HOW TO ELIMINATE HUNGER ?

Dear Amitabh ,

Today is 17th Anniversary of the official launch of a Silicon Valley Start Up called GOOGLE

( incidentally , I had launched.... www.3pJobs.com.... 10 months earlier on 14th Nov 1997 )

Even as you ask questions re the phenomenal success of Silicon Valley Start Ups , you may want to relate their  answers  with my today's blog

with regards,

hemen / 0 - 98,67,55,08,08

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WHEN  IS  RANK  #  1   BAD  ?

Only yesterday , UN member countries adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030

It calls for elimination of poverty and hunger from the World in next 15 years

Today , there are 795 million hungry people in entire World

Of these , India tops the list with 195 million hungry

Wrong parameter in which to get Rank # 1  !

And since India's population is growing by 15 million people each year , there is no threat anytime soon , of India losing its first rank  !

But without a job , hunger cannot be wished away

In India's Employment Exchanges alone , 43 million jobless youth are waiting for an interview call - a call that never comes  !

Can these Job-Seekers be converted to Job Creators ?

By making them , " Self Employed " micro enterprises ?

As per one estimate , today some 30 million MSME in India are providing jobs to 60 million persons ( ave of 2 per MSME )

So , if these 43 million are given loans of Rs 5 lakh each to start their own businesses , they will create 86 million jobs  !

May be this is what Shri Narendra Modi had in mind , when in UN General Assembly yesterday , he said :

"  The world speaks of private sector and public sector. In India, we have defined a new personal sector of individual enterprise, micro enterprises and micro finance, drawing also on the strength of digital and mobile applications. "

Could he have added ?

" When we continued to tinker with umpteen processes for the past 30 years , China's GDP grew to $ 10 Trillion , when India is struggling to reach $ 2 Trillion !

If we cannot prove that ECONOMIC  REVOLUTION can be made to happen in a DEMOCRATIC set-up , hungry people around the World will lose faith in Democracy  !

If , in a democratic frame work , Silicon Valley Start Ups can take USA GDP to $ 17 trillion , so can we . And we will "

Understandably , UN is not the forum where he could spell out the details

I hope , that consists of enacting :

" Start Up Act - 2015 "

( which I am lobbying for past few months )

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hemen  parekh

27  Sept  2015 ( 17th Anniversary of Google Start Up )

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