Dear Shri Javadekarji,
Problems of garbage and environment degradation can
be solved quite easily if only we harness the powerful human instinct of GREED , to
overcome indifference and lethargy !
I hope my following blogs appeal to you
hemen parekh
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Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Disposal of garbage ( wet and dry ), is a big problem for all
Municipalities
In Mumbai , it is a daily 8,000 ton problem
Despite a large fleet of garbage collection trucks and thousands
of municipal employees ( including employees of contractors ), streets remain
littered and garbage dumps keep overflowing ( when not burning ! )
All kinds of solutions have been attempted in the past to solve
this problem, without much success
This is because current perception of the garbage generating
households ( and of the office bearers of the housing societies ) , is :
* Garbage collection / disposal is Municipality's responsibility
This problem will persist till we succeed in changing this
perception to :
" Garbage disposal is our responsibility "
This change of attitude can be brought about by " incentivizing " the members of
the Housing Societies
Here is how :
* The society where I live ( Marol / Mumbai ) has 200
Members ( flats )
* Each member pays monthly Municipal Tax of ( approx ) ,
Rs 600
* That translates to Rs 1.2 lakh per month ( Rs 14.4 lakh
/ year )
* In 5 years , Society pays to Municipality, Rs 72 lakhs
* Govt / Municipality to make it compulsory for each big
society ( size to be
decided ), to install on its premises :
# Methane gas generating plant or Compost Fertilizer plant
( to take
care of wet / organic garbage )
# Water recycling plant ( to filter and reuse
water from shower / wash
basin /
kitchen sink for toilet flushing purpose )
# A Compacting Press for dry waste ( paper
/ bags / cartons etc )
* Towards installation of such plants , Municipality
to give a discount of
25 % to the Society in monthly taxes ,
for a period of 5 years
That is a rebate of Rs 150 / month /
flat for 5 years
This would work out to a saving of Rs
18 lakh ( 25 % of Rs 72 lakh )
* This amount should be sufficient for the Society
to invest in these plants
and for paying wages for persons needed
to look after their operations
I believe such a positive incentive will motivate most of the
Societies to undertake to install such facilities
As a negative incentive , Govt / Municipality should levy
additional surcharge of 25 % on the monthly taxes ( ie raise to Rs 750 / month
in our case ) to those societies which fail to implement this scheme within ONE YEAR of notification
It is high time citizens are involved and motivated ( through negative
as well as positive incentives ) in keeping their cities clean and its
environment pleasant
I am sure such an experiment will find a far better response
from the public as compared to the ODD-EVEN scheme of Delhi ( which too will succeed when Delhi-ites find
plenty of Public Transport )
Incidentally , Shri Arvind Kejriwal and his team should study (
without sending a delegation abroad ! ), the " Share - a - Bike "
taxi scheme ( BIXI )
which has successfully solved the traffic congestion problem in
Montreal
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27 April 2016
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Thursday, 31 March 2016
On 29 March 2016 , the Environ Ministry ( Central Government )
notified ,
" The Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules "
On this occasion , environment minister , Shri Javadekar said :
* It is an initiative to tackle effectively the issue of
pollution. Without any rules, it is dumped in open spaces , drains, rivers,
forest areas, landfills and roadside
The basis of our new rules is recover , recycle and reuse
We can make tiles , pipes from it
Segregating construction and demolition waste and depositing it
to the collection centres for processing will now be the responsibility of
every waste generator "
Dear Shri Javadekarji :
Your initiative to reuse construction / demolition waste has the
potential to solve the problem of constructing 50 million " affordable
homes " by 2020
And , I think , the Chinese firm WinSun Design Decoration Company, should be made an
EQUITY partner in a SPV to construct these homes
Here is why :
# On 29 March 2014 , WinSun
constructed 10 , 3D printed houses ( 200 sq meter each) in Shanghai, each costing $ 4,800 (approx Rs 3 lakh)
# On 17 July 2015 , using its 3D printing
technology , WinSun built a 2 storey villa , in just 3 HOURS !
