Shri Soumya Ghosh / Shri Pulak Ghosh
Dear Sirs :
I refer to your article ( Jobless growth in India : truth or hoopla ? To know the answer,
we need better payroll accounting ) , where you write :
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“ Given this background, we decided to construct
a count of formal and informal sector PAYROLL in India, imitating the US monthly payroll report……….
To begin with, we looked at formal sector payroll
numbers through EPFO, ESIC, NPS and GPF
We used all these numbers to find the stock of
organized sector payroll in India as on March 2017 “
I also heard your views on a TV channel
Given the severe limitations of Labour Department’s
Quarterly Employment Survey , your approach is fresh departure and very
commendable
What we need to do is , not only “ institutionalize “
payroll reporting but make it AUTOMATIC
and DYNAMIC , using a Mobile-based App
In this regard , you might want to go through my
following blogs ( sent to Policy Makers as email )
With Regards,
hemen
parekh / Mumbai
(
M ) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
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 :
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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 :
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#
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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02
June 2016
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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