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Today’s Business Today carries following news report :

RBI exploring mobile phone-based solution to help visually impaired identify currency notes   

Highlights  :

·         There are about 80 lakh blind or visually impaired people in the country, who are likely to benefit from the initiative of the central bank.

·         The device/mechanism should be able to identify the denomination of a banknote with handheld operation, when the banknote is held in front of it / near it / inserted in it / scrolled across it, within a few seconds (preferably 2 seconds or less) and read out in English/Hindi the denomination, said the tender document.

·         In case of a software-based solution, the document said: "The solution can be either total software based capable to run on mobile phones or hardware driven or a combination of both... ."

·         Also, it should not require a data connection and should function in offline mode, as per the document.

·         In the case of a hardware-based solution, the device "should be battery operated, rechargeable, small and handy" for ease of operation and should not require additional light source including daylight

·         The tender document also said it should be amply made clear to the user that the device/mechanism does not authenticate the genuineness or otherwise of the banknote and the user may ascertain the same separately.

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Dear Start Up :

Here is your opportunity of a lifetime . Carpe  Diem  !

On 17 July 2016 , I had sent following email to Cabinet Ministers / NITI Aayog etc – although it was in the context of the menace of fake notes :

Fak - e - Mon 

Highlights :

·         Govt to develop a mobile app , to be aptly called , " Fak-e-Mon " and insist its pre-install on all smart phones

·         Whenever presented with a Rs 500 / 1000 note for payment , a citizen simply takes a photo of that note with his mobile . He has to do nothing more !

·         Fak-e-Mon transmits that photo to the Central Server of the Treasury which has the MASTER DATABASE of  those unique Serial Numbers of Rs 500 / 1000 currency notes

·         Software compares the Serial Number sent ( as photo )  with the Database and determines whether that note is Genuine or Fake

·         This information is instantaneously relayed back to the sender and appears as a GREEN dot ( for genuine note ) or RED dot ( for fake note ) , on his mobile , so that he can refuse to honour it !

·         Fak-e-Mon also transmits the GPS location of the place of transaction , to figure out " where " are these fake notes entering the circulation

·         Central Server records / logs , full details of ALL the good and ALL the fake notes processed through each Fak-e- Mon / mobile phone , to develop CURRENCY VELOCITY and CURRENCY MAP of India

·         Just print those unique / hidden Serial Numbers on currency notes with INK containing RFID micro-sensors

     ( Yes , these are nano-scale , so no problem to flow with ink ! )

·         Then tell millions of unemployed young Indians :

     "Go out on the streets of your city with your GPS / NFC enabled and Fak-e-Mon

      installed smart phones

          As you keep walking , now and then , on your mobile's screen , you will see images

          of FAKE currency notes popping up , out of the pockets of total strangers ! Just touch

          those images and earn Rs 10 !

         (of course, instantly deposited in your Jan Dhan Bank Account ! Only DBT - no cash )

·         Pokemon is so passe !  Fak-e-mon is THE FUTURE !

     Is anyone listening ?

   

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Dear Start Up,

In the 30 months since I sent this email , technology has made huge strides ( AI – ML – Big Data etc )

It should not be too difficult for you to modify my suggestion so that :

#   It is useful , not only for blind persons but also for seeing persons

#   It recognizes the “ Denomination “ ( from Serial Number ) and loudly announces it

#   It need not be used / activated “ consciously / deliberately “ by any one.  Using

     BlueTooth / NFC , it  will “ figure out “ the total number of high denomination notes

     on the person of the user and relay that data to the central server of IT Dept / ED

     etc  [  End of BLACK  MONEY  / CORRUPTION  ]

     

    To know how this technology works , read :

           To Catch Black Money , Ask Google ?         [  13  Dec  2016  ]

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31  Dec  2018

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Thank You , Shri Sisodiaji,

Thank  You , Shri Sisodiaji,

[  msisodia.delhi@gov.in  ]

For what ?

For rolling out “ Entrepreneurship  Curriculum “ pilot project in Class 9 to 12 in Govt schools

As reported in :

Entrepreneurship to be taught in Govt schools from April 

 

Highlights :

Shri Sisodiaji said,

Unemployment is one of the biggest problems being faced by our country.

The problem with education is that in all schools and colleges, we are giving education to our next generation just to seek jobs.

Biggest question today is where are the job providers ? 

I have seen entrepreneurship programmes being carried out at various levels in some Universities and Schools but they are treating entrepreneurship as a skill and not as a mindset

That is why, despite so many programmes at various levels, we have not been able to produce entrepreneurship mind set who will ultimately become job providers in the society. This is a big lacuna.

If we can produce large-scale entrepreneurs in our country then they will not only solve the problem of unemployment but also will help the economy grow very fast

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Context :

On  19  Oct  2015 , I sent following email to Cabinet Ministers / NITI Aayog :

TEN MILLION ENTREPRENEURS ? 

Extract :

Some naysayers are bound to say :

"   But entrepreneurship cannot be taught

    Either it is in your blood or it is not  "

Then they will try to support their argument by citing Bania communities

Accepting this argument , would be a defeatist attitude !

