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Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Is Smriti Irani listening ?

Apparently , no one ( or very few ) want to get into teaching

This is obvious from the number of faculty vacancies in AICTE approved institutions , as shown below :

Faculty…………………………………… Teachers Required……. % age Vacancy

Applied Arts & Crafts………………………. 2,678…………………….. 56

Architecture and Town Planning………11,762…………………….. 51

Engineering & Technology……………..5,29,543……………………..28

Hotel Mgmt & Catering………………………..3245……………………… 43

Management……………………………………….61,610……………………..27

MCA………………………………………………….. 26,714……………………. 15

Pharmacy…………………………………………….31,421……………………. 20

Why such a poor state of affairs ?

According to leading Educationists , some of the reasons are :

Poor salaries in teaching profession

Stringent Quality Norms

Archaic Service Conditions

Little scope to earn thru consultancy

Very little Industry-Interaction / Internship

Poor Research facilities

Even as Smriti starts up a dialogue among the Stakeholders ( Students / Teachers / Educationists / Administrators etc ) ,in respect of formulation of a NEW EDUCATION POLICY , she would do well to frame an ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE ( Yes / No : True / False : Multiple Choice ) and upload it on her Web site for people to participate in thousands

What is wrong with our current state of Education and what needs to be done to fix it , can only emerge from such a REFERUNDUM

* hemen parekh ( 18 June 2014 / Mumbai )

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Monday, 16 June 2014

Double Standards

Supreme Court has ordered some residents of Campa-Cola building in Mumbai to vacate their " illegal " flats
And asked Municipality to demolish these flats

Even though , the residents

> purchased these flats with their hard-earned , white money

> paid registration fees / stamp duty / Municipal taxes / water bills / electricity charges etc for 30 years

What was their crime ?

They were ignorant of the criminal conspiracy between the builder , corrupt municipal officers and quite possibly , equally corrupt Govt officers

And don't rule out the Most Corrupt of them all

The politicians !

For this " ignorance " , the residents must now sleep on the footpath with their children and elders

Supreme Court says , " Ignorance is no excuse in law "

On the other hand , 53 Ministers of UPA-2 government , are continuing to occupy their Government-allotted bungalows in Delhi , even after ceasing to be Ministers

Many are no more , even MPs !

Some continue to occupy their bungalows , months and even years after ceasing to be Minister/MP !

Take Buta Singh , who ceased to be a Minister 18 years ago !

He refuses to vacate , for " Security " reasons !

Or take Lalu Yadav , who will not vacate , since his wife Rabri Devi is undergoing medical treatment at AIMS !

Now , make no mistake

They are NOT ignorant of the government rule that says , they must vacate their bungalows within ONE month of leaving office !

Residents of Campa Cola building - and millions of Mumbai-Citizens , living in thousands of similar " illegal " buildings , are asking :

Why this Double Standard ?

Why cannot Supreme Court take Suo-Moto cognizance of 53 illegal occupants - but
knowledgeable - Ministers and issue them notice to vacate ?

Will Venkaiyyah Naidu , show some intestinal fortitude ( aka " Guts " ) and throw them out on 26th June , when their extended Notice Period expires ?

* hemen parekh ( 17 June 2014 / Mumbai )

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Sunday, 8 June 2014

MBAs All !

NaMo wants them all to be MBAs

Whether they are,

* MPs ( 282 of BJP )

* Ministers ( 45 of NDA-2 )

* Minions ( 72 Govt Secretaries )

He wants them all to be MBAs

ie : Modi-fied Business Administrators

And , NaMo is the Dean of this unique Management College , where , he personally conducts classes and tells them ,

* Think Out-of-the-Box

* Take bold - but honest - decisions

* Act fast and clear all files within 4 days

* Shun media

* Avoid airing views / opinions on sundry matters

* Contact him directly ( by phone/email ) for clarifications

* Co-ordinate among themselves ( without GoM / E-GoM )

* Go out in the field and listen to people

* 100 % attendance in Lok Sabha - when in session

* 100 % absence from Delhi - when LS is in recess

{ Go , visit your constituencies }

* Don't hire friends / relatives

* Read carefully before signing any recommendation letter

God gave Moses , 10 Commandments

Janata has given Modi , 12 Commandments

* hemen parekh ( 09 June 2014 / Mumbai )

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Friday, 6 June 2014

Bravo , Kshama Sawant !

