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

Saturday, 16 January 2016

TEN MILLION START- UPS IN ONE YEAR ?


Thank you , Narendrabhai , for the Start Up Action Plan announced last evening

I am glad that some of my suggestions ( sent to Ministers / Secretaries ) over the past 2 years , have been incorporated in the ACTION PLAN , in respect of :

*    Self Certification

*    Simplified Registration thru Mobile App

*    Tax Exemption for Capital Gains

*    Entrepreneurship Program for 10 lakh students

*    No Corporate Income Tax for 3 years

   
 You will find my detailed suggestions covering these points in following blogs at :
 www.hemenparekh.in :


       *    A New Economic Order - Start Up Act 2015   /   12 Sept 2015

       *    From Job Seekers to Job Creators   /   15 Sept 2015

       *    Back Up Factory of the World  /   09 Sept 2015

       *     Blue Print for a Start Up Nation  /   27 Dec 2015

       *     Creating Jobs Vs Creating Self Employed ?  /   10 Dec 2015

       *     Get Out of the Way  /   01 Dec 2015

       *     Ten Million Entrepreneurs ?  /   19 Oct 2015

       *     Start Up Eco System / USA vs India  /   01 Oct 2015

       *     Treading the Beaten Path  /   25 Sept 2015

       *     Second Industrial Revolution  /   21 Sept 2015

       *     From Single Window to a Single Day ?  /   19 Sept 2015

       *     Myth of Job Creation  /   12 Sept 2015

       *    Killing Many Birds with One Stone  /   07 Sept 2015

       *    If Mohamed cannot go to Mountain  /   26 July 2015

       *    Ditch Historical Baggage  /   24 Dec 2015

       *    Create Self Employment  /   21 Feb 2015


Very likely , your initiative may see the birth of ten thousand new start-ups in 2016-17, which , together , might generate one lakh jobs

In itself, this will bring a new dynamism to India's Economy 

But that will still fall far short of 12 Million ( 120 lakh ) youth joining the work-force each year

Can all of these youth become Start Ups ?

It is entirely possible

All you need to do is to implement my following suggestion, described in ,

"  A New Economic Order / Start Up Act - 2015 " /  12 Sept 2015  " :


SUGGESTION

    *  Although all Start Ups will need to file annual Income Tax returns ( with full disclosure of income / expenses / profits / sources of funds etc ) , it will not be required to pay any Corporate Income Tax for the first 10 years of its existence

     *  A Start Up will be free to raise  funds from any source ( Individuals / Companies / PE funds / VCs / Angel Investors / Religious Trusts etc )

     *  100 % FDI will be permitted in Start Ups

     *  A Start Up can receive loans or equity and be able to accept fixed deposits . It can also give loans to individuals or other Start Ups or invest in other Start Ups by way of equity

    *  There will be no restrictions on what interest ( on loans / FDs ) that a Start Up may pay nor any restrictions on dividends it may declare

        The dividends declared by Start Ups will not attract any Income Tax

    *  As far as the persons / companies etc providing funds to Start Ups ( by way of loans or equity ) is concerned , no questions will be asked re their source of funds



   WHAT  WILL   HAPPEN , IF  IMPLEMENTED  ?


   *  Billions of rupees worth Black Money will flow into these Start Ups - money which is currently lying unutilized or locked up in unproductive assets

       
    *  Within 3 months , thousands of Venture Capital Funds will be born , exclusively for funding of Start Ups ( You know who will set up these VCs ! )

    *  With NO Income Tax to be paid , Start Ups will conduct all transactions through cheques ( receipts / payments )

    *  GST  collections will go up

    *  Domestic Savings Rate will go up

    *  Since millions of ( Black Money holding ) individuals / businesses will come forward to fund these Start Ups , lending pressure on banks will go down

    *  Who knows , Start Ups may get into the business of Assets Reconstruction and relieve banks of NPAs !

    *  With locally / domestically stashed Black Money flowing into the economy , our dependence on FDI will go down

    *  Corruption will decline drastically


Dear Shri Narendrabhai :

It is still not late to incorporate my suggestion in forthcoming Union Budget on 29 Feb 2016

This is your opportunity to ,


*   Dream BIG

*   Enable millions to dream big

*   Unleash the Entrepreneurial Genome of India's Youth

*   Make 21st Century , an Indian Century 

*   notwithstanding the opposition in Rajya Sabha


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hemen  parekh

17  Jan  2016

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Thursday, 14 January 2016

Land of Koop Mandooks ( Frogs in the Well ) ?


How else can you describe some people trying to raise a controversy around the fact that the LION logo of " Make in India " initiative was designed by the Indian Subsidiary of an AMERICAN  Company  ?

Meaning  ?  National honour was lost  ?

