HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2012

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HOW TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PERSON ..?

Put about 100 bricks in some

Particular order in a closed
Room with an Open window.. 

Then send 2 or 3 candidates in
The room and close the door.

Leave them alone and come back
After 6 hours and then analyze
The situation.

If they are counting the Bricks.
Put them in the accounts Department.

If they are recounting them.. 
Put them in auditing .
 
If they have messed up the
Whole place with the bricks.
Put them in engineering.

If they are arranging the
Bricks in some strange order.
Put them in planning.

If they are throwing the
Bricks at each other. 
Put them in operations .
 
If they are sleeping.
Put them in security.
 
If they have broken the bricks
Into pieces..
Put them in information
Technology.

If they are sitting idle.
Put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried
Different combinations, yet
Not a brick has
Been moved. Put them in sales.

If they have already left for
The day.
Put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the
Window.
Put them on strategic
Planning.

And then last but not least.
If they are talking to each
Other and not a single brick

has been moved. 

Congratulate them and put them 
In top management

Know our India !

 

1- 71% or 770 million people are below 35 years of age,  Indians are young.
 

2-  29 million people are born every year, 10 million die per year, population increase 1.8% per year.
 

3- 90% to 94% drop out rate of children (including those who never went to school) between kindergarten and class 10+2.
 

4- India has 970,000 schools, China has 1,800,000.
 

5- 6% are the ones that cross the 10+2 stage, (Educational 'Line of Control') which is our so called educated youth, go in for a regular college degree which may not be very relevant in today's context for the sake of employment generation and National GDP enhancement.
 

6- 72% of all graduates from the 15,600 colleges are Arts graduates. Balance 28% in Science, Commerce, Engineering, I.T., Medical, Law, Management and special subjects.
 

7- India has 372 universities, China has 900 & Japan has 4000.
 

8-     While 95% of the world youth between 15 to 35 years of age learn a vocation, a skill or a trade, with a choice of 2,500 vocational education and training (VET) programs, we in India have only identified about 71 trades, after 58 years of Independence and hardly 2% of the population goes for formal VET training!
 

9-   India has 11,000 ITI's and VET schools, China has 500,000
senior secondary vocational eduacation and training schools.
 

10-  We can get engineers and MBA's in India but no carpenters, plumbers, drivers, repairmen and other skilled personnel as per international standards!
 

11-  Information Technology, Software or I.T. is the only exception, possibly due to 50,000 or more private I.T. training centers spread across the country.
 

12-  I.T. & Software is only 1.5% of the world's GDP. India's present share is about 5%. For rapid economic growth and employment generation we need to concentrate on the balance 95% of the Economy & Enterprise and make it world class.
 

13-  300* million unemployed / employable age* and only 45million have actually registered with employment offices with little or no hope of getting employment (our estimates)*.
 

14-  Of all new employment generated, 1% are Government jobs,2% are in the 'organized sector' and the balance 97% in the'unorganized sector'
 

15- Out of our 430 million workforce, 94% work in the 'unorganized sector' and about 6% in the 'organized sector'.
 

16-  1.7% of the entire population, viz. 18 million people work for the Central & State Government; another 9 million work in the 'private organized sector', a total of 2.6% of the population.
 

17-  All the Labour Laws are made to protect, at any cost, the above
 

2.6% of the Indian population. Article 311 of the Indian constitution needs revision since it over-protects employees of the Government even at a cost to the Nation.
 

18-  While MP's, MLA's and Municipal Councilors and the village Panchayats, can only be elected for a maximum of 5 years, the officials, babus, and government employees enjoy life long benefits of employment, in spite of their performance.
 

19- 600 million illiterate people, based on the international definition of the 3R's (reading, writing and arithmetic, education up to primary level or Class 5th). (our esitimates) as per Goverment of India is 63% literate. China is 93% literate.
 

20- The Indian definition of literacy is based on survey of people“If you can write your name, you are literate”; nobody has seriously ever challenged this definition!
 

21-  260 million live below the Government of India's definition of the Poverty Line of Rs.11(Rural) to Rs 14(Urban) per day! (based on being able to buy enough rice and wheat from the Public Distribution System /Ration Shops,which has food value of 2,200 K calories per day).
 

22-  Nobody has ever challenged this definition of 'Poverty Line'.How can one expect people to live with a few kilos of raw uncooked wheat or rice? As human beings don't we need more? How about one set of clothes to cover our bodies, a set of chappals for our feet, some vegetables, milk and fruit, in our diet? How will we cook without any energy and fuel?
 

