Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday 28 April 2016

RE: ORACLE HAS SPOKEN


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

Mumbai / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / (M) 0 - 98,67,55,08,08

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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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Thursday, 31 March 2016
From Waste to Wealth ?


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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Monday, 21 March 2016

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

Good.

On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
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).
 Email : 'SESARMA@MIT.EDU'
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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

(M)=91 – 98,67,55,08,08 / hcp@RecruitGuru.com



--
Yours truly,
Prakash Javadekar,
Minister of State (IC) for
Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Govt. of India




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