A Government of Coward Sycophants

Posted on June 5, 2011 by indra

The country has not witnessed such a bankruptcy of leadership and government here before. How can Manmohan, who sent four of its senior ministers to receive Baba Ramdev and who had kept on negotiating till 7PM, suddenly orders a police action at midnight on sleeping protesters with their guru? It reminds of the emergency period of Indira Gandhi that changed the course of politics in India and put the country 20 years behind.

There is some semblance with the emergency era. It was an advocate Sidharth Sankar Ray who advised Indira government then. It is Kapil Sibal who is playing almost similar advisory role of Sonia Gandhi who is the de-facto ruler of the country. Kapil Sibal has taken over telecom ministry from Raja whom he gave a certificate with a statement that there was no loss to the nation in 2G scam. I don’t know why the country, Anna, or Ramdev didn’t ask for an apology from him or refused to sit with him in any negotiation. Why someone couldn’t go to court against his lies.

But there is a major difference. Today the country doesn’t know who is effectively ruling the country: the dummy prime minister, the defacto prime minister or the troubleshooter gentleman from Bengal.

Why was the police action required at dead night? Did the government not know what Ramdev was talking for the whole day that the whole country listened? Why was he not told or appealed to disperse the meeting for which he had not been permitted?

Why did Manmohan and Sonia Gandhi allow his party’s spokesman and general secretary to keep on vomiting venom against Ramdev in name of democracy, while their ministers were negotiating? Was all that not meant for instigating Ramdev to remain tough?

Why couldn’t Manmohan Singh or Sonia Gandhi or for that matter Rahul Gandhi walk up to the meeting and talked to Ramdev and if necessary with the people present there?

Why couldn’t Manmohan address the nation in the evening about this serious situation?

Why is the Sonia’s government trying to test the patience of the people of India?

After all Ramdev was asking for declaring the black money in foreign banks as national property and wealth that is in national interest and for arranging to bring it back. And as reported, the government agreed for it.

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India Today:A Shame

Posted on June 2, 2011 by indra

What a shame! Why is government so much afraid of Ramdev? Why is the prime minister personally giving so much importance? He himself appealed. Ramdev didn’t yield. He then sent four of his ministers, the great trouble shooter, Pranab, legal luminary Kapil Sibal, Subodhkant perhaps one of the disciples of Guru turned business man, and Bansal who manages parliament to dissuade Ramdev for going on fast right to the airport where Guru arrived in a private plane from Ujjain. This was something that had never happened. Two and a half hours talk could not make Ramdev yield. All the four are still continuing the effort to convince Baba.

Manmohan government got shaken in the same way when Anna had started his fast. It’s because Sonia, Congress and Manmohan can’t even stand against these so called leaders from the civil society politically? What a scarcity of a political leadership in this most populous democracy! Where will it end?

Who will be the next Anna or Ramdev and what will be his or her issue of public interest? Will a woman leader come out for women reservation? Will someone from the deprived class go for a similar fast for removing the poverty of the majority of the billion plus population of the country? Will Sri Sri Ravi Shankar be the next guru who joins the new race with some issue?

The total government approach is just childish. It is for the government to take up proactive actions against the burning issue of the country.

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Powering Bihar, Alternative Route

Posted on May 31, 2011 by indra

The centre keeps putting in costly ads providing its success reports on ‘Bharat Nirman’ including that of rural electrification. When I visited Pipra last March, I noticed a board declaring Pipra already covered in Rajiv Gandhi Rural electrification scheme. In eight days that I was there, perhaps Pipra would have received electricity barely for few minutes. Alok had spent on wiring and fixtures in thousands to give me surprise and comfort. But how could Alok get electricity through it? Why should not the centre take responsibility of providing the electricity to the thousands of villages that it claims to have connected? It’s surprising even the power plants located in the state can’t feed the state’s grid beyond its quota. Further, centre hesitates or cancels allocation of coal block for new power plant in the state.

