KIIT FEST

Hi KIIT ians, very best wishes for a grand success of KIIT FEST 2016. KIIT FEST not only should set the standards of “young organization” to show case the inherent talent of student community of India; but, it must also look at transforming the entire locality of “C.Spur” as the KIIT TOWNSHIP just like its counterparts like OXFORD in Britain and HARVARD in Boston in USA. While, I wish KIITians during the fest must enjoy to the full while displaying their Engineering, Management and Leadership Skills and other entertainment domains; they should and must also think about how to deploy their “Knowledge & Skills” for the benefit of society by solving real problems of the day. Therefore, I would urge KIITians to think about “ADOPTING” the Chandrashekharpur residential area in their out reach program so as to Transform the Area into a Global Standard “KIIT UNIVERSITY TOWNSHIP”.     

I would rather plead with the 25000 student’s community of KIIT to take leadership of their locality and identify the problems, find solution, generate resources and implement their plans to Transform the area of Chandrashekharpur as no one would have expected, ever. The Founder of KIIT and KIIS has been admired Globally and brought laurels for the country. Now, it is about time the Students of KIIT to show case if they belong to the same “enterprising” DNA as their Founder Shri Achyuta Samanta.  

What KIITians could do for the locality?

While taking the walk in the morning on the main road of KIIT, the stanching smell from thriving business would greet you at first and garbage dump littered in the area which is far cry from well architecture buildings of KIIT University. Why the young students should suffer such an environment; instead of taking the challenge and finding solution which will help them to hone their knowledge & skills and validate their readiness for taking bigger responsibility in life- at the work place and Family. The outcome of such effort of KIIT students would also project a “can do” image with the recruiters.

1. First is awareness

Can 25,000 students take an initiative to create awareness among people?—residences and business establishments to maintain cleanliness and hygiene for our own health and advancement?

         When you direct your mind to solve a big problem; then, your mind would come up with new Ideas and you will find source of new knowledge & skill and when you do this in a group, you shall create a revolution. In India we do not have a tradition or precedent among student community to “Identify Problems” and Research for Solutions in recent times. Therefore, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Face Book and Twitter are all Western Inventions and we are only consumers of Global products and services. Shall we change this? KIITians will decide. In this project of creating awareness about cleanliness, health & hygiene so many KIIT Schools competency could be tested. Like Communication, Content generations, Volunteers recruitment and training—spanning Engineering, Medical, Management, Fine Art and others.

2. Second is to maintain cleanliness in the locality

Charity begins at home and therefore students have to first maintain the cleanliness of their hostel room and wash area and also share “Gyan” to residents and business establishments. Here, students would face challenges from the Old Habit of people and Public authorities like BMC and BDA. You have to find new methods and tools to persuade the Civic Authorities to do their job 100% perfectly, Campaign to convince residents to convert their Organic Wastes into Compost for use in the garden as manure---and, that would reduce the quantum of Solid Waste by 50% and therefore less work for our Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation which has become complacent after becoming Numero Uno in the SMART City competition.

3. Water Conservation

 “Water is life and life is water” KIITians should also consider doing advocacy on water conservation in their operational area of C.S.Pur. That should include among other things, persuade people/residents/business/apartment complexes to go for Rain Water Harvesting System that would over a period of time could raise water table and support better quality green cover. KIITians with their engineering skills could design and execute Rain Water Harvesting Structure for Residents and Apartment Complexes at a reasonable cost, the surplus generated out of such activities would help the student’s body to spread their wings in its outreach program. The objective here should be to convert the entire area Rain Water harvesting Compliant.

4. Green Cover

KiiTians could also consider improving the green cover in the locality. They could raise volunteers and go for massive plantation in the locality so much so that Bird species would like to inhabit the place and create a conducive environment with their chirping sounds for education and research in the KIIT TOWNSHIP.

5. Solar Energy

Kiitians also could choose to promote Solar Energy by persuading people to use Roof Top Solar Panels for their captive energy needs. That should give an opportunity to KIIT Engineering students to go for R&D to develop world class photovoltaic cells to offer cost effective solution to people in the area and to become the role model all over the country.

Friends, if you like this proposal please share this with the KIITians in the beginning and end of your KIIT FEST to see their response. I wish to see an Arch at Kalinga Hospital Square that reads “Welcome to KIIT UNIVESITY TOWSHIP”.

Cheers.

Bikash Chudhury

Socio-Economic-Political Activist

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Real Estate Sector Need Encouragement for Faster GDP Growth in Short Run

1. I propose a scheme to develop 546 District Secretariat at Dist. HQ to accommodate all district Offices of State/Central Government to bring synergy and easier coordination.

2. District Secretariat could be planned for 1 Lakh Sq. Ft each in respective 546 Districts in the country.

3. Land could be provided by the State Government Free of Cost; and Private Real Estate Players could be selected on E-Tender on BoT basis with Lucrative EMI Options to be payed by Central & State Govt on a ratio of 75:25. Further, offer could be made attractive enough with arrangement with Banks by secularization of receivables/soft loans.

