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Monday 24 October 2022

Report Card for Corporators

Mumbai: Now, get ‘report card’ of your corporator on your mobile screens / Ind Express / 06 Oct 2022

Extract :

Ahead of civic elections, a Mumbai-based citizen’s group has designed a unique mobile application through which residents can request personalised report cards of performance of corporators from their respective areas.

Nagarikayan Research Center, a citizen’s representative forum, has designed the ‘My Corporator’ (Majha Corporator) app, which is available in Google playstore, through which a citizen living in any municipal ward can request for a report card of their corporators.

After a citizen flags a request, members of this organisation bring out information from the civic body by filing RTIs and other documents, following which a report is prepared.

Anand Bhandare, coordinator from Nagarikayan, said there are five parameters based on which the corporators are marked.

These are:

Ø attendance in various civic committees and meetings,

Ø number of questions asked,

Ø number of motions filed,

Ø amount of funds utilised and

Ø how they are utilised.

“This report card is prepared only after we receive a request from citizens. After we receive the request, we access the attendance logs and scrutinise the purchase document orders that reflect the expenses incurred by the corporators,” Bhandare said.

“Our volunteers also carry out a ground-level social inspection to check the quality of raw materials used for projects like road to check if same work is being implemented in a particular area,” he said.

So far, 56 report cards of 44 corporators have been uploaded on the app. Some of these corporators include Pratima Khopade, Sunil Prabhu and Geeta Singhan from the Shiv Sena, Kamlesh Yadav, Prakash Gangadhare and Neil Somaiya from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Vinnie D’souza, Sonam Jamsutkar and Sneha Jagade from the Congress.

Bhandare said that besides marking corprorators, the application also evaluates independent experts that are inducted on various civic development committees.

“Based on the parameters, we evaluate the performance of the corporators and have specific colour markings to assess their performance. If the average marking or percentage is below 40, then it is highlighted with grey colour, if the percentage ranges between 40 and 70, it is highlighted with blue colour, and above 70 is marked with green colour,” Bhandare said.

Congress corporator, Jagdish Amin, BJP’s Geeta Kiran Bhandari and Sena’s Sandhya Doshi are some of the highest performers with scores above 70. On the other hand, Sena’s Dilip Lande and BJP’s Anita Panchal and Parag Shah are among the low performers.

RTI activist Anil Galgali [ a.galgali@rediffmail.com ],

said it is time the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) come up with such mobile application on its own to disseminate information about fund allotment and usage.

“Usage of mobile application is the way forward. In this app, we are trying to track the actual money spent by the BMC during and after the pandemic which will give us the real on-ground scenario in Mumbai,” Galgali said.

My Take :

Dear Shri Anand Bhandareji ,

Congratulations on this initiative . Unfortunately I just could not find your email ID anywhere . Is it > foundation@moneylife.com ?

I urge you to take it further as suggested in my following blog ( sent as email to all Union Cabinet Ministers ):

Ø Filtering Candidate Information ? ………………………………..[ 18 Sept 2016 ]

Extract :

BUT ,

Would voters be enthused to come forward to vote , if

# Latest info about ALL of those candidates was available at finger-tips on

his Mobile ( authenticated by Election Commission ), eliminating hours of

" searching " on the Net and hours of " filtering "

# That info would comprise,

* Affidavit filed by the Candidates

* Police Record including cases filed / pending / disposed off , against the

candidates

* Past political history ( no of political parties changed )

* Director-ship ( direct / indirect ) in private businesses and NPA of those

businesses

* Results of open Surveys on " ROMP – Recall Our Member of Parliament "

* Whether the candidate has accepted to implement the " Charter of

Demand " ( if elected ) , submitted and uploaded by the Voters of his

Constituency on the web site of the Election Commission

# He can vote directly from his Mobile , without having to go to a Polling Booth

and spend 4 hours

# He can take 5 minutes to cast his vote, sitting in his bedroom , without holding

up other voters in the queue

# He can vote at any time of the voting day and from any place on the earth !

# And get to know the very next morning , who got elected

YES , of course !

