India's Unlimited Projects that needs to be solved with preplanning: Take Just One and Do it right
(Good Combination of Competition, Statistical Analysis, Carrot-Stick Approach, Use of Patterns to replicate overall success)

Estimates are based from September' 2004.http://www.nationmaster.com/

Hire and Fire policy to be passed (2-3 years)
Implementation of unemployment training programs. (2-5 years)
Implementation of Social Security System (2-5 years)
Creative ways to create employment in India. Focus on agro related industry to move 60% of farmers to other related industry (2-20 years)
Problems phased in setting company in India. (From current 89 days to 3 days) (2-5 years)
Full Autonomy to education institutes, school, college, university. No UGC like government body to interfere on schoolbooks by politicians. (2 - 5 years)
Win 100 medals in Olympics. Foster Sports right from school. Rank school, college, university based on local quality standard like IIT (10 - 20 years)
Good Democratic Functioning of Parliament, Foster Democracy right from school monitor election every 3 months (10 years)

Learn Research & Development, Foster Creativity & Entrepreneurship, Business spirit, Efficiency & Quality and Productivity (2- 10 years)
Elimination of corruption in government department, transparency in government department. (2-5 years)
India's high number of pending cases in court - lowers to upper court. Implement 911-type system. Law & Order (5-10 years)

Increase No. Of Court density based on population, track pending cases and speedy justice using hi-tech. (2-5 years)
India's land reforms and speediness needed to tackle land registration.  (2-5 years)
Link India with super highways and roads to connect rural villages.  (5-10 years)
Implement Urbanization of World class standard for major 10-15 cities of India (10 years)
Implement Rural Infrastructure with panchayat reforms, full autonomy to panchayats and others (15- 30 years)

Complete autonomy for panchayats or local governance, money from privatization must go to infrastructure projects, not for govt. salary. (2-10 years)
Preplanning in case of major disaster like earth quake  (5-16 years)
Tourism center, Ports, across India with world-class amenities. Implemented by private party, just like Disney World. (15- 20 years)
Privatization in full speed, sell all government owned businesses. Not only loss making, but also profit making. Electricity, Water, Food storage, Road, Ports and other are better managed by private company Indian or foreign. Ultimately consumer will benefit, not 1 politician, not 1 business group. (2-7 years)
Telecom Industry - implement toll-free number system. - By private players Place competition on industry to get global quality product. (2 years)

Creative ways to make India attractive destination for business. Just like china. (2-5 years)
Permanent solution to strike by Truckers, Teachers and other unions. (2-5 years)

India must deal with its high number of terrorist organisation, Insurgents http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm
Kelkar Tax Reforms, Implement VAT and other measures (3-10 years)
create world-class stock market system of capitalist society with moderate returns and no major bulls/bears. (15 years)

Recipe for 8% growth rate
Elimination of Quota Raj- Removal of distinction based on caste, government to see all humans as equal, (2-5 years)
Programs to target based on economic conditions. Poor gets money from rich peoples taxes, rather then from middle class poor family (2-5 years)
River Linking Project, Village wells and other small river projects. (10-16 years)
Preplanning in case of major disaster like water flooding  (5-16 years)
Plant millions of trees to avoid existing deforestation (20 - 40 years)
Preplanning in case of major disaster like no water - scarcity of water, famine. (5-16 years)

Metropolitan city phase challenge of not snow, but of excessive rain, Imagine heavy rain of devestation scale. Need to manage water in cities (5-16 years)
Elimination of age-old health problems like AIDS, Malaria, Typhoid, Jaundice and other. India is World’s AIDS Leader (5-16 years)
Preplanning in case of major health disaster like AIDS or SARS to occur (5 - 16 years)

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FI23Df05.html

 

Recipe For India's 8% Growth

Hire and Fire policy to be passed (2-3 years)
Privatization in full speed, sell all government owned businesses. Not only loss making, but also profit making. Electricity, Water, Food storage, Road, Ports and other are better managed by private company Indian or foreign. No Licence Raj, No Control Raj. Ultimately consumer will benefit, not 1 politician, not 1 business group. And let people know, sellout money goes to infrastructure and not paying government employee salary, Why? Because this will improve Quality of this Institutions and Competition to reduce price for the benefit of people. (2-7 years) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/909605.cms

$150 Billion Dollar  reserve goes to Infrastructure Projects throughout India. (1 years)

Increase FDI to 100% in Retail, Manufacturing, IT, Telecom, Print & Advertising,  Construction Industry and other Infrastructure Projects.(1 years)

financial powers to the panchayati raj institutions (PRIs), autonomy to PRIs. (1 - 2 years )

lokpal bill - to check corruption in governance / Freedom of Information Act / Freedom of Speech Act. ( 1- 2 years )

Education Reforms

Our current institutions are in desperate needs to funding, to improve everything from building to quality of education. The idea of Continuing education is an urgent need today. In fact this can serve as potential revenue for current institutes, as employers can sponsor them. In addition, what we need is complete revamp of our High Education system.

