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

Monday, 12 September 2016

No need to appeal !


Economic Times ( 09 Sept 2016 ) carries a news report titled :

"  Unhappy Minister Puts Out a Notice "

It reads :

"  Agriculture Minister  Radha Mohan Singh  is unhappy with some of his officials of his ministry still not reporting to work on time despite an Aadhar-based biometric attendance system in place

This prompted the Minister to recently put out a notice in his signature , appealing to all officials of the ministry to come to work on time

He did mention there had been much improvement in the situation from the earlier times "


Shri Radha Mohanji :

No need to appeal - or be unhappy - if you change over from " Bio-Metric Attendance Device ( BAD ) " to " Mobile-based Attendance Device ( MAD ) " , as outlined below ( of course , Aadhar -based )


It may take 10 years to get adopted country-wise , but it will take our Discipline and Productivity ahead of the World !


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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 )

    *  Skills Development Ministry / NSDC

    *  HRD Ministry ( Central )


    *  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 have a futuristic vision and prepare plans for the next ten years "

  

   MAD  could well be an important element  of  that  " JAM PLAN "  !

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13  Sept  2016

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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Not so Futuristic ?


To people who read my suggestion on how to save the lives of 15,000 persons who die every year, by being run over by trains while crossing railway tracks , it might have sounded , a bit too " Futuristic "


It is not easy to think of a " Low Voltage EMP ( Electro-Magnetic Pulse ) "


But it seems , scientists of the World are saying , " If you can think of some phenomenon , it might be possible "

Example :

Hindustan Times ( 12  Sept 2016 ) carries following snippet on its " Page One Plus ( News You Can Use ) " :

NEW  MATERIAL  CAN  BLOCK  MOBILE  PHONE  RADIATION  :

" Scientists have developed a new material that can effectively block electro-magnetic waves emitting from Mobile Phones , TVs and other appliances
Researchers manufactured the material made out of MXene "


I firmly believe that the Indian Scientists are quite capable of alloying another derivative of MXene with the steel used to fabricate railway tracks , to permanently " block the electro-magnetic waves emitted from the mobile phones "


All that is needed is for Shri Suresh Prabhu ( Railway Minister ) to forward my following blog to the Material Science Lab of our Steel Plants


And should you want to contribute , do forward this suggestion to :

 *  spprabhu1@rediffmail.com  /   sureshprabhu@irctc.co.in  / 

     www.SureshPrabhu.in > Contact Me


Suggestion sent through " Contact Me " on his web site , is immediately acknowledged !

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Saturday, 3 September 2016


Indian Railways : A Trillion Dollar Opportunity



That was the name of a Conference held in Mumbai , on 03 Sept 2016


Railway Minister , Shri Suresh Prabhu , wants businesses and Agencies ( both , national and international ) , to invest billions of dollars in modernizing the Indian Railways


These " modernizations " include :

#    High speed Trains

#    Rolling Stock

#    Railway Station Development

#    Signaling and Structural Development....etc



How about making this an " Opportunity to save 15,000 lives " ? ( Number of persons getting run-over by trains each year in India )



On the tracks of Mumbai local trains alone , some 3,000 + persons get run over each year , while crossing


Just the day before the Conference , as many as 18 persons got run over in a single day !



Provision of overhead bridges has not helped . Temptation to catch a train is too much when time is short  !



Perhaps sub-conscious thinking of people who cross the track , goes :

" Of the 100,000 persons who cross the tracks daily, only 10 die. My probability of getting hit is only 1 in 10,000 ! "



But what if that probability was 1 in 1 ( 100 % certainty ) ?

Like a 11KV current flowing in the tracks ?  You dare to cross , you die ! No one will dare !



No , please don't get me wrong ! I am NOT suggesting anything sinister like that ! ( anything like replacing those pellet guns in Kashmir with AK 47 assault rifles )



What I am suggesting is a " Digital Death " for the trespassers !



