2010 Agenda.

This year I believe that as a country we have certain agenda’s which we need to address so that we can grow as individual and as a nation. Country first, growth and golden future for all the Indians should be our agenda for the years to come; Growth should be spreading equally across all the social-economical level and should be visible. The issues that are hampering our growth as a nation and as an individual, there are some issues which are prevailing from last many years and some are the new entrants.

1. Terrorism: Terrorism has been a set back factor for so many years and not resolved till date there must be some way out to solve the issue, I don’t know but probably it can be solved through dialogues and an amicable solution can be derived.
   
2. Employment: After the downturn major of the working professional suffered an economic set back in terms of increments, package and growth and some of them even lost there jobs. The professionals who lost there job are still not able to grab a good job till date. It’s time to create new employment opportunities for the people especially for the people in unorganized sectors for which no one have a clear picture of the level of un-employment.
   
3. Poverty: “A country is poor because it is poor” Vicious circle. We as a country should work for eradicating the poverty by promoting entrepreneurship, creating ample employment opportunities, improving public distribution system etc. Given a statistics of some percentage of India not having even one full course meal, how can we take this country to the next level?
   
4. Inflation: We all Indians has never felt the heat of inflation as badly as we are facing now a days and on top of it we already have un-employment and poverty as major issue. If the children (who are our future) are not having a nutritious diet then the future is at stake.
   
5. Student’s safety: We treat our tourist with respect because we believe that “athithi devo bhavo” a guest is like a god. But our students and citizens are getting a step brother treatment in other nations. The people there are for study or business and directly/ indirectly adding to India’s bottom line growth. Assault/ ill- treatment to Indians outside, is Assault to India and is an national issue and need to be addressed immediately.
   
6. Go Green: We as a country have grown a lot and still we have inspirations for growth and industrial revolution. We all did this at a cost of something, and that something is nothing but the nature. We need to preserve the environment for the generations and should adopt and promote all the ways and means to “Go Green”.
   
7. Exam fever: Exam fever is taking a toll on students, not able to digest there failure or bear the pressure of exams, suicides are common among the students. There should be some way out to encourage students; counseling by parents, teachers and children welfare organization can help to ease out the examination pressure.
   
8. Deep penetration: Schemes meant for upliftment for poor, needy and targeted audience doesn’t reach to them but the middlemen get benefited, some methodology should be devised, so that the needy should be benefited and should reach/ availed by the targeted audience.
   
9. Natural Calamities: India being agriculture based economy; our attitude and seriousness towards agriculture is a concern, we all have an understanding that excess or deficit of water is devastating but the actions we have taken to address this issue are not sufficient enough.
   
10. Sex ratio: According to the Census of India, 2001, the sex ratio of India stands at 933 which is an marginal improvement from the 1991 Census (927 females for every 1000 males) “Woman Empowerment” should be an important agenda in development efforts

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Now, See the wind!

In conventional wind turbine wind forces the blades to spin which in turn spins the generator as a result of which electricity is product. Though the mechanism seems to be very simple but it is not that easy. To commission a Wind generators the location need to have powerful winds almost through out the year and If they are not properly angled towards the more howling of these gales, they can be damaged or destroyed. Tweaking and adjusting turbines so that their blades can harness the strongest air currents rather than be harmed by them is a normal part of turbine management

Now there is an development in early detecting the wind speed. The basic technology, called lidar (short for light detection and ranging) has been around since the 1970s. It is similar to radar in that it sends out electromagnetic waves and then analyses those waves that bounce back, to determine what they bounced off. The difference is that radar depends on radio waves. These have long wavelengths and therefore bounce only off large things.

Lidar uses light waves. Light has a much shorter wavelength and is readily reflected from small objects—one reason that human vision relies on it. Crucially, the light waves used in wind lidar are reflected by tiny, naturally occurring particles like water droplets, dust, pollen and salt crystals that drift along at the precise speed of the wind

Experimentally lidar is being used to scan incoming wind and determine how it was behaving before it struck the turbine by Dr Mikkelsen and his colleagues. The lidars scanned the approaching winds with a laser that produced infra-red light with a wavelength of 1.55 microns. Reflected light was detected by a device so sensitive that it could pick up one returning photon (the quantum-mechanical particles of which light is composed) out of every thousand billion fired by the laser. The computer which analyses the lidar data can be connected to the motors that adjust the pitch of the turbine blades, in order to maximize energy production and reduce damage

The concept is under test stage and not sure whether it is commerically available.

Information source: economist.com
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Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild

After reversing a 4 day losing streak, European stocks may once again edge lower on Wednesday, sparked by China fears and weakness in Asia.

American market were trading red after new guidelines being issued to the banking and financial institutes. Hong Kong was all trading in red from last 4-5 trading session, Japan was trading in negative territory following the global clues and news of JAL filing for bankruptcy pulled down the sentiments. Indian markets were also not an exception with the indexes falling nearly 6% from 20th January.

