Whatever toilets the government has provided, people have turned them into shops or godowns.
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Shot in squalid slums and deserted godowns, Jay Oza's camera twists and turns through narrow alleys, ably capturing the horror unfolding on screen.
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"We need cooperation to find such illegal godowns as the area is vast and houses thousands of buildings," Sayeed Khokon, the South Dhaka mayor, told media.
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I was at the headquarters of Macneill and Magor, a tea giant of the time, whose red brick godowns lined the banks of the Hooghly River.
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The advent of organised retail and e-commerce began modernising warehouses in India a decade ago, but most firms still rely on musty, dilapidated "godowns", as storehouses are known colloquially.
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Out of the logistics industry's 980 million square feet (91 million square meters) of captive, agri-based and cold storage warehousing, Bhuniya estimated 85 percent were old godowns and traditional structures.
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"After the Nimtoli tragedy we urged our local leaders not to allow any more godowns that are a danger for us," he added, referring to a 2010 fire that killed at least 124.
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During the 1970s, as port activities were moved out, the government decided to retain the old façade along the river, ensuring the shop houses and godowns along Boat Quay and Clarke Quay were not only preserved, but enhanced, leading to a vibrant residential, commercial and civic district.
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Godowns (warehouses) are common place in wadi. NH53 also a (Asian highway 46) traverses through Wadi.
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Ananthu requests Kishen to return home, however Kishen refuses as he still strongly hates his father. Kishen murders Mehaboob (Nadirshah), a close associate of Muhammed Ibrahim which upsets him greatly. Jeevan councils Muhammed and he provides information on Reddy's secret godowns. Jeevan raids the godowns and arrests Reddy.
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The four godowns were rented out to industrial units on the Veli belt. The rails used by trolleys to transport cargo to the godowns have rusted away. The pier which consumed 571 tonnes of cement and 250 tonnes of steel, cost about Rs.10 lakhs (Rs. one million) to build.
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In the 1980s, many of the manufacturing businesses in San Po Kong relocated to China, and the industrial buildings were turned into offices and godowns.
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Police sealed Kasawa's residence and the godowns (warehouses) owned by his brothers. More gelignite rods and blasting materials were found during the search. On 15 September 2015, Kasawa was arrested.
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Considering the proximity to the Vallarpadom international port and Cochin International Airport, there has been a surge in the number of godowns being built in the area. An irrigation centre on the Periyar river in Kadungallur.
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Having briefly named "Matheson's Point", much of the land of East Point was historically in the hands of Jardine Matheson, which had their original Hong Kong godowns and offices there. Swire once had a sugar refinery in Sugar Street.
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Khalbala Bazar is famous for its Jute market. Many jute godowns process Jute in Mymensingh. It has been known for Jute processing since the age of golden fiber. Atharabari Zamindar Bari is known for its location, beauty, and prosperity.
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Pettai actually got its name from the Vandi Pettais (godowns with cart-parking facilities). These Vandi Pettais were dealing with few agriculture commodities such as coriander, and chilli. Pettai is a populous urban area with many small-scale industries.
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Existing Food godowns, granary and cold storage was made the part of Master Plan. Existing Railways Carriage Factory was also included in the master plan. PHA was allocated land for D and E type flats in I-11/1.
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It is an industrial area as the vicinity is mostly of godowns and industries. However it yet to be declared as one. The gutka packets in the famous gutka scam which happened in Chennai was stored in a godown here.
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It was later sold to Sun Hung Kai Properties. It is situated on land owned by Jardine since the early days of Hong Kong as a British Crown Colony at East Point, where Jardine had their original godowns and offices.
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Port View from Tug berth side The port has a deep draft that facilitates large vessels including fully laden capsize vessels to dock alongside its berth. Mundra Port has commodity-specific storage areas. The port has 2,25,000 sq. metres of closed godowns and 3,150,000 sq.
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The area is dotted with rice mills and large godowns. The people are mostly engaged in trading and transportation activities. A sizeable segment of the population is employed in education as there are schools and coaching institutes in the area. Many people are government employees.
