Monday 28 June 2021

Mission Karmayogi

Context :

Former Infosys CEO to head task force to help govt in bringing major reforms in bureaucracy

Extract :

Ø Former Infosys CEO S D Shibu Lal was on Wednesday appointed chairperson of a three-member task force formed to help the government in bringing major bureaucratic reforms through its ambitious "Mission Karmayogi".

# Lal who is founder of ShikshaLokam (info@shikshalokam.org)

and founder and ex-CEO of Infosys Limited,

# Govind Iyer, Consultant at global management consulting group Egon

Zehnder

(govind.iyer@egonzehnder.com )

# Pankaj Bansal, Co-founder and Group CEO of HR tech company

PeopleStrong,

( pankaj@peoplestrong.com )

will be part of the task force, according to a Personnel Ministry order.

# Adil Zainulbhai, chairman designate, Capacity Building

Commission, Department of Personnel and Training ( DoPT ),

will be a special invitee to the discussions of the task force, it said.

(adil_zainulbhai@qcin.org )

Ø The Centre has recently approved the

# ‘National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building - Mission Karmayogi'

to effect a transformational shift from rule based training to role-based capacity development of all civil services in the country so as to enhance citizen experience for government services and improve availability of competent work force.

To effectively roll out this competency driven mission, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), namely Karmayogi Bharat, would be set up as a not-for-profit company, the order said.

The SPV will be responsible to deliver and manage

# Design

# Implement

# Enhance and

# Manage

a digital platform and infrastructure,

# manage and deliver competency assessment services

# manage governance of telemetry data

# ensure provision of monitoring and evaluation

> “It has been decided to constitute a task force comprising leading experts

to draw a clear road map for the guidance and operationalization of the

‘Karmayogi Bharat', the SPV,” the order said.

> The task force will be free to constitute working groups, co-opt additional

members/experts/special invitees, and consult national and international

leaders in the field, it said.

Ø The task force shall submit its recommendations on organisational structure for the SPV aligning,

# Vision, mission and functions

# Policy frameworks for HR

# Compensation

# IT

# Procurement and oversight functions, and

# Staffing plans for top management including board members and

key personnel with panels of potential candidates

Ø The task force is expected to complete its work within a period of six months from the date of its constitution and submit its recommendations in the form of periodic / interim reports in respect of various terms assigned to it, the Personnel Ministry order said.

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MY TAKE :

Dear Task Force Members ,

In the announcement made, the Key Takeaway is :

“ enhance citizen experience for government services and improve availability of competent work force.”

In this connection, I have earlier ( 01 Oct 2015 ), sent following 119 e-mails to our Cabinet Ministers / State Chief Ministers / NITI Aayog / MPs / MLAs etc

These 119 , do NOT include, may be another 100 concerning “ enhancing of citizen experience for Govt Services “ ( out of some 800 more, sent since March 2018 till today ) – some of which I have narrated at :

https://youtu.be/-VmYFMqyDHs

If you are on look-out for my suggested reforms on any particular topic, here is an easy method to find the relevant ( out of nearly 2,400 blogs ) :

Search Blogs by Topic Keywords …………………………….[ 01 April 2019 ]

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 29 June 2021

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[ A ] TAXATION REFORMS - 10

· 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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[ B ] ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS - 26

· 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

· 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 ?

Don’t Disclose Donations [ 3 D ]

Electoral Bonds for Transparency ?

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[ C ] E-GOVERNANCE REFORMS - 11

· 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

Too Many Cooks , spoil the Broth ?

Unique ID for Every Enterprise ?

Simultaneous Polling

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[ D ] POLITICAL REFORMS - 8

· MBA s all

· Prakash / Piyush / Nitin ko Kyun Gussa Aaya hain ?

· 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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[ E ] LABOUR REFORMS - 4

· Time to Rethink

· Maid in India

· Make in India is Skill-ing India

· Redefining Manufacturing

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[ F ] EMPLOYMENT REFORMS - 22

· From Job-seekers to Job Creators

· Myth of Job Creation

· A New Economic Order / Start Up Act - 2015

· 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

·             No Interviews for B-C-D ?

    Estonia : Our Gateway to World ?

World record in Nepotism ?

Self Employed Indians inherit the Earth ?

Safeguarding Existing Jobs ?

Miracle of Self Employment

Who are the Unknown ?