For today's generation , as real as " Physical Death " - or worse !



Mobile phone ( smart phone or feature phone ) of the person crossing , to get " fried / killed " , electronically !


By an innovative application of a " Controlled EMP ( Electro-Magnetic Pulse ) " , surging through the tracks , once every second - low voltage but strong enough to kill the onboard solid state circuitry of the mobile phone



This low voltage magnetic wave , will neither harm the human carrying the phone in his pocket , nor kill the phones of those travelling in the train , due to " Skin Effect "


Even though, a " Low Voltage EMP " , is an oxymoron , I am sure Indian Scientists are quite capable to resolve this apparent paradox , if challenged



Shri Prabhu-ji  :


In your Rail Budget speech, you had said :


" A single accident or loss of a single life causes me great sorrow and anguish. It also demonstrates that we still have a long way to go in realizing our objective of a zero accident regime. Although our safety record is better at 20% lower accidents compared to the previous year, there is much more that is required to be done. I truly believe that the way forward to eliminate accidents from IR is through adoption and assimilation of latest technology. "



Instead of , always trying to " adopt and assimilate " technologies developed abroad , please consider " Evolving " of a technology locally for your goal of " Zero Accident Regime "


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12  Sept  2016


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Saturday, 10 September 2016

Garbage is Green Gold { 3G }



DNA ( 06 Sept 2016 ) carries following news report :

" Scientists successfully convert sand into soil "

Report elaborates :

" Chinese scientists have claimed to have converted SAND into FERTILE SOIL, using a new method which they hope will be useful to fight  DESERTIFICATION.


A team of researchers from Chongqing Jiaotong University has developed a paste made of  PLANT CELLULOSE  that, when added to sand, helps it retain WATER , NUTRIENTS and AIR .


A 1.6-hectare sandy plot in  ULAN BUH DESERT , has been transformed into FERTILE  land, yielding RICE, CORN , TOMATOES, WATERMELON and SUNFLOWERS, after being treated with the new method.


" The new method will hopefully help turn DESERT  areas into an ideal habitat for PLANTS ," state run Xinhua quoted Yi as saying.


The plants in the sandy test plot needed about the SAME  AMOUNT of  WATER as those grown in regular soil, but required  LESS FERTILIZER and bore HIGHER YIELDS, according to estimates by experts.


The crops, including Rice, Corn and Potatoes , FLOURISHED  in the newly converted soil.


To verify the method, a large-scale planting experiment in ULAN BUH DESERT began in April this year. There is very little rainfall in the area.


The cost of sand conversion is between 22,500 yuan and 40,500 yuan (USD 3,373 to 6,071) per hectare, Yi said.


The new method is an important breakthrough in combating  DESERTIFICATION  and may prove fundamental in TRANSFORMING  DESERTS into FERTILE, ARABLE land, said Zhong Zhihua, an academic with the CAE. "


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CAN  INDIA  IMPROVE  UPON  THIS  CHINESE  INNOVATION  ?

I think so

Millions of tons of ORGANIC ( Bio-Degradable ) Waste-Products  that India produces , is mostly CELLULOSE  !

Eg :

#   Leftover vegetables / plants / fruits / cereals / pulses / plant leaves / papers / boxes ( City Garbage )


#   130 millions of tons of Paddy Straw / 50 million tons of Cane Trash etc ( Annual Agriculture wastes )



Many Housing Societies ( and even some Municipalities ) , already use this garbage for producing COMPOST MANURE or for generating  METHANE GAS


If this ORGANIC GARBAGE is thoroughly mixed with DESERT SAND and water sprinkled over it , there is high probability that the resultant SOIL will support all kinds of vegetables / fruits etc !


