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

Thursday 30 January 2020

Time to Un-Block the Blockchain Technology


     

That is what the National Institute for Smart Governance [ NISG  /  contact@nisg.org ] recommends

Here is that report :


And just so that you do not reject this recommendation by confusing that the strategy is only about introduction of a National Cryptocurrency ( like Bitcoins ) , following are the highlights :


Ø  Blockchain technologies are a set of technologies that enable ,
       #   to keep a tamper-proof record of transactions defining asset or
            value ownership efficiently through appropriate data structures,

       #   allow peer-to-peer participants to update the records when asset or
            value transfer takes place using foolproof mechanism through
            distributed consensus protocols,

      #   create business value through smart contracts which are coded in
            software and are executed when objective conditions set in the
            code are met.”



Ø  Draft paper said that it should welcome all such applications that fall in the permissioned blockchain space.

Ø  Besides other uses cases of blockchain, the draft strategy also recommends for official cryptocurrency. It suggests that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) should release a Central Bank Digital INR (CBDR) administered over a public permissioned blockchain and supporting decentralised applications.

Ø  Draft paper emphasises that laws and regulations should be based on the functions performed by blockchain and not on the technology itself. 

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Following are my suggestions for some of the “ Issues “ that need application of Blockchain to usher India in a regime of “ Smart Governance “ :

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[ 1 ]

Function >   Eliminate Black Money / Corruption

Blockchain Application >   Introduction of Central Bank Digital INR ( CBDR )

As described in :

#  Will China Reign Supreme ?     [  15  Oct  2019  ]


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[  2  ]

Function  >   Eliminate Polling Booths / Conduct online voting using a Mobile App

Blockchain Application  > Tamper-proof record of transactions

#  While anyone can validate transactions on a public block-chain, only authorized persons
     can validate transactions on a permissioned block-chain
#  However, like a public block-chain, anyone can view transactions recorded on a
    permissioned block-chain. That means that once the groups managing the block-chain
    verified the Sierra Leone votes, anyone — voters, candidates, or just interested third
    parties — could see the election results.


As described in :

#  Block Chain for Voting ?            [ 11 Mar 2018 ]


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[  3   ]
      
Function   >    Banking for everybody – without banks

Blockchain Application  >  Peer-to-peer participants to update the records

#   Anyone with an internet connection and a mobile phone can send, save and borrow
     money peer-to-peer . Low income people could open small businesses and send money
     easily and cheaply
#   Blockchain backers advocate its use for secure, tamperproof digital records   


As described in :     

Banking without Banks: Blockchain Simply Explained 

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[  4  ]


Function  >  Centralized Database of Health Records

Blockchain Application >  Distributed consensus protocols


As described in :     

Health Data Vault             [  16  July  2019  ]


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[  5  ]

Function  >  Centralized Database of Financial Fraud Records

Blockchain Application >  Distributed consensus protocols


As described in :     

E - Governance ?               [  03 April 2014  ]


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[  6  ]

Function  >  Public Scrutiny of Infrastructure Projects

Blockchain  Application  >  Peer-to-peer participants to update the records

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  . Once “ Event  Date “ is entered by an authorized officer, it can be viewed by all but cannot be EDITED !


As described in :     

Nothing prettier than PERT !       [  04  Dec  2015  ]


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[  7  ]

Function  >  Creation/ Editing of database of Construction Projects by Builders/Ministries

Blockchain Application  >  Peer-to-peer participants to update the records

As soon as the builder submits the online BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION , it automatically and instantly , appears on the web sites of ALL the concerned Ministries

The concerned officer of each Ministry , makes  APPROVED / REJECTED  entries in the application form , from the backend

Ministry officers are required to carry out this entry , within 24 hours

As soon as an officer of any Ministry makes entry and SUBMITS , the application forms on web sites of ALL Ministries and web site of the concerned Municipality , get updated simultaneously and instantly , making for MIRROR IMAGES at all times

The database so created on web sites of ALL Ministries - and concerned Municipality - will be searchable State-wise / City-wise



As described in :     

Congratulations , Shri Ajoy Mehta !            [  28 Feb 2017  ]

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Function  >  A citizen is issued different cards by different agencies . Most of these capture
                  SAME / SIMILAR data , which reside in the databases of Issuing Agencies .


