31 Aug 2019
Imran Khan threatens nuclear war, 'consequences for the whole world ' if Kashmir issue is not addressed
Read more at:
https://lnkd.in/f2UHCeP
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And after decades , some Indian Netas have started saying :
" Our bilateral talk ( if any ) with Pak will only be to find out when Pak will quietly handover PoK to India . Nothing else "
Of course, Imran is right to say ( mean ) :
Nuclear war is NOT a solution !
I suppose, Indian politicians agree . But do they have the courage to bluntly tell the World, people and politicians of both India and Pakistan , that the only way to avoid a Nuclear war is to accept LoC as International Border between India / Pak ?
Read :
Permanent Solution for Kashmir ? [ 03 June 2017 ]
https://lnkd.in/fRnzpH8
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Kashmir NuclearWar Imrankhan RajnathSingh
Saturday, 31 August 2019
Towards Nasscom 2.0
Highlights :
INDIAN IT BPM INDUSTRY IN FY 19 { Y-O-Y
growth }
# Revenue……………………
6.1 % [
$ 177 billion ]
# Exports……………………. 8.3 %
[ $ 136 billion
]
# Domestic Inflow………. 7.9
% [ Rs 2.9 lakhcrore ]
# Employees…………………
4.3 %
[ 4.14 million
]
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Way back on Aug 01, 2017 , Business Line carried following article :
Highlights from my related blog :
Brain
Inc 2.0 / 21 Aug 2017 ]
* 5 lakh ( 500,000 )
engineers work in “ Tech R&D firms “ in India
* $ 22 Billion was
the worth of their work in 2015-16
* This will nearly
DOUBLE to $ 40 Billion in 2020
Now consider this :
· By
employing 5 lakh engineers , India’s “ Tech R&D Firms “ earned $ 22 billion
. That works to a billing of $ 44,000 per
man-year of R&D ( Export of Services )
· I
presume that the “ Manpower Cost “ constitute approx. 50 % of Billing Rate ( rest being OVERHEADS and MARGIN )
· Hence
, Indian R&D firms must be paying an average of $ 22,000 per year to its
employees ( approx. Rs 1.2 lakh per month )
· As
against this , both , Indian as well as American firms pay ( on an average )
, $ 88,000 per year to H1 B visa holders
[ Current Scenario in Aug 2017 , as per Shri Keshav
Mrugesh- Chairman, NASSCOM :
“ According to a research by HIS Markit,
average wages for Indian IT professionals in the US was nearly $ 94,800 , while
Indian companies paid $ 96,300, he says. This demolishes the myth on low wages “ ]
delhi@nasscom.in
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Now with the disappearance of this “ Cost Advantage “ which existed in 2017 , is there a possibility to
do better than the projected earnings of $ 40
billion in 2020 ?
My take :
It is possible if the Central Government considers
following suggestions :
· Back Factory of the
World ? [ 09 Sept 2015 ]
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· Agenda for Reforms [ 01 Oct 2015 ]
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· Vishal’s Vision [ 15 April 2016
]
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· Will holograms beat H1 B
visa ban ? [ 31 Jan 2017 ]
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· Worm Holes across the World
? [ 03 March 2017
]
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It is high time our Policy Makers launch a new initiative (
of Export of Intellectual Property )
, called :
INDIA : the BRAIN FACTORY of THE WORLD
Dear,
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji ,
Shrimati Nirmala Sitharamanji,
Shri Prakash Javadekarji and
Dr
Harshvardhanji ,
With a measly 5 % GDP growth in the latest quarter , it
does not seem possible to REVIVE the ECONOMY , by focusing on MANUFACTURING
Given the urgency of such a revival , SERVICE SECTOR
acceleration is the only answer !
