Medical Council goes
MAD-ical ?
And I am glad , that one Institution has
grasped the benefits of going MAD !
Read the following news report from Times of
India ( 20 Aug 2016 ) , before reading my blog that follows ( emailed to all
Ministers in Central Government ) :
NEW DELHI: In an attempt to bring in more
transparency and put a check on ghost faculties in medical colleges, Medical Council of India announced a
digitization initiative on Friday for tracking
real-time daily attendance of faculties in medical colleges across the country .
Under the digital mission mode project (DMMP),
the medical education regulator plans to monitor attendance of faculty members
in about 439 medical colleges through a biometric
system.
The regulator also plans to issue electronic radio frequency identification (RFID) registration card to doctors for their documentation which will enable them to practice across the country by registering once with MCI.
"The most remarkable thing of this project
is monitoring of attendance of faculty through a
biometric system and a unique
identification for each and every medical practitioner across the country . There have been issues of fake and ghost faculty in many
medical colleges," MCI president Jayshree Mehta said.
The digitization project, apart from enabling online submission of applications for opening of new medical colleges or seat enhancement, will create a national database of faculty in medical colleges which will be linked with their Aadhar Card and have biometric verification.
According to Mehta, the total project involving
a real-time medical register, issuing of IDs and other tasks under this project
has a budgetary allocation of Rs 45 crore and will be completed in the next six months.
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016
From
BAD to MAD
BAD =
Biometric Attendance Device
MAD =
Mobile Attendance Device
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Most people think the
greatest contribution of Bill Gates ( onetime CEO of Microsoft ) was " MS
Operating System "
I think , it was his book
" Business @ the Speed of Thought
"
Current CEO of Microsoft is a
PIO named Satya Nadela
What is his contribution ?
What he said during his talk
in Delhi on 30 May , called ,
" Tech for Good , Ideas
for India " :
He cited the example of
how NASA scientists were not able to see the Rover move on Mars but the
holographic output of the Rover is right there in their office.
Nadella also met two young
developers, one of them a 17-year-old who has figured out how to take data from
NASA , conflate it with other information and see the spread of algae in Bay of
Bengal. “Here’s a student who is taking information that is available, bringing
it together—he wanted to have a real impact right here in terms of how we
managed our climate,” he said.
Nadella wrapped up by summing
Microsoft’s mission in India.
" It is about really
celebrating the technologies that you all in India create. In fact, I want us
to be the platform creators that foster the ingenuity of what is happening in
India,” he said.
Here is my idea of a
technology that we need to create for a better India :
Today Employee Attendance
Systems in India work at three levels as follows :
# Entirely Manual
Attendance
Register and Wage/Salary payment in cash or by Cheque
# Partly Automated
Punch cards or Bio-metric recording of attendance but manual
calculation
of
wages / salaries and payment by cash or cheque
# Fully Automated
Bio-metric Attendance Devices ( BAD ) ,
integrated with a home-grown or
bought-out Salary Payment Software , running on a local Server.
Salary payments could be by cheques or thru Electronic Transfer to
concerned employee's bank account
Once in a while , if a
company has several establishments within a city , those local servers are
connected to a Central Server , doing all processing
In a rare case ( although , I
am not aware of any ) , it may be that all the local servers of all the
establishments of a company , all over the country , are networked with its
central computer in its head-quarter
Now imagine this :
# All
smart phones to evolve as Bio-metric Attendance Devices , with
built-in
Bio-metric Recorders
, GPS , a mobile attendance App ( called MAD ? )
# App to
have 2 buttons ( Green = IN / Red = OUT )
# Employee
to touch IN upon reaching his work-station and touch OUT ,
while
leaving work place , at the end of work-shift . That's all !
# Being
GPS enabled , buttons will get activated ONLY when the employee
has
reached the work place ( not while he is on his way ! )
# All
100 million establishments in India ( factories / offices / shops / clinics
NGOs /
Govt Depts ) to ensure that the MAD app is installed on the smart
phone of
each employee , when he joins
# All of these smart
phones to be connected ( IoT ? ) , with the Servers of ,
* Labour
Ministries ( Central and States )
* HRD
Ministry ( Central )
*
Skills Development Ministry / NSDC
*
Finance Ministries ( Central + States )
*
NITI Aayog
*
Income Tax Department
*
Any other server that you may want to
# MAD app is
integrated with a STANDARD / COMMON , software system
for
computing daily wages / monthly salaries of ALL the persons working
in
those 100 million establishments ( whether they are casual /
contractual / trainee / apprentice / probationer / permanent / retained
# As each person
joins in any of these establishments , data re that
person must be inputted by the Employer into the App , such as :
* Name / Contact Details / DOB / Aadhar Card No / Employee Number
( Each unique Employee Number will be auto-generated by the
common Salary Payment Software , running on IT Dept Server )
* Employee's Jandhan Yojana Bank Account Number for salary EC
* Employer's Jandhan bank account / Unique Employer Number
* Payment Mode ( Hourly / Daily / Monthly Rated , wages / salaries
)
* Leave provisions / PF rate / TDS rate / Allowances /
Reimbursements
*
Any other relevant data ( either about employee of for employer )
WHAT
ARE THE ADVANTAGES ?
# For employees ,
no need to file a separate annual Income Tax Return
# Direct deposit
of PF / TDS amounts into bank accounts of Govt Depts
# Direct Benefit
Transfer ( DBT ) to every Employer for Stipend Subsidy ,
based on number of total trainees / apprentices employed
# Total number of
employees in India ( category / region / industry )
# Employment
Density ( Industry wise / Region wise / Skill wise etc )
# Net Employment
Growth Rate ( weekly - monthly / Industry-wise )
# Co-relation
with no of persons graduating at various levels
# Data about
those Unemployed ( " Graduating " less " Employed " )
# Overtime
Statistics ( Use / Abuse )
# Work-hour
Analysis ( Ave hours / week - month )
# Wage / Salary
Rates ( Rs per hour ) - Industry wise / Region wise
( of great interest to Foreign Investors looking to
bring down
manufacturing costs , by outsourcing to India / manufacturing in India )
# Compliance with
labour laws / tax laws / Apprentice Act etc
# Job Market
Forecasts through BIG DATA ANALYTIC ( region / industry )
# Demographic
Profiles of employees ( Rural to Urban migration )
# Per Capita
Income Growth for persons using MAD app ( MOM / YOY )
# Changing composition between Blue Collar and White
Collar employees
Then there could be many
other benefits not envisaged now
Here is an opportunity for :
* Manufacturers of Smart Phones
To
shrink stationary / bulky / common , bio-metric devices to mobile /
small / personalized / hand-held devices
{ Remember
?
If you don't make yourself
obsolete , someone else will }
* Tech Start Ups
To
come up with the Mobile App ( MAD ) / Technology Platform
* NDA Government
To
implement what Shri Narendra Modiji said on 15 July 2015 :
" If
China is like a manufacturing factory of the World , India should
become the
human resource capital of the World .
That should be
our target and we should lay emphasis on that .
We
should have a futuristic vision and prepare plans for the next ten years
"
MAD could
well be an important element of that " JAM PLAN " !
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21
Aug 2016
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parekh
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