# WinSun holds 98 patents for CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
# For 3D printing of houses ,
WinSun , mostly uses recycled construction materials
# 3D HOUSE PRINTING TECHNOLOGY saves :
* 30% -60 % of building
materials
* 70 % of production
time
* 80 % of
construction cost
# Egypt Government has placed on WinSun , an order for supplying 20,000
pre-fabricated , 3D printed houses
# In Egypt , WinSun will establish 12 Dream Factories ( to build pre-fabricated
houses ) , within 2 years
These factories will mostly use DESERT SAND as its main
construction material , which was found ideal for 3D printing of houses
# In next 3 years , WinSun will set up ( in JV with
local parties ) , similar factories in 20 countries , including Saudi Arabia ,
UAE , Qatar , Mexico , S. Korea , Russia , Morocco , Tunisia , and USA
With the current slowdown in economies around the world and in
the Chinese economy in particular , I think WinSun should be more than happy to
invest in India
What Fox Conn is doing to transform the Electronic Industry in
India , I believe , WinSun can do for the Construction Industry
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01 April 2016
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Discourage
Plastics : Encourage Greed
Two days back, the Centre
notified stringent plastic waste management rules to regulate use of the
hazardous material and handle the waste generated by it
These include :
* Banning of plastic
bags of less than 50 micron thickness
* Manufacturing / use
of non-recyclable multi-layered plastic to be phased out in 2 years
* Manufacturers of
products using plastic wrapping materials will have to pay prescribed
fees to
States. Collected funds will be disbursed among civic bodies and gram
panchayats
for taking
measures to dispose off plastic waste
No doubt , such measures were
long overdue and must be welcomed , although I have serious doubts whether our
corrupt bureaucracy will strictly enforce these or use these as one more means
to extort bribes from manufacturers / retailers / users !
SOME
BACKGROUND STATISTICS :
* India generates
15,000 tons of plastic waste everyday
* 6,000 tons remain
uncollected and get disposed off in hazardous manner
* There are approx
8,000 plastic recycling units ( half of them , unregistered )
MISSING
ELEMENT :
Abolish Corporate Income Tax
for all plastic recycling units for next 10 years !
Let GREED take
over GOVERNING !
WHAT
CAN WE EXPECT ?
* Within
a year , another 10,000 plastic recycling units will come up
* 100 % of plastic
produced will get recycled
* These units will mobilize lakhs of "
Plastic Rag Pickers " to collect every small scrap of
plastic from every nook and corner of every street in every city, leading
to Swatchh
Bharat and self employment !
* Recycled
plastic will get used to build strong / long-lasting road surfaces
* Some recycled
plastic will be used as raw material for mass-producing of 3D printed
houses , solving problem of 50 million " Affordable Housing " (ask
WINSUN of Shanghai )
(
This is the kind of innovations expected from our National Science Laboratories
)
WHERE
ELSE CAN WE TRY THIS ?
* Abolish
Corporate Income Tax ( for 10 years ) for all plants / units , producing
Methane
Gas
using organic waste from household / hotels / restaurants
* All
municipalities and gram panchayats to allow such privately-owned Organic Waste
Processing / Gas Producing units to collect such waste from all the streets , free of cost
* Municipalities
will save hundreds of crores of rupees in Garbage Collection
* State
Electricity Boards will set up Gas based Power Plants , next to these units and
buy
the
gas for power generation
If this suggestion is
implemented , we would have SWATCHH BHARAT in 2 years
And , we would have harnessed
human GREED ( viz: avoid income tax ) of our Start Ups to solve the problem of
pollution
No more fires in Deonar
dumping ground !
I hope Shri Prakash Javadekar-ji is listening
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22 March 2016
From: PRAKASH JAVADEKAR
[mailto:pjavadekar@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:22 PM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: ORACLE HAS SPOKEN
Oracle
has spoken
WHO
IS THE ORACLE ?
has a bachelor's degree
from IIT Kanpur , his master's from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from
the University of California , Berkeley
He has authored
more than 75 academic papers in Computational Geometry, Sensing, Radio
Frequency Identification ( RFID ), Automation
and Computer Aided Design
He also serves on
the boards of GS1 , EPCglobal , several start ups and edX , the not-for-profit
set up by MIT and Harvard
He sent me
following email on 25 March 2016 , after reading my suggestion below :
Dear Mr. Parekh,
Yes, placing tags on money has certainly been
considered in the past.
