Chandigarh is also officially the cleanest city in India, an announcement made only last month by Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy. The Govt. of India’s National Rating Exercise examined 423 cities in India which cover 72 per cent of the urban population.

And last year, TIME listed Chandigarh as Best for the Mind in their Best of Asia 2009 list, calling it an “Urban Retreat” and labeling it the “thinking man’s city”.

Not bad for a city for which the foundation stone was laid in 1952.

As part of this program, our staff has volunteered their time to work with the Seattle based nonprofit SeeYourImpact. SeeYourImpact’s mission is to transform giving into a joyful and fulfilling experience for all donors by enabling charitable organizations to show the connection of each donor’s gift to the actual end beneficiary in an authentic and transparent manner.

SeeYourImpact focuses on high quality projects in health care, clean water and education across Asia, Africa and Latin America that allow donors to create dramatic life change with a contribution of as little as $10!  Donate to one of our two favorite projects: The Restoring Force, which distributes solar lanterns to families living in Central India and Padma Industrial School, which provides free vocational training for the children of farm hands in south India!

They put this across aptly on their website:

“At a Camp, we love to cross-talk, huddle together, raise some noise, celebrate technology, argue over how Linux is the coolest OS ever made, fight on our fav(orite) programming languages, discuss stuff, and what not! We are a year old, learning to walk, baby speaking on loud, and with a cape tied on our backs, we dream of soaring high in the sky.”

As one of the leading web application development companies in the region with emphasis on open source based development, we understand the need for open standards and endorsement of the same for the next generation applications. As the World Wide Web (WWW) brings together diverse communities and applications from across distinct networks, the challenge lies in providing a common platform for collaborative development. Open source is the solution and choice of all companies whether large or small. We can vouch for this as an experienced company that develops large applications for the Web for a global clientele.

Net Solutions encourages all students, professionals and participating companies to deliberate on the challenges before the open source community and promote/share the advantages of adopting the open source standards. We’ll see you there at the OSScamp and let’s keep this initiative Open!