Vinay Deolalikar (born 1971) is an Indian computer scientist and a Principal Research Scientist at the HP Labs, working in the Storage and Information Management Platforms Lab. On August 6th 2010, Vinay sent a manuscript to various leading researchers claiming to contain a proof that P ≠ NP, a Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problem and one of the most important open problems in mathematics and computer science.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines sailaway from the safe harbour catch the trade winds in your sails ..... EXPLORE , DREAM, DISCOVER....

As you set out for Ithaca
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon – don’t be afraid of them:... See more
you’ ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon – you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

No-one wants to lose,
The magic that's inside,
All the colours of the rainbow,
And the treasures we hide,
If you want to keep it,
Then tears just aren't enough,
Don't live off all your memories,
Start drowning in your love.

Coming up for air x2
Breathing in deeply,
Coming up for air

Somewhere beneath the surface,
Is the deepness of the sea,
When a heart still fills with wonder,
And happiness is free,
Just continue on your journey,
Cause wisdom's not enough,
Don't let the waves erode you,
Stop drowning in your love.


The air smells good,
The air smells fine,
Release the pressure on my mind.

No-one wants to lose the magic that's inside.


The will to win means nothing if you haven’t the will to prepare.” — Juma Ikangaa

“The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” — Unknown

“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” — Author Unknown

“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.” — Mao Tse-Tung

“He knows the water best who has waded through it.” — Danish Proverb


Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
~Robert Heinlein

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is ... people who have come alive."
~Howard Thurman

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."
~Mary Jean Iron

"O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man,
'Behold!... See more
thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!"
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
~Kahlil Gibran


Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy or they become legends.

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It's like if you want to be a good pianist,
you have to do a lot
of scales and a lot of practice,
and a lot of that is kind of boring,
it's work.
...But you need to do that before you can really be very
expressive and really play beautiful music.
You have to go through
that phase of practice and drill.
- Terry Tao

There'll be times when we'l hit the rock-botton in terms of inspiration but the only right thing to do would be to keep striving for your promised land.

I plan to post good, motivational poetry and quotes here which will keep me hopeful and inspired.

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

~Soren Kierkegaard

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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

~Soren Kierkegaard

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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

~Soren Kierkegaard

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Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature... See more could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.

~Soren Kierkegaard




Dreams are not negotiable.

~Paulo Coelho's studentrockstars status message.

If you have a dream, don't waste your energies explaining why.

~Paulo Coelho's studentrockstars status message.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

~Ambrose Redmoon

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Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.

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Frodo: Then I know what I must do. It's just… I'm afraid to do it.
Galadriel: Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

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Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo; the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn... See more’t want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was, when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going... because they were holding on to something.

"My name is Melchizedek," said the old man. "How many sheep do you have?" "Enough," said the boy. He could see that the old man wanted to know more about his life. "Well, then, we've got a problem. I can't help you if you feel you've got enough sheep."

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"What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."

From The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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No matter whence you came, from a palace or a ditch,
You're a man, man, man, if you square yourself to life;
And no matter what they say, hermit-poor or Midas-rich,
You are nothing but a husk if you sidestep strife.

For it's do, do, do, with a purpose all your own,
That makes a man a man, whether born a serf or king;
And it's loaf, loaf, loaf, lolling on a bench or throne
That makes a being thewed to act a limp and useless thing!

No matter what you do, miracles or fruitless deeds,
You're a man, man, man, if you do them with a will;
And no matter how you loaf, cursing wealth or mumbling creeds,
You are nothing but a noise, and its weight is nil.

For it's be, be, be, champion of your heart and soul,
That makes a man a man, whether reared in silk or rags;
And it's talk, talk, talk, from a tattered shirt or stole,
That makes the image of a god a manikin that brags.

Richard Butler Glaenzer




Lose the day loitering,'twill be the same story
To-morrow, and the next more dilatory,
For indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute!
What you can do, or think you can, begin it!
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated;
Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




“When I came home I saw myself in the mirror and thought: we’re alike. Don’tmisunderstand me, you’re much prettier, but we are alike in a way. Ithink I could turn myself into you, if I made a real effort.“--- Persona (1966) A film by Ingmar Bergman.