                 Examples : PAN – Voter ID – Passport – Credit/ Debit Cards – Ration Card –
                 Senior Citizen Card – Ayushman Bharat Card – Aadhar card  etc


                 Updating / editing any data-field of any one card, does NOT simultaneously /
                 instantly and automatically, update that SAME DATA VALUE in all the other
                 databases ( residing on servers of hundreds of PUBLIC – PRIVATE agencies ) .


                 This would also apply to data furnished by citizen ( - and non-citizen ) for
                 CENSUS – NPR – NRC etc . 

There is urgent need to ensure an up-to-date ,
                 UNIQUE PROFILE of each and every citizen, at all times

             
Blockchain Application  >   Peer-to-peer participants to update the records


As described in :     

I am One , I will become Many                  [  06  Jan  2020  ]


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[  9  ]

Function  >  It is now widely accepted that,

                  #  Personal Data is owned by a person

                  #  He has the right to “ monetize “ such data

                  #  Currently, Social Media are earning huge money by selling user data

                  #  Mechanism must be put in place through SMART CONTRACTS  to compel
                      Social Media to make payments to users for use of such data


Blockchain Application  >
                    Defining asset or value ownership efficiently through
                    appropriate data Structures / when asset or value transfer
                    takes place using foolproof mechanism through distributed
                    consensus protocols


 As described in :     

 Digital Dividend from Demographic Data             [ 14 Feb 2019 ]


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[  10  ]
                  
Function  >  WHO ( which doctor ) , prescribed  WHAT drug ( drug name ) made by WHO (
                    name of drug manufacturer ) , to WHOM  (patient name ) , and WHY ( disease
                    diagnosis ) , and WHEN ( date ) and sold by WHICH ( drug store )


Blockchain Application  >  Peer-to-peer participants to update the records


As described in :
     
Digital Delivery of Drugs                                       [ 11 Oct 2015 ]
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Function  >  Except for Bicycles, all vehicles cause pollution harm – some more, some less

                  Determine each vehicle’s “ HARM QUOTIENT “ every hour, using NaVIC GPS 

                  Levy a TRANS-TAX ( Pigovian Tax ) proportionate to HARM QUOTIENT

                  Mandatory FASTag – type , prepaid sensor, to be installed in all vehicles

                  Automatic (no human intervention ) deduction of TRANS TAX ( like toll plaza )


Blockchain Application  >
            Smart contracts which are coded in software and are executed when objective
            conditions set in the code are met.”


As described in :     

Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ?                     [ 20 Nov 2018 ]


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Function  >  So far, Annual Employment Surveys have failed miserably to provide any real /
                  useful data on type of jobs / number employed / wages-salaries earned /
                  working hours / regional employment density / education levels of employed /
                  retirement benefits / age profiles etc

                  Absence of such accurate / dynamic / real-time  data , across entire country ,
                  covering , not only 5 lakh companies in organized sector but also re 65 million
                  MSME , is proving the biggest hurdle in framing viable employment generation
                  policies

        
Blockchain Application  >     Smart contracts which are coded

        
As described in :     

From BAD to MAD                                    [ 01 June 2016 ]


MAD goes to Mandi                                   [ 02  Jan  2020 ]


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References :


Shri Abhishek Singh,
President & Chief Executive Officer
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Academic Lead for NISG team :


University of South Florida

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Dear Shri RaviShankar Prasadji  /  Dr HarshVardhanji ,

I urge you to ask the NISG team to examine my above-mentioned suggestions , which , I believe, will vastly improve e-Governance using Blockchain Technology


With regards,

Hemen  Parekh   
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30  Jan  2020

hcp@RecruitGuru.com           

           



Related  Reading :

Sunday 26 January 2020

Appalled !