23- 450 million* live below the poverty line definition of the World Bank's old definition of @ US$ 1 per day per person, or US$ 365 per year. 700 million* people below the poverty line definition of the World Bank's new definition of @ US$ 2 per
day per person, or US$ 730 per year. (our estimates)*



24-   Average Per Capita of an Indian is about US$ 600 per year per person (1.07 billion people and a GDP of US$ 648 billion). The average earning of an Indian is US$ 1.65 per day.
 

25- India has only 1.72% of the World GDP and has 17% of the world population. Demands are high but buying power is low. Hence we will need to increase our export related activities by 10 times, as the foreign markets are 60 times bigger than the Indian market. Our share of world markets or foreign trade is 0.8%, down from 33% 1,000 years ago, down from 27% when the British landed in India and down from 3% in 1947.
 

26-   Only 5% of Indians understand English, yet most of the websites of the Government of India, State Governments and Public Institutions are in English!
 

27-   While English is a language used in countries which account for about 40% of the world GDP, viz., USA + UK + old British Colonies, yet in India while we talk of Globalization, we are not serious to learn the other languages of the world, eg., Japanese, German etc, unlike the Chinese youth who are doing
otherwise.
 

28-  India is probably at the bottom of the heap, as far as the human development index is concerned such as infant  mortality, child care, malnutrition, women's health, isease, health, clean water, etc.
 

29-   Democracy is, to the people, for the people, by the people. If we  have to succeed, the Citizen has to get involved andparticipate in Governance.
 

30-  Unlike other countries, we have 18 official languages, 4,000 dialects, all the religions of the world, and because of low human and economic development, emphasis on SC, ST, Dalits, caste, religion, sect, minorities, region, ethnic groups, etc.
 

31-  Employment generation is restricted due to existing Policies which do not encourage 'Labour Intensive' enterprises. Relevant Labour Reforms in line with prevailing practices in other countries of Asia are required for a level playing field for Indian organizations.

 

32-   The size of Enterprises cannot be decided by officials in the Central Government.They are decided by technology, process, international market forces and competitive pressures. Reservation for Small Scale Industry, SSI, needs to be scrapped and SME's should be encouraged. SSI's are 7% of the Indian GDP. 99.7% of all organizations in the world are SME's. 90% of the Indian GDP are SME's. We need to understand the meaning of 'E' in SME (small & medium enterprise).
 

33-   As per www.Loksatta.org, about Rs. 2200 crores are spent every day, at the Centre and State level, both on revenue as well as capital account in order to Govern INDIA. To improve Governance we need to insure +95% of Literacy, a large number of active Citizen Groups and maximum use of The Right to Information Act!

      

  Under the above circumstances how can we run an efficient country with Good Governance and Effective Administration?

The secret!

 

            A man and a woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

            For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife ' s bedside.

           She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000. He asked her about the contents.

      "When we were to be married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."

          The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness.

            "Honey," he said "that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?"



              "Oh, that?" she said. "That is the money I made from selling the dolls." : )

An interesting PUZZLE for you !

See if you can figure out what these words have in common. 

Banana
Dresser
Grammar 
Potato
Revive 
Uneven
Assess 

Are you peeking or have you already given up? Give it another try.  Look at each word carefully.  (You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer.) This is Cool!


Answer:  No, it is not that they all have at least 02 double letters.

See below !

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Answer: In all of the words listed, If you take the first letter, Place it at the end of the word, And Then, spell the word backwards, It will be the same word. Did you figure it out?

Presence of mind !

Not only our technical knowledge helps, but also the presence of mind and the right answer at right time.   Question and the Answer given by Candidates. oh sorry, they are IAS Officers now.   Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)   Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?  A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)   Q..If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?  A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)   Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand? A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)   Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep? A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)   Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become? A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)   Q. What looks like half apple? A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )   Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ? A : Dinner.   (None other than me) Q.. What happened when wheel was invented ? A : It caused a revolution.   (Again it was my answer) Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state? A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )     (the clincher)   Interviewer( for IIM admission) said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.' 'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?' The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depended on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!' 'How' the interviewer asked, 'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!' He was selected!   Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the master of presence of mind '

30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola)

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you're keeping all of these in the Air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it."

WORK EFFICIENTLY DURING OFFICE HOURS AND LEAVE ON TIME.     GIVE THE REQUIRED TIME TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS & HAVE PROPER REST!