And hiding in plain sight !
Home delivery of essentials – as being partially
attempted by Delhi and a few other States
If Mohamed cannot be allowed to go to the Mountain,
then enable the Mountain to go to Mohamed
If people cannot be allowed to go out to buy
essentials, then deliver essentials to homes of people
Let us not keep arguing as to what items are essentials
and which are not
Let us accept anyone’s definition and move forward to
implement, HOME DELIVERY
Long before big stores / malls made their appearance ( business
models imported from affluent West ), small stores in most Indian towns, made
home deliveries
Even today, there are thousands of small villages which
do not have even one store !
Hawkers
from nearby towns bring their wares in HAND-CARTS .
Village ladies carry vegetables on baskets held on
heads and deliver from home to home
Even today, we get an occasional vegetable vendor ,
taking his hand-cart ( Laari – Renkdi – Thella ), from one housing society to
another .
Some very big housing societies even provide them a
permanent parking place , for restricted hours
What we need to do – and do it fast , before 3rd May
when , possibly lockdown gets lifted – is :
Ø Massively
scale-up this miniscule tribe of Renkdi-wallas ( from a few hundred to a few
lakh )
Ø Make
them carry all types of essentials / rations / foods / milk ( not merely
vegetables / fruits )
Ø Organize
them ( by official online licensing ) and allot them specific streets /
societies
Ø Direct
60,000 + housing societies of Mumbai, to provide parking space to a government-designated
Renkadiwlla ( for specified hours )
Ø Allow
online E Com retailers ( like Amazon – Flipkart – Swiggy – Zomato- Big Basket -
Grofer etc ) to tie-up with such “ Government Licensed Home Delivery Vendors “.
Their Name / License Number / Mobile
Number / Street – Housing Societies allotted
etc.,
must be published on the web sites of these E Com retailers
Mobile App of an E Com Retailer , while
accepting an Online Order, will mention the
full details of WHICH VENDOR will make this
HOME DELIVERY , indicating
approximate time of delivery
All payment will be through mobile wallet
embedded into the E Com retailer’s Mobile
App
. There will be no cash payment upon delivery
Ø While
granting online VENDOR LICENSE, government shall sympathetically consider :
# Migrant Workers stuck in a city ( estimated
35 lakh in Mumbai alone )
# MSME factory workers who have lost their
jobs
# Domestic servants who are sitting idle at
home ( irrespective of govt pleading, no
home- owner is likely to pay them wages for
April )
# Construction workers who have lost their
jobs
# In Mumbai , existing
3 lakh hawkers who ply their trade from slots on footpath
For
this category of existing hawkers , read
OPERATING
PROCEDURE at :
BMC
proposes : Hawkers will dispose ?
[ 26 Feb 2020
]
As far as “ funding “ lakhs of
Renkdis is concerned, I have earlier proposed as
follows :
[
Unlocking
Lockdown : Calibrated – Gradual /
04 April 2020 ]
Corporate ( FMCG
and others ) will be happy to donate such carts to the
government
( costing approx. Rs 1,000 each ), if they are allowed to host their
product-advts
on such carts, permanently.
This ( advt )
could be a 12” wide steel
Government
may gift / donate such carts to footpath-occupying vendors, and track
their
movements through their Mobile Phones . 3 lakh carts will cost Rs 30 crore but
these
will roam 1500 km of Mumbai roads / streets, delivering good at door-steps.
Mountain
goes to Mohamed !
Dear Shri Uddhav
Thackreyji,
[ cm@maharashtra.gov.in
/
cc: adityathackeray@me.com ]
If you implement my suggestion, you would save
thousands of lives , through this simple method
Even if Aarogya
Setu Team manages to launch E-pass within few days, we just do not have enough police to
stop FIVE LAKH persons on the
road and check their E-pass on their mobiles ( some will claim they do
not own a mobile and other will claim to have left it at home ! ) .
For most
citizen, the only reason to get out of their homes on 3rd May, will be :
“ I
go out because I can “
With regards
Hemen parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
22 April 2020
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