It speaks poorly of the Koop Mandook mentality of some of us that Shri Amitabh Kant ( architect of Make in India initiative ) had to " defend " this by tweeting :


"  Logo has been designed by young Indians led by an Indian creative director . This is an Indian Subsidiary of W & K "


I get a feeling that those people trying to rake up a controversy must be thinking :

" Ah ! This has to be some sinister plot of  imperialist powers trying to subvert the Indian democracy

Like the Trojan Horse of the past , American ( W&K ) capitalists seems to have conspired to defeat Indian manufacturing by hiding evil software code inside that LION logo image , using secret  Steganography "



These small-minded people are forgetting that :

*   Some 16 million Indians ( largest diasporas in the World ), are working abroad

*   Annually , they are remitting to India , approx $ 70 Billion

*   Of these , 7 million Indians working in Gulf are remitting $ 40 Billion

*   An overwhelming majority of Indians working overseas are highly qualified professionals

*   Many are occupying the CEO positions in big American Companies(Google / MS / PEPSI )

*   A huge number of Indians are working in USA subsidiaries of  INDIAN  Companies

*   They are designing world-class products / services for their AMERICAN  clients , including
     USA government ( Space  / Defense / Energy Solutions / Cyber Security etc )

*   Many Indians have even reached high ranking positions in USA government

*   Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Singapore, are of Indian origin
    ( country which is always at rank # 1 in Ease of Doing Business  ! )

*   National Health Service of UK is heavily dependent on Indian doctors/nurses

*   Foreign countries are proud of the contribution that Indians make locally in their
     countries

*   Even today , Americans are grateful that it was the COBOL knowing ,Indian Software
    engineers who saved the collapse of American economy in 2000 , during Y2K crisis !


When will our narrow-minded citizens stop looking at the nationality / language / religion etc of a person who is contributing to our progress ?


Are they forgetting that, at the very heart of the " Make in India " initiative is invocation of :

"  ATITHI  DEVO  BHAVA "

inviting FOREIGN companies to set up their businesses in India  ?

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hemen  parekh

15  Jan  2016

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Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Congratulations , Shri Rudy !




Congratulations on setting for your Ministry , a lofty objective and then achieving it , viz:

*   Setting up 1150 Industrial Training Institutes ( ITI ) in year 2015 ( 100 per month )

A remarkable achievement considering that in the past 60 years , Governments ( Central + States ) , could manage to set up only 13,105 ITIs ( ave  of 18 per month )

But even that pales against your target to set up 7,000 ITIs in year 2016 !

A very refreshing approach when compared to all other ministries focusing on the fact that they have managed to " spend " by now , most of their last year's budget allocation ( the higher the percentage , the better your performance  !  )


 Why this perverse obsession with " how much you have spent " ?     


Reason is all too simple :


While drawing up the next year's budgetary allocations for various Ministries , the Finance Minister will increase / decrease their allocations based on , to what extent ( % ) did they manage to actually " spend " their current year's allocations

The one and only emphasis is on " spending " !


As usual , no MP will ask :


"  But , what exactly did the Minister concerned achieve by spending this money  ?

What physical / measureable targets did the Minister succeed in reaching / exceeding , with that money  ?

Where / What are the OUTPUTS  ?


Why is it that no targets were set in advance , before the start of the year ?


How come , Minister was allowed to shoot first and then draw concentric circles around the hole afterwards ( at the end of the year ) , to claim BULL'S EYE  ?  "



In private sector , shareholders / bankers do not hesitate to sack the CMD / MD / CEO , if he fails to deliver on promised profits


Then , why are Ministers allowed to retain their posts ( - or even get kicked upstairs  ! ) , despite failing to deliver  ?


What did get fixed , were only EXPENDITURE TARGETS  !


For a change , for the forthcoming budget ,can we expect Shri Jaitley-ji to :

*  Get away from making financial allocations ,

*  Fix for various Ministries , physical achievement targets such as :


#  FINANCE  MINISTER

   *   GDP ..... 8 % ............  [  10 % improvement ]

   *   CAD...... ( -  ) 5 % ..... [  20 % improvement ]



#  COMMERCE  MINISTER

   *   Exports........  $ 350 Billion  ....  [ 10 % improvement  ]

   *   FDI.............. $    50 Billion...... [ 20 % improvement  ]



#   RAILWAY  MINISTER

    *   Lengths of Tracks.....................125,000 Km.....      [  Up by 10 %  ]

    *   No of Passenger Trains / day..... 10,000...               [ Up by 10 % ]



#   HEALTH  MINISTER

  *   Chronic Hunger and Hunger Related Deaths
         8 Million / year ....................................  [  Down by 20 %  ]

   *   Under-nourished people..... 200 million.....  [ Down by 10 % ]



#   SOCIAL  WELFARE  MINISTER

    *    Dowery Deaths / year.......  8,000...... ......[  Down by 10 %  ]

    *    People without Toilets........ 500 Million....  [ Down by  20 % ]



#   AGRICULTURE  MINISTER

    *    Farmers Suicide/ year..... ..  14,000.............. [ Down by 20 %  ]

    *    Food Grain rotting / year..... 5 Million tons.....  [ Down by 20 %   ]



So on and so forth for each Minister



Some caution / suggestions :



*    Ignore the numbers given above. I could be factually wrong

*    Focus on the concept of " Management by Objectives "

*    Overcome the fear of " failure to meet the targets "

*    Overcome the fear of " being ridiculed " !

