If I were Santa, I would have transformed
every manually operating system of this country into a computerised one. What
India suffers most at this point of time is the un-equal distribution of
capital; people at the grass root level find it difficult to earn a single
piece of bread for a day whereas people from the upper layers of the society
thrive on the efforts of the people from the bottom tier of the society.
The chances of forgery increases when there
is no particular method of keeping track of the funds; that comes in and the
funds that go out. What lies in between, marks the difference between these 2
tiers of the society. The Santa is a mascot of happiness, the mascot of peace
and prosperity; with the advent of the new generation called the e-Generation,
the Santa has become more and more object oriented.
And thus, carrying the legacy forward,
Santa’s cherished bliss for the Tech-Minded world should be to impart basic
computer skills to one and all, so that people can themselves cross-check and
figure out any mismatch what-so-ever. Santa’s magic way should establish
internet connectivity all over the world to connect them together in a single
web!
Furthermore, for the better –utility and
safety of money, I would change the base material of currency. Each note would
be manufactured out of specially designed microcontroller chip based materials
with password encoding so that they can be easily tracked in case of suspected
mismatch. Furthermore, I would develop a “Wish-machine” – A software to be installed
in each of the computers which can be used only once in a span of 4 years to
achieve a dream gadget of your choice, *until stocks last :P
I have been an active part of one of the top
consulting firms of the world and as the key project resource for the
Government based projects, I would like to sight this as one of the most
important issues of modern times. People seek
respite from the slow and unreliable services (services include obtaining certificates,pensions,licenses,RTI,Grievances
etc) offered by the district/block-offices in the various parts of the country
where it takes a substantial amount to time to get their certificates done.
This is a major concern because in case of remote villages, it’s not possible
to travel to the districts or the blocks regularly to track the progress of
their desired service. Plus in many of the cases they do not even get to know
the reason for the rejection of their application, if at all that happens to be
the case. This also includes the factor that applications might be misplaced or
damaged if transferred manually in files from one office to the other in
sequential flow.
Thus as per Government orders, the e-District plan has been initialised in almost all the states of India which includes the use of technology for the betterment of the existing system, to expedite the process of getting approvals and to reduce the chances of wear and tear. However, to include all the levels of Government workers under this system, the familiarisation with the usage of computers is a prime challenge. It has to be taken into consideration that these people have been using the manual system for years and thus the sudden transformation is going to have both: positive and negative feedbacks, the later one dominating the former in most of the cases. To complete the flow of the system, the gram panchayat karamcharis have to be imparted with computer handling capabilities as well which can prove to be one of the toughest jobs ever. The signatures to be used as an approving medium have to be converted into a digital signature as well. Thus explicit planning and a systematic flow have to be followed if the whole system has to be computerized and made fully functional in the next 5 years.
Thus as per Government orders, the e-District plan has been initialised in almost all the states of India which includes the use of technology for the betterment of the existing system, to expedite the process of getting approvals and to reduce the chances of wear and tear. However, to include all the levels of Government workers under this system, the familiarisation with the usage of computers is a prime challenge. It has to be taken into consideration that these people have been using the manual system for years and thus the sudden transformation is going to have both: positive and negative feedbacks, the later one dominating the former in most of the cases. To complete the flow of the system, the gram panchayat karamcharis have to be imparted with computer handling capabilities as well which can prove to be one of the toughest jobs ever. The signatures to be used as an approving medium have to be converted into a digital signature as well. Thus explicit planning and a systematic flow have to be followed if the whole system has to be computerized and made fully functional in the next 5 years.
All in all, it is an extremely challenging goal, but there lies the future of India- The future of mankind!
