Iron Ore, Steel and Machinary

Recently there was a debat in Economic Times (ET). (Well, It was hardly a debate, as Economic Times did not publish other view of the story..)...

As per ET, India's Balance of Payment (BoP) with China is favourable to India, because of High Iron Ore export to China. And ET Editor is against reduction in Iron Ore Export or any restriction against it.

Now this baffles me completely.

Let's try to understand it. In time of British rule, The Britishers exported raw material from India to UK, and then processed it, and then imported finished goods. This policy of british made Indian artisans poorer and made raw material very costly. It also made Indians buy costlier foreign-made finished goods. (This is where Khadi Movement started.....)

What we are seeing is something very similar now. India exports Iron Ore to Japan and China (largest consumers of Indian Iron Ore), they make steet and machinary using Iron Ore. India imports steel and machinary from them. In effect we lose out by exporting cheap Iron Ore and importing costly machines.

No doubt, that we need better technology from developed nations. But that has to stop at a certain level and we should start making local technology. If we keep exporting Cheap Iron Ore (and there by making Iron Ore costly for Indian Steel Manufacturers and thereby making steel costly in India), and importing Costly Steels, when will we generate jobs for Indians by setting up steel plants and machine plants?

Naxalites and People

I think it is good that PW and other naxal movement members will be coming to public. It will actually be a reality check for them to know how much support they command in people. It will be for them as well as others to see actually.

PW was founded to support oppressed lot of society. .... may be some reading on this direction would help. This link has some write-up on the legend Charu Mazumdar. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mazumdar/. It was an Armed reaction to non-responsive administration...... and THAT was the ROOT CAUSE...

Even now, the administration is not poor friendly.. and till it is not.. may be armed struggle would continue... I hope someone from Government of India (obviously someone influential enough) reads this.

Once incident in last week

During last week, I was traveling by a city bus to my office. On the way, bus stopped at a location. Two persons, who were looking like masons (workers from a construction site), boarded the bus and asked the bus conductor to issue them a ticket to a location (Shapurnagar). The bus conductor handed them two tickets and told them that bus will not go upto their destination (and will go upto balanagar, which is on way to shapurnagar).

My Observations:
1. Both Passengers were illiterate, and they could not read the bus board. As a result, they boarded a wrong bus.
2. The conductor did not give them a chance to get down at next stop, and take the correct bus, which would have taken them to their destination. Instead, He was probably interested only in getting them to buy tickets.
3. Both passengers were not aware of their basic rights. They took it as if it was their fate, did not ask to be allowed to get down at next stop, instead paid the fare, and probably would have taken another bus from last stop and obviously paid some more amount as bus fare.

If they would have got some education, what would have happened:
1. They would have been able to read the bus board, and would have boarded the right bus.
2. If they would have got some value education (on their rights), even if they would have boarded a bus wrongly, they would have been in position to ask the bus conductor to let them get down at the next stop so that they can catch correct bus.

Education may not make entire the population software professionals, but it should help people make right choices, avoid exploitation, and make them aware of their basic rights.

Education may not create revolutionaries, but will help create small change in society we live in. These small change will lead to a change in mindset, which itself will be probably a revolution......

What is the root cause of....

What is the root cause of no development in villages or interior parts of country?
What is the root cause of exploitation?
What is the root cause of unemployment?

I think it is lack of right education.

Robbery in DayLight

I have a pre-paid connection with AirTel AP Circle. on 2nd October, 2004, I got a msg saying that I had been enrolled in their SMS1 Plan automatically that will allow me to send local SMS with just 30 paise, by charging me 1 Rupee per day. I had never subscribed to such service. The SMS also gave me an option to unsubscribe from the service by sending sms to a number. I had immidiately send the cancellation request for SMS1 plan. I got a reply saying it will take 48 hours to process my request and it was processed on 3rd. But by this time, I was already charged 2 rupee for two days of SMS1 which I never opted for.

To think of it, if a mobile company had 4 lac users, who were forced to (automatically enrolled) and charged 1 rupee. It will create 4 Lac rupee revenue per day for the Mobile Company. Isn't this a daylight robbery?

Old Notes

Well,

I am going to include some old notes.. into blog as well to centralize all thoughts

gee... there will be lot of junk thoughts then..

Naxalites.. how they succeed

Do people still think naxalites work for people?

it is like a loop...

naxalites block development in their region. they even block road development, and make government and private enterprises move out..

people remain underdeveloped

underdeveloped people remain loyal to naxalites.

it is like a system feeding itself.. if there will be development.. then people will not need naxalites..

but if there will be naxalites, then there will not be any development...

my head is spinning now...

Gandhi Medical College and Engineering Students

a group of students can do so much, when they come together, and similarly group of doctors can do so much when they come together. Just that direction they took is utterly wrong.

What we see is,
1. an educated mass of people (engineers) losing faith in democratic society and taking up rule in their own hand.
2. another educated mass of people (doctors) losing faith in democratic society and denying services to patients... which may have lead to some people spending more money to get their treatment, and worse.. such as injuries and death..

Does show of streangth mean everything in life? I wonder...

What I think of This World

Hi,

Just thought that All that I think of This world, may be I can share with someone. so Here I am with my blog on what I think of this world.