• Education should get 7-10% of GDP. Money should go for only primary education and not for secondary and higher engineering college/university, ( IITs and IIMs can easily collect money from sources other then govt.) )Put right Spirited educational reforms.
• One of the only reason IIT and IIM has reached such great Quality is b'cause they are autonomus. no government control except government gives just money. The admission criteria, course material, examination board to follow, fees, age limit are left for autonomus institution to decide. Lets replicate this success throughout India by giving complete autonomy to primary, secondary, higher, engineering, medical colleges/universities. They will become profit making, self governing, autonomus institutions. No UGC like government body to interfere on schoolbooks or fees by politicians. No more astronomy classes for IIM students at lower fees.
• Monopoly that the state sector has in providing school/college education should be opened up to all providers, public and profit making private firms. Supreme Court should treat education not just as Social but it must be recognised as Industry. Without profit no one will do social service. We have huge demand to educate 300 million people and current supply is for less then for 30 million people. Only private, public-private participation can help fill the gap.
• Also, we must thank our private tuition classes and individual tutor for providing such a quality of service and generating employment and doing social service. Without NIIT, Kelkar and other private classes we would not have created the talent, we have now. This institutions have compensated for the poor quality of our state education system. Allow this classes to become college/university to foster competition. Existing colleges can affiliate for distance learning class at this private class with revenue sharing agreement.
• All government institutes should be converted to Semi - Private institutes, basically government should not interfere in how much is the fees, what is salaries of professors, what courses can be offered, How many students can be admitted etc... Increase in fees may be regulated to some extent, but should be encouraged to sustain same quality of education. Allow fair Competition and let (market/indian people) decide the fees they are willing to pay. Do not interfere with fees of Education. If we are concerned for Poor People then give them vouchers
• The education minister should recommend that “market clearing” fees be charged at all levels of education, and students made to pay on the basis of a “means” test. And students should be allowed to enter a school or college of their choice (via modern voucher systems).
• Only poor families should get advantage of government aid, in comparison to current situation where everyone pays low fees. May be low interest loans for some sections make sense.
• But what about the poor student? The money earned by charging fees from the rich should go towards a two-tier voucher system for the poor — scholarship for the fees and living expenses. Finally, for girl students, at all levels, the scholarship to be higher. Reform our education system
• Forex Reserve of $10Billion for Only primary education and school infrastucture. Not on secondary or higher education. Government should only check autonomy in this autonomus institution. Keep standard guidelines for them to follow and create cometition among them.
• Government must make good quality roads to connect schools/colleges to city/villages. School will automatically get developed by Indians, private, public-private partnership.
• All institutions should be rated / ranked for quality of education, student-teacher ratio, attendance, etc.... autonomus regulating body should put reforms in firm terms with institutions with inferior quality. This way people get information about quality standard of educational institution. Recognision by Government (UGC or AICTE) is not important. Standard is not enforced but its evolved. Ranking from 1 to 5 is Important. Benchmark: CAT exam conducted by the IIMs, XAT exam conducted by XLRI, JEE exam conducted by IIT, NRI and foreign students in the GMAT exam. To check qulaity of India's school, we need lot more quality checking autonomus Institute, politically interfered UGC can never do the job effectively.
• If you are out of job or fired, you are eligible for panchayat level education training program in your field of expertise (the one mentioned as one of the task of panchayat). For Unemployed people, give vouchers to retrain them in educational institution of the area of their choice.
• Progressively remove reservations based on caste system and put more emphasis on economic conditions of applicant's family to help poorest of the poor.
• Allow Private University to enter Indian Market with no pre-restriction. If Stanford, MIT, NJIT like university wants to teach Indian people let them do so. Diversity in Education is good, it fosters creativity of different minds. Remember, we have to teach a billion people and re-train them with advanced skills. Currently, Demand is huge, Supply is Low. 52% of Indian Population is below age 24.
• Allow existing Colleges to become University. if they have money let them start teaching quality material of there own to any age group.
  