INFOSYS HIRING BCA/BSC

The quest is on for:

Unit: Infrastructure Management Services (IMS), Independent Validation Solutions (IVS)

Role: Operations Executive / Testing Executive

Eligibility Criteria:

BCA or B.Sc graduates (Computer Science/ Electronics/ Mathematics/ Physics/ Statistics / Information Technology / Information Science only)
Candidates who have graduated in 2008, 2009 & 2010 with experience of up to 24 months are eligible to apply
Simple average aggregate of 60% throughout Class X, XII & Graduation.
Should not have participated in the Infosys selection process in the last 9 months.
Should have good communication skills.
Should be willing to relocate and work in a 24x7 environment.
You can send in the resumes to graduates@infosys.com on/before 23rd July, 2010. Short listed candidates will be informed via e-mail about the selection process.

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The ford company recruits freshers in IT sector for 2009-10 passed outs.

How to Apply;

1) Register the application form.

Click here for registration


2) Upload your resume.

LnT Infotech recruiting freshers for Service Help Desk
Freshers IT Job Opening at L&T


L&T Infotech one of the fastest growing IT Services companies, is ranked by NASSCOM among the top 10 software & services exporters from India in 2008. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of $ 8.5 billion Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), India’s largest technology-driven engineering organization which was ranked as India’s Best Managed Company-2008 in a survey conducted by Business Today-Ernst & Young. L&T has also been rated as No. 1 in Quality in a 2008 survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal Asia. L&T Infotech is differentiated by its unique Business-to-IT Connect, which is a result of its rich corporate heritage. A full-services IT firm with a blue-chip client roster, it offers comprehensive, end-to-end software solutions and services in the following industry verticals: 1) Banking & Financial Services 2) Insurance 3) Energy & Petrochemicals 4) Manufacturing (Consumer Packaged Goods, High-tech, Industrial Products, Automotive, Chemicals & Process, Media & Entertainment and Retail) 5) Product Engineering Services (Telecom) L&T Infotech delivers business solutions to its clients, leveraging its substantial domain experience and depth in technologies like SAP, Oracle (including Oracle Apps, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Hyperion), Microsoft, EAI, and DW/BI. In addition to application outsourcing (Application development, Maintenance & Support), L&T Infotech has strong capabilities in infrastructure management (IMS), testing services, end-to-end integrated engineering services and embedded system solutions. L&T Infotech’s vision is to provide world-class service to clients in its areas of focus, offering solutions that are based on business and technology insights.
Designation:
L&T is looking for Freshers - Service Helpdesk position - 25 Opening(s)

Job Description:
Looking for 0-6Months freshers or Experienced candidates, who are looking for challenging role in Service Helpdesk area.

Desired Profile:
- Should be willing to take challenging role as a Service Helpdesk.- Should have very good communication skills- Must have good computer basics- Should be willing to work for 24/7 shifts

Experience: 0 - 1 Years

Industry Type: IT-Software/ Software Services

Functional Area: IT-Support, Telecom, Hardware

Education: UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization,Graduation Not Required
PG - Any PG Course - Any Specialization,Post Graduation Not Required

Location: Bengaluru/Bangalore

Keyword: Fresher or Service Helpdesk or Desktop Support

Contact: Saif Phatan
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd
Plot No 25 - 31, EPIP 2nd Phase KIADB Industrial
Area, Whitefield,
BANGALORE,Karnataka,India 560066

Telephone: 91-80-66246624

Email: saif.phatan@lntinfotech.com

Website: http://www.Lntinfotech.com

Reference: Service Helpdesk

Capgemini
Website www.capgemini.com
Eligibility B.Tech/B.E. - Computers
Experience 0 Years
Location Bangalore
Date Posted 4-7-2010
Opportunity for Java / J2ee Fresher - Bangalore

Job Description :

Java / J2ee Freshers

* BE/B.Tech 2009 Passed out with Min 60%
* Java / J2ee Certification
* Good Communication Skills

Contact Details :

Name: Christy
Capgemini

Email : christy.mohanasundaram@capgemini.com

Who can apply:
1.Prospective employees must be Graduate Engineers who have passed Engineering degree exams in the year 2009 or 2010
2.Full time Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology from an institute recognized by AICTE with first division in first attempt taking average of all the semesters / years, irrespective of the weightage given to any particular semester / year by the Institute / University
3.Final year / semester students who expect their result by 01.08.2010 may also apply provided they have obtained at least first division, taking average up to pre-final examination
4.Age not more than 25 years on 30.06.2010
5.First division in 10th and 12th standard and not more than one year gap between 12th and Engineering.

