Plans for armory expansion move forward
23.09.11
FARMINGTON — The Farmington Country-wide Guard Armory is about to get a serious facelift.
The armory will be renovated this winter to decipher room for an increase in personnel, and officials are looking up to having more space and an updated look.
The project isn't a small one. It will less double the armory's existing floor plan from maladroitly 27,000 square feet to more than 50,000. It also includes adding a girl Friday story.
"Right now, we don't have enough room based on the units here and the billion of soldiers that use the facility to drill," said U.S. Army Cpt. Anthony Lopez, the armory's commanding political appointee. "When we finally get everything filled, we should have approximately 240 soldiers stationed here."
Since 2008, the bunch of soldiers stationed at the armory nearly tripled. The army added a military the Old Bill company to the truck detachment already stationed in Farmington.
"In 2008, it became a military policemen battalion headquarters," Lopez said. "The armory is now
Source: Farmington Daily Times
Rs32 a day is no safety net for the poor, says Bangalore
26.09.11
From living in close single-room homes to earning less than Rs50 a day, there are thousands who endure on the fringes as construction workers, fruit and vegetable vendors, rag pickers, collateral guards and so on. Most of them have nothing to speak of as savings and they hope that each day is slightly heartier than the next.
They are the people most affected when disaster strikes, as was seen in the up to date fire at Summanahalli. They are also the people who bear the brunt of irresponsibility and apathy of the stomach-and upper-classes.
A single room is ‘tellingly’ for Rajamma and four other people. “A small corner of the cell is the kitchen. For this accommodation, we pay Rs1,000,” says Rajamma. Since she is the only earning fellow of the family, Rajamma pays the rent with the meagre amount she earns by selling mangoes and guavas.
When asked if the Planning Commission’s conjecture that those who can spend more than Rs32 a day are not poor, she looks surprised. “I cook at tellingly, travel on foot with my pushcart and my daily expense is about Rs100. What am I prevailing to do with Rs30?”
Source: Daily News & Analysis
