-the-art convention centre almost complete, a proposed star hotel, super speciality hospital, medical college, and the growing residential areas in the belt have made this a prime locality in its own right.

Pressure on the two roads to Whitefield—Airport Road and Whitefield Road (Old Madras Road)—has called for their upgradation. The development of these two roads is significant in that it makes commuting to Whitefield quick and easy, and is bound to lead to further development of this locality that is now suddenly close to the heart of the city.

The Whitefield Road is being developed at a cost of Rs 8.60 crore by the BDA. The road will be ready in four months time.

Whitefield Road will have four lanes with a scientifically designed median. Landscaping of the median and either side of the road will also feature in the project. Priority will be given to aesthetics, footpaths on either side, modern signage, and improved lighting for better visibility.

Apart from Whitefield Road, the BDA has also undertaken the development of roads on either side of the K.R. Puram cable-stayed bridge.

A bridge enroute to Whitefield is a bottleneck and holds up traffic in peak hours. The bridge will be reconstructed and broadened.

-Excerpted from Times Property Bangalore, 30 January

Housing Loan Schemes

Indicative Equated Monthly Installment for every Rs 1 lakh of loan*
Period up to (in years)	5	10	15	20
Floating Rate of Interest	7.25%	7.25%	7.25%	7.25%
EMI	1,992	1,175	913	791
Fixed Rate of Interest	7.5%	7.5%	7.5%	7.5%
EMI	2,004	1,188	928	806

As on 10 December 2003. *Conditions Apply

• Loan amounts that can be availed depend on the housing finance institution
• Loan amount limit depends on the income of the applicant
• Security of the loan is the first mortgage of the property to be financed
• Loans can be availed from leading financial institutions
• Interest rates and EMIs are subject to change without notice, check with the financial institutions for prevailing interest rates
• Calculations are based on loan amount of Rs 10 lakh onwards