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[ G ] EDUCATIONAL REFORMS - 2

· Is Smriti Irani listening ?

· State of Republic

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[ H ] MANUFACTURING REFORMS - 10

· 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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[ I ] DIGITAL INDIA - 11

· 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 ?

PERT for Digital Dashboard

Two Years in the Making ?

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[ J ] E – COMMERCE - 6

· 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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[ K ] BLACK MONEY - 9

· 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

· Networking of Currency Notes

Black Money : Solution at last

But I have promises to keep…………..31 March 2021

29 June 2021 ( Smt Sitharamanji – FM )

Friday 25 June 2021

Air Pollution Sources : And “ How to save 2.5 Lakh lives “

Source :

Air pollution sources vary at sub-national scale / TOI / 26 June 2021 / Print Edition

Extract :

Sector – specific contribution / Key Polluting Sources in India

Contribution %

Residential……………………… 25.7

Industry……………………………14.8

Energy………………………………12.5

AFCID + dust……………………11.5

Agriculture…………………………9.4

Transport…………………………..6.7

Waste……………………………… 4.2

Wind-blown dust…………….. 3.4

Other Combustion…………… 3.0

Commercial……………………… 2.0

Agri Waste Burning……………1.0

Other Fires…………………………1.0

Shipping…………………………… 0.7

Solvents……………………………. 0.4

Remaining Sources…………….3.7

Ø Solid biofuel combustion was the largest contributing fuel source in INDIA, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nigeria, accounting for up to 36 % or 250,000 deaths

Ø One–fourth of air-pollution-linked deaths in India is due to RESIDENTIAL emissions where SOLID BIO-FUEL COMBUSTION contributes to the deadly fine particulate matter PM 2.5

Ø The total attributable deaths due to PM 2.5 were estimated at :

# 2017………….. 866,566

# 2019…………. 953,857

Ø The analysis underlined that one-fourth of these deaths could be AVOIDED by eliminating SOLID BIOFUEL combustion, primarily used for residential heating and COOKING

Dear Shri Narendrabhai ,

During past 15 months, COVID has killed ( approx. ) 400,000 Indians

But, in another ONE YEAR , we would have conquered it , bringing down the toll , to under 1,000 in 2023

On the other hand, indoor COOKING with wood – cow dung cakes – straw etc., have been killing 250,000 poor , rural , Indian housewives, YEAR after YEAR , for decades !

In Sept 2017 , while inaugurating ONGC’s corporate office, PM Shri Modiji said :

“ Our poor rural ladies are suffering due to air pollution caused by burning wood – straw – cow-dung cakes – kerosene , for cooking on chulhas . Millions of them are prematurely dying due to lung diseases.

We must give them Solar Chulhas “

In this context , I urge you to ask ONGC officers :

“ What is holding you back, to get manufactured and distribute for free, SOLAR CHULHAS to 20 Crore poor families ? And within 2 years ?

If our Pharma Industry can rise to the occasion and start producing enough vaccines to give jabs to 10 million people EVERY DAY , why cannot our OIL – PETROLEUM PRODUCTS manufacturers come forward to save 250,000 lives, year after year ?

Related E Mails :

Ø Inscrutable are the ways of the Providence ? ……[ 15 June 2021 ]

Ø Solar Chula ? Some Unanswered Questions

Ø Solar Chulha : Where can I buy ?

Ø Dear Shri Goyalji : How about a Solar Cooker ? / 26 Aug 2020 )

Ø Time to " Talk the Walk " ………………………………….. 19 Sept 2020 )

Ø Not in one day : What about 3 years ? ……………..[ 25 Oct 2020 ]

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 27 June 2021

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Added on 16 June 2022 :

Indians losing 5 years of life due to air pollution: Report / India Today / 15 June

According to a report by Air Quality Life Index, air pollution shortens average Indian life expectancy by five years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organisation guidelines were met. (5 µg/m3).

The study also states that particulate air pollution takes 2.2 years off global life expectancy, or a combined 17 billion life years, relative to a world that met the WHO guideline.

This impact on life expectancy is comparable to that of smoking, more than three times that of alcohol use and unsafe water, six times that of HIV/AIDS, and 89 times that of conflict and terrorism.

