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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Thank You : Beerud

Thank you for your offer through following email ( Sun 23-04-2017 /  00:30 ) :

Sub : BHIM 4.0: conversational apis

Hemen-bhai , 

We'd love to enable conversational interface for BHIM. As you mentioned in your post, we're one of the global leaders in bots and partners with Google. We're talking to NPCI, but let me know if you have any other contacts. 

Keep up your blog  !  Enjoyed  reading  it.

--

Beerud Sheth
Chief Executive Officer

www.gupshup.io

The leading bot platform

Dear Beerud :

For the first time since independence, we have a Government ,

·         whose Ministers / Secretaries listen to the suggestions given by ordinary citizens

·         which accepts and implements suggestions, strictly on “ Merits / Benefits “, without need for “ Contacts “

I will persevere to “ Influence the Policy Makers “ to 

follow the Road-Map ( leading up-to BHIM V 10.0 )  

that I have suggested in my following blogs ( sent as 

email to all the Policy Makers ) :

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BHIM , theUnstoppable ( 14 April 2017 )

{ https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/04/bhim-unstoppable.html }

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ABeerud named BHIM ?  (  17 April  2017 )

{ https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-beerud-named-bhim.html }

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While we await for NPCI ( National Payment 

Corporation of India ) officers to discuss voice-

activated BHIM V 4.0 , with you , I would like to 

pose another challenge !

Based on the concept outlined in   VotesApp  (  18  Aug  2013  )

{ http://www.hemenparekh.in/2013/08/votesapp.html#.WPxIK9KGPcc }

( mobile app for replacing millions of EVM-Electronic Voting Machines ) ,

do you think it is possible to enable 800+million Indian voters to cast their votes ( for Lok Sabha / State Assemblies / Municipal elections ) , through a chat-bot called “ VoteBot “ ?

VoteBot would consist of :

·         CommissionBot……( representing Election Commission of India )

·         VoterBot………………( representing an India Voter )

These will transact business as follows :

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·         CommissionBot

“ Kaun election me vote karnaa hai ? Lok sabha , ya tumhare pradesh ki vidhaan-sabha , ya tumhare shahar ki municipality ? “

·         VoterBot

“ Lok Sabha “

·         CommissionBot

“ Pucca ? Lok Sabha ke liye vote karna hain ? “

·         VoterBot

“ Han ji ! Lok Sabha ke liye vote dalna hai “

·         CommissionBot

      “ Kaun si party ko vote dena hai ? “

·         VoterBot

     “  Muze BJP ko vote dena hain “

·         CommissionBot

    “  Pucca ? Fir se boliye , kis party ko vote dena hain ?

 “

·         VoterBot

    “  BJP ko dena hai “

·         CommissionBot

    “ Tumhara vote BJP ke khate me jamaa kar diya 

hain aur tumhare mobile number pe

     

confirmation SMS bhi bhej diya hain “

If you say :

“ No problem !  Can be done in 8 weeks , with 

biometric id verification of Iris / Speech / Finger and 

of course , linked with Aadhar as well  ! “ ,

then  Election Commission need not order 1.6 Million V-VPAT ( Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail ) devices , costing Rs 3173 Crore  !

That apart , Lok Sabha election can be conducted in just ONE DAY !

23  April  2017

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“ Think Out of the Box “ Possible ?

DNA ( 22 April 2017 ) carries following report :

“ Take decisions fast , don’t fear consequences : PM “

Here is an extract :

·         Urging the country’s top officials to “ think out of the box “and take collective ownership to bring change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told them to become “ enablers ” rather than “ regulators “

·         Some bureaucrats have referred to the three Cs – the CAG , CBI and the CVC – as stumbling blocks in decision making.

·         He asked civil servants to weigh their decisions from an outcome point of view and not from an output point of view

·         A legislation proposed in 2013 to amend the “ Prevention of Corruption  Act “ to protect “ honest “ officials by differentiating between a corrupt decision and a genuine error is pending before the parliament

·         Over the years, this “ fear factor “ have led bureaucrats to defer decisions either referring them to their respective Ministers or to the PMO

·         If a decision is taken with honest intention , truthfulness and for the welfare of the public, nobody can raise a finger at you

·         Something momentary may happen , but I am with you “

Dear Narendrabhai :

Expect a miracle of decision-making , if that proposed amendment to “ Prevention of Corruption Act “ incorporates following provisions from my earlier blog / email

Friday, 20 June 2014

To Err is Human

To forgive is divine ( provided it was a honest error )

All of us keep making errors , all the time

But rarely same " mistake " twice

Often , decisions taken at a point of time , turn out to be " poor " , with passage of time

Reasons are simple :

  

·         We never have all the information - relevant to the problem we are trying to solve - available with us , at the time of taking a decision

·         Even when most of such relevant info is available , we may not have the capacity / competence to " process " such info

*   As humans , we have our biases / prejudices , based on our previous experiences , which influence our decisions

*   Quite often , and often against our own better evaluation / judgement of a given situation , we are wrongly influenced by our peers / bosses / subordinates or even voters - all of whom have different expectations / vested interests !

*   Additional - and more relevant - information surfaces , AFTER we have taken a decision ( happens all the time  !  )

To encourage Babus and Ministers to take FAST decisions , Shri Narendra Modiji , must insist that they carefully " Record " on the files :

*   What info / data he wished was available for a better decision

*   What different " views / opinions " were presented to him for consideration

*   What " Data / Views " he would have obtained if he had more time

*   Who all , the decision might offend

*   What is the likely " Cost " of postponing that decision

And finally following declaration :

*   THIS DECISION IS NOT LIKELY TO BENEFIT ANY OF MY NEAR RELATIVES / FRIENDS , DIRECTLY OR IMMEDIATELY

After all of this , if the decision appears to be " Wrong " in hindsight , it must be " forgiven " and treated as an honest error

To err is human  !

22  April  2017

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