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Developed by Frasers Property Singapore, Riviere is a pair of 36-storey luxury residential towers, housing 455 units by the Singapore River. All residential units will be elevated more than 18 metres above ground-level, offering unblocked views of the Singapore River, while the Sky Deck at the top of the towers offers panoramic city views, together with private spas and a food establishment. The development also consists of three conserved 100-year-old godowns/warehouses, that is the former site of Zouk nightclub, and a newly built four-storey block with 80 serviced apartments. The 18,300 square feet godowns will be restored to house several amenities and retail outlets.
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These guilds also made donations to learned brahmans and to the destitute. The Mauryan empire supplied western countries with Indigo and other medicinal substances, cotton, silk. Trade was carried out in both land and sea. Godowns, Warehouses were built and special provisions were made to protect the trade routes.
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Bowbazar has a red-light district where about 12,000 prostitutes work. The surrounding areas are inhabited by slum dwellers, truckers and migrant labourers. The adjacent Tiretta Bazar area is mainly a loadingunloading point with offices or godowns of a large number of transport companies. The area is very unsanitary.
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This samiti is the centre for trading of agricultural products for the entire Katihar district. The godowns and offices of State Food Corporation and Central Ware Housing Corporation are located in the Bazar Samiti premises. There is an office and centre of the Jute Corporation of India for the sale and purchase of jute.
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She was put on trial and fined for having sold wares from the company's godowns on Yale's private account. She was allowed to depart for England, and was joined by Yale, who brought with him her spouse and children, in 1699. The Nicks returned to Madras, where she continued as the business agent of Yale.
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The Hero of Ist Freedom movement ( which is popularly referred to as Sepoy Movement ) Mangal Pandey comes from this soil only. The Famous Nilha Sahib Revolt is Associated with this place where the Farmers revolted against the British & they set on fire various Indigo Godowns. The Ghazipur Plays and has played a major role in India’s Freedom Struggle.
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There is a large lake in Karanja Lad known as "Rishi Talao". The town was looted twice by the famous Maratha sardar Prataprao Gujar on the orders of the Hindu King, Shivaji. Karanja was ruled by Nawab Subhan Khan, whose "Mahal" is currently used as a Municipal Council Office. His Godowns is used as the Karanja police station.
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Soon it became a trading centre for saltpetre, urging other Europeans—French, Danes, Dutch and Portuguese—to compete in the lucrative business. Various European factories and godowns started mushrooming in Patna and it acquired a trading fame that attracted far off merchants. Peter Mundy, writing in 1632, calls this place, "the greatest mart of the eastern region".
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The British block all the roads to godowns leading Jhunku to an idea to create underground dungeons till the granaries. Twenty villages join hands and operate. The last scene shows Jhunku being stopped by Maj. Wilkinson who says he is still sympathetic to Jhunku and wants him to go away else he will be bound to arrest him once again.
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The seriousness of the problem was underlined by a co-ordinated Naxalite attack on the District Headquarters and armoury at Koraput on February 6, 2004. Naxal group, namely People's War Group (PWG), has carried out numerous operations (attacks on rich farmers, police, bureaucrats and politicians, loots from godowns) within last few years in Koraput as well as in its neighboring districts.
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Bihar Government has taken steps to prevent the recurrence of such incidents. The government issued a toll-free number for all complaints related to Midday Meal. It also ordered that the raw grain samples would be kept for three months at Godowns from where items for Midday Meal are supplied. A case was filed by Akhilanand Mishra (one of the victims).
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Kishangarh economy mainly depends on the Marble trading. Kishangarh has more than 1,000 gangsaws, 5,000 edge cutting machines, around 25,000 godowns and more than 25,000 marble traders and it gives employment to around 1 lac people. The widest range of Indian, Italian and Makrana marble is on display in this area. It also has a flourishing market for power-loom and ball mills sector.
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Amravati is the main city in the Vidarbha region and division in Maharashtra. Warehousing facility is available provided by Central Warehousing Corporation and for agricultural produce, APMC godowns are available which is not sufficient for this huge city. Maharashtra state warehousing Corporation doesn't have any warehousing center in the city. Infrastructure development is also being seen in the city as the construction of new flyovers, malls leading their way.
