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

Wednesday 21 October 2015

HONEY , I SHRUNK THE EVM !



EVM = Electronic Voting Machine


In my earlier blog ( 18 Aug 2013 ) , I had suggested that all Elections ( National / State / Municipal / Panchayat ) , be conducted using a Mobile App called,

VotesApp


http://www.hemenparekh.in/2013/08/votesapp.html#.WuF07siFPcc



Idea was to shrink the EVM to a personalized Mobile , which , everyone carries in his pocket

Entire process of how this App will work , is described in my blog

Now you may ask :


HOW  WILL  IT  HELP  ?


*  No need for 930,000 polling booths / EVMs / Ink / Papers etc

    Every voter's own mobile becomes a miniature EVM  !

    Any registered Voter can vote from anywhere in the World  !


*  Nor any need to deploy 1,100,000 people to conduct the polls


*  No need for millions of Police / Military personnel


*  No need for months of advance preparations, across entire country


*  Voting can be completed in just ONE day - instead of over 6 weeks -
    and results can be declared next day  !


*  Voting could be 95 % or more  !


*  No worry for booth-capture
 

*  No  bogus voting ( Bio-metric ID from built-in camera )


*  No duplicate voting ( Self-destruct after single usage )


*  No worry for any terrorist attacks


*  Enormous saving of time for Voters


*  No need to declare a public holiday - costing thousands of crores 
     worth of production


*  Central Government will save, at least , Rs 2,000 Crores .


*     For the Central Government , a potential  to earn Rs 20,000 crores , by
       enabling 15 million Indian businesses to advertise to 814 million voters
       thru this mobile VotesApp , 

       sharply targeting by Gender / Age / Marital Status / City / Street / 
       Education / Income Tax paid / Employed or Jobless ..etc


*   No need for Central Government to stop taking even routine decisions 
    ( due to Model Code of Conduct )


If a tiny country like Estonia ( population 1.6 million ) can elect its Members of Parliament thru a VotesApp type mobile App , why can't we  ?

Already 900+ million Indians have mobiles - all of which , will soon become Smart Phones

As far as designing / developing of  VotesApp  is concerned , it is NOT a Rocket Science

Any IT / E-Comm Start Up , should be able to develop  VotesApp  in 3 months

On this Dussehara day , can you think of a better way for Good to prevail over Evil ?

A better way for " E-delivery of Service " ?

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22 Oct 2015 ( Dussehara )

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Monday 19 October 2015

TEN MILLION ENTREPRENEURS ?



Each year , India adds 12 million youth to its work-force

Only 2 million get jobs , leaving 10 million to fend for themselves

Eking out a " subsistence living " , these 10 million are euphemistically called,

>   Self Employed
>   Start-Ups
>   Entrepreneurs

There is an urgent need to go beyond rhetoric / lip service / tinkering , to empower them , to become REAL entrepreneurs

I have explained how this can be done in my earlier blog :

THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER / START UP ACT , 2015

( read at.....hemenparekh....in > blogs )

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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20  Oct  2015

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Sunday 11 October 2015

3 D - Digital Delivery of Drugs ?

3 D - Digital Delivery of Drugs  ?

( let us call it , " Dispenser " )


On 14th Oct , 8 lakh pharmacy stores will go on strike to persuade Government to prohibit sale of " Prescription Drugs " by e-Pharmacies such as 1mg.com / Zigy.com , not to  speak of e-Com sites like Amazon / SnapDeal / Flipkart etc

Reason advanced :

*  Online sale puts consumers at risk

Real reason ?

*  Loss of jobs of 4 million persons employed by 800,000 pharmacy stores

*  Loss of business worth Rs 80.000 Crores


Current legal provision :

*  Drugs and Cosmetics Act,1940 does not prohibit online sale of medicines


Govt response :

*  Set up a Committee to draft new provisions in Law to regulate online sale

My take :

*  One day , everything will be sold online from web sites 10,000 Km away !

*  There is no way march of EVERYTHING ONLINE can be stopped or slowed


My Suggestions :

*  Govt to upload a Mobile App ( DISPENSER ? ) on Health Ministry web site

*  All doctors must download it , after proper registration / authentication

*  App will get embedded with full details of that doctor who uses it

*  Doctors to enter Patient Data in App  / then enter prescribed Drug Details

*  Doctor will SMS app data entered , to concerned patient's mobile

*  Patient will SMS entered app data to mobile of Chemist of his choice

*  Chemist will deliver the medicine to the patient with Bill Details in App

*  Every action / transaction on App , will get automatically emailed to web
    Servers of

       #  Health Ministry

       #  All India Medical Association

       #   All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists ( AIOCD )

       #   Drug Controller General of India


Advantages :


*   Jobs / business of Chemists / Druggists saved

*   Great convenience for patients / no need to visit Drug Store

*   No chance of Chemist " misinterpreting " doctor's handwriting !

