Suggestions towards better lives of People

Population is power. India has worlds second largest population and still a developing country. I believe most of the energy went unexplored because of illitracy, conservative politicians, lack of exposure, dominance by few, etc, etc. I like to point out several suggestions to improve living standards of people through my blog. I hope to contribute a drop in the ocean in future. Visitors please feel free to comment your opinions that will be helpful.

Sports & Games

sbprasadrao | 12 May, 2009 06:21

Sports are the most neglected corner in this country. You may argue cricket, tennis, olympics etc are followed seriously. Leaving cricket there is no business lobbying in any sports. If you know name of any other player far off than cricket, I bet you heard him because he gained reputation representing country outside country. 

I am trying to point towards sport teams that belong to smaller regions within our country. I admire small efforts like montfort games, inter school competitions, etc among few private schools. This kind of encouragement evaporates in thin air when it comes to bachelor, master level degree colleges.

Here we need some encouragement by huge businesses entites, and Govt can protect those entities and players by tax incentives, etc. It spurts a whole new economy all together. I am literally amazed by sports like NBA, MLB, NCAA, etc and revenue, employment, entertainment they generate. I am aware there were several attempts in this corner, but many of those attempts went futile because of several reasons. Its time for huge companies think broader and counter each one of those steps.  

 

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Underground Sewerage waste & Munical disposition HMWSSB & MCH

sbprasadrao | 03 May, 2009 20:00

Recent years has seen lot of investment in drinking water supply and many of them have been grand successes. The colonies coming up or recently established succeeded in getting basics like electricity, drinking water, sewerage, municipal waste systems, roads, etc. Most of the recent developments were either based on % investment basis from private communities and govt or through help of socio political people. Sounds great !! 

We need some serious break from bimbo or highly visible projects like roads, flyovers, airports, lighting, sezs, greenery parks, etc. The city (every inhabitant place) needs an organized master plan for water harvesting, sewerage treatment plants, underground cabling, waste collection & disposition, fire water outlets, school zones, etc. These are plenty of jobs and investment which itself is huge. The sewerage system in Hyderabad is age old and designed for much less population. Small amount of sudden downfall creates enough mess. The new additions in greater hyderabad were most like a patch work instead of an organized plan mainly because of budget issues. Plz avoid dumbing grounds within 100 kms of hyderabad surroundings. Trash collection is poorly mismanaged, a new system needs to be established.

We like simplicity, the current system for any these services or changes is highly dealing with influential people, time taking process and sometimes impossible. Make these systems more consumer or service oriented instead of preference towards high profile people or brokers. There is no vision 2020 without these basics and its not too far. Privatisation of HMWS during early 2000 and few allocations from budget were a decent step. They are in no way propotionate towards the recent developments.   

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Organized Retail - Contract production

sbprasadrao | 02 May, 2009 19:56

 
Recent 5 years has been big changes in retail market. The success of big retails like walmart, tesco, kmart, etc have push lot of interest in Indian markets. Many cash rich big gaints from reliance, bharti, even politicians, etc have ventured into these markets. There have been starts and flops. Some of the challenges are expensive real estate, lack of background logistics experience, repulsion from common public, immature grass level suppliers, expensive electricity, operation on thin margins, etc. My outlook of oraganized retail is much like those of military canteens, where products are at subsidized rates and are at far off distances.  In few weeks i visited almost every big retail store for checking out, they are no way near, shopper had very less choice for a product, product types are limited, shops placed in odd locations, working people not courteous enough, well let me stop here.
 

what does organized retail by gaints bring
Employment numbers - they are the biggest employers compared with any sector, Also they produce number of temporary shops. Almost every industry is benefitted from this.
They bring the costs down, provides more choice, lots of tax income to govt, etc
They bring certainity for producers or suppliers or even public. From the front side we may see only shopper but the number of people employed for background operations is much greater than we see for the front end.
Ex: how about contract farming, a farmer is certain of his income for his produce, lots of manufacturing business become stabilize and also there will be competition among them. 
It unhides lot of entepreneurs
There will be lot of remote areas that will be benefitted from this model will be lot cheaper and successful in semi urban areas.


why we dont want organized retail
Many small shopping centers, like osman gunj, monda market, gujrat market, meat market etc get killed. 
Mom and pop shops in localities become killed. I dont buy this argument because big organized retail are not practical in every locality because of several challenges. Certainly in foriegn countries these chains have killed mom and pop shops but Indian business model is different.
  

