Friday, October 19, 2018

Whom shall I vote during Parliamentary election 2019?


I was taught since childhood that voting is the fundamental right and one must exercise. As I grew I always realized that choosing right candidate is at-most importance. So I make sure to vote, and vote for the right candidate. There was a question also, should we vote for right candidate or right party? It’s a wrong question. If party is correct, candidate has to be right, and vice a versa.
BJP has been a party with difference, during the era of L.K.Advani and Atalji. I do not think that status is any more valid as on today. It is said that during corporation election there have been huge money transactions for purchasing the votes, and promotion. Here onward money will play very vital role while fighting elections. Its no more on ideology, character, value system & efficiency of the candidates. Also BJP is accepting any corrupt or leaders with criminal background without any due-diligence.
There has been a big voice, planned propaganda for NaMo and BJP during 2014. There have been havoc about virtual corruption numbers like 2-G, Coal, Vadra, etc. against Congress. (If those cases vere valid, should anyone get punished?). I never believed that it was a corruption and it was surely not. However BJP could succeed to impress the voters with anti-incumbency voting. NaMo comes with creditability of development of Gujrat. So majority people of India including myself believed and voted him to the highest position of power, the prime minister of India; choosing maximum number of seats for BJP. Hon. Manmohan Singh said history would be kind to judge him. Its unfortunate, we did not judge him and voted him out.
Since NaMo came to the power, there have been flood of many schemes and policies declaration. Most of the policies & schemes already existed however with new name. Credit for many events like visit to Mars was taken by BJP Government while most was done by Congress. The change at ground level for these schemes has not been observed.
Strong points:
1.       No one ever doubt about intentions of NaMo
2.       NaMo is determined and hard working
3.       He is Non-corrupt, and would not encourage corruption; there is no financial scam in his tenure. I do not consider Raffle deal as a scam.
Challenges:
1.       His style and image is of autocratic
2.       Not experienced at center
Positive points of NaMo Government
1.       Reduction of High level corruption
2.       GST – It was well thought by Congress while NaMo had resisted it to implement in Gujrat. Government implemented much in hurry. Its getting smoother now.
3.       Surgical strike
4.       Foreign policy, efficiency & services of external affair ministry
5.       Abolishing 3 Talaq rites among Muslim community
6.       Transparency – There has been attempt to bring transparency
7.       Inflation is well managed & controlled
8.       Fiscal deficit is easing from 4.8 to 3.5 % of GDP
9.       Long way to go to improve eaze of doing business, though we moved from 142 to 100 ranking
10.   Acknowledged conflicting ministries and streamlined those like steel & mines, coal & power, etc
11.   Punishment to hang the rapist, however need to extend irrespective of the age of the girl
12.   Peaceful Exchange of land and population with Bangla Desh
13.   Stand with Pakistan and with terrorists about Kashmir; or migrant to Asaam & West Bangal
14.   Could avoid terrorist attacks, bomb-blasts, tightening security except few cases in Kashmir
Blunders
1.       Demonetization –
a.       It burdened the nation.
b.      Except the names of top depositors Government did not get anything. Those include all party leaders including BJP, Congress, NCP, etc; May be if 2019 NaMo again succeed to form a government, this list shall be used.
c.       Many businesses were shut down forever, small businessmen were wiped out;
2.       Bullet train – Toe cost of project is huge, budget includes higher interest rates, and most important is it was never the priority
3.       Building the airports – We have sufficient airports now, and % travelers (beneficiaries) is too small and not poor. Building few more airports can be of secondary priority
4.       Building sky-drive : Just for Luxury and for rich people; Government should not spend any money thus collected through the taxation
5.       Unnecessary expenses on un-prioritized highways
6.       Protection against import from China should have dealt with highest priority. Looking at USA at least Government should wake up. There are so many businesses are dying say in textile industry in Surat
7.       Politics of revenge – Like P Chidambaram being harassed by CBI
8.       Politics of no respect – Veterans like L K Advani and  Yashwant Sinha, etc have been side lined. He can not extract the output taking advantages of the talent. That’s the reason NaMo could let Raghuram Rajan to go; who found difficult to work with NaMo and mainly with finance minister Arun Jaitley.
Failures:
1.       Growth rate deteriorated
2.       Export did not rise
3.       Industrial production is stagnant from 4 to 3.3 to 4.4 and there has not been rise in employment
4.       There is no governance exists, except Sushamaji, no minister acknowledges letter or tweet or comments/acknowledges to SNS and/or respond
5.       Many opportunities were lost to bring the innovative changes in taxation and their reforms
6.       Many schemes declared however not implemented on ground floor
7.       Electricity supply – 18,000 villages have been powered, is it a joke? We have 6 lacs villages in India, what is a quantum?
8.       No newer IIT or IIM started
9.       No aggressive or normal strategy to plug holes in systems at various places, No eagerness to have smallest possible improvements in the processes making those more efficient except Passport office. Just to name few
a.       Food distribution
b.      Police
c.       Banking
d.      RTO and many more
e.      Educational reforms
f.        Health and medicine related reforms
10.   Corruption is not reduced at the root level, there are no special schemes implemented so as to curb the grass root corruption
11.   Leakage in banking – Few top industrialists looted the banks in billions of rupee and ran away. Allowing those to fly out of country is a huge failure of government.
12.   Restlessness among society – There have been rising agitation of Patel, Farmers, Maratha, etc across nation
13.   Food grain insurance – Rs 12 /- paid against the insurance! The policies without checking its sustenance were declared and hence failed
14.   Importing good from China – 80 B$ worth of good being ordered, majority by Government itself. We import 68.06 B$ goods where as export only 16.3 B$ during 2017-18; no action to protect ourselves
E.g. BSNL orders huge amount of instruments from China. How can we strengthen the Make in India policy? How can we protect ourselves? And increase the employment?
15.   No innovative or simple improvements in the processes using technologies