Centre’s apathy to Bihar is crossing the tolerance limit. The Centre’s mandate prohibiting production of ethanol directly from sugarcane killed the investment in the sugar industry in Bihar that can improve the economy of the state through cogeneration. Even the chief minister of the state can’t decide the location of a central university neither can he seek upgrade Patna University as one. Centre will not cover all districts of Bihar under the Sakshar Bharat Yojana, a literacy mission aimed for all backward regions in the country. Is it the way a centre deals with a state just because the ruling party doesn’t exist in Bihar for all practical purposes? Can it do the same with any of the Southern states, such as Tamil Nadu? How long Nitish Kumar can go on begging? I put an entry in Face book asking Biharis to organize a candle light protest against the centre’s step motherly behavior in every city and towns of the country. A similar tough stand can be planned against the big industrial houses that show apathy to the state for no reasons by boycotting their products.

Bihar government on its own cleared private investments to the tune of Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the power sector. But it hardly means much. It’s also trying its best to complete the modernization and expansion work of the older power plants such as Barauni and Nabinagar.

Land acquisition is also a major problem which has held up the private sector power plants. Can Bihar set an example to be the first to find an amicable and innovative enough solution to the land acquisition problem that other state may emulate?

Now Good news for Bihar: Adani Power Ltd has agreed to set up 1,320 (610×2) MW thermal power plants and the centre has agreed to give coal linkages too.

State electricity Board is ready to buy power. Eight power companies have evinced interest. Let us see how fast it happens.

There are means to ease the power problem. And Bihar must go for it whole hog. Gyanesh Pandey has already shown the alternative way for providing cheap and clean electricity generated from waste rice husk for the 380 villages in North Bihar. Why can’t Bihar government assist and encourage the technology to reach every village that produces sufficient husks or alternatives? Interestingly, Bihar annually produces 50 lakh metric tonnes of rice. One can easily calculate the output of husk. I know each of the villages in rice rich Rohtas can have a husk power generation centre. The integration of a briquetting unit for the farm waste can improve its storage and use for longer time.

In my own village, I found a rice mill powered by a diesel engine using the gas from rice husk.

Bihar can also use the business model and technology developed by another IIT Kharagpur alumnus, S Venkatesam for rural electrification. His Energy Plantation Projects India (EPPI) is working with an idea of “energy forest”.

I hope Nitish Kumar also encourage the local entrepreneurs for setting up the local plants without waiting for big power plants to come up.

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Bihar: Lack of Capacity for Post Matric Education

Posted on May 27, 2011 by indra

Nitish has brought about almost a revolution in primary education. The pink buildings all around even in the remote villages are those new temples built or refurbished in last few years. However, 100% enrolment with no dropouts is still a distant dream. Another big drawback of the education sector is the lack of post-matric education facilities at least up to class XII in the rural Bihar.

This year’s number of those appeared and of the successful students in matric examination is huge. The more exciting is another news report. 80% of the passed out students are from rural regions. As reported, 9.31,993 students appeared for matric examination of 2011: 5, 32,523 were boys and 3, 99,470 were girls.

Interestingly, out of 41 students securing the top 15 positions, 13 are girls. During my last visit to my village I met a group of girls who according to the headmaster were hoping to obtain first division. But they were morose as they would not be able to pursue their higher education. There is no school nearby and moving to Sasaram the nearest town with the facilities will be almost impossible.

About 15.56 per cent (1, 43,864 students) have secured first class whereas 32.93 per cent (3, 04,385 students) have secured second-class marks.

About 18.71 per cent (1, 72,971 students) have secured third class.

The pass percentage is 67.21 (6, 21,220). Around 15.54 per cent boys (1, 43,700) and 16.88 girls (1, 56,016) have failed.

How many of the successful ones in matric will pursue further studies? We should assume that all the first and second divisioners, that comes to 4, 48,247 that should continue. But will they? It will be possible for the students in suburban areas to continue, as there is sufficient number of schools with facilities to teach up to class XII. But what percentage of rural students that are about 70% of the total successful ones can get accommodated in the very few rural schools that have facilities for class XII? Those who can’t be accommodated will have to move to suburban schools or will fail to pursue further education and drop. A large percentage of such students will be the girl students from rural areas who either can’t afford a suburban school or the parents will not like them to go to suburban schools to live out of family. What is needed?

1.The government and the private entrepreneurs in education must invest in creating education facilities up to class XII in at least one of the school in every panchayat on priority.

