FW: DEAR MINISTERS : CONGRATULATIONS : HERE IS YOUR CHALLENGE

 Subject: DEAR MINISTERS : CONGRATULATIONS : HERE IS YOUR CHALLENGE

 

Glad Tidings :  Narendrabhai will be the Top Technocrat

 

Context :

Cabinet rejig: Bid to ensure faster delivery, synergy   /  TNN  /  08 July 2021

 

Extract :

 

Ø The rejig also saw major technology departments being brought under a SINGLE MINISTER.
Jitendra Singh ( Science and Technology , Earth Sciences, Space and Atomic Energy / drjitendras@gmail.com ) , to ensure coordination and CONVERGENCE under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supervision as Singh is MoS in PMO

Ø Other TECHNOLOGY-RELATED ministries have been entrusted to PROFESSIONALS and TECHNOCRATS like Ashwini Vaishnaw ( MEITY, Communications  / av.odisha@sansad.nic.in ).

Ø A former IAS officer of te 1994 batch, an M Tech from IIT-Kanpur as well as an MBA from Wharton, Vaishnaw has been entrusted with the crucial information and technology ministry along with railways

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Cabinet reshuffle: Wharton alum, former-IAS officer Ashwini Vaishnaw is big winner  /  ET  /  08 July 2021

 

Extract :

 

Ø During his stint in corporate world, he served as the Managing Director of  GE Transportation and Vice President of Siemens Locomotive, where he headed Infrastructure Strategy

Ø Vaishnaw quit the corporate world in 2012 and turned entrepreneur , setting up two automotive components units in Gujarat

Ø His work in the LOGISTICS sector while working for GE and Siemens and his forte integrating IT with LOGISTICS and how to FORCE-MULTIPLY, was what has worked in his favour

Ø This is the reason he has been given Railways and IT, where there are possibilities of large-scale integration

Rajeev Chandraekhar has finger on the Tech Pulse   /  ET  /  08 July 2021

 

Extract :

 

Ø Chandrasekhar ( Rajeev.c@sansad.nic.in ) is among the earliest MPs to assess the power of Social Media and Tech Platforms and start a public debate about the need to regulate them

Ø Son of an air commodore, Chandrasekhar earned his post graduate degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, when te subject itself was new, and personal computers were a prized possession

Ø He was on the Intel 80486 design team, and later on the architecture team of the Pentium

Ø In 1994, after returning from the US, he founded BPL Mobile, taking the plunge into a sector that was still in its infancy

Ø Over the next decade or so, he and several other ambitious entrepreneurs pushed for reforms. Tis led to the new telecom policy in 1999

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MY  TAKE  :

Ø I wish these “ technocrat ministers “ ( Jitendra Prasad / Aashwini Vaishnaw / Rajeev Chandrasekhar ) best of luck, in developing in India ( or acquiring from abroad ), latest technologies which will help major problems facing the  country, as suggested in my following earlier e-mail   :

         Need of the hour ? : TEAM ………………………[ 21 April 2017 ]

-     Where I suggested :

 

   “    By TEAM , I mean :  Technology Evaluation and Acquisition Minister

 

Whose job description will be :

 

 

Remain constantly on look-out for developing / developed technologies from around the World, evaluate their relevance to India’s myriad problems and acquire the same from the developers ( including patent rights / IP rights, to exploit it / improve upon it )

 

 

Make available these acquired technologies to Indian Companies ( both, in private and in public sectors ) / NGOs / Start-Ups etc , FREE of cost ( conditions apply in respect of production targets / pricing / time to implement / after-sales service etc ! )

 

 

Following are some such technologies “

 

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In that  4 YEAR old e-mail , I had listed some 12 problems facing our country – along with ,

 

Ø Brief descriptions  of technologies that could possibly help solve those problems

 

Ø Sources ( contact details of inventors ) of technologies that could possibly help solve those problems.

 

No doubt, during the past 4 YEARS,

 

Ø Some of those 12 problems have been addressed ( partially or fully ) or being addressed

 

Ø A number of NEW PROBLEMS have arisen that demand another set of technologies

 

I have prepared lists of such NEW PROBLEMS ( along with relevant technological solutions ) and would be happy to send these lists to the ministers, if so desired

 

With regard,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  08 July 2021