Here is how we can produce a generation of ENTREPRENEURS , 5 years from now ( if we start NOW ) :

·         Introduce " Entrepreneurship " as an mandatory subject in High Schools

     and Colleges

·         Each such School / College to be " Adopted " by a Corporate ( CSR ? )

·         Each adopting Corporate will bear the full expense of running this

     course ( Teachers' Salaries etc )

·         Such expense to be tax-exempt ( or offset as Corporate CSR obligation )

·         Exams to be in the form of presentation by teams of final year students

     on,

    " HERE   IS   A   BUSINESS   I   PLAN   TO   START "

·         Presentations to be judged by Panels of Venture Capitalists / Angel

     Investors / Incubators etc

·         Winning teams ( 1st / 2nd / 3rd  prize ) , to be offered funds by the

     Panel Members ( as seen in some TV programs )

·         Fund amounts should be small ( Max Rs 100 lakhs ) and preference to

     be given to projects involving healthcare / education / manufacturing /

     agriculture / food processing etc

·         Winning Teams , setting up Start Ups with these VC funds , to be

     encouraged to hire graduating students from the non-winning teams

·         This " encouragement " to be in the form of reimbursement of salaries of

     such hires ( only such hires ), under  " Employment Generation Subsidy "

     from concerned State Government , where this Start Up gets registered ,

     since , employment is a State Subject

·         Such Salary-reimbursements  will be for first 3 years of Start Up

·         To create an entire  GENERATION of ENTREPRENEURS , we need to start at the roots

·         Some years later , when this FIRST generation becomes parents of their own 10 year olds, those SECOND generation youngsters will have entrepreneurship in their genes

·         This is one way of preparing a GM ( genetically modified ) Generation , to which , there ought to be all round support

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Dear Shri Sisodiaji,

Congratulations on this initiative to re-orient the very FOCUS of our Education System from producing “ Job Seekers “ to “ Job Generators “

If adopted universally ( - with incorporation of my above-mentioned suggestions ) all over India ( by all the State Governments ) , we would have ready by 2025,

 

GM GENERATION of ENTREPRENEURS

This blog is sent as email to : Shri Prakash Javadekar ( Min HRD ) / Prakash.j@sansad.nic.in Sh R Subrahmanyam ( Sec Edu ) / secy.dhe@nic.in Shri Arvind Kejriwal ( CM – Delhi ) / cmdelhi@nic.in Shri Sisodiya ( Dy CM – Delhi ) / msisodia.delhi@gov.in Dr Sunita Kaushik ( Dir-SCERT ) / dir12scert@gmail.com Dr Nahar Singh ( Dy Dir – SCERT ) / drnahar.singh@gmail.com Sh M Ramamoorthy ( DCA ) / dcadelhiscert@gmail.com Sh Sandeep Kumar ( Sec Edu ) / secyedu@nic.in Sh Sanjay Goel ( Dir Edu ) / diredu@nic.in Sh Binay Bhushan ( Sp Dir – Pvt Schools ) / add.dir.edu@gmail.com

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30  Dec  2018

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Astonishing Estonia

[ Became independent in 1991 / Population of 1.3 million as compared to 1.51 million population of Mumbai Suburb Andheri ]

Following news reports appeared recently :

How Estonia is plotting to end bureaucracy 

In Estonia, marriage and divorce are among the very few government interactions that can’t be executed online 

Lessons  from  Estonia :

·         “Now we will register our child,” Andrejs Lunde says with gravity as he inserts his ID card into the card reader.

     And just like that, Oskar is Estonia’s newest citizen. No paper. No fuss.

·         Ambitious project to make government administration completely digital to reduce bureaucracy, increase transparency and boost economic growth

·         Estonia has created one platform that supports electronic authentication and digital signatures to enable paperless communications across both the private and public sectors

·         Citizens can monitor their data and see if any government or private institution accesses it

·         The platform is underpinned by software called X-Road, a decentralized data exchange system that links databases

·         The leadership looked for an industry where the country could compete. They decided on information technology and the internet

·         More than 99 percent of Estonia’s banking transactions now take place online

·         “If someone really wants my information, they will get it anyway,” said Lunde. “If they can get Hillary’s emails, they can get mine.”

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Way to imbibe those lessons in India :

·         No paper. No fuss

           [     VotesApp     //       I  SIN  >  <  U  SIN   ]

·         Reduce Bureaucracy

          [   GSTIN on Sign Boards ? How about other 16 ?   ]

                      

·         Increase Transparency

          [  Thank You , Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji   ]

                

·         Boost Economic Growth

         [  Foundation of Economy  ]

                

·         Electronic  Authentication

          [  #Aadhar-the-Irreversible   ]

                          

·         Citizens can monitor their data

         [  Only Answer : a Statutory Warning  ]

                            

·         X-Road  

         [  Break-down the Silos !   ]

                         

·         Information technology

          [  Can Indian IT Re-invent itself ?  ]

                 

·         Internet

          [  “  BACK FACTORY " OF THE WORLD ?  ]

                  

·         They can get mine   

          [  Alice in the Wonderland of Privacy !  ]

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Related  Readings :

·         Estonia : Our Gateway to World ?                  [  13  March  2018 

·         #Reliance Jio : the Mighty Start Up                 [  21  May  2018  ]

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29  Dec  2018

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