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The story is set in the backdrop of workers' struggle against the infamous ‘Chappa’ system of casual labour allocation that was practised in the harbour town of Mattanchery during the 1940s and 50s. Metal tokens called Chappa were thrown into the waiting crowds of workers who had to fight for the tickets. Whoever manages to get one would be given work for the day at the wharves or godowns.
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The District Employment Exchange is located near Convoy Road Tiniali/ Tee Point. The Food Corporation of India is having its operating food storage godowns near Convoy Road Tiniali/ Tee Point. The Asomiya Pratidin, an Assamese daily newspaper is having its printing press cum circulation and editorial premises at the Convoy Road. The JANASADHARAN, another Assamese daily is having its printing press cum circulation and editorial premises behind outdoor stadium.
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This school was established on 22 June 2005, and is a part of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools. Initially the school operated in renovated godowns of North Malabar District Cooperative and Marketing Society till 31 May 2009. On 1 June 2009, the vidyalaya shifted to the permanent campus which is located at village Lakkidi, Wayanad district. This school is administered and monitored by the Hyderabad regional office of Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti.
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Whitfield Barracks, converted into Kowloon Park in 1970, ran to the west of Nathan Road, and Kowloon Naval Yard occupied the waterfront to the west of the army encampment. In the early 20th century, Chinese people were allowed to live in the area to attract more people to trade in the colony. Garden houses were replaced with crowded residential blocks. Wharves and godowns were built along the west shore.
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As Su finally kills Niu after a long bargain, Cheng escapes Su and goes to the wrong San Yik Godown. Cheng interrogates the keepers of the wrong godown with torture, and gets arrested. She is imprisoned and ready to be sent back to China. Wu reads through receipts of the godowns and finds out the correct Sun Yik Godown for it has stored many seeds of cannabis sativa for producing marijuana.
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Kuppam river viewed from Mangalasseri hills Patavil Shree Muthappan Madapura is situated on the banks of Kuppam river and Jumamasjids are situated either side of the river near the Kuppam Bridge. North side in Pariyaram Panchayat and South side is in Taliparamba Municipality. Earlier there was passenger boat service from Kooveri to Payangadi and to Parassinikadavu through Baliapattam. Kuppam was a big market for cash crops and there was godowns for stocking the commodities.
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Since the naval base came under daily heavy air raids, the transports proceeded to Keppel Harbor, the commercial basin at Singapore, where they could discharge their troops and cargo. Securing abreast godowns (warehouses) 52, 53, and 54, West Point commenced off-loading equipment and disembarking her troops. All but 670 engineer troops, who had been ordered retained on board, were ashore before nightfall. Air raids, meanwhile, continued until midnight as the Japanese steadily pounded Singapore from the air.
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Virudhunagar district is leading in the country in the match industry, fireworks and printing, mostly concentrated in and around Sivakasi. Virudhunagar is the main market for oil, chicory, coffee seeds, dry chillies and pulses. There are two trade centres (Godowns) in the District one in Virudhunagar and another in Rajapalayam. Ginning factories, spinning mills, power loom and hand loom industries are also present in the district at Rajapalayam the second big weaving town in the state after Coimbatore.
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The Agricultural Produce Market Committee is a marketing board established by the state government of Karnataka has a market yard in Bailhongal since 1936. It facilitates farmers to sell their produce and get reasonable price constituted APMC in many towns. Most of the APMC have market yard where traders and other marketing agents are provided godowns and shops for the sale of agricultural products from farmers. Farmers can sell their produce to agents or traders under supervision of APMC.
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Vijay grows up with his karate instructor while Desh is reared at a gypsy camp where he befriends Imran (Mazhar). Khan tracks down the karate instructor who kills himself before Khan could torture him for information about the scientist's missing sons and the necklace. The dying instructor gives the necklace to Vijay, who later gives it to his girlfriend Aarti (Yogita), who is the instructor's daughter, for safekeeping. Vijay and Aarti raid Khan's illegal godowns and kill many of his men.