• Syllabi of all education branches needs to be updated. Basic computer education should become universal.
• Autonomus Education institute can provide continuing education and make profit too. employers can easily sponsor such program. Major emphasis should be made on Leadership education, Motivational education, personnal development, public speaking - all this are need of the hour for shining India.
• Allow Industry Funding to existing University so that they can do research and development which is not even there currently. Also, Give Incentives to rich indians to put money in school and not in building temples. Citizens should be encouraged to save for their children's Higher education from the beginning, if required may be by some Tax incentives.
• During Admission take Income-Tax record of the student's family and not only the bona fide certificate(place of birth). Center / State must get out from admission process.
• Only by above mentioned reforms we will be able to produce not only 2,000 IIT Graduates a year, but 20 Lakh quality graduates in all areas for e.g. Urban management, Public Service, Management, Journalism, Film Production, etc...
• In Past IT, Bollywood, Cricket has made us proud. Now our telecom and highways are making us proud. Let us our eduation system make us proud in future. Education in India

Following Activity Government should completely go OUT.
Is India Facing Argentina-Like Debt Crisis? fiscal train wreck waiting to happen, A Balance Sheet Crisis in India
Manufacturing any product and services, Airline business, Telecome business, Insurance business and other commercial business which government is indulged in direct or indirect way. No Government Interference. Government should check autonomy in this autonomus institution to create competition among them and better customer service.

 

Job related to Government
Grass-root Democracy, Panchayat raj, should become complete autonomus. No Government Interference. Government should check autonomy in this autonomus institution.
Infrasturucture related to Roads, Water, Law, Taxes etc.. should be given complete autonomy in functioning. Government should check autonomy in this autonomus institution.
Security is priority of government.
find ways to improve employment in non governmental business.
Show an example of democratic functioning of Parliament : Right to speak with freedom : Listening to all parties views : creating discussion groups : reguler all parties speeches to discuss issues among each other and debate with peace, open ground discussion.

Professor Sigh - Forum of Excellence

Great Job Mr. Manmohan Sigh for initiating forum discussing local self-governance. It would be great if we apply carrot and stick approch not only to local panchayats but also state government too if they do not implement self-governance in right fashion.

In Order for India to reach higer standard of America and China, in regards to Economy, Infrastructure, Democracy, Law, Education, Health

This is an open forum for discussion. ( Autonomy means ability to run independently and run like a corporate business with proper checks and balance sheet )

Examples of Corporate Business: Infosys, Wipro, Tatas, Birlas, Reliance, IBM, Microsoft, GE

Bad Examples of State run Business: MTNL, BSNL, Air India etc .. ( or Non Corporate Business examples )

 

Other Social Activity
Like Education and Health should be with public-private participation. No Government Interference. Government should check autonomy in this autonomus institution.

I believe we have achieved great things in last one decade as far as GDP Rates are concerened from 2.5% of Hindu Rate to current Fiscal of 6%. We sure need lot more work in the following areas: Panchayat Raj or so called self governance where ceneter or state does not dictate terms, but local requirements decide the usage of funds. Reforms in Infrasturucture projects like Road, Water, Electricity and Health to provide transparent system with no chance of curruption.  Privatisation at Full Scale to achieve good quality governance and competition. And One of the most neglected area, educational reforms. Without quality education to our masses we can not expect great leaders of tomorrow. Real Democracy and Freedom of Speech is something we have yet to experience.

 

Some Startling Figures

Today, big business seems to be in the driving seat. One report in the media recently claimed that, ‘‘Twenty years ago, CEOs made an average of 40 times over the factory floor-worker. Last year it was 400 times more, and is now climbing to a multiple of 500."

Rich, poor gap fuels religious militancy.
Imagine few hours ago you are @, Kutch before earthquake, Costal Tamil Nadu before killer wave stricke, Godhara before riligious riot started.
Cuba leads world in managing disasters

100 Day employment Guarantee.

• The Rs 10,000 crore Fund Allocation should go from Central Federal  Level directly to 5 lakh Panchayat or the Local Body or Township.
• No Interference from Center and State on how the fund will be channeled. ( As Per Rajeev Gandhi, for Rs 1 send from center, only Paise 15 reaches people at bottom)
• Panchayats will be given guidelines on various projects to undertake to guarantee 100 days employment, Projects Like Toilet Cleaning, Park Cleaning, Road Cleaning, Water management, Education Training, Education in Schools, Library with few books, Manage Court system at local level etc..
• Find / Identify 50 millions Indian who live below poverty, earn under Rs 40 per day, handicapped and unable to work people. Incentives to people who can find poorest people of India. Give this 50 millions, Rs 100 per day for 100 days, give them above mentioned jobs.  => It will cost 10Billion$.  
• Complete Account of fund allocation, balance sheet, would be given to center/state.
• center/state/panchayat would only review the progress and quality of work. And give it rating from 1 to 5. i.e. Quantify Progress
• Allow Hire and Fire policy to be passed in parliament.
• If you are out of job or fired , you are eligible for panchayat level education training program in your field of expertise (the one mentioned as one of the task of panchayat)
• Supply 5 Lakh Panchayat with networked computer which maintains all aspects at local level. Land Registration, Birth / Death Certificate etc... This will employ people within Panchayat functioning.
• Foreign Direct Investment, FDI to be 100%, allow more job creation within country.
• SEZs should be taken to next level.
• And Many more Ideas to come from Citizens of India.