A beginning could be made in the cities of Bhuj ( near Kutchh Desert ) and Jaiselmer ( near Rajasthan Desert )


And water required for initial sprinkling of the ( Garbage+Sand ) mix and for subsequent watering of the vegetable plants , could be pumped from underground tube-wells , using SOLAR WATER PUMPS , since many Solar Power projects are , in any case , coming up in KUTCHH / RAJASTHAN deserts


ADVANTAGES  :

#   Advance of deserts can be stopped and green Forest Cover can be increased to reduce green-house effects


#   In a desert , there are no farmers and no bother of having to " acquire " any farm land . Desert land belongs to the State !


#  State Government , gets an opportunity to resettle " Project Affected Persons " , by allotting to them in these deserts , HUNDRED TIMES the land they lost to project ( but , a minimum of 5 acres ) !


#  Project Affected Persons  , will be happy to get  FREE land / FREE garbage / FREE water , and happily resettle !


#  It will also solve the problem of GARBAGE DISPOSAL and eliminate those ugly GARBAGE DUMPS all over the cities ( - without intervention from High Courts / Supreme Court ! )


#  Cities will never suffer exorbitant price-rise for vegetables due to shortages !


#  Solar power generated in desert-based plants , will find local demand !


#  Industries / Businesses which wish to set up " DESERT FARMS " by using Organic Garbage , may be granted " Industry Status " , allotted FREE land ( One acre for each person employed ) and exempted from Corporate Income Tax for 10 years


#  For unlimited supply of " Plant Cellulose " locally , ponds can be dug in the deserts and filled with fast growing Water Hyacinth plants , which are the  most efficient antennas  in the nature for capturing SOLAR ENERGY  !


A win-win solution for all !

I hope Shri Narendra Modiji ( who likes to experiment with new technologies to solve people's daily problems ), will soon instruct the Scientists of our numerous Agricultural Research Institutions / Councils , to conduct experiments along this line and submit their report by March 2017

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11  Sept  2016

www.hemenparekh.in / blogs




Friday, 9 September 2016

Housing for All ? Status Report



Business Line ( 10 Sept 2016 ) carries a news report , titled :

"  Housing for All in the slow lane "



Following are its highlights :

#  " Housing for All " mission was launched in June 2015 , to construct 200 Lakh houses by 2022

#   As of date, construction of 9 lakh houses has been approved by the Ministry of Housing

#   Of these , some 72,000 houses are under construction across 7 states

#   So far , only 2,883 houses have been completed ( 1719 in Gujarat / 718 in Chhattisgarh / 446 in Tamil Nadu )


#   Out of 36 States plus UT , 15 have not even sent their proposals to the Ministry !



At this rate , by  2022 , expect following :

#    5 Lakh ....  under construction

#    25,000.... completed

#      5,000 .... allotted



Having raised the EXPECTATIONS of poor people of India , it is still not too late for Shri Narendra Modi  to ask, Niti Aayog to re-frame the " HOUSING  FOR  ALL "  mission along the following lines :


QUANTUMJUMP OF 50 MILLION HOUSES    

 

   {  http://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2016/02/cheap-houses.html  }

 

*   A Half  Way  House

 

 {   http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-half-way-house.html  }

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10  Sept  2016

www.hemenparekh.in / blogs



 



Simultaneous Elections ? What do YOU think ?


Dear Fellow-Citizens :


As per Economic Times ( 08 Sept 2016 ) , the Centre has sought comments from the Public, including MPs and MLAs , on the feasibility of holding simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha and ALL the State Assemblies


Not only it is feasible , it is highly desirable


To know what are its benefits and how easily it can be implemented , read :



{  http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-poll-one-time.html  }


Then send this link to the Policy Makers ( Ministers / Secretaries in the Central Government ) ,whose email IDs are given below . Do add your own suggestions !


And do encourage your Friends / Contacts etc to send in their own comments , by sending this link to them and requesting them to request their friends to do likewise !


It is time for YOU to speak up - and demand that YOU are heard


with regards,

hemen parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 10  Sept  2016

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