Government – Asli Mudda The Real Issues of India

Lets reduce the weight of bags for children

Today the weight of the bag which our children carry to schools is 100 times more than what is taught to them in a day.
The answer lies in the fact that there may be just one teacher for smaller classes. Why, because only one teacher can teach all the subjects.
Hence, why to have six to seven books for small children. Most of the times the children carry complete books where as they are being taught only one chapter at a time. Hence we can have books tailor made for each class which has all the subjects in single book. This book can have 5 to six volumes to cover part of the chapters from each subject as the class progresses in the academic year.
Similarly there can be just 2 to three notebooks for all subjects.
This way it would be possible to save paper as well as money for the parents.
Of course this would be strongly opposed by the schools, publishers as well as people in the business as this will reduce their profits. We have to take a decision whether to reduce load on our children or not.
The government could introduce these integrated books and notebooks in government schools and then issue guidelines to private schools.
Imagine how happy we were to carry just one notebook to the college.

Note: The analysis of the fact that the children are carrying full bag in a day while they can use only 2 to 4% in that day can be used in other problems to find a better solution which is economically more viable, it is similar to a situation where we have to carry yearly requirements daily whereas we can make do with 5 to 10 days of requirement without the need for stocking yearly requirements.

Cashless dream fading..Digital India Requires big push

Cashless dream fading
If the steps taken by the central government fade away after the initial push then the real benefits will also fade away. Hence their is a requirement to identify the most critical steps taken by the government and then focusing on the same to get the desired results.
To give you an example, post demonetization there was a big push for the digital payments and people were forced to go for the same since there was no hard cash available. The challenge today is to promote the cashless transactions when there is no dearth of cash. The big players which can generate a lot of digital transactions are still with the government like railways.
I was surprised to see that the Railway officials were happily accepting large sums of money for transportation of goods in cash from the big time traders. This was not expected atleast from the Railways.
This is just one example and there may be many more such transactions by government departments.

Single channel TV for children

Today the web and the tv channels do not provide content suitable for mental and emotional growth of the children.
Hence, with the increase in internet speeds and reduction in tarrifs we can plan the content for the kids and children as per the age and availability of content as per the time of the day and or month in a year.
The content for teaching in schools can also be developed where there are scarcity of good schools and teachers

Digital India एक भारत

How to implement digital India

I think digital India dream will become reality only if we think about one India or एक भारत. This means we develop one package(software) for each unit of the country such as for gram sabha, gram panchayat, village, tehsil, district, jila panchayat, state and ministries of government of india.

Best advantage of a computer is that a software package developed for one village can be duplicated for more than lakh villages of the country. Similarly packages developed for each branch of the state or government can be used by all and this will reduce the development cost. There is a requirement today that all village of the country get the same software, each district of the country should run the same software and each state should run the same software. This is what I mean by one India or एक भारत. It is like every body in the country running the latest android or apple software and using the latest phone. This will bring a sence of unity and equality within the country. All this entities will be connected in a way that all villages develop at the similar pace rather than waiting for a good or influential leader or administrator doing the development in a particular village, tehsil, district or state.

Each entity should be provided the basic infrastructure to implement the digital India dream. Since all the government establishment are paid from the tax collected from all citizens hence at the least digital India will create a digital equality. Each post office, bank, police station, hospital, government department should run on same software developed for each entity. This will help in achieving transparency, efficiency scalability, financial management, monitoring and finally the success of digital one India or एक भारत.

Imagine the employment opportunities with a single system running everywhere and people find same level of governance and facilities everywhere whether they are in New Delhi or in a village located at a remote location in the country. Imagine a citizen from any location in the country connected to his village or Town or city and be able to update his data or connect to any government official of the village,tehsil, district or state.

Only urgency today is that all the states should not start implementing their own systems which results in a situation where the softwares can not be integrated with each other at a later date. This will be like constructing a good road and then digging at various place to make footpaths and inserting pipes and cables under the road ultimately damaging a well constructed road. This is quite common in our country where no one is accountable for the loss in such activities like digging the roads.

Comments and suggestions are welcome, hope the government moves in the right direction.

Citizen Portal for Government Projects

There is a need to have a project management and monitoring portal or website which can be accessible to all citizens of the country. It will have a basic lay out covering following aspects
Project description Like road, hospital, park, godown, power plant etc.
Project contractor,
Cost, time of completion, progress bar or chart, datewise photos or videos
Feedback by citizens, officials and agency responsible, warranty or guarantee, money paid.
Example
Project: Road
Start date 1 jan2016
Completion date 12 June 2016
Distance: 50km. Completed: 10 km in 60 Days
Average speed of work: 0.16 km perday
Amount sanctioned: 20 Crores , Spent 10 Crores, paid 5 Crores
Photographs of completed road
Toll period: 5 years, toll rates: 10,50,200
Contractor: ABC LTD
Government agency responsible: NHAI
Officials responsible: Mr Xyz
Delayed by:
Ahead by:
Completed on: date
Citizens feedback:
Quality of road : photographs and recordings of quality check.
District:
State:
Similar format for each type of projects can be prepared. Since the details are entered in the Citizens info portal prior to the start of project, the details of all projects would be available on internet.
A format once prepared can be made available to all ministries to upload their details of the projects.
Once the projects are started the live details of each projects and their progress can be monitored very easily at the highest level. Any delay in projects is known for better monitoring and accountability.
Financial management would be simple and can be more accurately monitored and controlled,
Lead to transparency in system and will empower the common man.
Finally Will help nation building.
Further afterthoughts
The portal should ideally be operated by the govt but people should be able to add their comments photos and videos.