2.Another serious concern is about the failed students and particularly the girl students who are in lakhs. They are the suitable stuffs for trade education. Has the government plan for creating sufficient capacities for the failed and third divisioners to provide one or another skill-training?

3.Can the government with help of private artisans and experts run skill training centres in the local primary schools in second or evening shift?

4.Can the government encourage the engineering and other professional colleges such as medical to run diploma and skill building diploma course or if necessary make it mandatory? It will also lead to better utilization of the existing facilities.

5.The left-out children in rural India can have the education of class XI and XII through government and NGOs assisted distance learning facilities in each village and preparing a group of local franchises for the work. The educators or facilitators may be paid certain stipends or be allowed to charge some fees. Contents on cell phone, radio, TV channels and through computers at village centre pr postal services can be of help in distance learning.

As reported, Nitish offered radios for the people under BPL category, why can’t there be equally focused endeavour to educate and to skill each and every children of those who are being offered the radio? If Japanese could master lessons of quality management through radio, why can Bihar spread education and skill through radios and cell phones?

As Kapil Sibal keeps on saying only 12-14 of 100 students today get into higher education in India and he has set a target to pull up the figure to 30 or more. How can Bihar contribute to take the percentage of students moving to higher education to equal that of developed countries if 60% of rural population doesn’t contribute significantly in it?

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Raju, Raja and Kani- Crime, Punishment and Destiny

Posted on May 25, 2011 by indra

Years ago as a child, I read a story of Valmiki, the poet of the great epic Ramayana. Valmiki was a bad man. He looted and robbed. Once he met a hermit and tried to take away his belongings.

The hermit asked, “Why have you taken to this profession?”

Valmiki said, “To provide my family members with food and their other requirements”

“Do you know that whatever you are doing is sin and you will have to suffer for it and end up on hell after your death?”

“Yes”

‘Have you asked them if they will share your suffering?”

“No”

“Will you go and ask them?”

Valmilki went and asked. None agreed to share the suffering. His family was eager to share the fruits of his bad actions; they would not share his sins.

Valmiki got changed and Ramayana was born.

Why should the siblings of those charged of sucking from the national exchequer be allowed to enjoy on the wealth amassed by the parents or family heads in wrong way?

I wonder if an arrest and/ or jail for the persons such as Raju, Koda, Raja, Kalmadi or Kani, is good enough as a deterrent. I can very well appreciate the inconveniences of these persons about heat, toilet, cleanliness, and bed. But I think as a first thing all the bank accounts of near in the family must be freezed. The family members unless one has been living independently and earning, must be allowed to withdraw only a sustenance allowance to the extent of 15,000 – 20,000 per month. Why should they be using the money amassed in wrong way?

Nitish Kumar has already got a bill passed for confiscation of the properties of the corrupt bureaucrats. SC also has stayed any objection against the act. Even the Lokpal drafting committee is also planning to a provision for confiscation. the nation wants the wealth created illegally to be be declared as national assets.

The punishment must be severe enough to deter the greedy ones in society and their siblings to resort to misuse the authority and manipulating the system to accumulate personal wealth.

Unfortunately, the present generation and even the Next hardly worry about the divine punishment or the fear of hell after death. So they must get into hell right here itself as soon as a prima-facie case is there.

I still doubt if CBI is not showing partisan approach in identifying all the real culprits. Is the destiny helping them to escape or skip Tihar?

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Bihar: Need of Water Conservation

Posted on May 23, 2011 by indra

I get amazed when I hear the news of water level in various parts of Bihar going down and wells for drinking water getting dried. It is happening in a state with large number of famous rivers flowing through it. Simultaneously it’s shocking that neither the government nor the people at village level are doing anything to understand the reasons of this malady in our own callous approaches in recent past. One can find misuse and wastage of water everywhere, irrigation water flowing out of canal going to waste land or in other rivulets to reach finally the main river. Over irrigation is also another factor. There is hardly any endeavour for preservation of water or water harvesting, leave aside the innovative methods of effective water requirements for farming through drip irrigation or other advanced methods.

