Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Research Articles

Tuberculosis case notification by private practitioners in Pune, India: how well are we doing?

Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation area, Pune, India. To assess the proportion of private practitioners (PPs) who notified tuberculosis (TB) patients during February-April 2013 and their contribution to the overall number notified, and to determine their perceived challenges in reporting TB cases. Mixed-method study including an analysis of notification data, followed by in-depth interviews with PPs. Interviews were transcribed and inductive content analysis was performed to derive themes. Of 831 PPs, 533 (64%) participated in case notification; of these 87 (16%) notified at least one TB case during the study period. In all, 138 TB cases were notified by PPs, accounting for 20% of the total TB cases notified. Emerging themes among perceived challenges and barriers were lack of complete knowledge about TB notification, fear of a breach of patient confidentiality, lack of a simplified operational mechanism of notification, and lack of trust and coordination with the government health system. About two thirds of PPs participated in case notification and contributed significantly to the overall TB cases notified. India's national TB programme should focus on training PPs and targeted media communication campaigns, and establish alternative mechanisms for notification, such as the internet and mobile telephones, to overcome perceived barriers.

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Water is basic need of human being. Water treatment is one of the important process involved in the water distribution process. In PCMC area the water distribution infrastructure is widely spreaded effectively. Water management is a matter of high priority in India and those responsible for major operations of water distribution need to be educated in this endeavor. Automation provides optimized solution to all problems of distribution of water system. The entire system has features of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system to control and monitor the water supply and in case of power failures to maintain continuity of power supply. Now-a-days, Water distribution system faces some problems like water leakage & improper water supply. This leakage causes drastic reduction in pressure of water flowing through supply line. Due to this, consumer gets less amount of water. By, considering above scenario we are trying to find solution for the problem. Hence, we are working with Water Supply Department of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. The main aim of this project is to provide effective water supply to each consumer & to detect the leakage sites and malpractices. In this project we are working on the distributed network under the area of single water tank. Mainly we are focusing on the pressure transmitter which are located at different branches in distribution network to indicate pressure variation at different location. Thus, we are going to develop a system in which we can analyze the pressure from different branches of distribution network and compare it with fixed benchmark. In this way, we are able to control& monitor the whole system.

An epidemiological and clinico-histopathological study of leprosy in semi-urban area under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in Pune district of Maharashtra

Background: Despite having been declared eliminated in December 2005 from India as a public health problem, the prevalence of leprosy exceeds 1/10,000 population in certain districts/states of India. A spurt in its prevalence by 60% - from 0.74 to 1.18 within 1-year from 2012 to 2013 in the area under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) of Pune district of Maharashtra, wherein our institution is located, motivated us to carry out this study. Aims and Objectives: This prospective study entailed recording of the epidemiological data of cases of leprosy and carrying out correlation of their clinical and histopathological diagnoses as per Ridley–Jopling scale along with inclusion of indeterminate and pure neuritic types. Materials and Methods: Eighty fresh untreated patients hailing from areas under PCMC–in whom leprosy was clinically considered to be either the diagnosis or the differential diagnosis-reporting to the department of dermatology of our tertiary care hospital were enrolled. Their age, sex, and clinical findings were recorded on a proforma. Slit skin and scrape smear were stained by the Ziehl–Neelsen method. Punch biopsies–processed and stained by hematoxylin and eosin and Fite-Faraco method for morphological assessment and identification of the lepra bacilli, respectively–were evaluated histopathologically and a clinico-histopathological correlation, attempted. Results: Male to female ratio of the study patients was 2.3:1; their age ranged from 14 to 74 (mean, 36.67) years. The overall clinico-histopathological concordance observed was 70%. Five cases of indeterminate leprosy (IL) emerged on histopathological examination from among the nine skin biopsies on patients of dermatoses mimicking leprosy (pityriasis alba, postinflammatory hypopigmentation, nevus depigmentosus, etc.). Conclusion: This study enabled us to detect additional cases of IL (from among dermatoses mimicking leprosy) and led to more accurate typing, thereby underscoring the importance of clinico-histopathological correlation as an important diagnostic aid.

Influence Of Advertisement Believability, Persuasiveness And Buying Behavior On Consumer Attitude Towards Advertisement Of Mobile Cellular Services.

The aim of the study is to investigate whether the advertisement believability, persuasiveness and buying behavior influences consumer attitude towards advertisement. The study also attempts to find out the difference between the celebrity endorsed and non celebrity advertisements in terms of advertisement believability, Persuasiveness, Consumer Behavior, and Consumer Attitude towards advertisement with reference to the of mobile cellular services. The data was collected from total sample of 170 individuals (85 each Idea Cellular and Airtel Cellular Services category) from Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) area. The respondents were shown selected celebrity endorsed and non-celebrity advertisements of Idea & Airtel Mobile Cellular services which were aired on TV media. The research findings showed a significant relation between Advertisement Believability, Persuasiveness and Consumer behavior with consumer attitude towards Advertisements. Celebrity endorsed and non-celebrity advertisements showed statistically significant difference in terms of Advertisement Believability, Persuasiveness and Consumer Attitude towards Advertisement (Idea Cellular category). Statistically significant difference were not found in terms of Advertisement Believability, Persuasiveness and consumer Behavior (Airtel Cellular category).

Micro-Hydro Power Generation Design and Fabrication of Micro-Hydro Turbine for Water Treatement Plant

Micro hydro is that form of alternative source which refers to hydro power systems with a power rating of 100Kw. A 100kW system will produce 100 standard units of electricity in one hour. Micro hydro systems differ from large hydro power since the flows of water required are much smaller. This paper will give the details of our research on micro-hydro turbine. It also includes designing, fabricating and testing of a model for the prototype. The whole project has been done at the Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporation’s water treatment plant. A complete model analysis report, with CAD design will be illustrated in the report. The details of model like its specifications, significance, figures, advantages and various forms of application will be documented. The flow in between various processes is utilised to generate electricity. The plus point of our project is that we design according to available conditions, not recondition according to available design