Thank You, Shri RaviShankar Prasadji

Context :

Today’s Hindustan Times carries following news :

Cabinet nod to India’s first data protection bill, House test soon 

Highlights :

Ø  New bill has changes in three key areas from a draft prepared in 2018:

#  data storage rules,

#  user verification process, and

#  the sharing of non-personal or anonymised personal data.

Ø  Information that is neither classified as CRITICAL nor as SENSITIVE, will not need to be storied in India if the fiduciary obtains the consent of the user to send such data abroad

Ø  On the whole, the LAW GIVES OWNERSHIP OF PERSONAL DATA TO THE INDIVIDUAL

     and lays down penalties and punishments in case it is misused in a way that

     jeopardises the user’s privacy.

Ø  Sensitive data (see box), includes passwords, financial records, health data and identifiers of gender, caste and religion

Ø  Critical data has not been defined yet

Ø  The second key change was a new rule that will mandate “significant data fiduciaries” – or big digital companies such as Facebook and Twitter – to display a verification tag based on the amount of information a user discloses while signing up

They will have to use identifiers to differentiate between

#  a user who has a verified registration and displays real name,

#   a user who has a verified registration but has kept name anonymous, and

#   a user that has not verified registration

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Thank  you , Shri  RaviShankar Prasadji ,

For incorporating ( - although , in somewhat watered down way ), my following suggestions :

Ø  LAW GIVES OWNERSHIP OF PERSONAL DATA TO THE INDIVIDUAL

I suggested :

          Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]

Ø  to display a verification tag based on the amount of information a user discloses while signing up

I suggested :

          Only Answer : a Statutory Warning         [  10  Nov  2018  ]

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I hope that the other points raised by me in my following emails have been considered by you :

( 1 )   Privacy ? What is that ?                                                         [  04 May 2017  ]

( 2 )  Delusion of Privacy ?                                                              [  10  June  2017  ]

 

( 3 )  2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ?                                          [  07  July  2017  ]

 

( 4 )  Privacy ? Perish the Thought !                                                 [  18  July  2017  ]

 

( 5 )  #RighttoPrivacy ! Thank You Your Honours !                             [ 19 July 2017 ]

 

( 6 )  Privacy does not live here !                                                     [  22  July  2017  ]

 

( 7 )  Future is Nearer !                                                                   [  31  July  2017  ]

 

( 8 )  Three got it Right !                                                                 [  02  Aug  2017  ]

 

( 9 )  My Birth-Right : Trying to Influence                                         [  04  Aug  2017  ]

 

( 10 )  https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/08/wwwprivacyforsalecom.html  [  26

          Aug  2017  ]

 

( 11 )  Right to Sell My Soul ?                                                            [  27  Aug  2017  ]

 

( 12 )  A Fool’s Paradise ?                                                                  [  29  Aug  2017  ]

 

( 13 )  Aadhar - for HR ?                                                                    [  02  Sept 2017  ]

 

( 14 )  Wherefore Art Thou, O Romeo ?                                               [  20  Sept  2017  ]

 

( 15 )  Data Privacy : We are getting overtaken !                                 [  26  Sept  2017  ]

 

( 16 )  7  Pillars  of  Data  Protection  Law                                            [ 27  Nov  2017  ]

 

( 17 )  Just  Ask  Google  !                                                                  [  28  Nov  2017  ]

 

( 18 )  Here is the Proof                                                                      [  30  Nov  2017  ]

 

( 19 )  Data Protection without Data Privacy ?                                       [ 08  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 20 )  PRIVACY : A Lost Battle                                                            [  15  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 21 )  Aadhar : Supremely Satisfying ?                                                [  19  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 22 )  Aadhar Fact : Privacy Fiction ?                                                   [  19  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 23 )  Aadhar : Dawn of Realism ?                                                       [  23  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 24 )  Oh ! for some learned arguments !                                             [  25  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 25 )  Aadhar : Supreme Asks : What if ?                                             [  30  Jan  2018  ]

 

( 26 )  A Hostile Advocate ?                                                                  [  07  Feb  2018  ]

 