Big news to the global economy is that the top business leaders and politicians from around the world are coming to the Swiss mountain resort Davos for a five-day forum (World Economic Forum) , which kicks starts off from today.

The official theme of this year's Davos is "Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild". Debate on how best to reform the global financial system is set to be the dominating agenda in the event - the 40th of its kind. Bankers and regulators are expected to clash on where to draw the line when it comes to financial reform.

Most Asian stocks traded in the red near two-month lows on Wednesday, hurt by lower commodity prices and lackluster cues from Wall Street overnight amid concerns about the pace of economic recovery. Investors looked forward to the conclusion of a two-day policy meeting by the U.S Federal Reserve, for clues on the health of the world's largest economy.

On Wall Street, stocks declined by modest margins on Tuesday, unable to hold onto their earlier gains despite some positive news on consumer confidence. The day's optimism was overshadowed by concerns regarding prospective policies to be presented by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address on Wednesday


Information source: rttnews.com

Growth Concerns

China GDP grew by 10.7% year on year in the fourth quarter. Industrial production registered a jump of 18.5% in the year to December, while retail sales registered the growith of 17.5% and the rise in retail sales last year was the biggest for over two decades.

Economists are now worrying that the Chinese economy is overheating and inflation is taking off , the 12-month rate of consumer-price inflation rose to 1.9% in December. The recent rise in inflation was caused mainly by higher food prices as a result of severe winter weather in northern China. In many cities, fresh-vegetable prices have more than doubled in the past two months. Analyst suggest that it is not just food prices that risk pushing up inflation: the economy is starting to exceed its speed limit.

If the economy growes, then the extraordinarily rapid growth in money and credit over the past year could quickly spill into inflation. The growth in bank credit slowed to 32% in the year to December, but that is still far too fast. The central bank has started to drain liquidity by lifting banks’ reserve requirements, and some banks have been told to reduce their lending. The bank will probably not raise official interest rates until inflation breaches 3%, but that could be as soon as February.

Information source: economist.com

Sugar and milk conspire to make my tea dearer!

Few months back no one has ever thought of, that sugar will be touching 45-50 Rupees/ kg. But what was never though, happened and to our surprise costing of one kilogram of sugar today is equal to half a kilogram of sweets a few days ago.

The reason for steep increase in price is due to high demand and low supply, There is low supply of sugarcane because of the bad monsoon. After we tasted the costliest sugar of our life (hope that it does not cross this level in my life at least) we are going to face the heat of rising milk prices especially in north India. There is a sudden deficit between the demand and supply as a result of which prices are supposed to be heading north.

To abridge the gap between demand and supply there is a probability of price rise; also milk from other parts of India will be routed to north India market as a result of which there can be short supply of milk in the remaining country. And as we all understand a little bit of economy and demand supply rule “Short supply result to price increase”

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What is humanity

Every Religion talks about humanity, helping out poor and needy।
Instinct of all religion remains same but people have lot of disparity।

Religion says to serve him, serve human beings/His people।
Mad rush for serving him, ignoring human being/his people.


चलो आज हम इक और शीश महल बनायेंगे, जाने कितने ही लोग आज आसमान के निचे सो जायेंगे
चलो आज हम शीश महल में भोज मनेयेंगे, जाने कितने ही बच्चे आज भूखे सो जायेंगे
चलो आज हम शीश महल को वस्त्रो से सजायेंगे, जाने कितने अध्- नंगे और नंगे हो जाएँगे
चलो आज हम पैसा देकर अपने पाप मिटेंगे, जाने कितने लोगो के घर लूट ले आयेंगे
चलो आज हम एक और शीश महल बनायेंगे

Are subsidiary helpful?

Economic policies in India are govern by the myths and prejudices and are not helpful/ favorable to the common man. Government has taken various steps to support the poorer people and announced many incentives but whether this support system and incentive reach to the target people, is a debatable question and needs to be quantified.

Government has increased the Minimum Support Price (MSP’S) for the food grains but this incentive is good for powerful and minority of farmers who have a sizable marketable surplus and have access to government program but majority of farmers are poor marginal farmers and are hurt by higher food prices, because they are the net buyers of food grains. There are millions of landless laborers who are the net buyers of food grains, are directly affected by higher food prices. With inflation figures with a historic high, higher food grain prices are badly affecting each and every common man of the country.

Government has provided subsidiaries on food, fuel and electricity to help the poorer class and to the people living below poverty level. But these subsidiaries help only few people in few states where there is a strong public distribution system. Majority of the India’s poor do not have access to the public distribution system and are deprived from the subsidized food and power. Subsidy on electricity is utilized by handful of farmers who are rich and have electricity driven equipments for farming, but major of the farmers neither have tube wells nor power connections at there homes, so cheap electricity does not make any meaning to them.

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