Panchayat direct funding ( PRI ) is impossible, Any Takers?

Great Job Mr. Manmohan Sigh for initiating forum discussing local self-governance. It would be great if we apply carrot and stick approach to local panchayats also state government too if they do not implement self-governance in right fashion.

 

Those states who decentralize quickly and transfer complete powers (autonomy) to Panchayats will get more share of money from center directly to Panchayats. ( States Like Maharashtra, MP, Rajasthan, TamilNadu, Kerla etc ...)
Those states who decentralize slowly to transfer powers to Panchayats will get less share of money from center directly to Panchayats.. ( States Like Bihar, UP, Assam etc ...)
Center will fund all training program related to effective functioning of Panchayat.
Panchayats with high quality people with good social experience, good education, good business skill will be given high salary.
Panchayats with Low quality people with no social experience, no education, no business skill will be given low salary. -> Fired.
State is mandated to provide quality ranking of its panchayats from superior to Inferior. ( States get money for only Quality Check, the bureaucrats)
Caste Atrocities at Panchayat - Every year election of panchayat members, Heavy checks for contesting for upper caste, political linked people. Appear for panchayat exam in order to get elected. History of social work is must. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20041011&fname=Panchayat+%28F%29&sid=1
Panchayat is made up of five people democratically elected. One person must be a teacher or professor. One person must be doctor. One person must be Computer programmer (To Implement Egovernance) one person must be woman, one person must be social worker, one person must be minority
Profit Making - Self Governing - Autonomous Panchayats (Facts)
The Asian Development Bank(ADB)-aided three-year project under implementation since June 2002 in Vayalar Panchayat involving 850 beneficiaries had generated an average net income of Rs 12,348 per participant per year in the production of high value items including coir yarn, while in intercropping, covering 82 holdings of an average of 0.27 hectare, it generated an average net income of Rs 8,055 per holding.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/790051.cms

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/783951.cms

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fname=Manmohan&fodname=20040629&sid=1

  

Unions & Strikes

The All-India Motor Transport Congress has gone on strike protesting the newly implemented 10% service tax. However, the government has responded that the tax has been imposed on booking agents and not truckers themselves. JM Saksena, secretary general of India Motor Transport Congress, B N Dhumal, president of the All India Motor Transport Congress is a Union of  3 million trucks.

Solution to Truckers Strike: PIC: Punishment, Incentives and Competition.

3 million truck drivers can work as small business owner or can create their own company or can work with BSE listed Transportation company.

A database of small business truck drivers will be available on internet, so that anyone can place an online order to hire truck at the price negotiated by small business truck driver. ( No Middle Man ) Use Reliance InfoComm Service- Service round the clock.

Relax Laws for India Inc. to make more BSE Listed Transportation Companies. Tax Incentives for Small Business Owner or Individual Truckers.

Penalty for not paying Income tax to any of the above three types of business owner. (sole / group / BSE listed company)

All Booking Agents can be listed company in BSE Transportation company or small/large company in order to work as a business. All Booking Agents (sole / group / BSE listed company) must convert into small/large corporations and file Income tax returns.

AIMTC should be put in court for loss of thousands of crores of rupees due to strike under essential goods act.

Tough Checks on Quality of truck and higher emission standard and equip police to better monitor truck movements with decentralized database. Good for security during this bad times of terrorism.

 

 

Capitalist Stock Market - What it takes to build robust Capitalist Society?

Listed Domestic Companies must adhere to International Standard of Accounting and transparency in income/expense and other stock related data. Companies must be audited frequently for accuracy of data.

Allow 100% of Domestic Individuals / stockholders participation via pension plans, mutual funds, stocks. Provide relevent data showing capital appreciation via stock market.

Invest in Social Security and other programs via stock market.

Make sure local markets are not heavily dependent on Foreign Capital , FDI. This can cause bubble/bust situation very easily.

Foreign Investors must be entertained via Social Security Funds, Mutual Funds , Pension Plans, which are long term in nature. Emerging markets like India should be viewed as long term investment partner, rather then short term.

• Is India Facing Argentina-Like Debt Crisis? fiscal train wreck waiting to happen, A Balance Sheet Crisis in India
  http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=aaEg.ZyzwtPU
• 30 Million + pending cases in verious court system in India.
  
  India 2010
• Why Suicides by Farmers?
• Infrastructure - Road, Water, Electricity
• Full Autonomy - Panchayats, Psu's, Education
• 100% FDI Investment - All Industry
• Funding - Health, Law & Order, Security From Natural Disaster
• Policy - Hire/Fire, VAT, Freedom Of Information, Lokpal, Free Market Policy