And , right now, that happens to be : IT BPM
( including IT hw/sw R&D export )
I urge you to consider my suggestions ( listed in
above-mentioned blogs ), for your next OUT-of-BOX reform announcement
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01
Sept
2019
Rsvp : hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Saturday, 24 August 2019
Saluting the Reform Architect : Arun Jaitleyji
RIP : Shri Arun Jaitleyji
Today’s newspapers carry millions of words describing a
slew of ECONOMIC REFORMS that Shri Jaitley initiated during past 5 years
Frequently mentioned among dozens of these reforms ,
are :
# GST
# NPA
resolution mechanism
Without doubt, these are important achievements which
will change the rules of governance
But , without exception, the editors and expert authors
/ writers, missed out his
greatest reform, viz :
“ Starting 2017 , introduction of OUTPUT BUDGET “
Here is the genesis :
# Immediately
after NDA govt assumed office in May 2014 ( but before presentation of its
fist budget in Feb 2015 ), I sent following
email to Shri Jaitleyji,
BUDGETING
BY OBJECTIVES [ 05 Dec 2014
]
-
urging him to shift the budget emphasis
from :
# “ Expenditure
Allocations “ for various Ministries and refocus on actual / physical
/
measurable , ACHIEVEMENT TARGETS for
each Ministry
# “ Resource Inputs “
to “ Physical
Outputs “ ( Productivity of Inputs
)
I followed this up in my following emails :
An
Unprecedented Budget Reform [ 09 Dec
2016 ]
Another
{ Welcome } First [ 01 Feb 2017
]
With introduction of this OUTPUT
BUDGET, Shri Jaitley succeeded in re-focussing the
efforts / actions of all the Ministries, from :
# Amount
of budgeted / allocated money / funds , actually SPENT ( by year-end ) , to
# Actual / Physical / Measurable TARGETS set at the
beginning of the year, and achieved
by
year-end, as a “ MEASURE OF
ACHIEVEMENT “
This was a reform in changing the :
# ATTITUDE of the
bureaucrats and Ministers
# way to
measure ACHIEVEMENTS
# way to
hold Ministers ACCOUNTABLE
# way to measure the ministerial PERFORMANCE through
an ongoing SCORE CARD
# deception
of “ Shooting first and then drawing concentric circles around the hole “
# culture of Opaqueness
to Transparency of govt achievements
Some day when political / economic historians write the
HISTORY of REFORMS undertaken by the NDA government, I have no doubt that this OUTPUT BUDGETING will top
the list
Dear Departed Soul ,
You have carved out your name in the annals of India’s REFORM HISTORY -
for which , not only this but all the coming generations of Indians will remember
you !
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25 Aug 2019
Rsvp :
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Saturday, 17 August 2019
Cutting Edge Research Proposals ?
Business Line carries following news report :
Highlights :
# Called Supra, the initiative is
one of PM Modi’s 100-day transformative ideas
# As part of the Modi government’s 100-day
transformative ideas, the Science and Engineering Research Board
(SERB) plans to announce a new scheme with the sole
objective of funding exploration of new scientific and engineering breakthroughs with global impact.
# “The
idea is to fund disruptive ideas
that can lead to new areas of study, new scientific concepts, new products and
technologies. The focus is not incremental or short-term
advances in the understanding, but new
science or truly disruptive technologies,” SERB Secretary Sandeep Verma
told BusinessLine.
# Called Scientific and Useful Profound Research
Advancement, or Supra, the scheme is designed to attract high
quality research proposals consisting of new hypotheses
or challenge existing ones and provide ‘out-of-box’ solutions.
“The proposals have to be extremely bold and the outcome should be really cutting edge. The principal investigators (PIs) should be
able to convince the reviewers about its long-term impact on our fundamental scientific understanding or the
disruptive nature of the technology that is being pursued, Verma said.
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Dear Dr Sandeep Vermaji ,
Nearly a year ago, Shri Modiji set up,
PM – STIAC [ Prime Minister’s
Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council ]
The committee was to
advise the Prime Minister on all matters related to S&T, innovation and
monitor the implementation of PM’s
vision on the same.
Encouraged by PM’s
vision, I submitted, a set of problems which required some “ out-of-the-box “ thinking and “ cutting
edge research “
You will find their
details at the following blogs ( each sent as email to the Cabinet Ministers ).
Dear Shri Vermaji,
I fully appreciate that
you will get inundated with hundreds of proposals , which, I believe you will “
EVALUATE “ using some “ Rating / Ranking “ system
And I do hope , you will
publish on your web site, not only the rating mechanism but also list the final
selection of the proposals in the descending order
You may wish to consider
“ Rating / Ranking “ of the proposals by a panel of eminent Scientists /
Technocrats
Acknowledging each
proposal will go a long way to encourage citizens to send in their own
proposals
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
Mumbai
18 Aug
2019
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Problem :
[
Source : Man
who sees Future / 28 Aug 2018 ]
Unavailability of clean drinking water
in drought / famine affected areas
Pollution thru Plastic Bottles /
Mountains of Land Fills – Garbage Dumps
Tech from :
Prof Omar Yaghi ( Uni of California ) / Skipping
Rock Labs ( UK )
Details at :
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Problem :
Loss of Forest cover /
Rampant Desertification
Tech from :
Zhong Zhihua, Chinese
Scientist (Chongqing Jiaotong University ).