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APSRTC

sbprasadrao | 02 May, 2009 15:31

APSRTC I have been passenger in city buses for 20 yrs with a pass, ticket holder, footpooter, also as tickless traveller. Its been all the same from problems to luxuries through these years. So many people, such a pathetic service. Its a broken system being run. Information Technology is not even in shadows of APSRTC inspite of many of its passengers being IT people. Well when does the bus arrives, when will it reach, how can I reach some destination, do i have right change in the pocket, will i get seat to sit, will my wallet be safe, is it safe to board diseases, security, etc,etc, etc. APSRTC is one of the largest entities in world, and sure it needs to be smart, advanced and high-tech. 

Many of the passengers follow schedules, they will be very happy to register their to & fro timings for whom dedicated busses can be used. Conductor is not needed in such busses.    
Busses follow strict route tables, we need a mix of strict routes and dynamic routes scheduler based on demand.
Provide advanced sale of tickets for few buses on regular routes.
Provide automatic digital tracking of buses, its timings, its notification to public at all bus stops, so they can change their plans, 
Make every bus stop high-tech that records, how much time bus stopped at that stop, whats the next bus expected,etc
This should improve predicatability, service, smart travel
Include security cctvs in all buses for security.
Improve standards of school buses for safety of children, infact provide separate buses, introduce school zones,
Introduce special bus lanes in buzy areas to avoid traffic mess
Make traffic lessons, hospitality lessons compulsory to staff,
Instead of Single entity demarkate into manageable subsections based on profit, traffic, customer type, etc
Private entities who are willing to pay should be able to rent out at competitive rates. 
 
--I am sure many of us who read this may say impractical but trust me most of these things are practical, only question is how sincere our earlier attempts were 

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Hospitals & Health care

sbprasadrao | 02 May, 2009 06:59

Sadly, this is the most insecure part of life. Really need transperancy and trust. 4 of my elders or immediate family members passed away in renouned big private hospitals. Unfortunately 3 of them were wrongly diagnosed. Many of the staff people have been the most rude people on earth. Docters never on schedule. Hospital Beds, treatment highly based on wealth and fame. Hospital charges are highly debatable. 

Hospitals needs to be trust worthy, during an emergency a person needs to have awareness about the economic, urgency and service choice of hospital. Rates should be standard and service needs to be regulated. Govt should be able to provide min liability. Patient records should be centralized, made available for authorized entities. Visitor & Guardian, courtesy nurse care takers, etc should be courteous and should be humane. 

Reviews should be available for doctors, list of surgeons, specialists. There available hours at hospitals should not be hidden. Treatment plan should be told to guardian or patient in advance and not after being operated. Accountability needs to be there, public should be able to sue doctors for mistakes with respect to law. 

Govt. Hospitals like nilofour, sarojini devi, E.N.T, Jajikana, Charminar, NIMS, ESI, Gandhi etc are well known in common public for their services, and also for blunders. They severily need Govt. attention for budget, better compensation for govt. doctor, and proper regulation of human rights, services, etc

Medical insurance needs to gain some awareness, and there should be a time when most of the people should know its importance and be able to afford.  

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Andhra - Telangana

sbprasadrao | 29 April, 2009 04:09

This post is not to pick any side. Its just discuss pro and cons. 

I believe Telangana outcry is mainly because of region backwardness from several years and rapid development of few parts of Andhra. Well this statement itself may / may not appear contradictory. I like to leave this here.

Many people migrate from different regions to developed urban cities. Lack of development in rural areas has been a major reason for it. When people migrate they do it to find better standard of living which ultimately is good for that region because it helps the economy for that region.

Division of region may contribute towards economic backwardsness, communal tensions, voilance, also local people themselves will be the biggest losers because migrating people take wealth, knowledge, resources with them.

I am sure i will add more points this posting. 

My personal question would be why not ask for separate country instead of dividing same language speaking state further 

 

 

 

 

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Madal Revenue registration offices - Land Dealings

sbprasadrao | 29 April, 2009 03:56

I guess the income generated by registration offices was around 25000 lakh crores only in hyderabad - RangaReddy region during 2007. Well I wont ask how much chuck of money went for its modernisation ?

The current functionality keeps track of only transaction and does not provide guarantee of the person owning the land and hence same piece of land is owned by multiple people. Is it not the duty of Govt to gurantee the ownership ? The current website which provides land details of land is a joke.

It really needs to regularize properties and show transperancy. Should simplify registration, plan approval etc. This again provides a lot of employment, litracy and more importantly reduces crime by bringing in transperancy. The voter Ids provided should be done in much greater scale and should improve to the level like social security card, which simplifies so many things.

 

 

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Railway Booking and Reservation

sbprasadrao | 29 April, 2009 03:30

Today I saw big lines infront of Railway Station in the deccan news paper. I am surrised even in this centuary, inspiteof hyderabad being IT Hub in the world, long lines are feasible in front of govt entities. I wish our ministers can think about it. If they can fully automate this process, it can provide more jobs, encourage litracy, and contribute to our GDP. The existing railway reservation really sucks and complicated. 

 

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