And voter turn-out would be 95 % !

HOW ?

By implementing , " " VotesApp "

( a Mobile App which , effectively shrinks a bulky, common , special purpose

Electronic Voting Machine - EVM - into a tiny, personally-owned ,

versatile Mobile )

ANY BYE-PRODUCT ?

Sure,

Central Government , can earn Rs 20,000 crores , by enabling 15 million

Indian businesses to advertise to 850 million voters thru this mobile

VotesApp , sharply targeting by Gender / Age / Marital Status / City / Street /

Education / Income Tax paid / Employed or Jobless ....etc

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

25 Oct 2022

Sunday 23 October 2022

PSSU beat me to the draw !

PSSU = Petlad Sojitra SaurUrja Utpadak Sahakari Mandli Ltd

Here is how :

Now, milk district Anand taps the Sun / Times of India ( Mumbai Edition ) / 24 Oct 2022

Copy from PressReader :

Five years ago, Mahesh Manibhai Patel, a farmer with 11 ‘vigha’ land in Gujarat’s Anand district, used to spend sleepless nights because his village got electricity for only eight hours, often late in the evening or at night.

Now, he can draw water 12 hours a day in the daytime. He not only gets a good night’s sleep, but also earns a couple of lakh rupees every year by selling surplus electricity.

The revolution in Maheshbhai’s life is part of a new cooperative movement sweeping through Anand, which is home to Amul and the birthplace of India’s White Revolution.

In 2018, the world’s first solar cooperative – Petlad Sojitra Saururja Utpadak (PSSU) Sahkari Mandali Limited – started in Anand with a seed capital of just Rs 1,100.

The idea was to replicate Amul’s cooperative model in the solar energy field.

Four years on, PSSU’s turnover has touched Rs 12 crore. More importantly, it has inspired seven other solar ‘mandalis’ (cooperatives) in a cluster of 18 villages covering 22 sq-km in Anand district.

After meeting the villages’ irrigation needs PSSU has enough solar power left over to supply the state grid.

It has also started taking commercial contracts for installing solar panels in the region. PSSU’s three agriculture feeders at Ishnav (Mahesh-bhai’s village), Trambovad and Ashapuri villages generate 24,000 units daily and supply electricity to 388 farmers.

In 2019, the Ishnav feeder was India’s first agriculture feeder run by a solar cooperative.

“We had started with the motto to replicate the success that the Amul model has achieved in the milk business. Amul Dairy too started its journey with just 250 litres of milk,” said Tejash Patel, founder and chairman of the PSSU mandali.

“We utilised the Surya Shakti Kisan (SKY) scheme launched by the Gujarat government in June 2018. The SKY scheme enables farmers to generate electricity for their captive consumption and sell the surplus power to the grid. Under the scheme, solar panels are provided to farmers as per their load requirements,” Tejash-bhai said.

The farmers got 30% subsidy each from the Gujarat government and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

They also got 35% of the funds as a loan from Nabard.

They had to pay the remaining 5% themselves, so they took a loan of Rs 3.5 crore from the Kheda District Madhya Sahkari Bank.

Tejash-bhai said they paid off the loan four months after launching the pilot project.

Now the farmers will get free electricity from their solar systems for 22 years and also earn from the sale of surplus units. The cooperative’s members can expect to earn Rs 45,000-Rs 2.5 lakh per annum from electricity.

The solar movement is changing people’s lives.

“Since availability of both electricity and water to irrigate farms was an issue, I used to cultivate only wheat or millets – crops that do not require much water,” Mahesh-bhai said. “But since I have installed a 50hp solar pump, I can draw water for 12 hours during the day. I have started cultivating highyielding crops like tomato, chilli and tobacco, and earn Rs 7.5 lakh per annum, as against Rs 3 lakh from wheat and millets earlier.” That’s not counting his earnings from the sale of surplus electricity units.

