A group of software professionals is on a
drive to collect educational material, old
or new, to help corporation school
children this academic year

he short messaging service (SMS) facility that helps public lodge their com- plaints instantaneously has

Chennaiites. Launched on June 23 by the Chennai City Police, the link re- ceives over 1,500 texts messages per day on an average.

domestic violence, clashes in public or any hin- drance to a law and or- der situation can be SMSed to 9500099100. The message will be automatically diverted to the concerned po- lice limits inside the city with the help of a software

named SMART SYS. The SMS complaint facility has been developed by D3D

Technologies, Chennai, in associa- tion with City Police.

A special control room headed by an In- spector of Police and 15 police personnel has been set up in the

Commissionerate to attend to SMS complaints. Once an SMS is received, the software installed in the control room au- tomatically segregates the com- plaints and forwards them to the concerned police departments. \u201cWe receive lot of cases on eve- teasing, petty clashes and even domestic violence in the city. We received over 2,500 SMS texts on the very \ufb01rst day the facility was

According to V. Priya of D3D Technologies, the mobile num- ber is a toll-free number linked through a GSM medium. \u201cThe software SMART SYS works based on a public-police interface sys- tem aimed at assisting the regular beat policing. Even if a text mes- sage is inarticulate or incomplete, the software has the capability to pick up key words and segregate

D3D Technologies also intro- duced a similar SMS complaint facility in Madurai and Virudhu- nagar districts in March 2008.

City Police Commissioner T. Rajendran said that police have taken immediate action on some speci\ufb01c complaints that were re- ceived through SMS and have al- so informed the complainant on the steps taken.\u25a0

Even if a text
message is
inarticulate or

the software
has the
capability to
pick up key
words and
segregate it to
be forwarded
to the

Explosive device
creates \ufb02utter
at airport

outside the Chennai airport on
Tuesday morning after a bomb was
found in the car parking area on the
premises. A police bomb disposal squad
rushed in to remove the explosive and
diffused it later.
According to police sources at the
airport, the bomb, believed to be used
for military training purposes, was found
by members of the public around 9 a.m.
in the parking lot between the domestic
and international terminals. The airport
authorities were alerted and a police
bomb disposal squad with a sniffer dog
was commissioned to the spot.
The explosive was safely removed from
the location and taken to an isolated
location and diffused, police added.
An investigation is underway on how
the bomb came to the airport premises.

Www.nightingalestore.com could be your new stop if you are looking for Nightingale products like journals, diaries, of\ufb01ce stationary, etc.

t wasn\u2019t another aimless stroll that Priyesh C., then working with Sil- verline Technologies in Teynam- pet, had taken during a lunch break

\u201cA government-run school for men- tally challenged girls, situated near SIET College, had caught my attention. For three-four days I kept insisting that they allow me in but they wouldn\u2019t, saying it was only for girls. Finally, on the \ufb01fth day I got in,\u201d recalls Priyesh. Moved by the plight of the children he started by contributing educational

material in the form of notebooks and uniforms. His four project-mates, who were equally motivated to take up some social responsibility, joined Pri- yesh.

The team made weekly visits, dis- tributed stationery, contributed a monthly fee for a child\u2019s education and conducted games. The support contin- ued until their of\ufb01ce shifted from the locality and Priyesh got involved with another institution. But their support in terms of money, materials and time continued and further expanded, and Help to Live was formed.

software engineers who take time away from work to give their mite to under- privileged children.

Lending help for around eight years is not easy, especially in a profession where everybody is on the fast lane. That\u2019s where its Yahoo! group came of great support.

\u201cOur core team comprises around 10 people and we meet every month, whereas we have around 350 software friends as members, a majority of them active on Yahoo!,\u201d explain Priyesh, an employee of Mphasis. Members chan- nelise money and education material for children\u2019s education.

\u201cIn fact, we started our initiative with an exercise of collecting uniforms for a corporation school. It was purely through word-of-mouth that we reac- hed out and in the process many joined us,\u201d says the engineer.

school in Mint Street and the other in Tiruvallur district. \u201cWe collect around Rs. 50,000 per month as funds from the group, but we still need more helping hands to carry out our projects.\u201d

With the new academic year having begun, members of Help to Live are on a drive collecting educational material for the corporation children. The drive has already begun in some of the members\u2019 of\ufb01ces, L&T and Mphasis, for example, where mailers are sent asking employees to donate unused/ used geometry boxes, water bottles, books and other stationery. But it is still in need of more and wants all you professionals to contribute.

Besides, the group is also looking for volunteers who could lend a helping hand any two weekends.\u25a0

You could coordinate with Santhosh (9840743066) to hand over your sta- tionery. Visit them at www.helptolive.org

A group of software professionals is on a
drive to collect educational material, old or
new, to help corporation school children
this academic year. Could you help?

Titan Eye Plus has launched Enigma, a collection of optical frames that
celebrates the various facets of a woman\u2019s personality. There are around
50 designs in the collection, with motifs like \ufb02orals, polka dots, sinuous
curves and textured temples. It is priced between Rs. 1, 200 and Rs.
3,200, available across all Titan Eye Plus outlets.