Rape at Delhi and Solving the problem with better Policing

 The rape at Delhi was horrifying indeed. A new way to deal with the perpetrators is to induce a sense of fear and good policing by checking the group negative 'thrill of the chase' syndrome.




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Far Worse Ferocious Tigers with Skewed Thinking on the Prowl

A tiger was shot and killed by the joint forces of Kerala and Karnataka forest officials. It has been reported and evidence found that the tiger has been endangering the livestock from free grazing and thus there was no other alternative, but to kill it. So the argument goes as far as the Kerala Forest Department views are concerned. However, is that all to the story or there is more?

Undoubtedly, the green activists have come down heavily on the killing of the tiger that had killed some livestock presumably to feed on it and surely not for whiling away its time. The pertinent question that arises out of that shooting is whether the tiger was dangerous to human life or not. This would give suitable answer to the question as to whether the act of killing the highly endangered animal in this hasty way. Wasn’t it that the local population had encroached upon the land meant for the tiger?

There is little doubt that the shooting was done rather hastily and this can easily be gathered from the opinions aired by none other than the Karnataka Forest Officers. The circumstantial evidence conforms that the officers had fired two tranquilizer bullets on the tiger. They presumably have to wait for at least twenty to thirty minutes for the effect to take place and yet the crowd of people who had come to watch the scene was all too enthusiastic about the killing than the waiting. The frightened forest officials seeing the vehement protests from the people had no other option, but to shoot the tiger in an untimely manner. This could have been easily avoided what with arrangement of a safe place in Thrissur zoo has been planned the moment the tiger was brought captured and live. It could have also created a large number of daily visitors and would have made quite a pile of money for the zoo.

Changing the Mindset is Necessary

There is yet another circumstantial evidence projecting the mindset of the people of Kerala. Most of the crowd behavior indicates unsystematic reasoning or logic of the whole event that had taken place in the forest area and so also for many other events far removed from this. There is a concerted effort to create a logical base within the larger illogical biasness. For instance, there is an acute shortage of land and not quite a lot of average people would have ever thought it from this angle. There is a move for urbanization of scattered housing rather than pitching in for apartments within segregated plots. The idea of keeping the land prices high is significant pointer to this case as the idea of encroaching on the government lands and the forest lands. Tiger killing is a triumph of the vested interest giving sound justification to an otherwise easily manageable problem.

The same is the case with Lallur in Thrissur and Lallur like situation where un-cultivable areas for safe waste disposals have been hijacked by land mafia and they in turn had provided areas or plots of land to ordinary people to allow construction of houses. Naturally, the residents who had so constructed their cheap houses in that cheaply available land are now in arms against the treatment of wastes there. This gives room for a lot of anomalies in future governmental programs and administrative policies for the betterment of the state as a whole.

It is an all too well known fact that Kerala has the highest density of population per square kilometer and the future of housing developing or rather affordable housing is quite remote. The future of Kerala is best seen in close knit colonies or high rise apartment blocks and not in spreading of urbanization or scattered dwellings. A larger area of forest land has to be preserved and protected and what is left has to be utilized for agriculture. But unfortunately the people here have killed the ‘larger tiger of thinking and reasoning’.

Is Writing Difficult and Compulsively Deviating?

Is Writing Difficult and Compulsively Deviating?

Have You Ever Thought of Making Your Own Kitchen Cabinet?

Have You Ever Thought of Making Your Own Kitchen Cabinet?

Construction and Infrastructure Booms Foretell Terraced Garden Growth

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Great Diwali or Is it Another Dewalia

Diwali is indeed the festival of lights and colors in most parts of India. The resplendent colorful decoration as well as the showy dresses that folks wear is a delightful experience for any beholder. As legend says the all powerful evil force in the form of Narakasura (Demon) has been ultimately destroyed on this day by the Lord Vishnu.

Yet one wonders whether everything around speaks the essence of Diwali or are there still a sizable part of the population trying to eke out a living. What about those that are already seeing the dark sides of the evil of which they have neither designed nor have seen it coming. Many of these innocent lots must have declared ‘Dewalia’ instead of Diwali. The word ‘Dewalia’ means bankruptcy in Hindi as they would say in the northern parts of the country while Diwali means festival of lights. If somebody becomes bankrupt they might say ‘Bhukharam ko Dewalia ghoshid kar diya gaya’. It means that Bhukaram has been declared bankrupt.

