5 Things to Consider When Hiring a Commercial Cleaning Company

New business? Bigger building? Better results? There are several reasons why you may be considering hiring a commercial cleaning company at this time, but it’s not as cut and dry as a quick online search. While commercial cleaning in Bangalore or Karnataka will bring up quite a few results, you will want to know what to look for in order to know if they are the right fit. Here are 5 things to consider when you are ready to hire or finally outsource your commercial cleaning.

Outsourcing Is the Best Option

Often moving into a new location, business owners may choose to use current staff for janitorial services because they think it offers cost savings, or they don’t want to take the time to hire a commercial cleaning company.

Outsourcing can be incredibly economical, especially when taken into consideration the increased skill and efficiency of a dedicated cleaning crew who isn’t make a financial impact on payroll, benefits or unemployment insurance.

By outsourcing your commercial cleaning in Denver, you are ensuring your building will be cleaned to the highest industry standards with a focus on safety, cleanliness, and avoiding cross contamination. And, if done with consistency, you will recognize cost savings through preventative maintenance, healthier staff and production, and a safer environment for staff and guests.

All Commercial Cleaning Companies Aren’t the Same

Commercial cleaning companies vary in the types of services they provide, so it’s important you know what you need, what they provide, their satisfaction ratings, and their training process. Some companies specialize in certain industries, while other specialize in just one area of cleaning (such as power washing), so be sure you know.

Check out online reviews about the company, ask for references and check the Karnataka Consumer Redressal Commission for any complaints. Ask them for their experience with businesses or buildings such as yours to determine their ability to successfully meet your needs.

Understanding Your Needs is the First Priority

A quality commercial cleaning company will always start with a building audit to determine the full scope of your needs and to provide you with a quote. Understanding your unique situation is important to reaching your goals, whether that be on an ongoing basis, or in a specialty cleaning need such as high-rise windows, specialty architecture or even pre- or post- remodeling clean.

Some companies will offer standard commercial cleaning such as trash removal, dusting, floor care and bathroom sanitation. While this is typical, your specific needs may require a more robust menu of options, so define them clearly, along with the cleaning company to make sure you are getting all your needs met.

Get a Fresh Start

If you have moved into a newly remodeled space, or know you will need to be doing a remodel either prior to move in, or shortly thereafter, you may want to consider a special cleaning prior to, during or after. Prior to remodel, cleaning may need to be done to create a clean area on which to build. During and after the process, dust, dirt, and construction debris can create a safety hazard, and a cleaning company can help keep it safe for production.

A fresh start can also include semi-annual deep cleaning to address any specific needs not handled on a regular rotation. When doing your building audit, consider everything within the realm of janitorial services. The cleaning company may be able to provide it, or they may have partnerships with others in the industry who they can refer for stellar results, saving you time.

Align with Your Goals

As with any outsourcing, you will want to really understand the value it brings, and make sure you understand what to do when something goes wrong, how the company is with communication, safety, processes and more, to make sure they align with your overall business goals and bottom line.

If green cleaning matters, if being able to provide services after office hours (or during) is important, or if you are in a highly confidential industry such as the medical field, you want to choose a company who will support that.

Choose Cape Clean Services.

At Cape Clean we have all the skills, tools and equipment needed to keep your office clean and safe all year long. Our effective and responsive team has genuine concern for our clients, meeting or beating any expectations you have for commercial cleaning in Karnataka. Our employees are trained for, and take pride in cleaning and maintaining your facility to the high standards required. We always use the latest cleaning technologies to insure your facility is clean and germ free. Contact us today to schedule your FREE building audit and quote, or call +91-9606822781

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Guwahati records highest day temp for July

GUWAHATI, July 30 - The depression, or the low atmospheric pressure of higher order, which was yesterday lying stationary over the northeast Bay of Bengal and its adjacent coastal areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, today turned into a deep depression. Like the depression yesterday, it is also preventing incursion of moisture to the Northeast India, leading to a virtual rainless condition, mainly in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. This has made the day (maximum) temperatures shoot up in many areas of the region.

Intensity wise, a deep depression is a precursor of a cyclone.

Sources in the Borjhar-based Regional Meteorology Centre (RMC) here said that the prevailing weather situation in NE India may undergo a change with this system crossing Bangladesh coast and making a west northwestward move in the forenoon of tomorrow.

