Dear Chidanand,
Enjoyed
reading your article in TOI ( 12 March )
, where you write :
"
But what if manufacturing is largely over-run by ever cheaper drones , robots
and automatons ?
There has to be a life beyond mere manufacturing . Just make in India won't cut
it ; it needs fine-tuning.
Create in India might be a better mantra "
You have hit the nail on the head !
A
few months back , I sent my following blog to dozens of Ministers / Secretaries
/ MPs / MLAs etc , hoping to make them aware of the " Shape of Things to Come "
I
am witnessing the changes that are taking place in India for the past 2 years
and quite hopeful that its pace will accelerate if the Opposition in Parliament
would cooperate
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SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ?
The First Industrial
Revolution started in Britain , with the invention of steam engine , which
multiplied human power many times
With help of steam engine
power , one man could do the job of ten men
Human productivity went up
sharply , enabling production of ten times more goods , in ten times less time
Thousands of factories came
up ; first in Britain , then in USA and gradually spreading to rest of Europe
But it took over a century to
reach the poor countries of Asia / Africa / China
Under colonial rule , these countries
were forced to export own raw materials to industrialized countries at a very
cheap price and import their factory-made finished goods at very high prices
But as poor countries started
catching up on factory-based manufacturing using its cheap labour , the
developed countries are now worried !
One time importers of
finished goods are now exporting those very products to the developed countries
, which are finding it difficult to compete with the emerging markets
An outstanding example of
this is the rise of China , in the past 25 years as the , " Factory of the World "
But Western countries are not
resigned to their fate of a lowered
" Standard
of Living "
They are gearing up to usher
:
The Second Industrial Revolution
!
In the form of Robots :
Robots
manufacturing cars / appliances / machinery /
anything
Robots 3 D
printing products from designs downloaded from Net
Robots
managing health care in hospitals
Robots
serving food in restaurants
Robots
carrying out office jobs
Robots
teaching in schools
Robots
entertaining
Robots everywhere
!
And these are :
And these are :
Robots which
work 24 hours/day and do not ask for a salary
Robots that
do not " go slow "or go on a strike
Robots that
do not demand " Quotas / Reservations
"
Robots that
do not take holidays or take " Sick Leave "
Robots that
do not resign / demand promotion
Robots that neither
envy other robots nor sabotage
Robots that
do not complain against unpleasant work
Robots that
do not get tired and need rest
Robots whose
production does not drop after working for 8 hours
Robots that
do not demand " Overtime Pay "
@ 200 % of normal
Robots that
perfectly co-ordinate their tasks with other robots
Robots that
willingly " retire " at any age , whenever required
Robots that
do not demand Unemployment/Retirement Benefits
Robots which
may , some day , provide you with emotional
support when you are sick / depressed !
And this Second Industrial
Revolution is NOT going to take a hundred years to reach the shores of India
With spread of DIGITAL INDIA
/ Internet / Mobile Apps , it may take , no more than 20 years !
Question :
Fearing that it will create further
unemployment , shall we try to stall its arrival ?
OR ,
Will our Self-Employed and
Start Ups expedite its arrival and imaginatively use it to create 100 new jobs
for each lost job ?
Let us stop tinkering with ,
* The India Aspiration Fund
* The MakeinIndia Soft
Loan Fund
* The MUDRA Bank
Converting millions of
Job-seekers into Job - Creators , would entirely depend upon Union
Government quickly passing , what I earlier advocated as :
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hemen parekh
21 Sept 2015
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Wednesday, 9 September
2015
"
BACK FACTORY " OF THE WORLD ?
China is known as the " Factory
" of the World
India is known as the " Back Office " of the
World
Can India become the " Back Factory " of the
World ?
Wrong question !
Right question is : WHEN can we become the " Back Factory
" of the World ?
Answer is " hiding in plain sight " !
This week , an astronaut , sitting in a satellite 400 km above
the earth and hurtling through space at 16,000 km per hour , operated a robot
on the earth
Earlier , scientists sitting in NASA space centre or in
Shri Harikota space centre , have operated Mars Rovers / MOM ( Mars Orbital
Mission ) remotely
From a distance of millions of miles
And soon , astronauts will be sending emails to earthlings
from millions of miles away , using " Space Internet " on their
Mobile phones
Invariably , each such team of scientists , comprised Indians !
So , WHEN can our scientists - and software Start Ups - enable
Indian workers , sitting in Hyderabad / Chennai etc , to operate / manipulate ,
machinery in factories of Europe / America / China ?
I believe this can become a reality by 2020 , if Central Government and State Governments , just get out of
the way of our scientists / Start Ups and leave them alone !
Then tell them :
" You are our next generation of Freedom Fighters . Free
our millions from
poverty / starvation / jobless depression / ignominy / suicides
Like war - ravaged people of North Africa , Indians cannot invade Europe / Australia /
Canada , in search of jobs / better life
We depend upon you to bring the jobs to India - jobs such as ,
* Operating Machinery in Factories abroad
* Controlling Air Traffic at Airports around the World
* Operating upon patients in Hospitals , all over
* Teaching students in Schools , in remote Africa
* Any job
that currently requires immediate presence of a worker
And , if you set up a "
Back Factory " , you don't need to pay Corporate Income Tax for next 10
years !
Simply register on web site of Income Tax Department as a "
Back Factory " owner and file annual " Zero Corporate Tax Return
"
When this happens ,
> Millions of skilled Indian workers will operate factories around
the World ,
sitting in , internet connected " Back Factories " in
small Indian towns
> Foxcon will not need to replace its high-wage Chinese workers
with one
million robots ( as officially announced
sometime back
)
At half the wages of those Chinese workers ,
Indians will operate Foxcon
factories , all over the World , remotely !
> " Contract Labour Act " will need to be
replaced with " Back Factory " Act
> " Minimum Wages Act " will need to be
scrapped !
> India will not
need to fight with WTO on " Manpower / Service Exports "
> " Make
in India " will morph into " Make
from India "
I hope NDA Ministers and members of NITI Aayog will ask ,
Narayan Murthy / Sam Pitroda / Azim Premji / Sundar Pichai / Satya Nadela / Ray
Kurzweil etc :
" How soon can this
be done ? How can you help ? "
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hemen parekh
10 Sept 2015
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