I
think it is a matter of time before it happens.
I do
agree with your idea.
Having said that,
as more and more transactions become digital (credit cards, bitcoin, Adhaar
card, etc.) the need for tracking cash goes down — ironically as our ability to
track it increases.
-Sanjay
Sanjay Sarma
, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).
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WHAT DID I SUGGEST
?
NETWORK
OF CURRENCY NOTES ?
( A Mobile App called, "
BLACK-MAIL " )
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While inaugurating the
International Conference on " Networking the Networks " on Nov 2 ,
our FM Shri Jaitleyji said :
" Tax evasion and money
laundering will become extremely difficult in the next 1-2 years, with the
global automatic exchange of information system coming into effect on a real
time basis "
To speed up this process and
make it truly automatic / real time , I suggest resorting to the following
technologies :
# Internet of Things ( IoT )
As
each currency note of Rs 500 / 1000 , is getting printed , embed it with
microscopic RFID sensors
Besides communicating with each other , these sensors will also transmit
their existence location , through internet , to cloud-based servers of
Income Tax Department
This
will form a " NETWORK OF
CURRENCY NOTES ( NoC ) "
You
may like to call this Internet of Currency ( IoC ) , a sub-set of IoT !
# Internet Protocol Address System ( IP V 6.0 )
Each
Rs 500 / 1000 currency note must be assigned ( at the time of printing ) , its
own unique Internet Address , using IP V 6.0
This IP address should be linked with the unique Serial Number printed on each
note.
Since IP V 6.0 , will be capable of assigning " 2 * 10 to the
power of 128 ", no of IP addresses , there is no danger of running
out of addresses , even if we decide to extend this idea to Rs 100 currency
notes !
Here
are the most important BYE - PRODUCTs :
* No more possibility
of fake / forged / counterfeit , currency notes !
* Plastic
currency notes will last 10 times longer !
This reform will enable the
Central Government / Income Tax Department , to :
* Continuously
trace the movement of each of these higher denomination currency notes
* Instantly
locate any place ( using Google Map based GPS ) , where there is an
accumulation of more than Rs 1 Crore worth of currency notes
Such
accumulation will be made to appear as a TAG CLOUD on the web site of IT Dept,
like thousands of balloons floating on a map of India , capable of being
drilled down to within 1 Sq Meter !
On
each balloon , will appear a number announcing , " Amount of Cash here -
Rs " !
This will vastly simplify the task of Anti Corruption Dept /
Enforcement Dept etc
Of course , RBI will need to
allow 6 month's time to the owners of current paper currency notes of Rs 500 /
1000 , to get these exchanged with new plastic notes before withdrawal of the
old notes from circulation
Now , would not that
distribute the hidden , unaccounted wealth ! - a welcome fall out !
But then such transparency
might lead to break-down of social order / chaos
It may be a better / safer /
saner solution for such balloons / tag clouds to appear , on a secret Mobile App , available only to the officers of
Enforcement Department ( ED )
You may want to call this app
, " BLACK-MAIL " !
Of course , my suggestions
may become outdated with the arrival of mobile wallets based CASHLESS SOCIETY ,
by 2030
In
the meantime , should Shri Arun Jaitleyji and Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji , want
this implemented , it can be done in 6 months , at
one tenth the cost of MoM ( Mars Orbital Mission ) , ie approx Rs 43 Crores
All they have to do , is to
tell the bureaucracy :
" Since we need
not depend upon Opposition parties to pass a bill in Rajya Sabha , please go
ahead and implement this - in less than 6 months "
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26
March 2016
Warm Regards,
Hemen Parekh
Mumbai
--
Yours truly,
Prakash Javadekar,
Minister of State
(IC) for
Environment,
Forest & Climate Change
Govt. of
India