Under the impact of this system, Guwahati today recorded the highest July day temperature of 37.6° Celsius in a period of around 50 years since 1966. During the period, the temperature of 37.5° Celsius recorded in the city on July 13, 2009 was the highest July day temperature for it till yesterday. Itanagar also recorded a day temperature of 37.6° Celsius today.

Under the impact of the above system, Dibrugarh today recorded a day temperature of 37° Celsius, Jorhat and Tezpur recorded 36° Celsius, North Lakhimpur 36.4° Celsius, Silchar 34.7° Celsius, Dhubri 34.4° Celsius, Aizwal 27.9° Celsius, Kohima 30.8° Celsius, Imphal 29° Celsius, Shillong 26.8° Celsius and Agartala 34.8° Celsius, said the RMC sources.

Flood alert after heavy rain in Assam, over 80,000 affected

The situation was particularly grim in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in eastern Assam, where nearly 45,000 people have been affected.

A father hold his child on back to take him to school at waterlogged Anil Nagar in Guwahati on Monday. (Source: PTI)

Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap | Guwahati

Thousands of people across Assam have been affected after incessant rains over the last week caused several rivers, including the Brahmaputra, to overflow. The overflowing rivers have breached embankments, inundated villages and damaged standing crop, affecting over 80,000 people, according to a report by the state disaster management body.
Eighteen revenue circles in 10 districts have been badly affected by the relentless rains, stated the daily flood report issued by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) on Tuesday. The districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji in eastern Assam, where nearly 45,000 people were affected by the overflowing rivers, were the worst hit.
In Tinsukia, another district hit hard by the relentless rains, authorities have already set up three relief camps. A sizeable portion of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park in the district has been submerged by the rising levels of the Brahmaputra.
The floodwaters have also entered the Kaziranga National Park, forcing animals to move to drier, safer places.
While the Brahmaputra is flowing over the danger mark in Nimatighat in Jorhat district, several villages in the river-island of Majuli have been also inundated. Solengi, Chatrang and Sessa — all tributaries of the Brahmaputra — have  inundated villages and standing crops, affecting over 21,000 people in the Gohpur sub-division of Sonitpur district.
Nearly 38,000 hectares of standing crop, mostly paddy, have been damaged by the overflowing rivers, according to the ASDMA report.
Dhemaji district has recorded the worst damage, with 2,300 hectares of standing crop being destroyed while the districts of Sonitpur, Goalpara, Lakhimpur and Kamrup have also been affected.

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Gorkhas in Assam demand ST status

New Delhi: Gorkhas living in Assam has demanded Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the community and creation of an autonomous council comprising Gorkha inhabited areas.

The demands were placed before Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh here on Tuesday when a delegation of 'Asom Gorkha Sammelan' called on him to submit some of the long-pending grievances of the community.

The minister gave a patient hearing to the delegation and said he would personally follow up the issues falling within the purview of his Ministry and in case of other issues, he will take up with the departments and ministries concerned.

Singh said the Gorkha community has served the nation through thick and thin and their sacrifices are an example for others to follow.

Interacting with the delegation, the minister quoted Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw's famous observation "if a man says he is not afraid of dying, then he is either lying or a Gorkha".

The delegation claimed that in the Northeastern region, the history of 'Assam Rifles' and the 'Gorkha Regiment' is indeed the history of the bravery of Gorkha soldiers but unfortunately in recent times, the recruitment of Gorkha youth in India's defence forces has declined.

This is partly because of the reason that a Gorkha domicile certificate is expected from them. In addition, as per the gazette notification, the word 'Nepali' is used synonymously for a Gorkha individual and it creates confusion for the recruiting agencies.

They demanded that the Gorkha community certificate issued by the 'Asom Gorkha Sammelan' should be honoured for the purpose of employment or recruitment in defence forces.

The other demands made in the memorandum included setting up of a Gorkha cultural and heritage centre and simplification of the process for inclusion of Gorkha community members in the National Register of Citizens.

Where are the achhe din, asks Gogoi

AIUDF activists protest against the land acquisition bill in Guwahati on Thursday. Picture by UB Photos

Guwahati, April 23: Five hundred and eighty-two farmers committed suicide in Gujarat in 2013, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
This is the number which Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi touted here this afternoon to deflate the Gujarat model of development and oppose the land acquisition bill tabled in Parliament by the BJP-led NDA government.
"We are opposing the new land ordinance. The BJP had supported the UPA-piloted land bill before forming the government. They (BJP) were then pro-farmer but are now trying to acquire land for industry through the anti-farmer bill. We will oppose it. Everything is linked to land," Gogoi said.