Registration:
Interested Engineering professionals will have to register on or before 22.06.2010
Admit Cards to eligible Engineering professionals will be sent by email indicating their roll number, name of allocated test centre and guidelines for test on or before 05.07.2010
Admit Cards will not be sent by post or courier
No manual / paper applications will be entertained. Engineering professionals are required to fill in the email -id in the online application form compulsarily for all future communication

Selection:
Selection will be done based on an online Technical Test and Aptitude Test which will be carried out at the following 24 Centres across India

Allahabad Chandigarh ,Guwahati,Kolkata,Patna,Thiruvananthpuram,Ahmedabad,Chennai,Hyderabad,Lucknow,Pu
ne,Visakhapatanam,Bhopal, Delhi,Raipur,Mumbai, Ranchi,Shahjanpur (UP),Bengaluru, Noida,Jaipur,Nagpur,Tirupati,Waidhan (MP)

Test centre will be alloted solely at the discretion of the company. Company at its discretion can add or delete the centres.

Final selection will be done through
1.Group Discussion
2.Personal Interview
Engineering professionals will be communicated about the schedule of Group Discussion & Personal Interview through email address provided by them for final selection.

Placement
The selected Engineering professional shall undergo one year training at our various projects
The final place of posting will be allocated after successful completion of training
Engineering professionals will be given roles in upcoming thermal, hydro, gas and coal projects in engineering, construction, erection, testing, commissioning, operations and maintenance, quality assurance and operations services etc
Engineering professionals can be placed, across the country, in any of the functions at projects or offices and at any subsidiary companies of Reliance Power Limited


Important Dates

Commencement of online registration of application by Engineering professionals 09.06.2010
Last date for online registration 22.06.2010
Admit card with roll number, test centre name and guidelines to be sent through email. 05.07.2010
Online Test in 24 cities 17th and 18th July, 2010
Group Discussion and Personal Interview 4th August - 7th August 2010
GET Programme begins 8th September 2010

No Travelling Allowance will be paid for appearing in the test
Engineering professionals will have to make their own travel and boarding arrangment for appearing in the online test.
Engineering professionals called for Group Discussion and Interview will be reimbursed IInd AC train fare on submitting proof of travel. All the reimbursement will be sent to their residential address. For those selected, travel reimbursement will be made at the time of joining.
Company reserves the right to accept and reject the application at any time

If you are interested for a career in Reliance Power Ltd and you meet the above mentioned criteria, please register by clicking on the link for GET Programme. For more information on how to fill up the registration form, please click here .

In case of any assistance required during the registration process, please contact on 080-43436015 or email us on reliancepowersupport@eduquity.com
Click here to register for GET Programme.

We have released an advertisement in newspapers across India, to view the same Click here.

We are looking for Fresh engineering graduate with passion to deliver.

Who we are: Unisys is a 137 year old US based MNC. We rank in fortune 100 companies. We operate from Bangalore and Hyderabad in India and over 3000 people strong.

What we are looking at: B.E/B.Tech (2009 and 2010 pass out)

What we do:

Unisys India transforms our customers’ data centers to make IT operations more agile, secure and efficient while reducing the overall costs. We deliver Converged Remote Infrastructure Management services that help in remotely monitoring, managing and providing a comprehensive view of the entire IT infrastructure of our customers. 

Our Remote Management services provide monitoring & management for the following:

Our Server Management services include the management support and administration of Windows, UNIX / LINUX. We provide datacenter consolidation, server virtualization and migration services. 
Our Storage Management services include back-up & restore services and SAN/NAS 
Our Database Management services include configuration, monitoring and maintenance of Oracle, MS SQL, and Informix. 
Our Messaging Management services include monitoring and management of MS Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Blackberry. 
Our Network Management services include monitoring and management of LAN/WAN and Voice Infrastructure. 
Our Remote Desktop Management services include Desktop patch management, Image management, application packaging, Endpoint security, and software and hardware asset management.