*   Full History of

     #  Each Patient ( great benefit to Prescribing doctors )

     #  Each Drug    ( great benefit to Pharma Companies  )

     #  Each Chemist Shop  ( great benefit to Govt / AIOCD / Tax Dept )

     #  Each Doctor  ( great interest to All India Medical Association )


Of course , I have no answer for those who will oppose my suggestion by saying :

" What if either the Patient or the Doctor or the Chemist , does not have a Smart phone  ? "


My only answer :

For the benefit of millions , let us harness the Online Delivery technology

That is the only way  DIGITAL INDIA  can benefit the entire society

Solutions to all the problems of the World are known

Only Unknown are those dedicated persons determined to implement  !

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12  Oct  2015

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Thursday 1 October 2015

AGENDA FOR REFORMS

AGENDA   FOR   REFORMS



( Updated till 21  March 2018 / Excludes  blogs  of  2017 - 2016  )



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TAXATION  REFORMS


·             Jan  Dhan  Sarjan  Yojana

·             A Virtuous  Circle  ?

·             A case for ZERO personal income tax

·             Central  Budget - 2014

·             To  Be  or  Not  to  Be  ?

·             Create  Wealth  to  create  Jobs

·             Magic  Wand

·             WHAT NEXT ? UNDISCLOSED INDIAN ASSETS ?

·             Treading the Beaten Path

·             FROM GREED TO GREAT ?



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              ADMINISTRATIVE   REFORMS


·             Dream  House by 2020 ?

·             Non Performing  Assets ?

·             Close  in  India

·             Innovation - A Distant Dream ?

·             Median Salary

·             Bank  Re-Capitalization

·             Why  penalize  poor  Farmers  ?

·             Land  Acquisition  Solution

·             Budgeting  By  Objectives

·             The  Invisible  Corruption

·             To  Err  is  Human

·             Urban  Renewal

·             NaMo  had  no  choice

·             Next  Hundred  Days

·             Why  Businessmen Bribe  Bureaucrats  ?

·             Myopia  Magnified  !

·             Scams  are  avoidable  !

·             Needed  some  simple  answers

·             Gastronomic

·             Facebook  Generation

·             A system based  Solution

·             Solomon  come  to  Judgment  ?


*       Scam ?

AN OBJECTIVE GOVERNMENT ?





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     E-GOVERNANCE    REFORMS


·             e - Governance

·             VotesApp

·             I  SIN  > < U SIN

·             Self   Certification  For   Builders

·             Honey ! I Shrunk  the  EVM

     

Block Chain for Voting ?


       

Artificial Intelligence to fix MP / MLA Salary ?



          Passports






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    POLITICAL   REFORMS


·             MBA s  all


·             A  Referendum  on   GST  ?

·             ROMP - A Panacea ?

·             Poll  Results  are  Out

·             But  Democracy  is  a  Good  Thing  !

*       From  Inter-Pol  to   Inter-Mill  ?

Candidates / Spouses / Kids : Assets ?




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      LABOUR   REFORMS


·             Time  to  Rethink

·             Maid  in  India

·             Make in India is Skill-ing  India

·             Redefining  Manufacturing




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    EMPLOYMENT   REFORMS

             

·             From Job-seekers  to  Job Creators

·             Myth of Job Creation


·             Back  Factory of  World

·             Killing Many Birds with one Stone

·             Ideas  to  create  Jobs

·             National Career Service Portal

·             One Rank One Pension ( OROP )

·             One Rank , N-One Pension ( ORNP )

·             The  Missing  Link

·             Hire  when  you  need

·             Create  Self  Employment

·             Start Up Eco System

·             Annual  Employment   Survey

·             Ten Million Entrepreneurs





              EDUCATIONAL    REFORMS


·              Is  Smriti   Irani   listening  ?

·              State  of  Republic



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              MANUFACTURING  REFORMS


·             Competitive Advantages are transient

·             A  Welcome  Problem

·             Building  Castles  in Air

·             Export  Strategy

·             Let us focus on what we are good at

·             How  China  makes Cheap  ?

·             The  Second  Industrial  Revolution  ?

·             When is Rank # 1 Bad ?

*        Project Development System ( PRODEVSYS )

Car Grave-Yard of World ?



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       DIGITAL  INDIA


·             If  Mohamed cannot go to Mountain

·             Shape  of  Things  to  Come

·             Digital  Locker  Project

·             A  Software  Powerhouse  ?

·             The  Shape  of  Womb  to  Come  ?

·             Raining  Cards  !

·             Digital India

·             Digital  Delivery  of  Drugs

     

One to One translation ?






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      E - COMMERCE


·             If you cannot lick them , Join them

·             Defining  E- Commerce

·             FDI  in  India  Post  ?

*        E Commerce   is   Easy   Commerce

     

ECommerce : Broad Policy / Elements


       

Highways to Hyper-loops




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      BLACK  MONEY


·             A Gordian Knot

·             White  Holes  of  Black  Money  ?

·             Legalize  Money  Laundering

·             A  Ticking  Time  Bomb

·             The  Debt  Trap

·             Time  for  Out - of - Box Thinking  ?

·             Learning from Anywhere / Everywhere



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