16.   Swachhata Abhiyan – Only people participation would not lead to success of the scheme. Tax is collected by center must be used for the purpose. Government officials should be made responsible. Technologies should have been used to improve the cleanliness. It became a joke that leaders for the sake of photos and videos, do it yearly once for 5-30 minutes.
17.   Cleanliness of Ganga and large rivers– Everyone is aware the status, its waste of money and nothing are achieved. A person agitating to expedite this drive died on fasting. Government proved to be deaf, insensitive and indecisive.
18.   Representation on Rafael deal – Explanation was not transparent, straight and complete
19.   Rupee has been falling to newer lower levels , now at 74 Rs per USD
20.   Fuel prices rising sky high
21.   No change or improvement in the processes & systems, like getting justice and treatment at Police station, or closure of the cases, and overall system efficiency
22.   Inflation and cost of living has been rising
23.   Could not sustain critics within party, does not have ability to take most of the parties along
24.   No innovative ideas implemented like Mass Rapid Transport at free of cost so as to save fuel or auto- deduction of toll using EMAS
25.   I have not seen a single toilet build by government in the village areas I had moved
26.   Gas cylinder price has increased
27.   No protection against free fall of stock market or rupee
28.   There is no realization what people expect. There has been Man ki baat being broadcast fortnightly where as people want him to listen them and their expectations
29.   Governance – Simple points like websites of various ministry contact us pages or login work flow do not work, its an eye wash of the people
30.   No black money brought back from Switzerland or any other countries
31.   Not enough additional treaty signed to hand over criminals taking shelter in those countries
32.   Foreign investment has been dipping. In any case if it comes without creating employment, is not of great help to the country. FI brings and invest money and take away huge dollar outflow as profits (its naturally); no strong condition defining ratio of employment to investment. We just offer them huge consumer market and bring competition to our own manufacturers like Tata.
33.   There have been atmosphere of hate within society and was not controlled to the extent needed.
34.   Curbing anti-nationalist activities – There have been activities of deeply rooted terrorists institutes like SIMI, etc; have not been dealt effectively.
35.   Many unwanted actions were initiated
a.       The Budget date was changed to February 1
b.      The Railway Budget was done away with
c.       Planning Commission was replaced with NITI Aayog
36.   Rapes have not been reduced; need to expedite process to book the culprit and do justice
37.   Increase in Minimum support price for farmers; however it would burden the common men
38.   Managing Kashmir issue
39.   He said one hour of air travel would cost maximum 2500 Rs; he should try to book the ticket on travel portal, 1-2 days in advance to know the rates; its not about he could not do; its about creditability of prime minister’s position!
Propaganda
1.       Foreign visits – NaMo visited most of the countries as a customer of trade (weapons or goods). Obviously he would be treated like a customer only. 
2.       Beating drums – Major schemes or events were declared/implemented/planned by Congress. Those were either continued or renamed. Lot of beating of the drums happens seeking the credits. As examples
a.       Right to information
b.      Mid-day meal
c.       Right to education
d.      Right to food
e.       
What happed to these?
1.       Make in India – How many contract signed to manufacture in India while buying the good from overseas countries?
2.       Develop teachers and send those to other countries
3.       Develop the soldiers and send those to other countries
4.        
Financial burden: There have been burden of Taxes on people. Moreover an opportunity to rationalize taxes has been lost. There are no innovative proposals to reform the taxes
1.       Tax on long term gain on shares
2.       Subsidiary for gas is suggested to withdraw voluntarily
3.       Swachhata Abhiyan tax
4.       Gain was not passed on to the consumer while oil cost of lesser
5.       Lower crud cost benefits was not passed on to the people
Why few might vote for BJP
1.       There seems to be lack of leadership in Congress house
2.       There seems to be no strong alternative
3.       Dr. Manmohan Singh would not be able to lead due to his old age
4.       Mr. Chidambaram may get occupied in CBI and Legal battle
5.       Leaders of remaining parties are most selfish and corrupt except few like may be Chandrababu Naidu; will not accept the leadership of Congress
6.       There might be fight for PM’s position within opposition parties
7.       Congress has been dividing the society
What is the model we need? Arvind Kejriwal is one of the most dynamic leaders country has seen so far. He has surely different models and guts to implement those successfully.
1.       Improving education and making it free
2.       Free health and medicine
3.       Curbing corruption by uploading audio/video files
15.   Connecting rivers and conserving water – To offer clean water
Schemes declared, numbers published however not visible on the ground
1.       Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala – 5.61 Crore gas connections have been given
2.       Ujwal discom assurance yojana
3.       Bachat lamp yojana – 31 Crore LED bulb distribution
4.       Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
5.       Atal Pension Yojana
6.       Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – 1 cr houses completed
7.       Housing for all
8.       Beto Bachao, Beti padhao
9.       Pradhan Mantri Kaushal vikas
10.   Pradhan Mantri Mudra
11.   TB Mission – 2020
12.   Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana
13.   Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana – Generation from 967 BU to 1212 BU
14.   DigiLocker – 2 Crore documents uploaded
15.   Mission IndraDhanush
16.   Swachha Bharat Abhiyan – 9.2 Crore toilet constructed
17.   Smart cities mission
18.   Accessible India Campaign
19.   Sagar mala Project
20.   Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
21.   Soil Health Card scheme
22.   Sansad Adarsh gram yojana
23.   Direct benefit transfer
24.   Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana
25.   Heritage City development and augmentation Yojana
26.   Make in India
27.   National health Mission
28.   Skill India
29.   Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
30.   Digital India
Tall claims are being shared by Government, its really doubtful since ground reality is not observed.
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Description
Numbers
Remark
1
Household electrified
16,295,197