Details at :
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Problem :
Millions sleeping in Streets / Slums,
for want of affordable houses
Tech from :
Chris Kelsey ( Cazza )
/ WinSun ( China ) / Formwerkz ( Singapore )
Details at :
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Problem :
Traffic Jams on City Roads / Hours to reach
Office-Home
Tech from :
Electric Front Wheel for Bicycle from Geo-Orbital ( Cambridge –
USA )
Details at :
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Problem :
Charging of Batteries of Electric Vehicles
takes hours !
Tech from :
Flash Battery Charger from Stores-Dot ( Israel )
Details at :
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Problem :
No transmission lines for taking electricity
to far-flung villages
Tech from :
Bicycle Generated Power from Manoj Bhargava ( BillionsinChange )
Details at :
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Problem :
No way to store ( for use at night ), billions
of KWH of Solar Power
Tech from :
PowerPack Batteries from Elon Musk ( TESLA )
Details at :
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Problem :
Fossil Fuel Power killing millions / Urgent
need to generate Solar Power
Tech from :
All over the World
Details at :
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Problem :
Dependence on import for Li-ion batteries /
Fast charging button batteries
Tech from :
Venkataraman Thangadurai and colleagues ( University of Calgary / Canada )
Thangadurai [ vthangad@ucalgary.ca ] says :
“ The technology we have developed would enable absolutely
stable, robust, safe, high-powered, all solid state lithium batteries for
future energy storage , which have many potential applications , including charging
of electric vehicles “
And then there is Israeli firm Stores-Dot , which claims to be developing a car
battery that can be charged in 5 minutes and give a range of 300
miles !
A research group at the University of California (UCR), Riverside’s Bourns College of
Engineering has developed nano silicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion
batteries, by simply using a low-cost chemical process and waste glass bottles.
The batteries will not only extend the range of
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles, but also provide extra
power with fewer charges to laptops, cell phones, and similar personal
electronics.
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Problem :
High value currency notes facilitating
generation of BLACK MONEY
Tech from :
RFID technology from Sanjay
Sarma ( MIT ) [ SESARMA@MIT.EDU ]
Details at :
Tech from :
TERAHERTZ Camera developed by Ramesh Raskar ( MIT )
Details at :
Tech from :
Birmingham City University ( Internet of Clothes )
Details at :
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Problem :
Making available high speed Internet to
entire India ( remotest corner )
Tech from :
GoogleLoons ( from Google ) / Drones ( from Facebook
)
A Welcome Initiative
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Problem :
Poor road construction methods resulting
in perennial pot-holes
Tech from :
Cold Asphalt technology from COLAS ( France )
Details at :
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Some of the other Sources ( listing Research Concepts
)- this is not a comprehensive list :
Water
above our heads [
29 Mar 2019 ]
Health
Data Vault
[ 16 July 2019 ]
The
Biggest , FREE , Desalination Plant : Sun + Sea [
09 July 2019 ]
Traffic
Congestion ? Finally, a solution in sight ? [
31 May 2019 ]
Census
2021 : an Unprecedented Opportunity [ 11
April 2019 ]
100
% verification of VVPAT ? No problem ! [ 02
April 2019 ]
VVPAT
? How about EVBAT ? [ 28
Mar 2019 ]
The
Future of TV Viewing ? [ 26 Mar 2019
]
RBI
: how about an audible note ? [
23 Mar 2019 ]
E
– Car Extrapolation : a Wishful Thinking ? [ 20 Mar 2019 ]
Anti
– Pollution Towers
[
14 Mar 2019 ]
A
Grass-Root Revolution [ 11
Mar 2019 ]
Ray
, a drop of golden Sun [
18
Feb 2019 ]
Digital
Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ] [ 14
Feb 2019 ]
SARAL [ 10
Feb 2019 ]
Organizing
the Unorganized [ 04
Feb 2019 ]
National
Clean Air Tax ? – a Pigovian tax ? [ 11 Jan
2019 ]
Thank
You Madam Maneka Gandhiji [
21 Dec 2018 ]
Trans-portability
Theory [ 10
Dec 2019 ]
Transport : an
Integrated Logistic Plan ? [ 20 Nov
2019 ]
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