Reacting to the Rajasthan farmer's suicide in New Delhi during an AAP rally yesterday, he said, "That's it. Hundreds of farmers are committing suicides in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala... Where are the achhe din (good days) promised by Modi? In Gujarat, 582 farmers committed suicide in 2013! I have not heard such things in Assam! There may be some deaths related to diseases like anaemia in tea gardens but no suicide case. We don't want the Gujarat model of development."
Gogoi raked up the issues on a day the farmer suicide rocked the Modi government in Parliament.
The Centre has been facing a lot of flak over the fresh land acquisition ordinance issued on April 3. Gogoi has been consistent in his attack of Modi, whether it is his development model or the BJP's U-turn on the Indo-Bangladesh land-swap deal and big dam.
The chief minister, who will leave for Delhi tomorrow to attend the Niti Aayog meeting on Saturday, used today's interaction to mock Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development model, which, according to him was market-driven and also convey the pro-farmer and pro-poor measures undertaken by his government.
These measures include instruction to all deputy commissioners to convert all allotment certificates and annual deeds into periodic deeds in rural areas within October so it could help farmers avail loan from banks.
Other measures are computerisation of land records by July so that landowners and bankers can view land documents on the website and registration of pending mutation and partition cases within two months.
"All land acquisition will be done in accordance with the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, (Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013)," a note prepared by the chief minister's office for the media interaction said.
Apart from dwelling on improving government services related to land issues, a cumbersome process, Gogoi also reiterated his commitment to ensure Rs 169 as minimum daily wage to tea garden workers and implementation of the Plantation Labour Act, 1951.
"We admit we should have done it earlier but we are determined to get it implemented this time. We have already registered 31 cases against tea gardens for violating the act," Gogoi said.
The Opposition AIUDF student and youth wings today opposed the new land acquisition bill, which the Modi government is trying to get approved in Lok Sabha.
They jointly took out a "Raj Bhavan chalo" programme here. About 500 youths who joined the procession later submitted a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee through Assam governor P.B. Acharya, demanding scrapping of the bill on the ground that it would break the backbone of the farming community.

“Assamese People” definition rocks Assembly

The issue of determining the definition of the “Assamese People” triggered an uproarious scene in the Assam Assembly on the last day of the ongoing budget session with the ruling Congress and the Opposition All-India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) members raising objection to Speaker Pranab Kumar Gogoi recording his recommendation to the State government on the definition in the records of the House proceedings. They raised objection on the ground that the Speaker had not consulted the legislators and political parties to firm up the definition of the “Assamese People”.

The Speaker recommended, after consultations with 53 different organisations, that the year 1951 be taken as the cut off period and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951, be taken as the basis for the definition of the “Assamese People” for the purpose of reservation of seats and constitutional safeguards as required by the Assam Accord.

This definition is required to implement the Clause six of the Assam Accord which promises that “constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social and linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese People.”

The members of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), however, backed the Speaker’s definition of “Assamese People” and insisted that the Speaker’s recommendation be treated as a recommendation of the House.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rockybul Hussain, while making a statement on behalf of the State government, said that any hasty conclusion at this stage might jeopardise the work of updating the NRC, 1951, which has already begun. He expressed apprehension that those opposed to updating might use it as a weapon to sabotage the work.

The Speaker in his two-page report, which he read out, stated that 1951 Census Report defined indigenous people of Assam thus: “Indigenous person of Assam means a person belonging to the State of Assam and speaking the Assamese language or any tribal dialect of Assam, or in the case of Cachar the language of the region.”

He also pointed out that late Chief Minister Bimala Prasad Chaliha in his official message to enumerators stated that the NRC would be compiled on the basis of 1951 Census report.

Top Aasu leaders to step down from posts today

Guwahati: Top leaders of the All Assam Students' Union (Aasu), which has been the leading students' body of the state for the last 10 years, will step down from their posts during the four-day 16th Dudhnoi convention. The convention will be held in Goalpara district from Monday.

Aasu adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya said on Sunday that he would part ways with the students' body with which he has been associated since the days of the Assam agitation (1979 to 85). He has served Aasu as its general secretary and adviser for more than three decades.