( 27 )  Big Brother is watching us ! And how !                                        [  09  Feb  2018  ]

 

 ( 28 )  Nightmare ? #Aadhar #Privacy #DataProtection                      [  04  March  2018  ]

                    

 

( 29 )  A  Drop  in  the  Ocean  ?                                                         [  20 March  2018  ]

 

( 30 )  Trade  Off  :   Privacy  vs  LiveEasy  ?                                      [  25  March  2018  ]

 

( 31 )  From  Tele-phony  to  Tele-Empathy  ?                                   [  27 March  2018  ]

 

( 32 )  Facebook   Replies                                                               [  29  March  2018  ]

 

( 33 )  How  Do  You  Control  Wind  ?                                             [ 11  April  2018 ]

 

( 34 )  Dear Hon CJI , Shri Dipak Misraji                                           [  13  April  2018  ]

 

( 35 )  Parekh’s Law of #Privacy ?                                                  [  15  April  2018  ]

 

( 36 )  Facebook  :  The  Formidable                                               [  27  April  2018  ]

( 37 )  Everything  You   Do  ?                                                        [  03  May  2018  ]

( 38 )  Making best of a bad bargain ?                                            [  09  June  2018  ]

 

( 39 )  Enforcing  is  difficult  ?                                                      [  13  June  2018  ]

 

( 40 )  This is just the Beginning !                                                  [  09  July  2018  ]

 

( 41 )  Social Media Hub ? Where is the need ?                                 [ 13 July 2018 ]

 

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05  Dec  2019

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

Low Manpower Cost = Low Cost Economy

How much does Manpower cost while manufacturing a product ?

Although over-simplified , here is a broad framework

 :

Ø  Product Cost           =   Cost of   “ Assemblies “                       +  Manpower Cost

Ø  Assembly Cost        =   Cost of  “ Sub Assemblies “                  +  Manpower Cost

Ø  Sub Assembly Cost  =   Cost of    “ Components “                    +  Manpower Cost

Ø  Component Cost      =    Cost of    “ Semis “                            +  Manpower Cost

Ø  Semis Cost              =   Cost of    “ Minerals “                          +  Manpower Cost

Ø  Minerals Cost           =   Cost of    “ Beneficiation “                    +  Manpower Cost

Ø  Beneficiation Cost     =   FREE digging out from Earth                +  Manpower Cost

Every product that we see around us has its origin in Earth

At every stage , from digging out the minerals from the Earth ( which Mother Earth provides for FREE ) , to assembling the final product,  we need to employ people and pay them salaries / wages , which is “ Manpower Cost “ [ This also applies to generation of electric power – a crucial input ]

Hence,  fundamentally , every cost addition at every stage of manufacture, is  MANPOWER  COST  !

So , the industry which manages to keep its Manpower Cost low ( as compared to competitors ), manages to sell its products cheaper and corner a large market share within a country

This also holds true at international level

A country which manages to keep its Manpower Costs low , manages to out-price other countries and can export more

Now , here is some good news as far as lowering the manpower costs is concerned :

A fledgling concept, flexi-staffing may soon take giant strides

·         The Hindu Business Line

·         29 Nov 2019

Extract :

Large companies are cutting down wage costs while startups want to hire people only for a short period.

Now, there is a solution for both.

Flexi, or temporary staffing, is fast catching up in India with retail, logistics, FMCG and IT start-ups taking the lead.

The government’s new labour reforms are likely to give a major boost to this concept which is still at a nascent stage in India, compared to matured markets like the US.

Recruitment body Indian Staffing Federation ( ISF ) said :

Ø  Flexi-staffing grew at 16.3 per cent to reach 3.3 million in 2018, out of the total 463.4 million total workforce.

Ø  This industry is expected to grow at 22.7 per cent to reach 6.1 million workforce by 2021

Ø  A flexi-workforce is the solution for being more competitive in the market, without investing a lot.

Simplifying and enabling labour laws in favour of contract employment ( like abolishing The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 ) will increase adoption of flexi-staffing by companies, and more formalisation will take place.