*    Don't chop off the neck that dares to stick out  ! Encourage risk-taking  !

*    Only failure is , not fixing the targets  !

*    Actual vs Targeted achievements must be measured , on an ongoing
      basis , by totally independent  THIRD  PARTY  agencies

      Ministers / Finance Minister and these Agencies , must agree in advance
      how the Agencies will go about " measuring " the Actual Achievements
     
      The method of measurement must be transparent and well publicized
      in advance

      Agencies shall have no role in fixing of Annual Targets

      That is best done by the Prime Minister - the CEO , MakeInIndia

*    There must be at least 10 performance parameters for each Minister

*    Parameters themselves could be selected / prioritized , based on an
      ONLINE PUBLIC SURVEY  /  OPINION POLL , from Govt web site

*    If conducting such an ONLINE POLL for the forthcoming budget is
      too late , same could be done on a printed form , by current MPs /
      MLAs / Rajya Sabha Members

*    Results of the SURVEY / POLL , must be published

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   hemen   parekh  /  14  Jan  2016

   www.hemenparekh.in / blogs

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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

BATTLE for BABRI



Even as the BATTLE  for  BABRI , is being fought out in the Supreme Court and on TV Channels , I request Shri Asaduddin Owaisi  , Shri Subramanian Swamy , and leaders / opinion-makers from both the sides to consider my ( 2 year old ) following suggestion , to usher a lasting peace and harmony in the Indian Society :

hemen parekh

www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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Reach - Out Time   ?


Narendra Modi claims that the Muslims of Gujarat have buried the ghost of Godhra and a great majority of them voted for BJP in the recent State election

There have been many communal ( anti-minority or anti-majority ) riots in most of the States of India since independence

It does not serve any purpose to keep doing post-mortem , again and again

It is obvious that the new generation ( including the descendents of the victims ) want to close the chapter and move on to a better / peaceful life

If , development of Muslims brought about a harmonious communal relations in Gujarat , surely it could be replicated on a national scale , all over the country

Narendra Modi has a fantastic opportunity to drive across this message by incorporating the following ACTIONS in BJP’s 2014 Election Manifesto :


Ø  Resettling of riot victims ( belonging to any community and residing in any state ) , in Government-built houses , within one year of coming to power

Ø  Simultaneous dismantling of , so-called “ Minority Ghettos “ , thru dispersal of minorities throughout the cities , for better integration within a city’s majority population

Ø  Granting Cabinet Minister status to the Chiefs of Minority Commission / Women’s Commission / Human Rights Commission

Ø  Providing for greater representation in the Central Cabinet to the people of the North-Eastern States and the Naxal affected areas
   
Ø  Up gradation of the educational institutions belonging to the minorities

Ø  Greater representation to Minority Youth in “ Skills Development Program “ under NSDC

Ø  At the disputed Ayodhya site , creation of a “  WORLD  PEACE  COMPLEX  “ comprising of :

     *      Ram Temple    ( for Hindus )

     *      Mosque          ( for Muslims )

     *      Church          ( for Christians )

     *      Temple          ( for Buddhists )

     *      Synagogue     ( for Jews  )

     *     Akshar-Dham  ( for Jains )

*     Gurudwara     (  for  Shikhs  )

     *     UNIVERSITY  for  COMPARATIVE  STUDIES  of  WORLD  RELIGIONS

     *     Hospitals ( like Netralaya / Hridayalaya )

     *     India Heritage  /  History Museum

     *     Business Convention-cum-Industry Exhibition Centre

     *     Tourist Complex
      


     And right in the center of the complex , a giant statue of the “  FATHER  of the NATION  “

I invite readers to add to this list

Even if for all the wrong reasons [ viz; 2014 Elections ], let BJP not miss this opportunity to initiate steps for integration of the minorities into the mainstream of political / economical / social development of our country

It is about time to exhibit , BJP’s  truly “ SECULAR “ nature ( non-UPA  variety ? )

It is time to stop mere Congress-bashing ( with which , people are fed-up ) and promise some genuine positive actions to the MINORITIES

And of all the leaders of BJP , who is better placed for such “ Pro-Activism “ than Narendrabhai ?

Carpe Diem ( Seize the Day ! )

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    hemen  parekh

    (  21  Sept  2013  )