Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Thank You , Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji



[  Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs  ]





Eco Times ( 26 Dec 2018 ) carries following report :



Extract  :

·         The Ministry of housing and urban affairs, which is spearheading the highest number flagship programs , is developing the app and is likely to open its data platform to public in Jan 2019


·         The app will involve geotagging of all infrastructure created and then uploading the unique address with videos and photographs……..


·         The biggest challenge is being posed by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan , under which 6.2 million individual household toilets and about 500,000 community and public toilets have been constructed. Geotagging all of them with photographs is a tedious task but ultimately it is creation of asset from government funds so it will happen gradually

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In my blog / email ( 04  Dec  2015 ) to the Cabinet Ministers , I had urged :

[  Nothing prettier than PERT !  ]

 

·         When any Ministry submits any Project Proposal for Cabinet approval , it must be accompanied by a PERT ( Program Evaluation and Review Technique ) chart , clearly showing all the " Activities " lying along the CRITICAL PATH

     ( earlier known as the CRITICAL PATH METHOD )


·         Insist that all the government departments / contractors, responsible for execution of any of these "activities", update the PERT chart status online on the web site of the Project Monitoring Group
     
    

·         PERT charts for all the projects should be made visible to the general public


·         If there is any " slippage " in any activity lying on the CRITICAL PATH , the name of the department or contractor responsible , must appear in bold RED letters , against that activity
     

·         This is the only INNOVATION that we need , to ensure that the projects get completed in time and within budget

         [ Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bmaDMSQe04 ]


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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Pert_chart_colored.svg/309px-Pert_chart_colored.svg.png
PERT network chart for a seven-month project with five milestones (10 through 50) and six activities (A through F).

The program (or projectevaluation and review technique (PERT) is a statistical tool used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project.

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And 5 months after my first email to the Policy Makers , following is what I wrote to NITI Aayog, on , 07  May  2016 :



Dear  Sir  :

Economic Times (  05 May  ) talks about a PMO letter to NITI Aayog , as follows :
  
"  NITI Aayog is requested to undertake monthly monitoring of the implementation of decisions taken, create a dashboard for constant Monitoring, Evaluation and Review, and fix up outcome targets for all major schemes of infrastructure and social sectors for FY2016-17 and submit them to PMO by May 21, 2016  "
  
As you would have noticed in my earlier suggestion , the best results would be achieved , when department / ministry proposing the project is , itself made responsible for :
  
#   Preparing a comprehensive list of Project Activities and their " sequences " ( parallel or
     consequential )
  
#   Estimating " Time " , each activity will take to complete
  
#   Defining ( by name / designation / mobile number / email ID ) , those responsible for
     each activity
  
#   Uploading all of these DATA , in the PERT INPUT page on web site of NITI Aayog
  
#   Updating  the PERT CHART on daily basis
  
Entire idea is to put the ball in the court of these departments / ministries !

If created / maintained by NITI Aayog , the chart ( Dashboard ) would become an instrument of endless arguments !
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Dear  Shri  Puriji,


As far as geotagging of those millions of toilets is concerned, I suggest adopting the technology platform of www.What3Words.com , who are in the process of adapting their unique / simple tech for HINDI language


All we need to do is to feed this “ location database “ of 6.2 million toilets in 3 HINDI Words, to an army of DRONES , which will precisely locate each of those toilets , take a photo and create a geotagged database – all within weeks  !


Following correspondence with the support team of  What3Words  shows how this can be done , with least human intervention :


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On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:18 AM, "hcp@recruitguru.com" <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:



How do I find address for a small hut in the middle of DHARAVI SLUM in Mumbai ?

Support team replied :
“ Using our map site, which you can find here :

you can locate the location you wish to find.

I have set the 3 word address to Dharavi, Mumbai so finding the location you wish will be easier.

Drag the map around to find the location you wish, and there you may see the 3 word address for that location “


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27  Dec  2018

 



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