On an average , Minimum Wages for unskilled workers all over America , are,

* $ 7.50 / hour

President Barack Obama has been trying for some time now , to raise that to

* $ 10 / hour

In the meantime , Mumbai born and educated engineer , Kshama Sawant , has persuaded State Legislators of Washington State , to raise this to ,

* $ 15 / hour

Bravo , Kshama !

The Unskilled of Washington State will , no doubt praise you for now

But what happens if other US States do not follow suit ?

All over the World , jobs have a tendency to migrate to places where these can be performed cheapest

Of course , that may not happen to " UN-SKILLED " physical effort jobs of Washington

If you want to dig a trench in Seattle , it has got to be dug in Seattle !

But there is a real possibility that the excavator digging the trench was made elsewhere !

And , it is a different matter when it comes to SKILLED MENTAL jobs , which can be performed remotely , with help of Internet

Successive American Presidents have tried their best to stop out-sourcing of such jobs to India - but , in vain

Simple enough reason :

* Indian Software companies pay fresh software engineers , between $ 500 / month to $ 1,000/month

* American companies pay 10 to 20 times , as much !

As long as ,

* Quality and Delivery ( of outsourced software projects ) are satisfactory

* Cost difference remains attractive ( even as Indian salaries rise ),

American companies will find ways and means to outsource to India

India does not have much advantage over Western Nations when it comes to factory-based manufacturing jobs because of our low labour-productivity

Although , may be 10 times more expensive , Western countries employ 20 times less workers ( for manufacturing same product ) - using better / faster / automated machinery

And Western Manufacturers borrow funds at 1% - 2% interest rates , as compared to 15% - 20 % in India

In these matters ( of highly automated machinery and low interest rates ), it is not possible to catch-up with the developed countries , overnight

In long term , these factors are important for raising the contribution of Manufacturing in our GDP, from current 12 %-15 % to 25 %

But , in the meantime our State Policy ( - as will get manifested in Central Budget , very soon ) , must focus on exporting our BRAIN power

To do that , we need :

* Computers - and related hardware

* Country-wide Optical Fibre based / Wireless-based , internet broadband

* Free tablet for every child ( approx 400 million )

* E-learning of Software Technology

I hope, Mr Arun Jaitley is listening !

* hemen parekh ( 07 June 2014 / Mumbai )

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Thursday, 5 June 2014

Urban Renewal ?

An important aspect of urban renewal is to get rid of slums , by resettling slum-dwellers in better houses

Then convert those vacated slum areas into gardens

But slum-dwellers are unwilling to vacate their huts .

Why ?

Over the past 25 / 30 years , the standard method was to move the slum-dwellers into some temporary , make-shift transit camps , pending permanent rehabilitation

But that promised " permanent rehabilitation " never came !

Those who agreed to get shifted into those transit camps , continue to live there for generations - without any hope of ever moving into multi-story concrete buildings with running water / electricity / toilets

Given this broken promises , who would agree to shift out ?

Second problem is availability of jobs nearby where they are forced to move - even if these buildings happen to be well-built , modern and permanent multi-storied buildings

Who would want to move to a better / permanent house , if it is 30 Km away from a work-place ?

No one wants to spend 4 hours on the road every day , commuting to a place of work in dense traffic , riding a crowded bus / train !

But most slum-dwellers would happily vacate their slums and move 150 Km away , if ,

* It is a well built building with all amenities

* It is a permanent home ( - and not a transit facility )

* It is given FREE , on ownership basis

* There is a job within 1 Km of the new home

This is exactly what China is doing , by building ONE brand new Mega City , EVERY 20 DAYS !

