Indian Railways : A Trillion Dollar
Opportunity
That was the name of a Conference held in
Mumbai , on 03 Sept 2016
Railway Minister , Shri Suresh Prabhu , wants
businesses and Agencies ( both , national and international ) , to invest
billions of dollars in modernizing the Indian Railways
These " modernizations " include :
# High speed Trains
# Rolling Stock
# Railway Station
Development
# Signaling and Structural
Development....etc
How about making this an " Opportunity to save 15,000 lives " ? ( Number of persons getting run-over by trains
each year in India )
On the tracks of Mumbai local trains alone ,
some 3,000 + persons
get run over each year , while
crossing
Just the day before the Conference , as many
as 18 persons got run over in a single day !
Provision of overhead bridges has not helped
. Temptation to catch a train is too much when time is short !
Perhaps sub-conscious thinking of people who cross
the track , goes :
" Of the 100,000 persons who cross the
tracks daily, only 10 die. My probability of getting hit is only 1 in 10,000 ! "
But what if that probability was 1 in 1 ( 100 % certainty ) ?
Like a 11KV current flowing in the tracks
? You dare to cross , you die ! No one will
dare !
No , please don't get me wrong ! I am NOT suggesting anything sinister like that ! (
anything like replacing those pellet guns in Kashmir with AK 47 assault rifles
)
What I am suggesting is a " Digital Death "
for the trespassers !
For today's generation , as real as " Physical Death " - or
worse !
Mobile phone ( smart phone or feature phone ) of
the person crossing , to get " fried / killed " , electronically !
By an innovative application of a " Controlled EMP ( Electro-Magnetic Pulse ) "
, surging through the tracks , once every second - low voltage but strong enough to kill the
onboard solid state circuitry of the mobile phone
This low voltage magnetic wave , will neither
harm the human carrying the phone in his pocket , nor kill the phones of those
travelling in the train , due to " Skin Effect "
Even though, a " Low Voltage EMP " ,
is an oxymoron , I am sure Indian Scientists are quite capable to resolve this apparent paradox , if
challenged
Shri Prabhu-ji :
In your Rail Budget speech, you had said :
" A single accident or loss of a single life causes me great
sorrow and anguish. It also demonstrates that we still have a long way to go in
realizing our objective of a zero accident
regime. Although our safety record is better at 20% lower accidents
compared to the previous year, there is much more that is required to be done.
I truly believe that the way forward to eliminate accidents from IR is through adoption and assimilation of latest
technology. "
Instead of , always trying to " adopt and assimilate "
technologies developed abroad , please consider " Evolving " of a
technology locally for your goal of " Zero
Accident Regime "
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04 Sept 2016
www.hemenparekh.in
/ blogs
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with regards,
hemen parekh
Marol , Mumbai , India
( M ) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
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