Way Forward: Selected candidates will be trained for the job.

Walk-in for interview on 3rd and 4th of July 2010 at Unisys office for selection process. Candidates will have to undergo communication test, aptitude & technical test and personal interview.

Venue: Unisys, 135/1, Purva Premier, Residency Road. Opposite Bangalore club.

Thanks & Regards,
Prashanth
Recruitment Team

There is a great opportunity in working for DELL for freshers of 2009/10.
Who are eligible :

1 ) Only 2009/2010 passed outs.

2) Must have been scored 60% in their academics.


How to Apply :

1 ) Download the .xls format from here..

http://www.mediafire.com/?dmm2gmyzyjm




2 ) Send your resumes to andrew_solomon@dell.com with the .xls file.


Freshers dont miss the opportunity. Only Freshers can eligible.

For more details about this job,


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Jaina World View

Jainism, an Indian religion distinct from Hinduism and Buddhism, was founded by Vardhamana Mahavira, called "the Jina" (conqueror), who lived in the sixth century B.C. Among other variations from Hindu culture, Jainism has its own version of geography and cosmology. This chart from the nineteenth century shows the world of human habitation as a central continent with mountain ranges and rivers, surrounded by a series of concentric oceans (with swimmers and fish) and ring-shaped continents.




Sacred Cows

This poster represents the figure of the cow as containing all the Hindu gods and quotes Sanskrit texts: O noble folk, protect the cow, who protects your stomach, for . . . "Brahma is in her back, Vishnu in her throat, Rudra (i.e. Shiva) is established on her face . . . Sun and Moon are in her eyes . . ." This poster was published by an organization dedicated to the protection of cattle and to convincing all people that cattle should not be slaughtered or eaten.




Medieval Islamic Map
of the World

At the center of the map are the two holiest cities of Islam: Mecca and Medina. The map shows China and India in the north and the "Christian sects and the states of Byzantium" in the south. The outer circles represent the seas. The manuscript is a cosmology, not meant to be accurate geographically, but only to present the reader with a systematic overview of the existing knowledge about the world at the time.




Islamic World Map

This geographical treatise and collection of wondrous tales was exceedingly popular in mediaeval and early modern Islamic society. The map shown here is unusual in its portrayal of several creatures supporting the world in the firmament. While it uses a traditional Islamic projection of the world as a flat disk surrounded by the sundering seas which are restrained by the encircling mountains of Qaf, the map also shows the Ottomans' early use of geographic information based upon European cartographic methodologies and explorations.




Rescuing the Earth

The Hindu view of the world is cyclic. The universe is destroyed and re-emitted again in endless cycles. Periodically, Vishnu, the great god whose function is to maintain the world, comes into it temporarily in bodily form to rescue it from one disaster or another. Once a great flood swallowed up the entire earth, and Vishnu, taking the form of a gigantic wild boar, plunged to its bottom and brought the earth back up on his tusks. In this illustration, the boar incarnation is flanked by two images of Vishnu in his normal four-armed human shape.




Rescuing the Earth

In the second illustration, Vishnu in triumph tramples the demon who had abducted the earth to the ocean bottom. Scroll books are exceedingly rare in India, and this handwritten scroll with its ultra-minuscule script was probably meant as a tour de force and work of piety rather than a reading copy.




Wheel of Life

In the Tibetan Buddhist world view, the six realms of existence (Gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell-beings) are all held in the grasp of the Lord of Death. In the center of the wheel are the three root poisons of desire, hatred, and ignorance symbolized by the cock, snake, and pig, and on the outer rim are the twelve links of dependent origination by which all causes and effects are determined. The ultimate goal, shown by the monks in the left inner circle and the Buddha in the upper right, is to follow a path that frees one from these cycles.




