Cooperating for Common Cause [ 3 C ]

Cooperation among ? :

A group of 100 organizations have come together

Which :

( A )     Hospital Chains ( such as Apollo – Manipal )

( B )    Diagnostic Labs  ( such as Metroolis – SRL  )

( C )    Technology Startups ( such as Practo – 1MG – Mfine – Curefit – PolicyBazaar )

Led By  :

Ø  Nandan Nilekani  ( Infosys Co-founder )

Ø  Kris GopalKrishnan ( Infosys Co-founder )

Ø  Nachiket Mor  ( Philanthropist and Banker )

Common Cause :

Ø  To become one stop shop to deal with Covid 19 / to salvage a decrepit system

Objectives :

Ø  Understanding the seriousness of symptoms

Ø  Directing patients to Test Centers close to their homes

Ø  Training them about home quarantine

Ø  Directing them to hospitals with available beds

Ø  To build new services and coordinate efforts to improve emergency responses.

Ø  To reach 50,000 consultations a day with an eventual target of reaching 2 million

Methodology :

Ø  By digitizing everything from patient data and records to creating online platforms for hospital care and doctor consultations.

Ø  To devise protocols and mechanisms for testing and treatments for the masses, as part of the National Health Stack

Ø  It’s working with iSpirt, a software think tank, to set health standards and build interoperability across players and segments.

     In the coming weeks, iSpirt is set to release open application interfaces for the Stack

     that’ll allow information exchanges on once-closed areas like billing information for

     insurers or diagnostic lab results.

          [ sources : Billionaires, startups team up to fix broken Indian health care /23 June ]

                          Top health companies launch telemed line   /  23  June ]

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Dear,

Shri Nandan Nilekani  [ nandan@nandannilekani.in /  nandan_mn@infosys.com ]

Shri Kris Gopalkrishnan  [ accelerator@axilor.com  /   krish@axilor.com  ]

Shri Nachikant Mor  [  ],

Covid must have made many realize that “ our health-care system is broken “

 .

You deserve Congratulations for turning that “ realization “ into an “ Action Plan “ to fix it , in the form of Swasth

But , quite similar to the “ Health-care System “, there is this “ Job-Search System “, which too is “ fragmented “ and needs a similar “ Co-operation “, to fix it

Here is an “ Action Plan “ :

Cooperation among ? :

Dozens of Job Portals

Which :

Ø  Naukri…………………………………………… 376244  job listings

Ø  TimesJobs…………………………………….. 239179  job listings

Ø  MonsterIndia……………………    ……………. 2637  [  ?  ]

Ø  ShineJobs  ……………………..     …………….2,985  [ ?  ]

Ø  National Career Service Portal….157321  job listings  and hundreds of other

To be Led By  :

Shri Sanjeev Bhickchandani 

{ CEO – Naukri  /  sanjeev.bhickchandani@naukri.com }

Dear Sanjeev,

You are the Father of Online Recruitment Industry in India

Quite like " Covid ",  Unemployment is our common enemy

Entire country looks up to you , to rise above narrow business considerations and lead our army of " Employment warriors ( Job Portals ), to win this war

I am sure, you will not let them down  !

 

Common Cause :

Ø  Deliver suitable / matching, “ Job Alerts “ ( daily on mobile phone ) for every job-seeker, anywhere in India and enable him / her , to “ Apply Online “ against any of these jobs

Methodology :

Ø  Create a COMMON / CENTRAL database of all jobs listed on all partner job-portals

Ø  Create a COMMON / CENTRAL database of all resumes posted on all partner portals

Ø  Enable any Company to post its job-vacancy on any partner job-portal and be able to search that CENTRAL / COMMON database of resumes from any partner portal

Ø  Enable any job-seeker to search ALL jobs from any partner job portal

For an exhaustive Frame-work of this “ action plan “ , please look up my following e-mail to our Policy Makers :

 World Wide Work ( W3F )……………………………………….[ 17 June 2015 ]

Related Readings :

Ø  National Recruitment Agency ( NRA )…………..[ 02 Feb 2020 ]

Ø  No Surprise Here ! ………………………………………..[ 17 Jan 2018 ]

Ø  ONLINE JOBS FAIR ………………………………………..[ 11 Feb 2016 ]

Ø  Software Architecture For Online Jobs Fair     [ 29 Mar 2018 ]

Ø  JOB ALERT MOBILE ( JAM )…………………………….[ 01 Apr 2016 ]

Ø  ResumesExchange  Portal.......................     [ 09 Feb 2016 ]

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  24  June  2020

Autobiography of an Appliance

Some 60 years ago, teachers who set questions for “ English Language “ exam paper for 10^th standard , were fond of selecting following type of question for writing an Essay :

“ Write an autobiography of a Pencil  ( or a Shirt or a Table …… )  “

Predictably that essay ( answer by students ) would  start with :

“ I was born as a teak-wood sapling in the jungles of Burma….. “ (  before they renamed Burma )

Students just loved this kind of a question since they had mugged up the answer (  affectionately called “ LBH = Learn By Heart “ in  “ Solved Question Papers “,   published by Kutmutia )

I am not aware of the present-day preferences by exam question paper setters and the students

But for some time now, product manufacturers in India are being asked to write :

“  Autobiography of an Appliance “

Let me explain

There is a demand from all and sundry, that Indian product manufacturers should place a sticker / label, “ COUNTRY  of  ORIGIN “ on each piece manufactured / sold

Hear this voice :

CAIT seeks 'country of origin' info on all products sold through e-commerce portals 

Extract :

Trader's body CAIT has urged Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to make it mandatory for every e-commerce portal to mention 'country of origin' on each product sold at their platforms, so that buyers can make an informed decision.