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In order to promote industrialization and create attractive conditions for industrialists, Government of Sindh established Sindh Industrial Trading Estates, in the year 1947. The object was to establish planned industrial areas where industrialists, in the future, could have all their required and needed facilities such as land, road, railway, water supply, electricity, gas, telephone, godowns (warehouses), sanitation, drainage, residential areas for workers and other necessary public amenities. These facilities were designed to create an industrial environment congenial for intending future industrialists.
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The rice was being transported from Food Corporation of India godowns Bulandshahr district to North Delhi. The police stopped the trucks and investigators later discovered that the rice was being stolen by an NGO. \- In November 2006, the residents of Pembong village (30 km from Darjeeling) accused a group of teachers of embezzling midday meals. In a written complaint, the residents claimed that students at the primary school had not received their midday meal for the past year and a half.
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Valiathura is famous for its pier. The 60-year-old, pier and the godowns (warehouses) behind it are a far cry from the past, when up to 50 cargo ships used to call here at a time. Opened in 1956 by the advisor to the Rajapramukh Dr. P.S. Rau, it was the only port along the South Kerala coast. Supported by 127 concrete piles, the pier had four 3-tonne cranes and one 10-tonner to unload cargo from the ships.
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However, Pritilata Waddedar successfully attacks the Pahartali European Club and assassinates DIG Johnson; being gravely wounded she commits suicide by swallowing cyanide. After a prolonged search, police search and arrests Master Da Surya Sen and sentences him to death by hanging. Thus Jhunku ends narrating the part and says that he was released in 1939 and again participated in the uprisings with Aparna. In one such incident there is a plan to attack the government godowns where the Britishers and feudal landlords have kept common peasant's grain.
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Burton, McCallum and Alliston—persuaded the Chinese soldiers who had flocked to Anping to hand over their weapons for safekeeping and surrender peacefully to the Japanese. Nearly 10,000 Chinese soldiers rid themselves of their telltale firearms, and sat down to await events. The collection of the weapons lasted throughout the day, and by nightfall between 7,000 and 8,000 rifles had been secured and locked up in one of the godowns of the Maritime Customs. The next step was to invite the Japanese into Tainan.
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The walls of the fort (18 feet tall, 4 feet thick) were crumbling in many places. Along the east wall large openings had been excavated during the long years of peace to admit air and light. The wooden platforms of the bastions were so rotten that they could support far fewer cannons than intended, and most of the cannons proved unusable in any case. All the south wall warehouses, or godowns, had been erected outside the fort, which precluded any flanking fire from the two south bastions.
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Mr Salman Khursheed, Union State Minister for Company Affairs also hails from Kaimganj. The major concern in the town today is the ambivalent tobacco industry. No Doubt tobacco industry has contributed a lot in the development of the town – by generating numerous employment opportunities for the poor and rich equally, and thus adding to the prosperity of the town. However, a large increase in the tobacco cultivation and processing in the various godowns located in city's residential premises is adding to the health hazards of the residents.
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During the British rule family squabbles and disputes resulted in much being transferred to British missionaries. The Albert Hotel now locked in ownership battles and lying derelict is the last remnant of those squabbles. During the days of British East India Company The East India Company built large warehouses and godowns because the trade with Burma had picked up and it had become a trading point for rice from Rangoon. Victor Soraine returned to India from England and built BetVic house where he retired, surrounded by memories of childhood and his family legacy.
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The government had plans to lease out the area under the flyover to a restaurant, a shopping centre, godowns and a parking lot, and for advertising. A preliminary study by Chennai City Connect, an NGO working on improving traffic and transport conditions in Chennai, found that the Gemini Circle intersection costs the city 270,000 a day in petrol, human capital and ecological loss. There are plans to build a flyover on top of the existing flyover. A short- term plan at a cost of 9 million has also been planned.
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The required level of investment for the development of marketing, storage and cold storage infrastructure is estimated to be huge. The government has not been able to implement schemes to raise investment in marketing infrastructure. Among these schemes are 'Construction of Rural Godowns', 'Market Research and Information Network', and 'Development / Strengthening of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure, Grading and Standardisation'.Agriculture marketing india.gov Retrieved in February 2008 The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), established in 1905, was responsible for the search leading to the "Indian Green Revolution" of the 1970s.
