Normal And Abnormal

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia and Sangeeta Phogat protesting against WFI chief in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. (Indebted to Mint for the image and description) According to media reports the women wrestlers are protesting for the past three months demanding the arrest of the Wrestling Federation chief on the charge of sexual assault. As per the report by Indian Express, the protesting wrestler Bajrang Punia said, "Justice for India's daughters is more important than the Asian Games Medal" Opposition leaders have slammed the Centre for the inaction. In the international rankings India stands far below in women's safety in the world. Our safety of women is confined to election speeches only. Since the Central Government has not taken adequate interest in the matter, the protests being done the way it is, not likely to yield any favourable results. There are two options for the protesting wrestlers. One, try to get nation wide attention an...

Jubail Industrial City of Saudi Arabia As per available reports 21,537 state government employees are to be retired in 2023. Under normal practice these numbers are reported to PSC and necessary new recruitments  are made. However, considering the present indigent financial situation, better not to refill these vacancies through PSC. Try to get the required number of staff from other departments. As per a rough estimation the annual salary of these staff works out to about Rs 215 Cr. At the present financial condition, the state cannot bear this amount. If a thorough search is made in all departments transfer can be sought for adequate number of actually needed staff. In order to get over the present financial situation we may have to adjust with the situation. Alongwith the above arrangement for government staff, we may look for new avenues for creating jobs in private sector. If the existing resources are properly availed we may be able to deploy over two lakhs qualif...

       (Our future Minister) According to a report of India Today, 'Out of the 539 winners analysed in Lok Sabha 2019, 233 MPs have declared criminal cases against themselves.' This comes to be over 43 per cent. This is the 76th year after independence.  India rank 5th in the world in nominal GDP of 2023 with $3.468 tn behind USA $25.035 tn, China $18.321 tn, Japan $4.300 tn and Germany $4.031 tn. As per a report by Prasanna Mohanty in Fortune India on December 29, 2022, "Union Cabinet's decision of December 23, 2022, that the central government will provide free food grains to  about 81.35 crores beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 for a year from January 2023, implies that India has as many (813.5 million) poor who need to be fed for free. This shows that 57% of the then population of 142 crores were poor. As per 2011 census report only 8.15% of Indians are graduates. Of the 55 million workers available during that p...

Hindu as well as Buddhist philosophy of India give great significance to a guest visiting us. This great saying denotes our age old culture. We treat guest as God 'Athithi Devo Bhava' means Guest is God. When our country is giving too much significance to Tourism, every Indian must learn the meaning of these words and it's significance in the tourism sector. While focusing on international tourism we can find that the tourist inflow to our country and the revenue from it, we are much below many countries. The ITDC as well as KTDC may give more attention to the tourists visiting and all those facilitated to them. The most important among these is the network within . the country especially road and rail transport should not be suspended under any reason. Suspension of transport make the tourist stranded in an unfamiliar situation and spoil their tour itinerary. Another common nuisance is closing of shops mainly by political parties under the name of some protests...

(Image courtesy, The Hindu) If the media reports can be believed Thanur boat tragedy is an after effect of corruption. Various government departments including police have brought to the notice of the concerned officials about different irregularities from time to time about the boat involved in the accident. Since the authorities concerned seemed to have not taken any corrective measures, some malpractices can be suspected. With the existing intelligence network each concerned official can be identified. If such people are caught, there would be several interference to save the culprits. Such amount of human lives may not matter for them. Such nasty humans are only concerned with money. However, within our existing socio-political system, if some strong Association and a few media can pursue the matter constantly it may produce some results. If we fail to expose the delinquents at least in this case, better we admit corruption openly and prepare for similar happenings agai...

The waterways being constructed between Kovalam to Bakel was originally scheduled for completion in 2017. Now it is reported to have been extended to 2015. The 620 km waterway will be multiadvantageous for the state of Kerala. This waterway shall boost the tourism sector of Kerala as well as the country as a whole. We must deploy high speed luxurious boats for the entire distance specially for tourists. It should also be more useful and attractive for the local people. The boats should be of different categories like passenger capacity of 60 people, 40, 20 and 10. There should also be car like speed boats with 4/6 seater capacity. Since goods transport through waterways will cost only about one third comparing to road transport, many goods like LPG cylinders, petroleum products, fertilizers and chemicals, Marine products, Marine cargo for local delivery etc can be transported through waterways by goods transport boats. Above all wide use of waterways may bring down road tra...