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Amit K Singh Finally our efforts and your consistent contributions and support paid off and here we are with our first edition of our much awaited magazine, Discover Civil. It would be unfair to say that this magazine is a vision of a single person. There is always a reason behind every move, every new business, and every new start-up. There is always a story. The story of this magazine is too like the other. We found a reason and we found a vacuum, and this magazine is an effort to fill that vacuum. It’s a tale which starts a year ago. When a sudden idea crept into our mind to start a magazine. Just a magazine. Like other, the magazine would publish construction news, product launches and few technical blogs. Our motive was simple, to make money. We were not a bunch of writers who straight away could start a magazine out of nowhere. So we decided to wait and check our resources. This wait helped us find us our direction. We met more people from our industry, we met engineering students, and we interacted with internationally via our community pages and realized that a lot better could be done. This was the point where we realized that there is a lot of ground to cover and there are more innovative measures that we can take to initiate a ground breaking magazine. Our first aim was to organize a magazine which connects every spectrum of our construction industry, be it students, fresher, experienced engineers and contractors. Magazines today are news tabloid about the project launch, product launch and featured articles about any specific company. We didn’t see that these magazines were connecting the masses. While you are reading this how many construction magazine names you know? One, Two or none. Of course they exist and they have their reader but they are very specific and scattered. A majority reader belong to contractor community where they seek launch news and business opportunities. Without a doubt these magazines are doing quite well at what they aim to. Contrary to that, we don’t focus on product launch, rather we tell you why that product is good for you, what are its pros and cons. We won’t publish a paid article praising a company’s product or its history rather we would love to analyze company’s impact on our industry. We made our magazine fun to read experience for all. The Engineering students, who would be the key to our construction industry in future were being avoided till now. This magazine would connect them from rest of the construction fraternity. We are even seeking their active participation to help us grow into a massive family of Civil Engineers and Builders. We also kept our language simple using simple vocabulary so as to be adaptable and readable as many readers possible. So how much should we charge for our magazine? Should we charge? No we shouldn’t. Let knowledge and experiences reach out to every person of our family. Let’s not create any monetary barrier. Cheeers….!!!!