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This is because only one side of the hill is climbable, as all the others are too steep to climb. This has a death well, granary, two oil godowns, one explosives godown, two masjiths, 2 Varadharaja Perumal temples, former British Army administrative buildings, and cemeteries formerly used by armies that were stationed at the fort. Dheeran Chinnamalai was hanged by the British in this fort. Following the demise of Chola rule in the 13th century, the Thanjavur country came under the rule of the Pandyas who ruled for about a century.
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An exclusive foodgrains market, the first such facility in the state, is under construction at the market complex at a cost of 690.7 million. It is being constructed in an area of 14.41 acres next to the existing wholesale vegetable market, with provision of godowns, parking space for trucks, public toilets, cement concrete roads, solar street lights, fire-fighting system, and water supply. It is expected to be opened by mid-2014. It will have about 500 shops for wholesale business of food grains, except sugar, jaggery, dry chillies, tamarind, and edible oil items.
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Subsequently, the Danes acquired the Serampore, Akna and Pearapur mahals by paying an annual rent of 1601 rupees to the zamindar (tax farmer) of Sheoraphuli in North Serampore. By 1770 the Danish merchants were beginning to make significant progress in trade and commerce in the area. Danish prosperity was assisted by the able administrative performance of Colonel Ole Bie, who was appointed the first Crown regent of Serampore in 1776. St.Olav's Church- Serampore The Danes also established a bazaar (the present Tin Bazaar) and allowed private godowns, or warehouses to be maintained.
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Some of the warehouses were rebuilt at the end of the 17th century in order to create more space between the city wall and the warehouses. Different dates on stones appear above some doors of the museum which probably refer to the years when repairs, extensions or additions to the warehouses were executed. Between the warehouses and the city wall in front of the museum, the Company kept supplies of copper and tin. These metals were protected against rain by a wooden gallery attached to the front of the godowns.
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Commercial enterprises were established in the area; two- and four-storey buildings were built around the square, housing mercantile offices, banks and trading companies. On 8 March 1858, Commercial Square was renamed Raffles Place in Raffles' honour. On the south side of the square were many godowns with jetties where cargo can be loaded and unloaded directly from boats as they were then located at the edge of the sea. From 1858 to 1864, the land on the south side of Raffles Place from Johnston's Pier to Telok Ayer Market was reclaimed.
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During the 17th century Patna was the centre of international trade. The British opened a factory in Patna in 1620 for the purchase and storage of calico and silk. Soon it became a trading point for saltpetre, and other European countries like the French, the Danes, the Dutch and the Portuguese began to compete in the lucrative business. Various European factories and godowns started mushrooming in Patna and it acquired a trading fame that attracted far off merchants, as observed by Peter Mundy in 1632, who calls this place, "the greatest mart of the eastern region".
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In 1986, the Urban Redevelopment Authority announced plans to preserve Boat Quay as part of a master plan for conserving the whole of the Singapore River and its environs. On 7 July 1989, an area encompassing South Bridge Road, Circular Road, Lorong Telok and North Canal Road was gazetted. The two- and three-storey shophouses in that area, with their characteristic five-foot way beneath projecting upper floors, were preserved and transformed into new businesses. The shophouses and godowns along the river bank were restored in the 1990s and are now bustling shops, restaurants and bars.
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For example, Farquhar allowed merchants to encroach on designated government area – he permitted the erection of houses and godowns on the Padang and on the nearby banks of the Singapore River, within an area Raffles specified not to be permanently appropriated by individuals. In response, Raffles formed a Town Committee, consisting of a merchant, Alexander Laurie Johnston; a civil servant George Bonham; and Captain Charles Edward Davis of the Bengal Native Infantry, who acted as president of the committee. They were assisted by Lieutenant Philip Jackson who drew up the layout plan of the city according to Raffles' instructions.