2
Subscriber of Atal pension Yojana
11,100,000

3
Pensioner benefited by Jeevan Pramaan
17,337,999

4
Gram Panchayat connected by optical Fibre
119,737

5
Number of access points for Indian Post Banks
3,250

6
Household Toilets Constructed Under swachh bharat
92,253,612

7
Direct benefit transfer since 2014-15
4,588,273,000,000

8
LED distribution under Ujala scheme
310,158,745

Road constructed – 179,000 km since 2013-14
Why I am in none of the few crores, not as a beneficiary but even not as a witness or observer!!
Appraisal :
Attribute
My Views
Energy
5/5, extremely high; hardworking, sincere; no tiring! Have travelled domestic and internationally in so many countries, fully dedicated
Energize
2/5, Able to energize masses; involve those during public speeches however there is no governance increased at Government level, no great relationship among colleagues, no respect for the elders, have not been able to utilize talent
Edge
3/5, understands overall issues, and likely solution; and may succeed collectively; however failed at single handed decision like demonetization; should work collectively
Execution
2/5, There were huge opportunities to bring the change at grass root level; however did not do much except to continue the initiatives started by earlier government; few initiatives have been started however taking huge time for smoother implementation
Etiquette
5/5 , well organized No impact due to age, hardworking, etc
Ethics
5/5, There is no doubt including opposition; highest standard of etics, look at his family members and their lives continues as is!
Other parameters
Communication
2.5/5 ; able to communicate with connect however missing to win the audience; lost the charm created during initial phase, no one wants to listen Man ki baat anymore; there is no acknowledgement on the same
Actions and communication do not match; hundreds of promises remain unfilled; people may term this as Bol-bachhan
There were many wrong reference quoted particularly historical events
IQ
4/5; able to understand quickly, very sharp (has to be),
Attitude
2/5 ; missing on Atalji’s style; tremendous ego; autocratic way of working; power centered;
India first
5/5 ; undoubtedly ; things/execution/decision may go wrong but strong intentions to take the country ahead



I am convinced, Atal era of BJP is a history! Even Congress is moving in the same direction. So I would vote for BJP though it is not doing as expected. – Rajendra Rakhecha
Dated – 12th Oct 2018