And moving 250 million slum-dwellers into those cities over the next 20 years ( - nearly ONE MILLION people , EVERY MONTH ! )

May be this is what NaMo was thinking when he dreamt of constructing 100 Mega Cities in next 5 years - at the rate of ONE city EVERY 18 DAYS !

OLD cities cannot " Re-new " themselves , until well-planned NEW cities are built first and ready to receive those old city slum-dwellers and offer them jobs

Only problem :

* Mega City of Dholera ( in Gujarat ) is under construction for over last 3

years and expected to cost , Rs 70,000 Crores

* Central Government has neither the money needed to construct 100 cities,

nor the administrative / technical competence for such a project

* Democratic Institutions are un-suited for taking bold / harsh /

controversial decisions - then bulldoze !

It seems urban renewal will remain a mirage !

* hemen parekh ( 05 June 2014 / Mumbai )

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Be-Sahara Shree ?

These days , Sahara-Shree Subroto Roy seems to be , Be-Sahara Shree !

He is in jail for past 3 months or so

And Supreme Court won't let him out on bail , unless he deposits Rs 5,000 Crores in cash and furnish a surety bond of an equal amount

Then within a few weeks , Supreme Court wants him to hand over to SEBI , Rs 24,000 Crores that SEBI claims he raised illegally from " Public "

But Subroto says ,

" What public ?

I am ready to pay-off all of my depositors , if only , they would come forward to claim their deposits

I have raised , a few rupees each ( Rs 5 - Rs 10 ), from millions of small depositors , all of whom , gave their postal address as , " Delhi-Agra Road ", or " Kanpur - Lucknow Road "

I just can't find them "

Now , all of us ( Supreme Court and SEBI included ) , know that ,

> Those Rs 24,000 Crores belong to politicians ( - most who got defeated in

recent Lok Sabha elections ) , businessmen / bureaucrats / film stars etc

> Each of them have given this in CASH to Sahara-Shree ( Range : Rs 10 -

100 crores )

> Sahara-Shree knows that they don't dare to publicly ask him to return

their deposits . He managed to render them be-sahara !

> Neither Sahara , nor SEBI have true addresses of those fake depositors

So , what happens now ?

> Subroto will be forced to sell most of his properties to raise money

> To ensure that there is no hanky-panky in sale of these properties ,

Supreme Court may appoint some world-famous Real Estate

Consultants to conduct e-Auctions for each of these assets

> SEBI will have a windfall of Rs 24,000 Crores that no one wants !

> SEBI will deposit it with banks and earn a fat interest - for ever

I would say , a smart way to convert BLACK money into WHITE money !

* hemen parekh ( 05 June 2014 / Mumbai )

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Tuesday, 3 June 2014

1 down ; 259 to go !

NaMo requested voters to give him 60 months ( against 60 years , they gave to Congress )

That is 260 weeks

What did he achieve in the FIRST week ?

* Formed a small / compact Cabinet

* Constituted SIT to look into Black Money issue

* Issued TEN COMMANDMENTS of Good Governance

* Told MPs / Ministers , not to appoint relatives

* Phoned MP Priyanka to remove her father as her " Representative "

* Asked all Ministers to prepare " 100 Days Action Plan "

* Issued " Performance Appraisal Formula " for Ministers

* Abolished 30 GoM / E-GoM

* Invited SAARC heads-of-States to swearing-in ceremony

* Started dialogue with Pakistan

* Talked to Obama / Li Keqiang / Abe

* Met Jaylalitha / Naneen Patnaik

* Alloted Rs 1 Lakh Crores for toilets

Well begun , Narendrabhai !

You get 90 marks out of 100 ( Very Good )

Will next week get you 100 out of 100 ? ( Excellent )

* hemen parekh ( 04 June 2014 / Mumbai )