Friday, June 25, 2010

Charter of Project

Last Monday whem I was doing my routine jobs at my office my boss entered in my room along with a young guy wearing casual jeans and t-shirt and said "Mr. Umair he is my cousin Mr. Junaid and need your assistance he is doing masters program where his teacher asked him to prepare a sample of charter of project, so guide him that how we prepared the charter of a project". I rapidly drag a box file in which I filed all feasibility reports of projects and guide Mr. Junaid that how a charter for a project would be prepared, starting with the background of charter of a project that "charter of a project is prepared to ensure that all requirments regarding project will be framed in a program so that mistakes and ommissions of a project would minimize", basically charter of a project is merely a program or schedule in which detail outline of a project systematically form out. After spending three hours I was able to make him understand that what are do's and dont's of a project and fianlly within next one hour Mr. Junaid draw a sample of project that look like as follwos;

Project Name: Fabrication & Installation of Umair’s canopies all over Pakistan.

Client Name: Umair Pakistan Limited

Contractor: Ashar International

Petty Contractor: Rahs Services

Budget: 450,000/- in Pakistani Rupees

Project Background: Fabrication & Installation of 400 Umair’s canopies in B category outlets of following regions.

1- Karachi 160 Signs

2- Lahore 80 Signs

3- Islamabad 80 Signs

4- Peshawar 40 Signs

5- Quetta 40 Signs

Period: The time lines for fabrication will be 1-2 weeks and after completely fabrication of these canopies installed these round sings on the above mentioned regions in 4-6 weeks.

Purpose of Project: The purpose of this project is to brand enhancement of shop keeper and customer or end user from marketing & sales point of view.

Objectives: To gain or enhance market share either from existing customer or from new customer and build goodwill.

Limitation of Liability: Ashar International as being main contractor will monitor all the project on behalf of Umair Pakistan side by side Installation of canopies, the responsibility of Rahs Services will only fabrication of these canopies and in every circumstances Rahs Services will provide each information and details of fabrication process to Ashar International or anything else as deemed think fit by the Ashar International. The Rahs Services will provide its full cooperation to Ashar International.

Constraints & Difficulties: Ashar International will handle all Government Officials and provide them all details as per their requirements including matters regarding taxation and duties, registrations and other documentations however, taxes and duties will be reimbursed by the Umair Pakistan. As because Ashar International will be working on behalf of Umair Pakistan so the matters and problems regarding owners of shops, outlets and markets will also handled and tackled by the Ashar International.
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Below are some extra steps that are practically involved to close down a project however these steps not the part of a charter of project but I am stated here for the interest of students or persons wanted to know about a project.


Intimations & Approval

1- Project intimation through email, telephonic or verbal conversation by the concerned authorities.

2- Preparation of Samples of products.

3- Approval of samples by the authorities.

4- Submission of estimates.

5- Approval of estimate through LOI or grant of Purchase Order.

Commencement of Project

1- Commencement of Product Installation in regions schedule wise.

2- Submission of proofs either Snap shots or delivery challans at ware house or other destinations as specified in LOI or Purchase order.

3- Submission of Invoice.

(Note: Name of Umair Pakistan Limited, Ashar International & Rahs International and all parties', client' and companies' names, terms, conditions and situations are fictitious any resemblance is only an incidence.)

Below is an image of a canopy installed on a local modern trade (LMT) outlet at Karachi.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Google Search Criteria for Pakistan



Above is a impression of searches made at Google from Jun 01, 2010 to date in Pakistan the details of which are as follwos.

On top of the rank is "cyclone phet" standing, this is a disaster that has been crushed major parts of world but Pakistan specially Karachi remained safe from it. From Jun 01, 2010 to Jun 08, 2010 this will be searched at Google in Pakistan (major citites are Karachi & Lahore where users took interest in this term). The terms that has used by the surfer to gain knowledge about the disaster are "cyclone, cyclone phet, karachi phet, phet cyclone karachi, karachi cyclone and phet in pakistan.

The second term that the users of Pakistan took interest is the biggest even of football "Fifa World Cup 2010", the surfers involved to search this term are from Karachi, Islamabad & Lahore. The term that users have used to search the event are "world cup 2010, fifa cup 2010, fifa world cup, fifa 2010 schedule and fifa song 2010.

The third term that the users of this region have involved in searching is "Coke Studio Season 3", the surfers of Karachi and Lahore have majorly searched this term in the region. The most popular search term that users of Karachi and Lahore have used to find the program are "coke studio, coke studio 3 and coke studio mp3".

These are the top 3 search results of Pakistan that have been searched on Google.

Friday, June 18, 2010

EU Sanctions On Iran, It Shows Double Standard-Iran

European Union imposed tighter sanctins on Iran, it further stated that member countries will immediately freeze all trade affairs with Iran. All banks are directed to seized accounts of Iran based companies.

While on the other hand Iran's higher defense officials has annoyed against the latest sanctions imposed on Tehran's nuclear program, stating that world powers are applying a double standard.

The Supreme National Security Council of Iran says the EU and other nuclear powers have penalized Iran even it doesn't making nuclear weapons, on the other side they are supporting Israel, which is widely believed to have a sizable nuclear weapon store.

The Israel rejects to verify or deny the suspicions.

The SNSC of Iran further adds there was no good reason for the sanctions. The statement was released on Friday.

It says the U.N. nuclear watchdog has not found proof that Tehran has sidetracked its nuclear program into making of weapons.

Below are some highlights of EU Sanctions

EU SANCTIONS

-The EU has imposed visa bans on senior officials such as Revolutionary Guards head Mohammad Ali Jafari, former Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar and former atomic energy chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh, and on top nuclear and ballistic experts.

-Britain announced last October it was freezing business ties with Bank Mellat and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, both of which have previously faced sanctions from the United States. Britain cited fears they were involved in helping Iran develop nuclear weapons.

-Energy sector sanctions would prohibit "new investment, technical assistance and transfers of technologies, equipment and services related to these areas, in particular related to refining, liquefaction and liquefied natural gas technology".

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Miserable Wife

A man always called his wife as "miss" after passing years of their marriage one day his wife asked him that "why you always called me miss", her husband replied after taking a warm breath that "there is no short form of miserable other than miss".