The Burmese Buddhist World

In Buddhist cosmology, deriving from Indian origins, the world is viewed as a system of continents and oceans, either in rings (as in the center here) or floating detached in the ocean. This nineteenth-century Burmese manuscript shows in one image both sorts of continents, and a cosmic ocean symbolized by fish, crabs, and snails. Other sections of the book show and describe the various heavens and hells. Folding accordion-style manuscripts on thick paper are common in Southeast Asia, along with loose-leaf manuscripts made from palm leaves.





Buddhist World Map

Compiled during Japan's age of national isolation (1636-1854), this world map is representative of Buddhist cosmology. Drawn in 1710 by Htan (1654-1738), a Buddhist monk, it is characteristic of a type of early East Asian map that were not based on objective geographic knowledge, but on the more or less legendary statements in Buddhist literature. The map is centered on India and shows the mythical Anukodatchi-pond, which represents the center of the universe and from which four rivers flow in the four cardinal directions.


Although published in 1482, this map is based on the writings of Claudius Ptolemy (87-150 A.D.) and presents a composite geographical image of the world as known to classic Greek and Roman scholars. Ptolemy's geographical writings, known as Geographia or Cosmographia, survived through the Middle Ages in various manuscript copies and was one of the first geographical texts to be put into print. This edition was the first edition to be printed outside Italy and the first to include maps printed from woodcuts.

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An official in the Indian state of Bihar has come up with a new idea to encourage low caste poor people to cope with food shortages - rat meat.







The Principal Secretary of the state's Welfare Department, Vijay Prakash, said that he was advancing his proposal after "much survey and ground work".

Bihar's extremely poor Musahar community are rat-eaters by tradition.

The Musahar are on the bottom strata of the caste system with the lowest literacy rate and per capita income.

Less than one percent of their 2.3 million population in Bihar is literate and 98% are landless.

Delicacy

Mr Prakash says his proposals to popularise rat meat eating are intended to uplift their social-economic condition.



People now prefer to eat rat meat instead of chicken or goat as it comes cheaper and is more tasty and healthy
Vijay Prakash "There are twin advantages of this proposal. First, we can save about half of our food grain stocks by catching and eating rats and secondly we can improve the economic condition of the Musahar community," he told the BBC.

According to Mr Prakash, about 50% of total food grain stocks in the country are eaten away by rodents.

He argues that by promoting rat eating more grain will be preserved while hunger among the Musahar community will be reduced.

He said that rat meat is not only a delicacy but a protein-enriched food, widely popular in Thailand and France.

"Rats have almost no bones and are quite rich in nutrition. People at large don't know this cuisine fact but gradually they are catching up."

However he may find it difficult to popularise such a strategy in a conservative society like Bihar and other north Indian states.

Mr Prakash says that he has recipes to make rat eating a delicacy, which he now wants to distribute to all the hotels in Bihar.

He also wants to encourage rat farming in the same way that poultry is farmed.

While eating rat meat is still stigmatised in urban areas of the country, Mr Prakash says that his research has revealed that it is a popular food item in some parts of Bihar where it is known at roadside hotels by the name of "patal-bageri".

This is not the first time that the department secretary has come out with such an innovative idea.

Earlier, he proposed to recruit eunuchs as security guards to maternity wards in hospitals.

"Yes, that proposal is in its advance stage and we'll very soon engage them in various social activities of our department," he said.

And the welfare secretary's next plan?

"I'll make snake catching popular for the economic value of its venom," he said.

Source- BBC

Auction for 3G licence ended on Wednesday, after 34 days of bidding,with bids for pan-India licence touching Rs 16,751 crore. This willensure the government a revenue of Rs 67,719 crore.

No single bidder bagged a pan-India license. Among the bidders,Idea paid Rs 5,765 crore for 11 circles, Bharti paid Rs 12,290 crorefor 13 circles, Vodafone paid Rs 11,617 crore for 9 circles, RCom paidRs 8,583 crore for 13 circles, Aircel paid Rs 6,498 crore for 13circles, Tata Tele paid Rs 5,864 cr for 8 circles and S Tel shelled outRs 337 cr for 3 circles. Videocon and Etisalat did not get any 3Gspectrum in any circles. BSNL and MTNL received spectrum outside theauction process, but the price would be determined by the auctionprice. (Read: 3G auction winners to face funding challenges)