Most e-commerce portals are selling Chinese goods, about which the consumer remains unaware, said the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), which has launched a campaign for boycott of Chinese goods

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To me, this concept of “ Country of Origin “ seems like a very nebulous matter ( not unlike CRAB nebula )

Now , even in these days of “ Global Supply Chain “, it is quite possible that the humble pencil’s “ Country of Origin “ remains Burma – all the way from that piece of wood encasing a slender piece of black lead, to its printing / packing / dispatching

But it gets very complicated to determine the “ Country of Origin “ of ( say ) a domestic appliance such as a Fridge / Microwave Oven / Dish Washer etc., which has many processes ( stages of Value Addition through inputting of local manpower )

Question :

How much “ Value Addition “ ( as a percentage of total cost of production or selling price ) should take place in India, to qualify an appliance for “ Made in India “ tag ?

I am unaware of any official / authentic definition

To get a clear picture of how “ Value Additions “ take place in a chain of countries , before an appliance gets delivered to your home, consider the following ( over-simplification ) :

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   Value-Addition is a Many Splendored Thing – in today’s Global Supply Chain

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PROCESS STAGE	OUTPUT ( at each stage of Process )	Country supplying Inputs to Processing Country	PROCESSING COUNTRY ( where value addition takes place using local manpower )	INPUTS at each Stage ( Value Addition )	MANPOWER COST as % of final total cost ( Value Added )
1	Iron Ore		India	Manpower	5 %
2	Ingots	India	Australia	Manpower	10 %
3	Bars	Australia	China	Manpower	10 %
4	Components	China	Indonesia	Manpower	10 %
5	Sub-Assy	Indonesia	Singapore	Manpower	25 %
6	Assembly	Singapore	South Korea	Manpower	30 %
7	Packaging and Dispatch	South Korea	India	Manpower	10 %
				TOTAL	100 %

Obviously the scenario described above is an “ Over Simplification “ considering that , at each “ Stage of Processing “ ( in a given country ) , “ Inputs “ may come from many other countries ( not just one country )

Since I was confused about the exact “ Methodology “ employed by our Government to declare :

Ø  This product is “ Made in India “ ( ie; “ Country of Origin “ is India ) , and

Ø  This product is “ Made in China “,

-      some  2 years ago , I sent following blog / email to our Policy Makers :

E Commerce Definition : a Space Ship ? …………………………………[ 05 July 2018 ]

Extract :

And , as far as defining what is “ Made in India “ is concerned , I believe , government goes by “ Percentage of Value Addition “ locally

But, this is a very difficult and time-consuming exercise

Even when possible, its result holds good for a very short period in a dynamic situation

A manufactured “ local product “ could have hundreds of components ( both, local and imported )

And those “ local components “ could have “ imported “ raw materials or intermediates

These days , a product could be,

*  patented in one country ( concept )

*  designed in another country

*  developed ( detail manufacturing drawings  ) in another country

*  components made all over the World

*  Sub-Assemblies ( of those components ) carried out in another country

*  Final Assembly done in another country

*  Packaging done in another country

*  Offered for sale on ONLINE e-commerce portals in another country

*  Marketed by agencies located all over the World

*  Delivered using manpower / drones / supply chains of several countries

*  Financed by funds from all over the world ( Interest Costs )

At which “ Level  “ of Value Addition , does a product become “ local “ ?

And if I download a " Product Drawings / Design " over the internet and then " 3D Print " it in my garage ( using " imported " resins ) , then is that a " local " product ?

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And 4 years ago, I sent following blog / email to Cabinet Ministers  :

Missing the Woods for the Tree ?   …………………………………………[ 12 Aug 2016 ]

Extract :

Entire cycle of Designing / Manufacturing / Marketing / Selling / Order-taking / Delivering / After-sales Servicing  / Logistics / Collecting Payments / etc , will get spread so thinly across Countries / Continents / Companies / Individuals, that it will become next to impossible to,

Ø  keep track of " WHO "

Ø  is adding " WHAT " value to the process 

Ø  and " WHEN " 

Ø  and from " WHERE "   

No one will be able to unravel this GORDIAN KNOT !

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Dear Shri,

B C Bhartiaji ………………………[ President – CAIT  /  president@cait.in  ]

Praveen Khandelwalji ……….[ Secretary General – CAIT  / sec-gen@cait.in  ]

There are news reports that this “ Country of Origin / Made in India “ draft policy will soon be put in public domain for comments

I hope my comments above, helps you in framing CAIT comments

With regards,

Hemen  Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com   /   23  June  2020