Let’s not hope too pessimistically about such bad turn of events as this is a good day. But one cannot help wondering with negative IIP data, Export sluggishness and industrial production falling below expectation whether we should take things a little more seriously. 

Have You Ever Thought of Making Your Own Kitchen Cabinet?

Have You Ever Thought of Making Your Own Kitchen Cabinet?

Is Writing Difficult and Compulsively Deviating?

Is Writing Difficult and Compulsively Deviating?

Tokaro- A Made for All Weather Horse

Tokaro- A Made for All Weather Horse

Your Cheaper Quarter Horse for Making Money

Your Cheaper Quarter Horse for Making Money

Is Quarter Horse The Most Perfect Breed of Horses?

Is Quarter Horse The Most Perfect Breed of Horses?

A Poem Inspired by an Acquaintance

A Poem Inspired by an Acquaintance

Getting Focused and Achieving a Higher Levels of Concentration

Getting Focused and Achieving a Higher Levels of Concentration

Word Secularism is Now Synonymous with Hostility

Secularism in the modern sense has less meaning due to the frequency at which it is occurring and the way it is being used to place an argument before the public. The actual literary meaning has been lost and buried in the casualness of general behavior and the loose talk that go around it. There are people who even think that the word ‘secularism’ is itself assumed a biased tone in it.

Hence, it is no wonder that word ‘secularism’ is being used with different connotation in today’s politics. Thus, there is need for urgent change in the manner in which it being spoken and read. As is seen nowadays secularism in the modern sense should therefore mean recognizing the merits only of differentiation between communities as a positive cultural difference that could be exchanged among various groups to foster a better lifestyle and well being. It is apparent that there should be no thrust from one cultural group on another and each group entity remains apart only on their religious beliefs and nothing else.

We are unnecessarily trying to make the whole of mankind into a homogeneous lot which obviously brings a lot of friction to the fore and is wastage of energy. Rather, we ought to change the levels of perceptions of people to a common positive ground on economic, society goals, education of the masses, improving living conditions, gender equality and increasing the overall health and sanitation. By focusing on these we take religion as an individual effort to spiritual solution.

I had stated that the world today is a linguistically and religiously a divided wonderland in my article Mystery of the Mysterious Inflation and  Organic and Inorganic Growth which you can assess at www.econobusichange.blogspot.in

It is utterly irritating to hear the noise ‘secularism’ every now and then.

Fast Track KMRC Now in Deep Confusion

         A new development has surfaced as the ambitious plan for the Kochi Metro Rail Corporation project is being put track so that the work starts off smoothly without any interference. This time the reports in the newspapers say that the DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) with whom the former has tied up is too busy with its own work in Delhi and may not involve in another project quite readily. This is not lack of simple bureaucratic delay or official misunderstanding, but the simple reason is that there is no action plan that categorically states the project’s implementation and schedule route through proper supply chain of subcontracting parts of works and also the training and retraining and upgrading of personnel both on technological side and management side. If you look at things a bit carefully then you can notice that the DMRC is only an overseer and the rest of the management inputs and detailed supply chain process wherever the former has undertaken work are all with Japanese companies as stakeholder. If the KMRC (Kerala Metro Rail Corporation) has to see the project go through then it would have to invite bids whether partly or wholly on contract or subcontract basis with the Japanese Metro Rail organization and then the DMRC can oversee it along with KMRC. Sometimes, the KMRC would have to give it on subcontract to other companies around the world as it is usually done the world over for tapping into pockets of comparative technological efficiencies.

     Then what ails the project? There are perhaps only a few personnel in the DMRC who knows about the supply chain route and the ways and means of giving subcontract work to genuine overseas contractors. Unlike the Calcutta Metro Rail where the whole project was done with the supervision of the DMRC and advisory participation of the Japanese Company the present job would mean some changes in the position of the stakeholders as they would like to have a stake in the whole project. This would mean that some foreign companies might want to act as significant stakeholder in such projects. This can become politically sensitive issue in a state fraught with politics in almost all walks of life with parties taking extreme stands every now and then. From the look of it this is perhaps what is becoming a stumbling block to an otherwise great project.