I have no other words to describe the following headline in today’s Mumbai Mirror :


Extract :

Ø  The state government-owned power distribution utility Mahavitaran has sought permission from regulator Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission ( MERC ), to impose a so-called GRID STABILITY CHARGE on housing societies with rooftop solar panels

Ø  Mahavitaran made this proposal in a tariff plan submitted on Jan 15

Ø  It justified the NEW CHARGE by claiming that demand for power had dropped due to SOLAR PANELS, even as it had already incurred expenses on installing DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS for the housing societies

Ø  Mahavitaran asked an additional charge of Rs 4.47 to be levied , over and above the regular tariff for the societies

Ø  There are around 1,000 societies in Maharashtra with rooftop panels

Ø  The state’s daily demand is around 19,000 MW and power generated through rooftop solar panels is not even 10 MW.
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“ Appalled “ because I could not bring myself to use a harsher word !

In my blog / email ,

 Green Buildings ? Put Greed to Work !          [ 05 June 2017 ],

I had suggested as follows :

 

I urge Maharashtra government to adopt this innovative financing model for roof top solar plants where :

     Individual building owners or Societies will install the plants on their roofs ( model / size / supplier etc to be decided by each consumer )

     Plants will need to be installed only by Channel Partners ( supplying agencies ) which are empanelled by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy , who have submitted installation data ( Project Completion Report for grid connected rooftop projects ) on the SPIN portal

     Submit “ Bill / Certificate of Grid Connectivity “ to govt  for “Green Solar Loan 

     Loan will be repayable at 5 % interest rate , over a 15 year period

     SOCIETY WILL BE ABLE TO PAY THE  EMI  FROM THE SAVINGS IT WILL MAKE  BY NOT HAVING TO BUY THE GRID POWER FROM STATE DISCOM

     Societies will even be allowed to repay the EMI in the form of the solar power it generates and FEEDS into the State Grid , under the “ Reverse Metering “ Scheme
{  
Here is how California has done it :

“ It’s Official. All New California Homes Must Incorporate Solar “



https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-mandate-all-new-california-homes#gs.H_OcA_0




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In a later mail , I listed following advantages of ROOF-TOP solar :
[ source :  Not Good Enough !  /  02 Dec 2017  ]

 No need to erect /maintain miles of transmission lines

 No need to install and monitor Electricity ( Smart ) Meters

No need to collect monthly payments for the power consumed

In fact , no need to PRODUCE coal-based power elsewhere , in the first place

No pollution due to power from coal-based power plants

No need to dig or import expensive coal / or worry about low plant-load factor

No need to worry about power thefts / transmission losses !

No load shedding ( so common in rural areas ) for “ non-payment of bills / low
consumption “

No need to worry about PEAK / LEAN load periods

No need to keep Subsidizing Power for ever

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Considering that the only option for :

#  saving lakhs of premature deaths due to pollution caused by fossil-fuel based plants

#  raising our GDP to 10% is through obtaining Solar Power based electricity @ Re 1 / Unit,

-      is to reject the tariff-rise request of MahaVitaran and to implement my suggestion


My request to the Chairman of MSEDCL ,

Dr Nitin Raut { Minister for Energy / dr.nitinraut09@gmail.com },

-      is to withdraw this request




And my request to the Chairperson, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission { MERC }.

Shri Anand B Kulkarni { chairperson@merc.gov.in  /  mercindia@merc.gov.in  },

-       is to convince the MahaVitaran to not only withdraw this request for tariff-rise but to come up with INNOVATIVE FINANCING schemes to push up the current number of 1,000 Housing Societies to 1,000.000 housing societies , to install ROOFTOP solar before 2024


with regards,

hemen Parekh


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Related  Readings :


The company had floated tenders for buying 1,350 MW with a cap of Rs3.15 per unit but got bids for only 5 MW. Now it has increased the cap to Rs 3.30 per unit and floated the tender again


MERC had recently dismissed the discom’s petition to make net billing compulsory instead of net metering. It had, however, allowed MSEDCL to levy grid support charge (GSC) for consumers having load more than 10 KW

The June 28 order by the Union power ministry has mandated opening of bank guarantees by all discoms in favour of renewable firms

The solar segment’s (which includes ground-mounted and rooftop) total capacity was 33,730 MW as of December 2019.
To achieve the 175 GW target by 2022, the sector has to set up 90 GW capacity

[ E ]  Solar imports soar, it’s now more make-in-China than make-in-India 


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27  Jan  2020

hcp@RecruitGuru.com