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Good Roads – Need of the Day

Countries have to think of good roads as the best infrastructure.

Developed countries of the world realized this long ago and paved good roads all over.

As a result, transportation increased and movement of goods and people from one place to another was possible.

Settlement of people came on either side of those roads.

Developing countries, by looking at those developments started thinking about the good roads for their own economic developments.

Bad roads are there everywhere, paved or unpaved.

Pot holes, speed breakers, damages in patches, narrow ones are the status of roads in many developing countries including India.

Allotment of budget for this vital sector is thought of only recently to link north to south and east to west of India.

Huge amount of money is required to make the already existing narrow roads to four lane ones.

Mostly the World Bank loans are availed for this purpose.

Highways / Motorways have to be improved to the level of the ones we find in developed nations.

They are going to be the life line of a nation.

Good roads have to be maintained frequently to give a better service to the users.

Bad roads cause fatal road accidents very often.

The traffic police take lots of measures to prevent road accidents.

If the roads are bad, they will be helpless to implement those measures.

Effective steps have to be taken to lay good roads with signboards and proper lighting.

Design engineers are responsible for laying good roads for the country.

The system of construction through corrupt practice makes the proposal for preparing good roads, a mediocre one.

Within a short period after the construction, the roads become unusable, and such is the situation in most regions.

There are experienced construction companies in India who lay very good road ways in other countries, but they are generally ignored by the politicians in countries like India.

They can not get their required commission from such reputed companies.

Therefore, the development is poor and our progress in road infrastructure is retarded to a considerable extent.

India being one of the important growing giants in the world, certainly needs good roads throughout the length and breadth of the country.

Four thousand years ago the ancient cities of Mesopotamia was paved with stone.

That was the first man-made roads.

Later, Roman roads formed the most extensive network in Europe and Middle East.

The motorways of the 20th century are built on a firm, thick base of pebbly material with a layer of concrete laid over top.

Above this is a layer of tar or rolled asphalt.

Rubberized roads are also coming up in certain regions in India.

Even plastic wastes are also mixed with tar and applied on the top of the road.

Innovative road building techniques are invented and applied wherever possible.

A country which managed with single lane roads for sixty long years after independence realize today the necessity of this important infrastructure on which many other developments depend.

National highways connecting various States help in interstate business, transportation of goods and people.

Everyone feels that it the need of the day.

India is moving towards the dream to become a developed nation by 2020.

Therefore, we can not wait for making good roads.

While making good roads, there are many hurdles the country has to face.

Towns and cities have to be connected by roads of short distances.

So the interfering structures have to be removed or demolished.

Sometimes rivers have to be crossed, so bridges have to be constructed.

The engineering technologies have improved so much that constructing various kinds of bridges is possible nowadays.

Wide roads were made in town and cities, but the paved roads are only half the width of the planned roads.

Avenue trees occupy some area on either side of the road.

Similarly the electric and telephone poles also take away some space.

Unauthorized constructions like projection of roof structures by the shops on either side steal away some space.

As a result we will be left with a narrow road in the cities for the vehicles to pass by.

It is really sad to see such bad roads in many parts of India.

Every time the local administration tries to remove the unauthorized occupations, there will be resistance from the public who are affected.

They go the extent of filing a case against the administration in the court and stay the work.

We know the court takes its own time to clear such cases.

Another set of people who get the voles of these people, also support them and will not allow the administration to do its work.

Thus the road remains as it was.

We have seen many times such sights in every town.

In a democratic country with about 40 per cent illiterates, it becomes difficult to interfere with peoples’ proper or improper activities.

It is one of the reasons that India could not progress fast and reach the status of a developed country.

With all these limitations, India has a hope to come up in the Global level as a developed nation with good roads in the near future.

Do I Need A New Sky Remote?

Most people that own a Sky box will know that the Sky remote control operates the basic functions of their TV, what happens though if the remote stops operating the TV but still operates the Sky digibox… is it time to get a new one?

 

Well to be honest, in some cases yes a replacement remote is required, but more often than not all you need to do is re-enter the correct Sky remote code to operate your particular brand of TV, this would have originally been done by the Sky engineer when he/she installed the system.

 

Early remotes manufactured for Sky were done so with a preset code already programmed to operate Sony TVs, later models were manufactured to work straight out the box on a Philips TV.  This is the same no matter if it is a standard Sky remote for the Sky box, a Sky plus remote for the Sky plus box or the Sky HD remote for the HD box.

 

So, to make things simple without going in to whether or not your remote is an early or late version the best thing to do is re-enter the correct code for your TV, even if it’s a Sony or Philips.

 

Don’t forget it is only the basic functions of the TV the remote will operate, this includes functions such as volume control, putting the TV in to standby and cycling through the AV channels of the TV by pressing the “Help” button on the remote.

 

The list of codes available for the Sky remote is extremely long so I would suggest taking a look at the Sky digital support section at http://www.thedigiboxshop.com, here you will find the most common codes as well as the instructions below, if the codes available at the above Website do not work you can perform a search for your brand of TV by pressing the “Sky Interactive” button on your remote.

 

Please note: The following instructions are relevant to all Sky remotes, including the “Plus” and “HD” versions.

 

How to enter the four digit code.

 

1. Turn your Sky Box, Sky Plus Box or Sky HD Box and TV on.

 

2. Press TV on your Sky / Sky Plus / Sky HD remote control.

 

3. Hold down SELECT and the RED button together for about two seconds, until the RED LED on the Sky / Sky Plus / Sky HD remote control blinks twice.

 

4. Press TV on the remote control again.

 

5. Key in the four digit code for your brand of TV. The light on the remote blinks twice. If the light blinks once only, recheck the code for your brand of TV and start again at Step 1.

 

6. Press the STANDBY button on your remote. If your TV switches off, press select. The RED LED on the remote blinks twice (code stored). If your TV does not switch off, press TV, then press the STANDBY button. Repeat this (press TV, then STANDBY) until your TV turns off, then press SELECT (stores code).

 

If at this point the RED LED on the remote control blinks three times then all possible codes for that make of receiver have been checked. Repeat from step one, ensuring that you enter the correct manufacturer code.

 

At the end of the sequence, if you see the TV Guide screen, the remote control setup process is complete. If you did not see the TV Guide screen, you must now complete the following steps.

 

8. Press TV on your Sky / Sky Plus Sky HD remote control.

 

9. Hold down SELECT and the GREEN button together for about two seconds, until the RED LED on the remote blinks twice.

 

10. Key in the number of the channel on your TV that you use for watching Sky TV.

 

11. Press SELECT on your remote. The RED LED blinks twice. The remote control setup process is complete.

 

How to enter the three digit code

 

1. Turn your Sky Box, Sky Plus Box or Sky HD Box and TV on.

2. Press TV on the Sky / Sky Plus / Sky HD remote.

3. Hold down SELECT and the RED button together for approximately two seconds until the RED LED on the remote blinks twice.

4. Enter one of the three digit codes from the list (early versions now flash twice).

5. Press SELECT to confirm, the RED LED will flash twice if a valid code has been entered

6. Now press the STANDBY button and test other functions.

7. Repeat if necessary until the correct code is found.

 

If once you have entered all the codes from the list the remote still fails to operate your TV then you should consider purchasing a new remote as the remotes are continually being updated to operate the later TVs being produced.