Green Livestock Energy

We Indians respect a cow and are supposed to treat a cow as our mother. This may sound very funny for the modern urban liberal intellectual Indian. For a rural liberal intellectual Indian it may sound less funny and for the illiterate it might make some sense. Milk produced by cows is very a nutritious food and to eliminate malnutrition and to increase the income of rural households dairy is one of the best industries to get people involved. Thanks to the groups and federations that make more milk production and supply to all the needy and still there is a shortage of milk and there is also malnutrition in our country.

Milk is also produced from buffaloes, goats and other animals which are consumed by different groups of people at different places. Such a diversity should be appreciated and is inherent to a vast country like India. The dark side of any good comes to the fore due to the nature of human beings. Greed is the source of all human misery and milk production is also affected by it. In order to produce more milk we have begun to import foreign breeds and began to neglect local varieties of livestock and developed nations are making billions of dollars just by supplying semen which should otherwise should have only a natural action.

Technological development has only increased the greed of the human mind and with new tools there are novel ways to accumulate. A cow is useful only till produces milk and because of technology the ox is rendered useless and sent to slaughter houses. The animal rights activists are more than happy to kill an animal than make to work tirelessly and be underfed. The activists prefer death to the animal, but strange are the ways of activists. A human being is kept in suffering against his wish in hospitals and treating him for incurable diseases sometimes even against his wish making loads of money and allowed to die when there is no further treatments are not possible.

The animal is not given such a chance to earn its livelihood because there are no offices for the animals to work and seek a decent livelihood. Thanks to some philanthropists and activists there are huge choultry like facilities for the livestock where they are fed and manure is collected and sold. The milk produced is sold and both the man and livestock are surviving on each other. the nature has crude sense of balance and we tend to disturb it. The females of the livestock are considered more useful because of the milk it can give but the males of livestock are considered as a burden and sent of to slaughter houses.

In the good old days, the male livestock could have worked in the fields but due to modernity- productivity issues and also grazing land issues male stock lost their jobs and hence their livelihood. Everyone who has lived in small towns and villages that a ox can pull considerable load on the roads and now it should be possible to use the same ox to generate some useful energy. Why is it not possible the ox be used to create electricity? The electricity can then be sold and the dung can used for production of gas and also as a manure there by increasing the income.

Having a huge population was once considered a curse but now it is a boon. Similarly having a huge livestock population was considered a curse but it should become a boon if we are able to efficiently generate electricity by making the animals earn their livelihood in a dignified manner. 

Personal Responsibility

Personal responsibility is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions. A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable.

On 28/09/2014 , @9PM in Madison Square our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has spoke to his target audience from a revolving state. A congressman joked that the revolutions that modi promised is the revolution of the stage on which he is standing. Another modi hater got himself into a avoidable fight with the paid RSS thugs in USA but the sad part is very few believed him due to history of chronic hatred for all things Indians love and respect.

PM Modi has earlier spoke in UNGC and it was a speech read from a script and the target audience are the TV room-glass house intellectuals, think-tanks and other world leaders. The speech at the MSG was for the masses who wanted to hear what their leader has to say, whether he would spew venom on the country that has denied visa on flimsy grounds. The TV audience back home expected some fireworks like they were used to during his election speeches.

Everyone was taken by surprise because there were no leaks about the contents of the speech. The hype surrounding the oratory skills of Modi just added to the thrill of the day long wait for the Indians back home and night long wait for the American Indians. Modi has not only addressed to the Indians who lived in America but to the whole of mankind who respect others equally. Americans would also have thrilled to hear the man from India who killed thousands of Muslims because he had no work.

Modi does no work, he relaxes all the time and this truth has been told by Modi himself. But Modi has told he has not taken any vacation after taking up the job as PM of India. The question then arises, what exactly Modi doing? The answer is Personal Responsibility for the actions of this government. Mr.Modi is ensuring that his government delivers on the promises he has made to the citizens and is ensuring that others do what they are supposed to do. There words might seem like sycophant of a Modi but from his speeches at Redfort, UNGC and MSG all tell the pain of the man due to his peoples' indifference. 

We Indians expect the government to take care of us because we are paying the taxes and are its rightful citizens. We Indians have forgotten the plegde

Mr.Modi is taking different platforms to tell the people about the pledge we have taken during our childhood and to be responsible. If we as citizens of India abide by this simple pledge then there would have been very problems for the government to tackle on a day-to-day basis and we would have been a developed nation. the indifference of us towards to the nation is making the government to venture in all sorts of activities that it should have not bothered and ensuring that government shall not fulfil its responsibility. 

Be it people's foolishness to fall trap into greed like chit fund scams that happen at regular intervals in some part of our country, or people's indifference to help the victims of road accidents, sexual assault or violent attacks on neighbours, etc. What Modi is asking is very simple. "DEAR INDIANS, PLEASE TAKE SOME PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WE SHALL PROGRESS FASTER THAN WE HOPED."

Engineering Student - Customer or Raw Material

Lets have a look at the fundamentals by listing the definitions

Student : A person who is studying at a university or other place of higher education (or) Denoting someone who is studying in order to enter a particular profession

Engineer : A person who designs, builds or maintains engines, machines or structures (or) A person who controls an engine especially on an ship or aircraft

Customer : A person who buys goods and services from a shop or business (or) A person of a specified kind with whom one has to deal

Raw material : The basic material from which the product is made

Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge ad principles related to the professional practice of engineering. It includes the initial education for becoming an engineer and any advanced education and specializations that follow. engineering education is typically accompanied by additional examinations and supervised training as the requirements for a professional engineering license. If a engineering student is treated as a customer in a consumer centric world where customer is the boss, then there is no control of who can get a engineering degree.

Only a few products are controlled by laws and rules as to whom they can be sold. Rolls-Royce cars are sold based on invitation from the company, who select the people who are eligible for purchase of their cars. This gives a sense of exclusivity that people crave and make them feel special. The car is just like any other used for travel, but the exclusivity is what costs the car several times more than its actual price. Other products that are controlled are high end technology goods related to weapons and other allied systems.

An engineering student who prefers exclusivity has to enter premier institutes by way of very hard work and his talents. the regular tom, dick and harry cannot enter register for an engineering course in the exclusive club of premier engineering institutes because only eligible people are customers for the institutes. When the institute selects who their customers can be, then the better analogy would be treat the engineering as a raw material who is screened based on the requirement for a particular process and then accepted or rejected.

After getting accepted, the student has to pay money for the services that the institutes offer. Here too the student is not centre of focus but the course and its contents are the focus. The student is put a certain process so that in the end, when he completes the several process pertaining to the choice he has made at the beginning. the education is and should always be content centric and should facilitate the student in understanding the contents of the course. Thus we have to treat student as a raw material who should undergo certain process and is verified for certain standards of quality and reprocessed as when necessary.

When education system starts to treat student as customer, then the requirements of the student will become prime focus. The system has to align to the needs of the majority of students. On an average, the students wants a easy time during the course and after a certain period of time wants a degree certificate. The system focus gets aligned in a such a way that education process is more oriented on giving degree to maximum number of students. Thus when the student comes out of the college after completing the course is found to be unemployable.

Each student is a raw material whose properties are to be with in a range so that he qualifies for the process. Based on the specific characteristic, the system should apply the appropriate additional processes to produce the engineer to certain standards acceptable to the next stage. The next stage may be job, business, research etc. Unless the focus of education system shifts from student centric to content centric and student being considered as a raw material rather than customer, there is no way forward. Big talks about advancement, development, innovation will be in the air alone.