In a country, where an estimated 83 per cent of the workforce is informal, labour reforms will have a profound impact on flexi-staffing.

India is today the fifth largest staffing market globally. Due to policy reforms, over 11 million jobs shall get formalized in 2018-21.

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Dear Shri Santosh Gangwarji

[ santoshg@sansad.nic.in /  santosh.gangwar.bareilly@gmail.com / molegangwar@yahoo.com ]

Congratulations for initiating the long overdue labour reforms

But , in order to make India, a LOW  COST  ECONOMY , we need to go beyond labour reforms

I urge you to consider my following proposal :

National Jobs Policy : Treasure Hunt                           [ 15 Dec 2017 ]

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30  Nov  2019

hcp@RecuitGuru.com

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Edit / 03  Dec  2019

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Thanks Dr HarshVardhanji , 


for your following acknowledgement to my above email :

"  Noted your suggestions  "

Dr. Harsh Vardhan <dr.harshvardhan@gov.in>

Sent :  Mon 02-Dec-19 4:44 PM

To  :    hcp@recruitguru.com

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Delhi worse than hell ?

So thinks the Supreme Court

Read :

People forced to live in gas chambers in Delhi-NCR, better to kill them in one go: SC slams Centre, states 

Extract :

Ø  " Why are being people forced to live in gas chambers ? "

Ø  " It is better to kill them all in one go. Get explosives in 15 bags and kill them at one go. Why should people suffer all this? "

Ø  " Can you treat people like this and let them die due to pollution? " asked the bench.

Ø  " You should explain why we should not impose fine on you for not being able to control your state. Despite our orders, it happened again."

Ø  " Life isn't so cheap in India anymore. What was given [compensation] in Bhopal gas tragedy is nothing compared to what is given to victims in similar cases worldwide. The chief secretaries have no right to be in chair if they can't serve people well. "

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Governments must pay if they can’t give clean air, water: Supreme Court   

Extract :

Ø  Governments that fail to provide clean air and water to their citizens must compensate them for the adverse impact of pollution, the Supreme Court said on Monday while issuing notices to all states and UTs to explain why citizens should not have such a remedy.

Ø  “Delhi has become ‘narak’ (hell). People are living in a gas chamber and are dying due to cancer and other lung ailments. Their life spans are getting shorter,” Justice Arun Mishra, who was sitting alongside Justice Deepak Gupta, said.

Ø  The bench said they would begin by making the governments around Delhi-NCR accountable for air pollution in the NCR from stubble burning.

Ø  “Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and UP must give compensation to Delhiites for the air    pollution,” he said.

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Dear Hon Justice Mishraji and Guptaji ,

Thank you for some plain speaking

Some 5 months ago, I sent to the Supreme Court [ supremecourt@nic.in  ] , following blog / email :

Needed : a Service Liability Act                          [ 12 June 2019 ]

Where I said :

-          Not a single day passes without newspapers reporting dozens of such cases of ( what I like to call ) :

CRIMES OF OMISSIONS  [  as against “ Crimes of Commissions “  ]

Following owe their existence to such “ Crimes of Omissions “ :

Millions of Indians die  PREMATURE DEATH  every year , due to :

>  Water and Air Pollution

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Then 3 weeks back, I sent to you following blog / email :

Legislation or No legislation !                               [ 06 Nov 2019 ]

It was high time for the plain speaking that you did

Now, if you fail to follow up with your “ threat “, no government minister / officer , will ever take you seriously !

For dereliction of their duty, how about levying “ demonstrative penalties “ as follows :

Ø  Union cabinet Ministers ………………………………………………………………. Rs  25 lakhs each

Ø  Ministers of Delhi – Haryana – Punjab – Rajasthan ……………………… Rs  10 lakhs each

Ø  Secretaries of these States……………………………………………………………. Rs  5 lakhs each

Ø  MPs ( Lok Sabha ) and MLAs ( State Assemblies )…………………………. 50 % cut in Salaries

This will . not only send a loud and clear message to all other States but also restore ordinary citizens’ faith in judiciary as a “ Court of last resort “

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29  Nov  2019

hcp@RecruitGuru.com