I go down the memory lane, and find gradually the large number of water bodies, ponds, ahar etc disappearing in almost every village. Diesel or electric run water pumps were not there, but industrious farmers used to toil hard with the primitive means of irrigation for transferring water from the water bodies for cultivating the fields. Wells were dug even inside the farm to use for irrigation by Persian wheel that was perhaps the best mechanical equipment in use for irrigation. My mother got a well dug by me in one summer holiday to irrigate a plot of land that didn’t have facility to get canal water. One of my uncles got a pond dug in our village.

It is unfortunate that most of the water bodies of the villages have been filled up to create farmland or encroached for building habitation. It has happened because of lack of education and appreciation about the need of the water-bodies and short sightedness. Some bigger water-bodies have got silted over the years and hardly even with schemes like NREGA, some effective programmes have been undertaken to refurbish those water-bodies. Though years after years, the finance minister of India talked of renovating the hundreds of thousands of water-bodies of the countries in his budget speech budgets, nothing concrete happened on the ground. Death of natural water bodies must have been causing the fall of the water levels.

Even the government grazing areas and extra land used as road by bullock carts have not been spared and forcibly and illegally occupied. I am not against providing government land to the landless families for building their houses if required, but it must be done following some rules and recorded. It should not be free for all under particular scheduled categories. The mad rush to increase the land for paddy and wheat must stop.

1.As the most urgent step, the various types of water-bodies must be defined, recorded and mapped through a detail survey. And every panchayat must take the responsibility of maintaining the same through NREGA or other schemes and saving them.

2.Every possibilities of creating water-bodies with huge projects of road building requiring a lot of earth digging must be explored and executed. Any new road project may create a large number of water-bodies too.

3.Every village and town, small and big, must undertake the schemes for conserving the rain water.

4.Possibilities of storing water in every river and water streams, even the seasonal ones such as Thora Baba in my district Rohtas or several rivers feeding Kosi through suitable barrages as executed in Gujarat for Village Pond, Check Dam, Boribandh dams (sand bag dams), must be explored.

5.It will not be a bad idea to encourage the old practices of creating water ponds by rich people in villages or by a community through donations.

6.Bihar government must invite and allure companies such as Hindustan Unilever Ltd with a plan of the setting up of the ‘India Water Body’ (IWB) to address water scarcity in India.

7.Agriculture and engineering universities must take innovation projects for water conservation related products and projects. Farmers need to be educated about farming system such as the rice intensification system that requires less water.

A lot of education is required to save water in rural Bihar. It can bring manifold improvement in the prosperity of the region. In absence of that, all dreams will remain on paper.

Use effectively every drop of water that comes from the sky, and all the water that flows through our rivers.

PS: Rohini Nilekani, the wife of Nandan Nilejani, had written an article, ‘How Not To Stop The Flow’ about the need for a water policy and water conservation in Times of India, May 28, 2011.

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A Conversation between an IITian and an Aspirant

Posted on May 22, 2011 by indra

OP Khanna, my friend from Bangalore mailed me this story. On a Sunday, it makes a good reading. Many a times, we hardly realize the worth of the man with whom we happen to talk. You enjoy and have your own conclusions:

There were two rickshaw-walas vying for our business when we wanted to go to Sankat-Mochan temple in Benaras. I agreed to go with the one who was about 20, seemed like a regular young rickshaw-wala, but I found something interesting about this fellow in his eyes. I was not proved wrong.
He wanted Rs 50, we said Rs 30. We settled for 40.
Here are the highlights of the conversation that ensued while he rode the rickshaw:
“aap kahan se aaye hain”
“Delhi”
“bijness ya kaam karte hain?”
“naukri karte hain”
“kismein”
“internet mein”
“humara bhi kuch wahin kaam lagwa do”
I just chuckled
“main try kar raha hoon engineering padhne kee. achchi naukri lag jaayegi tab”
“achcha?” I asked a little interested
“haan, delhi mein Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashta University mein engineering ke liye apply kara hai. achchi hai woh university”
“haan, achchi hai”, I agreed.
“haan, kal hee maine JEE bhi diya”
“JEE matlab, IIT ka?”
“haan, Joint Entrance Examination” he pronounced it perfectly just to make it clear to me what JEE stood for. “mushkil hota hai exam”
“haan, 2 saal toh log padhte hee hain uske liye, asaan nahin hai” I carried on the conversation
“Delhi mein Akaash coaching institute hain na?”
“haan, hai”
“aapne kya padhai kari?”
“main engineer hoon, aur phir mba bhi kiya”
“kahan se engineer?”
“IIT delhi se”
He swung back, surprised, a little delighted, and smiled. “Ok, aapke liye Rs 30”
Swati and I laughed
Swati asked “padhai kab karte they IIT ke liye”
“bas, rickshaw chalaane ke baad raat mein”. Then he added “kismein engineering kari aapne?”
“Chemical”
“toh aapki chemistry toh badi strong hogi”
“nahin, aisa nahin hai”
He continued “yeh bataiye….jab Mendeleev ne Periodic Table banaya tha tab kitne elements they usmein?”
Now it was my turn to get surprised. He was quizzing me. I said “shayad 70-80”
“no, 63” he said sharply. “kaunse element kee electronegativity highest hai?”
Swati was laughing, and I didnt try too hard and said “pata nahin”
“Flourine”, he said confidently. Without a break he asked,”kaunse element kee electron affinity highest hoti hai?”
Now I was laughing too and said “nahin pata”
“Chlorine. toh aapka kaunsa subject strong tha?” clearly having proven that my chemistry wasnt a strong point
“Physics”, I said
“achha, Newton’s second law of motion kya hai”
I knew this one I thought, “F=ma” I said
“Physics is not about formula, it is understanding concept!” he reprimanded me in near perfect english. “Tell me in statement”
I was shocked. Swati continued to laugh.
I said “ok, Newtons second law, er….was….”
” ‘was’ nahin, ‘is’!Second law abhi bhi hai!” he snapped at my use of ‘was’
Surely, my physics wasnt impressing him either. “yaad nahin, I said”
“Force on an object is directly proportional to the mass of the object and the acceleration of the object”, he said it in near perfect english. “aapne mtech nahin kiya?”
“nahin, mba kiya”
“mba waale toh sirf paisa kamana chahte hain, kaam nahin karte”
“nahin, aisa nahin hai, paisa kamaane ke liye kaam karna padta hai”
He said “arrey, rehene do” or some words to that effect. He didnt think too highly of me apparently anymore.
In a minute we reached our destination. We got off and I told him that he must and should definitely study more, and that I think he is sharp as hell. He took only Rs 30, smiled and began to leave. I got my camera out and said “Raju, ek photo leta hoon tumhari”. He waved me off, dismissed the idea and rode off before I could say anything more….leaving me feeling high and dry like a spurned lover.
Damn, what a ride that was! India is changing, and changing fast.

And so it goes !!!!!

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Mamata Miracle- Can She bring back Bengal’s old glory?

Posted on May 20, 2011 by indra

Mamata Banerjee fought as an indefatigable one-man army for three decade against huge and brute left, bruised physically and defeated many a times. But what a performance she gave in a memorable final assault that will be historic in every respect! And finally today Mamata today enters Writers Building, the seat of power of West Bengal like a real queen extraordinary.

Two news reports make me a little morose as well as happy.

Perhaps politics prevailed. Mamata would have worked with a small efficient cabinet. It would have given a good signal that she means business. But Mamata preferred accommodating all the interest groups, Muslims, women, Scheduled Castes and giant-killers in her cabinet. But the people of Bengal will expect Mamata to be constantly watchful and make changes based on actual performance. She must fix time frames for each of her projects and the ministers concerned must meet it. It must build fast the perception for performing team.

The best part that I liked was the way she went to invite Budhha and his wife to join the oath ceremony. I would have loved if she would have gone herself gone to him.

She must act and speak miserly. I would love if she gives priority to rebuild the images of West Bengal’s great educational institutes- Calcutta University, Presidency College, BE College, Jadavpur University, Viswa Bharati Shanti Niketan and Calcutta Medical College and to make it into world class.

As reported, Mamata will be sworn in at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata at 1.01 pm. I wish Mamata gets the best from its auspicious oath taking time that has been fixed for 1 minute past 1 o’clock by her well-wisher priest.

Let Mamata really become Goddess Lakshmi, Sarswati and Annapurna for the state as the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal.

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Why is Corporate India Greedy for Land?

