Category: Villages

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.

Direct Benefit to Farmers , अन्नदाता

The farmers in India are the anndaata of this country and they need to be given their due so that no one sleeps hungry in this nation.
Problem: The farmers can’t sell their crops directly to the consumers and the consumers can’t get the food grains directly. This results in the middlemen pocketing large percentage of the profit.
It is a must that the farmers should get most of the profit if farming has to be promoted.
The problem is lack of system to store the food grains and ways to reduce the no of intermediaries.
Can their be a way that consumers can pay the farmers directly for the crops and in turn are assured of a price accepted by farmers as well as the consumers. The farmer is paid some pertion of the amount during sewing of crops and then balance amount during supply to the consumers. In case of loss of crops due to natural calamity the burden is shared by the consumer as well as the farmer thus helping the farmer to tide over the situation.
This system is very complex like how do we pay the farmers when we don’t know from whose farms we will get the food grains. This can probably be dine by the government by accepting the money from people ready to support farmers in a central fund or bank and then paying the farmers as per the amount of crops supplied by them. This way farmers and consumers can benefit equally without any middleman getting the profit. The government will fix the price of the crops and the amount received in the central fund will be distributed to all farmers as a bonus. Government can give tax rebate to the people contributing for the farmers fund.
People spend a lot on other products derived after food processing and are ready to pay any amount for these items. The raw material is procured from the farmers by these industries and the finished product is sold to the consumers at a higher rates.since private companies are involved, biggest share of profit is made by the industry. Here also the industry should be given tax break on the amount contributed by them in the farmers fund.
Comparison of rates:
Soap 100 gm 30 rs
1 kg soap 300 rs per kg
Aashirwad flour 300 /10kg
Rice 30 to 50 rs per kg
www.farmer.gov.in/mspstatements.html
Paddy (rice) 14 to15 per kg
Wheat 14 to 15 per kg