And I am glad , that one Institution has grasped the benefits of going MAD !
Read the following news report from Times of India ( 20 Aug 2016 ) ,
before reading my blog that follows ( emailed to all Ministers in Central Government
) :
NEW DELHI: In an attempt to bring in more transparency and put a check
on ghost faculties in medical colleges, Medical
Council of India announced a digitization initiative on Friday for tracking real-time daily attendance of faculties in
medical colleges across the country .
Under the digital mission mode project (DMMP), the medical education
regulator plans to monitor attendance of faculty members in about 439 medical
colleges through a biometric system.
The regulator also plans to issue electronic radio frequency identification (RFID) registration card to doctors for their documentation which will enable them to practice across the country by registering once with MCI.
"The most remarkable thing of this project
is monitoring
of attendance of faculty through a biometric system
and a unique
identification for each and every medical practitioner across the country .
There have been issues of fake and ghost faculty in many medical
colleges," MCI president Jayshree Mehta said.
The digitization project, apart from enabling online submission of applications for opening of new medical colleges or seat enhancement, will create a national database of faculty in medical colleges which will be linked with their Aadhar Card and have biometric verification.
According to Mehta, the total project involving
a real-time medical register, issuing of IDs and other tasks under this project
has a budgetary allocation of Rs 45 crore and will be completed in the next six months.
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016
From BAD to MAD
BAD = Biometric Attendance Device
MAD = Mobile Attendance Device
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Most people think the greatest contribution of Bill Gates
( onetime CEO of Microsoft ) was " MS Operating System "
I think , it was his book " Business @ the
Speed of Thought "
Current CEO of Microsoft is a PIO named Satya Nadela
What is his contribution ?
What he said during his talk in Delhi on 30 May , called ,
" Tech for Good , Ideas for India " :
He cited the example of how NASA scientists were not
able to see the Rover move on Mars but the holographic output of the Rover is
right there in their office.
Nadella also met two young developers, one of them a
17-year-old who has figured out how to take data from NASA , conflate it with
other information and see the spread of algae in Bay of Bengal. “Here’s a
student who is taking information that is available, bringing it together—he
wanted to have a real impact right here in terms of how we managed our climate,”
he said.
Nadella wrapped up by summing Microsoft’s mission in India.
" It is about really celebrating the technologies
that you all in India create. In fact, I want us to be the platform creators
that foster the ingenuity of what is happening in India,” he said.
Here is my idea of a technology that we need to create for
a better India :
Today Employee Attendance Systems in India work at three
levels as follows :
# Entirely Manual
Attendance Register and
Wage/Salary payment in cash or by Cheque
# Partly Automated
Punch cards
or Bio-metric recording of attendance but manual calculation
of wages / salaries and payment
by cash or cheque
# Fully Automated
Bio-metric Attendance Devices ( BAD ) , integrated with a home-grown or
bought-out Salary Payment
Software , running on a local Server.
Salary payments could be by
cheques or thru Electronic Transfer to
concerned employee's bank account
Once in a while , if a company has several establishments
within a city , those local servers are connected to a Central Server , doing
all processing
In a rare case ( although , I am not aware of any ) , it
may be that all the local servers of all the establishments of a company , all
over the country , are networked with its central computer in its head-quarter
Now imagine this :
# All smart
phones to evolve as Bio-metric Attendance Devices , with built-in
Bio-metric Recorders , GPS , a mobile
attendance App ( called MAD ? )
# App to have 2
buttons ( Green
= IN / Red = OUT )
# Employee to
touch IN upon reaching his work-station and touch OUT ,
while leaving work place , at the end
of work-shift . That's all !
# Being GPS enabled , buttons will get activated ONLY
when the employee
has reached the work place ( not while he is on his way ! )
# All 100
million establishments in India ( factories / offices / shops / clinics
NGOs / Govt Depts ) to ensure that the
MAD app is installed on the smart
phone of each employee , when he joins
# All of these smart phones to be connected ( IoT ?
) , with the Servers of ,
* Labour
Ministries ( Central and States )
* HRD
Ministry ( Central )
* Skills Development Ministry /
NSDC
* Finance Ministries ( Central +
States )
* NITI Aayog
* Income Tax Department
* Any other server that you may
want to
# MAD app is integrated with a STANDARD /
COMMON , software system
for computing daily wages /
monthly salaries of ALL the persons working
in those 100 million
establishments ( whether they are casual /
contractual / trainee /
apprentice / probationer / permanent / retained
# As each person joins in any of these
establishments , data re that
person must be inputted by the
Employer into the App , such as :
* Name / Contact Details /
DOB / Aadhar Card No / Employee Number
( Each
unique Employee Number will be auto-generated by the
common
Salary Payment Software , running on IT Dept Server )
* Employee's Jandhan
Yojana Bank Account Number for salary EC
* Employer's Jandhan bank account / Unique Employer Number
* Payment Mode (
Hourly / Daily / Monthly Rated , wages / salaries )
* Leave provisions /
PF rate / TDS rate / Allowances / Reimbursements
* Any other relevant
data ( either about employee of for employer )
WHAT
ARE THE ADVANTAGES ?
# For employees , no need to file a separate
annual Income Tax Return
# Direct deposit of PF / TDS amounts into bank
accounts of Govt Depts
# Direct Benefit Transfer ( DBT ) to every
Employer for Stipend Subsidy ,
based on number of total trainees
/ apprentices employed
# Total number of employees in India ( category /
region / industry )
#
Employment Density ( Industry wise / Region wise / Skill wise etc )
# Net Employment Growth Rate ( weekly -
monthly / Industry-wise )
# Co-relation with no of persons graduating at
various levels
#
Data about those Unemployed ( " Graduating " less " Employed
" )
# Overtime Statistics ( Use / Abuse )
# Work-hour Analysis ( Ave hours / week -
month )
# Wage / Salary Rates ( Rs per hour ) -
Industry wise / Region wise
( of great interest to Foreign Investors looking to bring
down
manufacturing costs , by outsourcing to India / manufacturing in India )
# Compliance with labour laws / tax laws /
Apprentice Act etc
# Job Market Forecasts through BIG
DATA ANALYTIC ( region / industry )
# Demographic Profiles of employees
( Rural to Urban migration )
# Per Capita Income
Growth for persons using MAD app ( MOM / YOY )
# Changing composition between Blue Collar and White
Collar employees
Then there could be many other benefits not envisaged now
Here is an opportunity for :
* Manufacturers of Smart Phones
To shrink stationary / bulky /
common , bio-metric devices to mobile /
small / personalized / hand-held
devices
{ Remember ?
If you don't make yourself obsolete , someone else will
}
* Tech Start Ups
To come up with the Mobile App (
MAD ) / Technology Platform
* NDA Government
To implement what Shri Narendra Modiji
said on 15 July 2015 :
" If China is like a manufacturing
factory of the World , India should
become the human resource capital of
the World .
That should be our target and we should lay
emphasis on that .
We should
MAD could well be an important
element of that " JAM PLAN
" !
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21 Aug
2016
www.hemenparekh.in
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