Next , expect what ?

Times of India ( 25 April 2017 ) carries following report :

“ Aadhar-like ID for all cattle soon , says govt “

All cows, their calves, oxen and bulls in the country will be tagged with a tamper-proof Unique Identification Number (UIN) to stop their smuggling, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday.

Informing the court about the decision which was in the works since the NDA government took office in 2014, solicitor general Ranjit Kumar told a bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud that "each animal will be tagged with a UIN with proper records of identification details — age, breed, sex, lactation, height, body colour, horn type, tail switch and special marks."

Kumar said, "The ministry of agriculture has devised a method of tamper-proof identification of cattle using polyurethane tags with a UIN sequence. It may be made mandatory for cows and their progeny throughout India."

The Centre said, "Already mass tagging of cattle for insurance purpose is being done by livestock development boards and animal husbandry departments in states.

Next , expect the following , anytime soon , depending upon the controversy generated by Print media / TV channels / Social media / politicians trying to score brownie points / religious leaders / sundry experts / would-be celebrities etc :

·         Jain community demanding that this “ reform “ must cover ALL forms of LIFE , since all life-forms are EQUAL

They will advocate allotting to each life . a unique URL since there is no dearth of URLs under  IP V 6.0 ( approx. 50,000 trillion for each human being on earth )

·         Cattle belonging to Backward Communities will demand a RESERVATION QUOTA

·         Cattle belonging to Poor people will demand “ direct transfer of benefit ( DBT ) “ into their Jan Dhan Bank Accounts , instead of munching on subsidized fodder

·         Of course , meat-eating animals ( lions / tigers etc ) will demand their own QUOTA of the non- meat-eating animals ( they don’t care for DBT ! )

·         In United Nations , Marine life will demand an upper limit of “ fishing “ ( ala Whales ) – species wise

·         Thorough-bred Horses will demand that they want ‘ segregation ‘ from their lowly cousins

·         White necked cranes of Siberia would demand special H1-B visas from Shri Donald Trump to enter the air space of U S of A

·         A certain category of birds would not rest in peace until a “ Jatayu Temple “ gets built in Ahemadabad

·         Expect high-flying eagles to demand re-naming of Mount Everest as “ Garuda Shikhar “

·         Sparrows will hold a dharna in front of Parliament , demanding “ Affordable Nests “ on each and every tree

·         Kites , harassed by crows would demand Air Traffic Control to monitor / regulate the flying of crows , only in designated air-lanes

·         Lazy cats , getting up late ( around 10 am ) will want to put an immediate ban on cocks cooing at 5 am

·         Peace-loving doves will demand “ Anti Romeo squads “ to protect them from crows

·         Stray cattle would want free passage across state boundaries without toll-tax

I have no doubt readers will add to the above list and submit it as the “ Charter of Demand of Non-Human Species of the Earth “ , to the Supreme Court , for its kind consideration before passing an order

25  April  2017

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Yogiji ! योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् / yogaH karmasu kaushalam

( Excellence in Action is Yoga )

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Yogi Adityanathji  orders biometric attendance in Uttar Pradesh offices 

To ensure all government employees reach work on time, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed that a biometric attendance system be put in place in offices up to the block level. 

Adityanath's instructions came during a meeting with officials of the rural development department late on Saturday night. 

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Dear Shri Adityanathji :

Factories and offices ( including many Public Sector establishments ) are having biometric attendance recording systems for many years

In UP , you will need thousands of these , costing hundreds of crores of rupees

Bad enough !

But what is worse is that these systems cannot help the administration for compiling any data other than “ Who “ came in when and left when ! How many hours did he / she remained “ present “ at the work-place !

A single purpose system of extremely limited benefit

I urge you to bypass this “ Jurassic Age “ and leapfrog to the “ New India “ Age , by implementing following suggestion ( earlier sent as email to all Policy Makers )

Let UP show the way to the rest of India  !

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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

From BAD to MAD

BAD   =   Biometric Attendance Device

MAD   =   Mobile Attendance Device

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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 )

    *  HRD Ministry ( Central )

    *  Skills Development Ministry / NSDC

    *  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 "  !

24  April  2017

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