MOVEMENT OF VEHILCES AND LOGISTICS FOR HAZARDOUS GOODS

       The LPG tanker blast at Chala in Kannur has claimed many lives and left twice as much as inured. Such tragedies are not common to Kerala state alone, but can take place anywhere in India. Given the rate of consumption of LPG within the country and its use in industrial purposes as well as the transportation of other hazardous chemicals from one place to another, it is becoming all the more important to have laws and other mandatory regulations in place in a more comprehensive manner.

      The present rules and regulations for the transportation of goods and services are quite in their basics and may require some pruning and sharpening so as to be ready for the next generation of movement and transportation of such goods within the country. For this the both the Central and the respective State governments must act to have a more updated laws in place. This is more so as the country is one of the most important emerging economies where future consumptions of LPG and other chemicals would sky rocket rendering the previous laws and rules and regulations lacking in foresight or having the necessary security and safety requirements in place.

       Already there are several features in the acts of road transports which distinguish different modes of transport and the categories each belong and what are the stipulation of licensing such vehicles and fitness tests for such vehicles. Apart from ability to drive the HEAVY VEHICLES there are educational requirement as per the Act. This is especially so in the case of drivers of carriage carrying dangerous or hazardous goods. The following is the direct quote as per the Central Motor Vehicles Act.

“One year from the date of commencement of Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 1993, any person driving a goods carriage carrying goods of dangerous or hazardous nature to human life, in addition of being the holder of a driving license to drive a transport vehicle, also has the ability to read and write at least one Indian language out of those specified in the VII Schedule of the Constitution and English and also possess a certificate of having successfully passed a course consisting of flowing syllabus and periodicity connected with the transport of such good.”

     The Act then details the requirements as below which are written here is in abridged form only.

Period of Training:                                                       3 days

Place of Training:                                                         At any institute recognized by the State Government

     A:   (Pertains to defensive training,

             Questionnaire, driving fitness etcetera       Duration of training for A & B – 1^st and 2^nd day

             etcetera)                                               

      B: Advance driving skills and training                      (left blank)

Place of training:                                                          At any institute recognized by the State Governments.

                                           ___________________________________

    From the above it is quite clear that the Act has been put in place to address the genuine requirements of the driver of the Heavy Vehicle carrying hazardous chemicals like LPG and others for domestic use or industrial purposes.   The above blank portion in Schedule B is perhaps to give a little flexibility for the State governments to make such stipulations under its act. However, there is lack of coordinated strategy while transporting hazardous chemicals especially for those passing from one state to another when different states have their own stipulations and rules. The differences may arise due to political and economical conditions and some may be more liberal than the other states while some may be a little more stringent. For instance, Kerala which has the highest density of population in India when compared to other states per square kilometer and is therefore more prone to risks and may have more stringent transportation rules than other states. This obviously puts it in disadvantage for products like LPG or other industrial chemicals are also a must to feed its own consumption and meet its own industrial needs. Therefore, all such acts pertaining to hazardous chemical transportation should be the same for all states by a stringent Central Government Act common to all states.

      Apart from the rules of the law there must also be a lawful process wherein the driving license for transportation of hazardous materials given to drivers be made flexible for demoting them in the event of any mishap. This would mean that the licenses of the driver would automatically move them from the drivers of hazardous materials to drivers of ordinary light to heavy vehicles. Strict laws like hazardous carriages should only follow a straight path and not deviate and that in such cases necessary policing should be mandated so that traffic blocks could be avoided so as to make way for smooth passage for these vehicles. This would mean that sufficient time would be given to these vehicles especially during non-peak traffic time to give uninterrupted movement from one identified spot to another some distance away so that the drivers needn’t have to put strain in speeding the vehicle or overtaking. Above all there must be regular conditioning and maintenance of roads wherever such carriages are made to pass. Alternate supply routes like the rail, undergone gas pipeline are to be given preference as these are seen to be relatively safer methods of transport as statistics of other countries reveal.
       The government on its part should have a clear law governing the incentives and emoluments that are to be paid to drivers of Heavy vehicles carrying hazardous chemicals as they are doing a more riskier duty of transporting such hazardous necessities for the well being of the society. If they err in some serious manner they ought to be instantly demoted, but they may carry on driving other commercial vehicles without the incentive or special considerations.