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1800: College Fort William College, opened to train writers in Oriental languages, later moved to this building. Over the next 20 years, structural changes were made, including a new hostel for 32 students and an exam hall (which still exist), a lecture hall, four libraries and rooms to teach Hindi and Persian. 1821: Iconic facade created A 128 ft-long verandah with Ionic columns, each 32 ft high, were added on the first and second floors. Cluster of statues atop Writers' Building1830: Government College of Engineering The college moved out of Writers' and the building fell into the hands of private individuals who turned it into living quarters, shops and godowns.
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Aerial panorama of Singapore's Downtown CoreIn June 1819, modern founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles instructed the first Resident of Singapore, William Farquhar, to reserve the whole space within the Old Lines and the Singapore River (i.e. the northern bank) for public purposes. However, Farquhar found it expedient to allow European merchants to encroach the reserved space as this appeared to be the only suitable site for mercantile firms and godowns, since the southern bank was then too swampy. Farquhar also built a temporary home with an attap roof and kajang walls on the current Singapore Cricket Club site, on the edge which came to be known as Raffles Plain.
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For a considerable time, lines ran between B.B.D. Bagh and Majerhat for the transport of goods from the port area to the godowns (warehouses) of the Calcutta port along the Hooghly River. These were built during the early East Indian Railway Company (EIR) period when the river Hooghly was navigable to this area. Gradually with the silting of Hooghly, and its inaccessibility to bigger ships, these lines ceased to be used. With these existing lines being rehabilitated and small stretches of new track being laid in a few locations, a connection could be established between Dum Dum Junction and Prinsep Ghat along the bank of the Hooghly.
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The Singapore economy was growing and there was a great demand for houses, shops, and warehouses. Seeing the opportunities, Wong became a building contractor as it was only a short step from carpentry work. Obtaining the patronage of Hoo Ah Kay (better known as Whampoa), a fellow Cantonese, he was able to secure a major contract in 1863 to build two godowns for Paterson & Simons (acting as the business agent for the Temenggungs of Johor in Singapore), some ten years after his arrival in Singapore. It was Hoo who introduced Wong to his wide circle of friends, including Maharaja Abu Bakar who subsequently became the Sultan of Johor.
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The firms godowns extend in an unbroken block from Beach Street to Weld Quay. Mr. Alexander Kay Buttery, who was born in Glasgow and educated at Charterhouse and King's College, London, joined the office in Mark Lane and came to the East in 1894. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the committee of the Turf Club, and of the Pinang Association, a member of all local clubs, a Justice of the Peace, and was a member of the Municipal Council. He is a well- known patron of the turf, owning the horses Diamond Star and Evening Star, which did so well in 1906.
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The MTR uses a gauge of , 3 mm narrower than the standard gauge. Originally it was to be standard gauge but when the link between the KCR and MTR at Kowloon Tong fell into disuse due to the difference in the choice of voltage for their respective electrification plans, the latter favoured a narrower gauge for technical reasons. This has proven to be an impediment of the proposed merger between the two systems. The haematite mine at Ma On Shan used an electric internal railway network of The Kowloon Godowns in Tsim Sha Tsui, before redevelopment in the 1970s, also had an extensive network of gauge tracks using tiny hand-pushed 2-axle trucks.
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Migrant workers stand in a queue for food at a Delhi Government school during COVID-19 lockdown at Delhi According to government reports, there was enough food grain stocked up in the FCI godowns to feed the poor for at least a year-and-a-half. While government schemes ensured that the poor would get additional rations due to the lockdown, the distribution system failed to be effective as the ration cards are area-specific and fair price shops were largely inaccessible. Additionally, the 'One Nation, One Ration Card' system has been implemented in very few states, as of mid April. While the scheme allowed migrant workers to retrieve foodgrains for free anywhere across the country, very few were aware of the scheme.