4.Government of India could make this announcement along with this years buget speech or separately for boosting the Capital Market with inflow of FII & FDI.

5. With Activity in Real Estate Sector other sectors like Manufacturing and Services could be attract Investment and Growth.

Hope Niti Aayog Consider this proposal on its Merit and advise the Goverment in a suitable manner.

Indian Growth Model

Bikash Choudhury

We have all heard the oft repeated quote ‘marriages are made in the heaven while Mullahs make money’ one more identical quote could be proffered now ‘Traders make a killing while Farmers give up their lives’. To be precise 1.2 million farmers gave up their lives in last one decade on account of repeated farm failure and growing loan burden on their shoulder. If we look back into the pages of history; India was rich and famous with its Agri, Agro and Forestry while it had gone places in Art, Architecture, Literature and culture. All our World Class monuments like Konark to Taj Mahal, Khajurao to Red Fort and Globally acclaimed Educational portal—Nalanda was created from the income of an agrarian economy for say 1500 years. If it is so then why our farmers have to kill themselves brutally for not being able to support themselves and their family from the income generated out of Agriculture? Since, the first generation of reforms of 1991; our politicians, economist and arm chair intellectuals in the living room constantly argue about a need for an appropriate Growth Model; however, we have not come to a conclusion yet. And, many commentators are looking at Infrastructure led model of USA, Technology Innovation Model of Japan and Manufacturing sponsored Growth Model of China & South Korea. Keeping in view of the fast changing climatic condition in the planet and growing human population, India should and must adopt the “Agrarian Growth Model” for faster & sustainable development of the country. Further, incase of India over 70 % population live in rural areas and since, all most all farm lands are located in rural areas; Agrarian Growth Model would be able to touch and influence the lives of maximum people in the country. With improved and growing farm income in rural areas there would be demand for good quality education and healthcare which can be provided by private sector at a price and with profit which would improve the investment climate in rural areas which would open the flood gate for innovation and entrepreneurship in the areas of post harvest care of farm produce, its storage, processing and market linkages while creating employment opportunity through creation of adequate numbers of non-farm jobs cementing an eco-system that could attract investments from cities and towns in to allied farming activities which in itself give impetus to growth across the economy. Having argued enough in favor of ‘Agrarian Growth Model’, can we leave behind other two important drivers of our economy- manufacturing and infrastructure, never. GoI and a few State governments have already taken series of initiatives in these two sectors like ‘Make in India & Digital India’ for manufacturing and concerted efforts for expansion & speed in Road and Rail sector that would soon capture the attention of domestic private sector and foreign investors. However, the Government initiatives in Farm Sectors are constrained by easy credit, farm subsidy, and support price mechanism until recently; Prime Minister has now announced an extensive “Farm Insurance” scheme that would certainly come to the rescue of our farming community; however, those could not take the place of a growing need for a Structural Change in our Agrarian Economy that deals with entire gamut of issue pertaining to our current approach to farming, its processing and distribution. Farmer suicides are just the symptom of non-remunerative farming in the country; the principal disease is much more catastrophic and dangerous--- that is falling Nutrient Content in our Farm Lands with indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides which again creating a very high cost Agri-Economy that has turned toxic with increasingly unpredictable Climate Change Phenomena and paucity of Irrigation Infrastructure. We now have to examine seriously and junk the current model agriculture and return to our Natural Method of Agriculture which is low cost and sustainable; apart from that it would produce Healthy Food Products without contamination of toxic fertilizer or pesticides. It is also expected to attract optimum valuation for mass produced organic food products with growing Global Health Awareness. It is quite easier said than done. But, if we consciously choose the “Agrarian Model of Growth” for our country; then, we could walk an extra mile to make it happen. GoI and respective State Governments have to make a concerted effort on Agriculture Extension program to create awareness among our farming community on Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) that uses locally available farm inputs from seeds, manure and pest control materials which are effective and low cost. It is important now to concede that it is next to impossible for the Government to provide 100% Irrigation Infrastructure for our farms; however, it is possible to conserve maximum possible rain water through a ‘popular public movement for rain water harvesting’; with improvement in water table the productivity of our Agriculture sector would grow substantively with minimum cost. Government could also encourage Co-operatives large scale farming and corporate farming through suitable incentives; Government also needs to attract private investments in Food Storage and Food Processing Industry that should kill the Farm Wastages from food to plate. GoI has announced a Village Cluster Policy for rural areas which need to be extended to private sector with fiscal incentive or suitable prescription in the CSR policy of the Government. Private sector investments in the Farm Sector of our country would multiply the top line and bottom line of corporate sector and trade. This would be a very challenging exercise for the Union Government as Agriculture remains a State subject which would require a proactive collaboration between State & Central Govt. apart from co-operation of all Political Parties inside and outside parliament.

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