AUTOMATIC TOILET

Indian Space Research organization (ISRO) successfully sent a space craft to Mars on a shoe string budget of four hundred crore rupees, which is a world first. Can’t India design an automatic toilet just like an automatic washing machine with a MSP of Rs.10000.00? India has taken long stride in micro-processor technology, bio-technology and electronics which can be generously used and applied to make a low cost but high-tech toilet that would consume less water and should be capable of processing the night soil into compost, filter the water for non-portable use or, that could be simply drained out while killing the foul odor. This automatic toilet should save the need and cost of expensive sewerage pipeline and treatment plant in cities and towns. This is some thing which could be deployed smoothly across the country to make “Swachh Bharat” a reality soon. A country where an over 62% population goes out in the open to relieve themselves holds a market potential of over $ 700 billion USD in Indian house holds alone. If we could design a SMART TOILET just like SMART PHONES and WHAT APPS then India could truly be on the highway towards economic transformation. Any takers?    

Bikash Choudhury

Bhubaneswar     

PONZY SCHEME TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE

BIKASH CHOUDHURY

Ponzy schemes have taken a heavy toll of scamsters, politicians, real-estate builders in recent CBI investigation in Odisha and West Bengal. The amount swindled from poor depositors estimated to be about Fifty Thousand Crores of Rupees. The bottom line is as long as the craze for higher return exist such scamsters would reappear again and again in newer avatar; unless Govt. steps in a substantive manner. Modi Govt. could create a virtue out of the huge demand for “Investment Products” with 20-25 % return in a year. Indian infrastructure sector need huge funding to make World Class Infrastructure available to its people in next decade. One important aspect of fulfillment of Infrastructure need in the country is mostly overlooked—that is the capacity of infrastructure sector to pay for itself if done in a time frame. If our country at one stroke provide for World Class Road, Rail, Air connectivity and Inland & Coastal shipping services in a period of ten years then the savings accrued and productivity enhanced could pay for the infrastructure more than proportionately to its investors. Govt. has taken series of steps to improve the FDI climate to attract investment from abroad in various sectors of the economy including the infrastructure sector. It is now time to aggregate the domestic investors for sunrise infra sector. The other benefits could be the demand for yellow metal as investment option would come down substantially reducing the pressure on current account deficit.