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Three days after the Japanese had taken Penang Island, the prison superintendent approached Koon- Teck and informed him that almost 50 young English soldiers between 18 and 20 years of age, together with a few British residents from Penang Hill who had not heard of the invasion, were squeezed together in the prison, had not eaten in three days, and were dying. Koon-Teck approached the Japanese lieutenant whom he had handed over the island to, and pleaded their case. Koon-Teck was allowed to feed them and this he did out of the stores of food in the godowns controlled by his men. When the Japanese discovered that he was giving those prisoners more than vegetables, salt and rice – he had introduced a bit of pork bone that he got from the roadside market – they objected.
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Kwan Tai Kwon Tucked away behind Dockyard Road Railway Station, Kwan Kung is a small Chinese temple on 12, Nawab Tank Road. It’s not easy to find, nestled between short buildings now used as godowns and residential homes, Mumbai’s only temple is painted red and is a peaceful place that plays meditative Chinese music. Adorned with all the requisite paraphernalia of a typical Chinese temple, including fortune scrolls, paper money and incense sticks, the temple pays homage to the Chinese God of protection, justice and courage Guan Gong. Temple caretaker Albert Tham, whose mother also looked after the temple, is building another temple on the ground floor of the building dedicated to Guan Yin, a female deity revered for mercy, peace and wisdom. The temple built in winter months (Oct - Dec) 1953, was then in the center of Mumbai’s See Yip Koon community.
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One of the largest projects which the firm took on were the flats for the Rotterdam Trading Company (Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij or KPM), called KPM Flats 100 at Dunearn Road, which commenced in 1951 and continued for a number of years. Over the years, Van Sitteren did some work for the Dutch Club, designed a block of four flats at Holland Road for Netherland Line Royal Dutch Mail (1953) and its extension (1958), KPM Flats at Dunearn Court (1953) and at Mount Elizabeth (1955), flats at Orange Grove Road/Fernhill Road for the Hollandsche School (1955), and godowns at Martin Road for the Netherlands Trading Society. Iversen and Van Sitteren enjoyed a good working relationship with the contractors they worked with. One of them was Lim Kah Ngam, the contractor who successfully tendered for the Federal House project.
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The Food Corporation of India procures rice and wheat from farmers through many routes like paddy purchase centres/mill levy/custom milling and stores them in depots. FCI maintains many types of depots like food storage depots and buffer storage complexes and private equity godowns and also implemented latest storage methods of silo storage facilities which are located at Hapur in Uttar Pradesh, Malur in Karnataka and Elavur in Tamil Nadu. The stocks are transported throughout India by means of railways, roadways and waterways and issued to the state government nominees at the rates declared by the Government of India for further distribution under the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the consumption of the ration card holders. (FCI itself does not directly distribute any stock under PDS, and its operations end at the exit of the stock from its depots).
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Captain Wally Greene had rifle Company E. And George McCloud [sic] had the machine gun company." Despite being stationed in the Suzhou Creek, his platoon never directly engaged Japanese troops,Oral History Collection: "My platoon was never in a direct fire fight with Japanese troops, but we were in the hottest part of the Soochow Creek area – and observed a lot of fierce across-the-street fighting between the Chinese and Japanese forces." but witnessed the Defense of Sihang Warehouse.Oral History Collection: "The Chinese holed up right across from my platoon front in one of the godowns, at the corner of Weilan Road and Soochow Creek. That final night, Japanese Regular Army troops brought 75mm field pieces up beside the godown wall and began firing right into the place. The surviving Chinese troops would wait until the Japanese paused their fire, and then they’d run across the street into the British sector, where they were safe.
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During early consolidation the FMSR would inherit many of former state railways depots, workshops and yards located around major stations and junctions, which were eventually downgraded into minor depots while centralised workshops charged with more important maintenance duties were constructed in specific regions. The largest of the new workshops was the Central Workshops in Sentol, Selangor; completed in 1905, it occupied a large plot close to the town and employed around 5,000 employees in its heyday, building railroad cars, fabricating railway parts, and performing maintenance on traction units. Other major depots were constructed in Prai and Gemas during FMSR's existence. As the FMSR was an essential shipping channel to and from the interior of Malaya, some stations serving sea ports and commercial and industrial centres doubled as goods stations, managing tin and rubber shipments alongside other essential goods; such stations are typically complemented with godowns and marshalling/goods yards of varying sizes.
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