Delhi emerged the most valuable circle at Rs 3,317 crore, followed by Mumbai at Rs 3,247 crore.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said, ?The response to 3G auction isa good development and it will give me some amount of elbow room. Weare getting almost double the amount expected.? (Also read: 3G revenueto help Govt cut fiscal deficit)

Telecom minister A Raja reiterated that the auctions have gone wellabove expectations and expressed confindence that the broadbandwireless access auctions will also be good. He added that 3G servicesare not for common man and the industry has to decide on its pricing.The telecom minister also said, ?TRAI never compared 3G and 2G. Theefficiency of 2G is three times less than 3G.? (Read: Raja happy with3G auction result)

The Winners

* Delhi: Vodafone, Bharti, Reliance Communications at Rs 3317 cr
* Mumbai: Reliance, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel at Rs 3247 cr
* Maharashtra: Tata, Idea, Vodafone at Rs 1258 cr
* Gujarat: Tata, Vodafone, Idea at Rs 1076 cr
* Andhra Pradesh: Bharti, Aircel, Idea at Rs 1373 cr
* Karnataka: Tata, Aircel, Bharti at Rs1580 cr
* Tamil Nadu: Bharti, Vodafone, Aircel at Rs 1465 cr
* Kolkata: Vodafone, Aircel, Reliance Communications at Rs 544 cr
* Kerela: Idea cellular, Tata, Aircel at Rs 312.5 cr
* Punjab: Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata, Aircel at Rs 322 cr
* Haryana: Idea Cellular, Tata, Vodafone at Rs 222.6 cr
* MP: Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata at Rs 258.4 cr
* Rajasthan: Reliance Communications, Bharti, Tata at Rs 321 cr
* U.P. (West): Bharti, Idea Cellular, Tata at Rs 514 cr
* U.P (East): Aircel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone at Rs 364.6 cr
* West Bengal: Bharti, Reliance Communications, Vodafone, Aircel at Rs 123.63 cr
* Himachal Pradesh: Bharti, Sing Tel, Idea, Reliance at Rs 37.23 cr
* Bihar: Sing Tel, Bharti, Reliance, Aircel at Rs 203.46 cr
* Orissa: Sing Tel, Aircel, Reliance Communications at Rs 96.98 cr
* Assam: Reliance Telecommunications, Bharti, Aircel at Rs 41.48 cr
* North East: Aircel, Bharti, Reliance Communications at Rs 42.30 cr
* Jammu & Kashmir: Idea Cellular, Aircel, Reliance Communications, Bharti at Rs 30.30 cr

The government?s revenues from the 3G spectrum are much higher than itsoriginal estimates and even surpassed its revised estimates by a heftyamount. The 3G proceeds will help the government to bridge its fiscaldeficit.The government had budgeted revenues of Rs 35,000 crore fromsale of air waves for 3G and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) puttogether.

The third-generation spectrum allows subscribers to download hi-speeddata and stream videos on mobile telephones. The successful bidderswould be allotted air waves in September after the spectrum is vacatedby the defence forces. (Also Read: What does 3G auction mean for you?)

The 3G spectrum saw aggressive bidding by the telecom players as Indiaremains one of the fastest growing mobile-services market bysubscribers.

With the addition of over 20 million new users in March, the mobilesubscriber base in the country has jumped to 584.32 million customers.The number of telephone subscribers in India, both wireless andwireline combined, increased to 621.28 million at the end of March-2010from 600.98 million in February 2010, thereby registering a growth rateof 3.38 per cent. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reached52.74.(Read: Telecom licenses: The journey so far)

Telecom players hope that the 3G spectrum will ease capacityconstraints and also increase the revenue per user, which has beenfalling due to intense completion in the sector.

The auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum would beginsoon after the 3G auction is over. The 3G auction had commenced on 9April, 2010 and there were nine bidders in the fray for the slots of 3Gspectrum on the block. The government auctioned three slots in 17telecom service areas and four slots in the remaining five states ofPunjab, Bihar, Orissa, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

For broadband wireless access, there are 11 operators are in the fray.The reserve price for BWA spectrum has been fixed at Rs 1,750 crore andonly two slots of 20 MHz each are on the block.

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