The WHO recently revised its guidelines -from 10 µg/m³ to 5 µg/m³- for what it considers a safe level of exposure to particulate pollution, bringing most of the world—97.3 percent of the global population—into the unsafe zone.

MOST VISIBLE IMPACT OF POLLUTION IN SOUTH ASIA

The report states that in no region of the world is the deadly impact of pollution more visible than in South Asia, where more than half of the life burden of pollution occurs.

Residents there are expected to lose about five years of their lives on average if the current high levels of pollution persist, and more in the most polluted regions. Since 2013, about 44 percent of the world’s increase in pollution has come from India, the reports said.

Since 1998, India’s average annual particulate pollution has increased by 61.4 percent, and currently, it stands as the world’s second most polluted country.

“By updating the AQLI with the new WHO guideline based on the latest science, we have a better grasp on the true cost we are paying to breathe polluted air,” says AQLI Director Christa Hasenkopf.

“Now that our understanding of pollution’s impact on human health has improved, there is a stronger case for governments to prioritize it as an urgent policy issue,” Hasenkpof said.

According to the report, the 10 most polluted states in India include:

1) Delhi NCR

2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Bihar

4) Haryana

5) Tripura

6) Punjab

7) West Bengal

8) Jharkhand

9) Chattisgarh

10) Rajasthan

Thursday 24 June 2021

Congratulations, Shri Lokesh Chandraji

( General Manager – BEST – Mumbai / gm@bestundertaking.com / Tel - 91-22- 22873961 / 22873962)

WHAT FOR ?

For implementing ( though partially ) my 5 YEAR old suggestions in following earlier e-mail :

Ø PUBLIC TRANSPORT AS A SOLUTION ? ………………[ 15 Feb 2016 ]

I hope, BEST will become a BENCH-MARK for the city-transport systems all over the country by implementing the rest of my suggestions

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 25 June 2021

Extract from above-mentioned blog / e-mail :

SUGGESTIONS :

* Gradually change over to air conditioned buses

* Do not allow standee passengers ( this will require adding many more buses )

* Introduction of BRTS ( Bus Rapid Transit System )

* Bus Arrival Time Indicators ( linked with GPS in all buses ) at all bus stops

* A tablet type digital device fitted behind each seat , where passenger to touch

his destination on route map displayed .

* Passenger will also touch his smart phone to the device which will transfer the

fare amount to the bus operator, through a mobile wallet .

No need for a conductor - as practiced in many foreign countries !

* This will tell the driver, at which stops, which passengers are getting off and

seat/s are falling vacant

* If bus is already FULL and no passenger is getting off at the next bus stop,

then driver will not halt the bus ,since he cannot accommodate any standee

passenger

* If a passenger is supposed to get off at , say XYZ stop , digital device will

flash a signal / ring a bell , a few minutes before reaching the stop

* The Bus Arrival Time Indicator, at the stop will also display the " No of

Vacant Seats " in this bus

* This ( No of Vacant Seats ) sign will also appear prominently on the bus

itself as it pulls into the halt

* It is equally easy to introduce such an integrated traffic management

system in Inter-City buses as well

* Entire intra-city bus traffic will be monitored and controlled from the Central

Traffic Control Station of the City traffic department , much in the same

way ATC control air traffic or railways control train traffic

* It is just a question of extending an existing ( but slightly modified )

technology to city traffic

* As far as density of traffic on various roads is concerned , mobile apps are

already available

* Based on the situation, Central Traffic Control will order additional buses to

be injected on any particular route , at any given time

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IMPLEMENTATION ( as reported in today’s News Paper ) :

Coming soon: LED indicators with ‘ETA of buses’ at 400 stops / TNN / 25 June 2021

Extract :

Ø BEST announced on Thursday it has begun work to install LED indicators to provide the Expected Time of Arrival ( ETA ), of buses at 400 bus stops across the island city and the suburbs

Ø “ We have already started work on LED indicators at bus stops in South Mumbai , starting with Mantralaya and also Afghan Church and Navy Nagar “ , said BEST General Manager, Lokesh Chandra.

Ø He said this was part of the Passenger Information System ( PIS ) project being funded by BMC.

Ø Under PIS, BEST will provide commuters with an App- which it launched some months ago ( miBEST ) – to check for the next arriving bus at the stop. “ If there is an indicator, we don’t mind waiting for the second bus “ said a woman commutator who works in a bank

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