The solar cooperative is also generating employment.

“We have 23 employees, including engineers, who have executed many commercial projects in Gujarat. Our major clients are the dairy cooperative societies of Amul Dairy in Petlad, Sojitra, Tarapur, Khambhat, Umreth and other villages of Anand and Kheda districts, apart from Panchmahals District Agriculture Produce Market Committee and Panchmahals District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited,” said Tejash-bhai.

[ pssumandali@gmail.com ]

My Take :

Ø A Tale of Two States ………………………………………………[ 28 Oct 2020 ]

Extract :

Here is a broad / conceptual frame-work :

Ø Introduce “ Co-operative Farming of Solar Power / CFSP “ { call it a kind of “ Contract Farming “ }

-( incorporate this into just released FARM LAWS to encourage setting-up of “

Solar Power Farmers Cooperative Society “, along the lines of Dairy Farmers’

AMUL Milk Cooperative Society )

Ø Under CFSP, provide 30 % Capital Cost Subsidy to companies setting up large ( > 500 MW ) Solar Farms in remote areas ( eg : desert areas of Kutch – Spiti – Lahul – Ladakh etc , which have a potential to generate 315 GW of Solar power )

Read : https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/08/from-ladakh-with-love-and-sun-shine.html

Ø 1 MW of ( grid ) solar will need 100,000 sq ft of solar panels ( 1 KW will need 100 sq ft )

Ø The estimated cost of 1 MW solar power plant is approx. Rs 4 - 6 crore.

Ø That works out to approx. Rs 400 - 600 / sq ft of Capital cost for Solar panels

Ø Solar Farm company can “ Sell “ ownership rights of solar panels to individuals in modules of 1000 sq ft, ( costing Rs 4- 6 lakh per module ) . These rights can be sold / transferred to any buyer, only with prior permission of the Solar Farm Company concerned

Ø Each module ( of 1,000 sq ft ) will generate 10 KW of power, which Company will feed into a NATIONAL GRID ( free ) .

Ø Each such Co-operative Company can reserve / own by itself, 30 % of Solar Panels for generating power for sale in free market

Ø My nearest DISCOM will supply me those 10 KW, free of cost ( ie: deduct from my monthly usage ) . Any excess over my actual consumption, to be credited to my account

Ø Depending upon my usage / need , I as an individual CO-OPERATIVE OWNER , can “ buy “ any number of STANDARD MODULES, and from any number of Cooperative Farming companies or other Co-op Owners

Ø This set-up will require NATIONAL SOLAR EXCHANGE in which ALL discoms will be mandated to become members

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 24 Oct 2022

Related Readings :

Ø Not Good Enough ! …………………………………………………………… [ 02 Dec 2017 ]

Ø From Ladakh with Love ( and Sun Shine ) ………………………..[ 08 Aug 2018 ]

Ø Congratulations , Shri R K Singhji ………………………………………[ 19 Nov 2020 ]

Ø Congratulations, Shri Vijaybhai Rupaniji ……………………………[ 30 Dec 2020 ]

Ø Congratulations , Shri Saurabh Patelji ……………………………….[ 31 Dec 2020 ]

Ø Gross Metering : a Cooperative Concept ?....................... [ 16 May 2022 ]

Ø My 163 blog's on solar power ……………………………………[ as of 10 Mar 2022 ]

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secretarygeneral@indianwindpower.com / ad.delhi@indianwindpower.com { IWTMA }

iwpahq@windpro.org / secretary.general@windpro.org / iwpa.rsc@gmail.com / iwpacno@windpro.co.in { IWPA }

manish@inwea.org { Indian Wind Energy Association – IWEA }

ps@appindia.org.in / akhurana369@appindia.org.in / girish.deveshwar@appindia.org.in { APP }

rajnath-pc@nic.in { Rajnath Ram , Adviser Energy – NITI }

Vipul.tuli@sembcorp.com { Vipul Tuli , MD, Sembcorp India }

Alok.nanda@ge.com / Ananda@shiftcomm.com { Alok Nanda, CEO , GE Technology Centre }