Saturday, February 20, 2016

We ..the Human being

Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance
Let us make earth little softer...
Its Human being..our experiences with those!
  1. A mother of two, widow…husband died of heart attack related to assets division between brothers! What is more important..life or property? Person should have strong belief..not more than destiny, not before the time. How much person needs to live? One should have enough for survival and education for children. After all story ends equally for king and beggar! Isn’t it?
  2. A mother of two…widow..none of the sons wants to support her during old age! She does not have property in her name. Careless of husband to make appropriate will, or leave sufficient liquidity so as to let her survive independently. Or believing that children will take care turned out to be wrong!
  3. Aunty attends the marriage…keep talking to everyone why did she never want to attend this marriage? Kept spreading bad words about invitee host! Funny and pity!
  4. Sister..understands the importance of education! Banking on a son who got admission in famous engineering college, worried about children of brother, keep guiding for better of their lives. However has a doubt if her advice is taking in correct spirit? She is deeply concerned and keep guiding. She believes that a single person if gets well set, can change the life of remaining members in a family. She gathered huge knowledge about educational systems, admission process, etc, truly needed for each parent.
  5. A person keeps guiding…however takes a credit if good things result! Someone was saying better if his advice was not taken, feeling of obligation is huge!
  6. Communication is the key, very few understand. It is not very costly! In fact it is cheapest in India compared to globe. Keep sharing, keep asking, and keep advising! There is nothing to lose! You may be gained! People do not support if there is ONLY a need based communication. Relationship building is critical in society. Help others so other would help. That was the purpose of building society. That’s why society exists!
  7. A charitable trust..wants to arrange a get-together of students who benefitted from their scholarship! What is the objective? Trustee says aim should not be of advertisement or seeking credits of doing good job. Its unique style. Then what to achieve? Would past students who were benefited out of scholarship attend listening the trustee? There is an investment of time, energy, money to attend such function. Most of the time it is criminal waste of the fuel due to travelling involved. There is such a huge content available online of the world famous speakers. Case study of the successful guys would surely motivate but how many students and professionals do read, watch the related content available online? Such functions are merely for the branding and publicity. And mostly attendee to reciprocate the obligation of the invitees.
  8. LTA…income tax exemption having funny rules. One can claim once in 2 years, can only claim travel cost and not lodging and boarding! In fact travel should not be encouraged considering import element. Its hardly a sum if someone travels from Kanyakumari to Kashmir (or Mumbai to Kolkata) by bus, plane or special taxi compared to LTA amount of 2 years. Expense of Travel of foreign tours is not exempted and can understand. Wonder if finance ministry has time to thnk out of box and innovatively? 
  9. Corporate stay at 5 star hotel…expenses are sky touching. Is this expense must? What is the objective organisation wants to achieve? Happy employees? Teaming? Finding leaders? Concluding impression out of various sessions? Does it impact or influence? Short term or long term? Would there be other mean at lesser expenses to achieve the same objectives? Would gifting some article to employee achieve the objective partially? Isn’t the involvement higher covering all the employees? Wouldn’t such cost saved if added to the salary bring more happiness? Again such stay is without family so almost everyone missing family or realizes that its yet time to catch up the affordability.
  10. Kite with string in driver’s hand..does it sound like corporate hierarchy? Or a family pair of husband-wife or parent-child? You allow kite to fly to touch the sky however wants to control it from the ground, keeping the string / direction in your hand. Is it all about power, skill and entity? You are happy to see something controlled by you touching the sky. That’s nice. You also want to cut others who are flying /growing better than you…that is really bad! Overall take it as a skilled game, and not too serious!
  11. Do little and show big! It’s a corporate scenario. Its all about taking credit or building an image over others. Its saying how good I am (compared to other), without realizing supervisor must be talented to understand it deeply without talking about it! Few supervisors feel pity, few watch the fun and few scold the actors and stop! Its all being human!
  12. There are many functions and events happening around city. Average crowd is about 2000 people. This has a travelling expense of at least Rs 100 per person. It makes Rs 200,000 per event per city. There are 40 cities. Fuel is an imported item and main contributor to import cost in dollar term for India. Can we save few dollars if not print? How many attendees will watch the program if video is recorded and uploaded on YouTube? Or broadcast using media like TV? Can technology save travelling time and cost?
  13. Computer devices and software..are these maturing? Before those are matured, new devices are given in user’s hand. That’s funny! Its wondering to see thousands employees work for big brand manufacturers, and simple defects & bugs are not fixed years long like a decade for both hardware and software. What these guys must be doing? I wonder.
  14. When Chief executive Office calls you, are you worried, that there might be few questions about your assignments need to explain/ defend/agree & surrender? Are you happy that something new must be coming on your plate; your contribution would be appreciated? Or there is a decision taken related to your assignments/ resources and as a courtesy you are being informed. Its all depends on you! Because you chose to work for the organisation! If you are informed about pink slip, its good to have newer opportunity who might worth to have you! So good to be skilled so much, be the contributor that you are needed everywhere! Be happy!