Posted on May 18, 2011 by indra

For me who was attached with Hindustan Motors for almost 36 years, any good news however small it is becomes exciting. I was very happy to read such a headline in Mint- ‘Hindustan Motors posts Rs75 lakh net profit in FY 2011’.

Car and auto component maker Hindustan Motors Ltd (HM) on Monday said it wasn’t a “potentially sick company” anymore and that it would send an intimation to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction to that effect, after having posted a net profit of Rs75 lakh in fiscal 2011 as against a net loss of Rs51.1 crore in the previous year.

An exception income of Rs24.27 crore helped HM pare net loss in the quarter till March to Rs6.97 crore from Rs31.82 crore in the same period 2010. For the full year, the company registered an exceptional income of Rs96.8 crore as against Rs57.84 crore in fiscal 2010. This, according to a regulatory filing, came from sale of immovable assets and/or investments.

Hindustan Motors (HM), a Birla company has sold its land to get out of red. HM would have acquired the huge tract of land running into hundreds of acres by the then at nominal price or might have got it free from the then Congress government of Dr. BC Roy who at all cost wanted fast industrialization of the state.

HM grew until early ‘90s when there was hardly any competition from any quarter. But with strong competition from Maruti Udyog, the golden era of monopoly ended. Any growth or even survival demanded better management strategy, better products and better leadership. HM failed and kept on going down the hill.

How can under such circumstances a company sell its land that ethically should not be considered as owned by the company? How can a government allow that to happen? What would have been the money that company would have earned in right and wrong way? I don’t know if some farmers were involved in the land that the government offered to HM. Was there any compensation given? If at all they would have got it, it must be in hundreds of rupees, when today the company would have got back in crores?

Corporate India must have made huge money in the similar manner all over the country. And the farmers who owned the land originally would have lost the track or would have been watching it helplessly from a distance.

The same game is going on all over the country. The government is backing or brokering such land acquisition at much larger scale. Companies demand hundreds of acres for setting up any industrial unit at the cheapest price from the farmers and for the same the companies are paying huge money underhand to those in government who matter for the acquisitions of the land. Is it not a corruption of the highest order? At least for the factories, why can’t the land remain the property of the nation that can’t be sold if the proposed enterprise fails to use the land for the purpose that was allocated? As I know HM has got officially hundreds of crore for the land it has sold. It should not be treated as revenue or earning of the company to take it out of BIFR and any executive must not boast about doing that.

HM is out of business of managing a car factory. All those who are still with the company are like those who wait to accompany the dead to the cremation.

1. Corporate India must take the land as leased one for the period they keep on growing and contributing to national economy. The day they fail they must return it to its right owners.
2. Corporate India also must learn to go vertical in plant design and construction or innovate other ways to require only minimum amount of land and particularly if it is fertile one producing food grains.

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Sashi Panja: HM’s own girl

Posted on May 17, 2011 by indra

Shashi Panja, 48 is the daughter of late PV Krishnaih who lived his whole life in Hind Motor colony, is the new MLA from Shyampukur.

Mr. Krishnaih, then Chief Industrial Engineer was from the first batch of IIT, Kharagpur. I was five batches after him and joined HM. I was in production. I vividly remember the last day of Krishnaih when he passed away. Mr. Bhatter asked me in hospital Belle View to go to Dinen Bhattacharya, the secretary of CITU union in Serampore to inform him about Krishnaih’s death and to request for the postponement of the meeting of negotiation that was scheduled next day.

Shashi is a doctor by profession, an MBBS from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, specialization in ultrasound and infertility practice.

Shashi is the daughter-in-law of Late Ajit Panja, a well-known political personality from West Bengal who was also cabinet minister at centre. It will be her first stint as MLA, though she was elected councillor in 2010 and appointed mayoral council member in charge of education. As reported, she is interested in slum development and that is her priority.

Shashi is well supported by her husband Prasun and loving daughters Puja and Namrata. As reported, her hobbies are playing badminton and solving crosswords and Sudoku. Sashi is one of the most qualified women MLAs.

As I remember even in HM complex, she was a great organizer of various functions. I wish she gets opportunity to serve the state improving its education and health care, particularly in rural Bengal.

I wish Mamata uses her best and accommodates her in cabinet with a portfolio suitable to his qualification and capability.

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