Ashish.khanna@tatapower.com { Ashish Khanna, President -Renewable , TATA Power }

Vinay.rustagi@bridgetoindia.com { Vinay Rustagi , MD , Bridge to India }

chair@nic.in / ps.mhaske@nic.in { Chairman, CEA }

secy-power@nic.in { Secretary, Ministry of Power }

secy@cercind.gov.in { Secretary , CERC }

Saturday 22 October 2022

Congratulations, Prof M Manivannam ( IIT-M )

[ mani@iitm.ac.in ]

Context :

IIT-Madras develops screen tech that lets you feel what you see / Ind Express / 18 Oct 2022

Extract :

Researchers from IIT-Madras have developed a new touchscreen technology enabling users to feel the textures of objects on the display. Called ‘iTad’ (interactive Touch Active Display), it can mimic textures such as crisp edges and gritty surfaces.

Current touchscreens can only sense the position of one’s fingers, but offer no feedback.

“When we add feedback, interaction with computers becomes experiential. iTad is unlike anything in the market today because it combines multi-touch sensing with haptics on the same layer,” said a statement from IIT-M.

There are no moving parts in iTad. Instead, an in-built multi-touch sensor detects finger movement and the surface friction is adjusted via software. By controlling electric fields via a physical phenomenon known as ‘electroadhesion,’ the software modulates friction locally as fingers travel across a smooth plane.

The research was led by Prof M Manivannan, department of applied mechanics, IIT-M. Merkel Haptics, a start-up incubated at the IIT-M Research Park, has been working with Touchlab to take the technology forward.

“This is the era of iTad.

The technology can take the online shopping experience to the next level. We can touch and feel things before purchasing them on e-commerce platforms. Around 30% returns in online shopping are due to the mismatch between user experience and expectation,” said Manivannan.

PV Padmapriya, CEO, Merkel Haptics, [ info@merkelhaptics.com ], said :

“The prototype from Touchlab can be made into a product in a year. Our aim is to make a small device, similar to a computer mouse, on everyone’s desk to add to the experience. We have been field testing and providing valuable feedback to the researchers at IIT-M on improving the functionality of the technology.”

My Take :

Ø Internet of Senses ………………………………..[ 28 Oct 2020 ]

Extract :

Here is what I wrote in a report, 31 YEARS ago :

https://hcpreports.blogspot.com/search?q=smell+taste [ 05 Jan 1989 ]

The following developments will revolutionize the tele-communications:

* Very powerful supercomputers

* Artificial intelligence / Expert systems

* Miniaturization

* Optical computing

* Large scale use of optical fibre cables

Within the next 10 years, there will be,

- Generation / Storage / Retrieval / Manipulation / Transmission of,

# Voice

# Data

# Text

# Image

thru a single instrument.

Having covered the "Senses" of EYES and EARS within the next 25 years, the 3rd generation revolution will comprise the long distance transmissions of the feelings generated by the senses of:

- TASTE

- SMELL

- TOUCH

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As recent as 2 YEARS ago , I wrote :

Nostradamuscould have said ? [ 08 Nov 2018 ]

In twenty hundred and twenty four

A Sea of Waves will roar,

Light will follow Sound :

And, in Smell and Taste

Earth will abound ,

Brain will hide no more

Your secrets gore !

500 years later, on 07 July 2017 , I re-envisioned above prophesy ( no doubt, cooked up by me ! ) in :

2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ?

where I talked of how technology is on its way to capture ( from every human being ) ,

· “ SOUND WAVES “ ( Audio )

· “ LIGHT WAVES “ ( Video )

· “ TOUCH WAVES “ ( Feel the SKIN )

· “ SMELL – TASTE “ WAVES

· “ BRAIN WAVES “ ( EEG )

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 23 Oct 2022