RE: THANK YOU , SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURIJI

Thank You , Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji

[  Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs  ]

Eco Times ( 26 Dec 2018 ) carries following report :

Government may open data platforms to public scrutiny in January 

Extract  :

·      The Ministry of housing and urban affairs, which is spearheading the highest number flagship programs , is developing the app and is likely to open its data platform to public in Jan 2019

·      The app will involve geotagging of all infrastructure created and then uploading the unique address with videos and photographs……..

·      The biggest challenge is being posed by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan , under which 6.2 million individual household toilets and about 500,000 community and public toilets have been constructed. Geotagging all of them with photographs is a tedious task but ultimately it is creation of asset from government funds so it will happen gradually

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In my blog / email ( 04  Dec  2015 ) to the Cabinet Ministers , I had urged :

[  Nothing prettier than PERT !  ]

 

·      When any Ministry submits any Project Proposal for Cabinet approval , it must be accompanied by a PERT ( Program Evaluation and Review Technique ) chart , clearly showing all the " Activities " lying along the CRITICAL PATH

     ( earlier known as the CRITICAL PATH METHOD )

·      Insist that all the government departments / contractors, responsible for execution of any of these "activities", update the PERT chart status online on the web site of the Project Monitoring Group

     

    

·      PERT charts for all the projects should be made visible to the general public

·      If there is any " slippage " in any activity lying on the CRITICAL PATH , the name of the department or contractor responsible , must appear in bold RED letters , against that activity

     

·      This is the only INNOVATION that we need , to ensure that the projects get completed in time and within budget

         [ Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bmaDMSQe04 ]

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PERT network chart for a seven-month project with five milestones (10 through 50) and six activities (A through F).

The program (or project) evaluation and review technique (PERT) is a statistical tool used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project.

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And 5 months after my first email to the Policy Makers , following is what I wrote to NITI Aayog, on , 07  May  2016 :

Dear  Sir  :

Economic Times (  05 May  ) talks about a PMO letter to NITI Aayog , as follows :

  

"  NITI Aayog is requested to undertake monthly monitoring of the implementation of decisions taken, create a dashboard for constant Monitoring, Evaluation and Review, and fix up outcome targets for all major schemes of infrastructure and social sectors for FY2016-17 and submit them to PMO by May 21, 2016  "

  

As you would have noticed in my earlier suggestion , the best results would be achieved , when department / ministry proposing the project is , itself made responsible for :

  

#   Preparing a comprehensive list of Project Activities and their " sequences " ( parallel or

     consequential )

  

#   Estimating " Time " , each activity will take to complete

  

#   Defining ( by name / designation / mobile number / email ID ) , those responsible for

     each activity

  

#   Uploading all of these DATA , in the PERT INPUT page on web site of NITI Aayog

  

#   Updating  the PERT CHART on daily basis

  

Entire idea is to put the ball in the court of these departments / ministries !

If created / maintained by NITI Aayog , the chart ( Dashboard ) would become an instrument of endless arguments !

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Dear  Shri  Puriji,

As far as geotagging of those millions of toilets is concerned, I suggest adopting the technology platform of www.What3Words.com , who are in the process of adapting their unique / simple tech for HINDI language

All we need to do is to feed this “ location database “ of 6.2 million toilets in 3 HINDI Words, to an army of DRONES , which will precisely locate each of those toilets , take a photo and create a geotagged database – all within weeks  !

Following correspondence with the support team of  What3Words  shows how this can be done , with least human intervention :

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:18 AM, "hcp@recruitguru.com" <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:

How do I find address for a small hut in the middle of DHARAVI SLUM in Mumbai ?

Support team replied :

“ Using our map site, which you can find here :

https://map.what3words.com/handed.airstrip.contrived ,

you can locate the location you wish to find.

I have set the 3 word address to Dharavi, Mumbai so finding the location you wish will be easier.

Drag the map around to find the location you wish, and there you may see the 3 word address for that location “

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27  Dec  2018

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