Aasu president Sankar Prasad Ray and general secretary Tapan Kumar Gogoi will also quit from the students' body during the Dudhnoi convention, paving the way for the next generation.

"I will leave Aasu, through which I have served Assam over the years. But I will continue working for the good of the state," said Bhattacharyya. He added that he had no plans of joining any political party or of contesting elections.

The Aasu leadership denied rumours of joining BJP in the presence of party president Amit Shah, who will visit the state in April. Bhattacharyya hit out at state BJP president Siddhartha Bhattacharya who recently said that several Aasu leaders were in touch with the saffron party.

The Dudhnoi convention will see participation of leaders from different ethnic and tribal organizations of the state as well as academics to chalk out the future roadmap of the students' body in solving the burning issues of the state.

The Aasu adviser said a 'secure Assam' will the theme on which representatives of the organizations will deliberate to find ways for protecting the state from illegal influx, securing the future of students, making them employable and safeguarding the interests of students of vernacular medium schools.

2 die of Swine flu in Assam

Two more persons succumbed to swine flu and 10 new cases of those infected with the H1N1 virus surfaced in Assam, officials said on Sunday.

Assam Health and Family Welfare Minister Nazrul Islam said four persons have been detected with swine flu in Jorhat and Dibrugarh each, three in Guwahati and one in Tezpur.

The death toll due to the virus has reached four, with two deaths occurring in Jorhat district. “Of the 12 persons, seven had history of travel and five are affected locally,” he added.

He said the Assam government has prepared isolation wards in every district hospital across the State.

Islam said the government will soon start vaccination drive across the State for Japanese encephalitis.

Assam youth beaten up in Delhi, hospitalised

A 21-year-old student from Assam was allegedly beaten up by some residents of South Delhi’s Amar Colony, police said on Monday.

According to police, the student was identified as Arbazuddin Ahmed. He was trying to break the lock of someone else’s house, mistaking it to be his own, apparently in an inebriated state.

Police said the youth hails from Guwahati, Assam and was living in Delhi for the last two years. He has suffered fractures in his limbs and jaw in the attack.

“The incident took place on March 5 when Arbazuddin came back home and tried to open the lock of a house which was not his. When the key didn’t work, he tried to break the door and get in,” a senior police official said.

“Meanwhile, hearing the sounds, the owner of the house and neighbours woke up. Thinking that he was a thief, they thrashed him,” he said.

Following a call from the locals around 1.30 am that they had caught a thief, a police team was rushed to the spot and took him to the hospital.

“His address was found to be in the same locality. Both the houses were on the first floor and the youth probably went into the wrong house apparently in an inebriated condition,” police said.

Rape incidents on the rise in Assam

Guwahati: Official records of the Assam Police reveal that more than 10,000 girls and women have been raped in the state since 2010. Such crimes have been escalating over the years.

The records said that at least 1,721 rape cases had been registered in various police stations in 2010 followed by 2,011 cases in 2011.

"Though there was a slight fall in 2012 with some 1,716 rape cases registered, but it shot up in 2013 with 1,937 such incidents," the records said.

At least 2,780 cases were registered last year with an average seven women being raped in Assam daily.

This year too, such incidents are happening with regularity. On Saturday, three persons were sent to police custody on charges of gangraping a 17-year-old.

"The girl's family lodged an FIR complaining that Debojit Bora, Dhanjit Saikia and Sukumar Kalita had raped her. They were all staying at a rented house at Rajgharh area here," a policeman said.

Besides incidents of rape, women in the state face molestation on a daily basis. The police records too stated that at least 11,306 cases of molestation were registered in various police stations in Assam since 2010. "There were 1,611 molestation cases recorded in 2010. In the following year, it came down to 1,446 but went up to 1,840 in 2012. In 2013, at least 2,409 such cases were registered in the state. Last year, it had gone up to some 4,000," the records stated.

Self-attestation of documents in Assam

Guwahati: The Assam Government has decided to introduce with immediate effect self-attestation of documents in lieu of attestation by gazetted officers/ magistrates, etc. in all cases except where there is statutory requirement.

This order also pertains to self-declaration in place of submission of court affidavits, said a government release here today. The initiative by the State Government is to simplify government procedures and to promote Citizen Centric Administration, it said.