Economic Times ( 21 March
2017 ) carries following news report :
“ PMO Nudges Statistics Ministry to Start
Quarterly Survey of Labour Force “
The Prime Minister’s
Office (PMO) has prodded the statistics ministry to begin a periodic survey of
the country’s labour force which has been pending for a while now.
The survey will
provide the government better information on the country’s labour force,
helping it plan policies better. One of the promises of the Narendra Modi
government is more job creation.
The statistics ministry planned to conduct the
quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and the country’s first survey
using tablet computers last year, but the process got delayed due to lack of
resources
The technology-driven survey will be conducted by
researchers using tablets and guided by what’s known as computer-assisted
personal interviewing (CAPI) technique.
At present, employment data is only available
through NSSO surveys done every five years. Not only is it limited to a few
sectors, but also based on the Annual Survey of Industries which only captures
the employees of the registered factories.
It is supported by the quick quarterly employment
surveys the Labour Bureau has been doing since the global economic crisis of
2008.
However, these cover only select sectors of the economy at the enterprise level to assess the impact of economic slowdown on employment in India.
These numbers are insufficient to assess the state
of the economy.
Developed countries such as the US come out with monthly employment data.
MY TAKE :
Conducting surveys like this ( manually / going around the
entire country / asking questions / typing out answers in tablets / compiling
findings / plotting graphs etc ) is ARCHAIC
, to say the least !
Just look at the technologies available today , to
simplify / automate all the processes :
·
Smart Phones ( with bio-metric
identification including Face Recognition / Blue Tooth / RFID / NFC /
ever-powerful Voice Assistants , Photo-video capabilities / Language Translation
Apps / ability to transfer data without towers
etc )
·
Google Maps , capable of seeing everything
, everywhere and showing it
·
Cloud based Data
·
Artificial Intelligence
·
Everyone present on Social Media , everyone
exchanging Messages on WhatsAp - Twitter
·
Everyone being “ watched / recorded “ by
ubiquitous CCTV cameras
·
Everything getting connected with
everything else through Internet of Things ( IP V 6.0 ) providing 50,000
TRILLION URLS to every human being on the Earth
And these technologies are
improving BY THE HOUR and solving problems which were considered unsolvable
just ONE HOUR ago !
Dear Shri Dattatreya
Bangaruji / Shri Prakash Jawadekarji / Shri T C Anantji :
I urge you to ask our Scientists / Engineers /
Software Guys , if they too believe that the RIGHT WAY to conduct LABOUR
SURVEYS is “ NOT TO CONDUCT “ surveys , by implementing the suggestion in my
following Blog / E mail :
·
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
BAD = Biometric
Attendance Device
MAD = Mobile
Attendance Device
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Most people think the greatest
contribution of Bill Gates ( onetime CEO of Microsoft ) was " MS Operating
System "
I think , it was his book " Business @ the Speed of Thought "
Current CEO of Microsoft is a PIO named Satya Nadela
What is his contribution ?
What he said during his talk in Delhi
on 30 May , called ,
" Tech for Good , Ideas for
India " :
He cited the example of how
NASA scientists were not able to see the Rover move on Mars but the holographic
output of the Rover is right there in their office.
Nadella also met two young
developers, one of them a 17-year-old who has figured out how to take data from
NASA , conflate it with other information and see the spread of algae in Bay of
Bengal. “Here’s a student who is taking information that is available, bringing
it together—he wanted to have a real impact right here in terms of how we
managed our climate,” he said.
Nadella wrapped up by summing Microsoft’s mission in India.
" It is about really celebrating the technologies that you all in
India create. In fact, I want us to be the platform creators that foster the
ingenuity of what is happening in India,” he said.
Here is my idea of a technology that we need to create for a better
India :
Today EMPLOYEE ATTENDANCE SYSTEMS in India work at three levels as
follows :
# Entirely Manual
Attendance
Register and Wage/Salary payment in cash or by Cheque
# Partly Automated
Punch cards
or Bio-metric recording of attendance but manual calculation
of wages /
salaries and payment by cash or cheque
# Fully Automated
Bio-metric Attendance Devices ( BAD ) , integrated with a home-grown
or
bought-out
Salary Payment Software , running on a local Server.
Salary
payments could be by cheques or thru Electronic Transfer to
concerned
employee's bank account
Once in a while , if a company has several establishments within a city
, those local servers are connected to a Central Server , doing all processing
In a rare case ( although , I am not aware of any ) , it may be that all
the local servers of all the establishments of a company , all over the country
, are networked with its central computer in its head-quarter
Now imagine this :
# All smart phones to evolve
as Bio-metric Attendance Devices , with built-in
Bio-metric Recorders , GPS , a mobile attendance
App ( called MAD ? )
# App to have 2 buttons ( Green = IN / Red = OUT )
# Employee to touch IN upon reaching his work-station and touch OUT ,
while leaving work
place , at the end of work-shift . That's all !
# Being GPS enabled , buttons will get
activated ONLY when the employee
has reached the work place ( not while he is on his
way ! )
# All 100 million establishments in India
( factories / offices / shops / clinics
NGOs / Govt Depts ) to ensure that the MAD app is
installed on the smart
phone of each employee , when he joins
# All of these smart phones to
be connected ( IoT ? ) , with the Servers of ,
* Labour Ministries ( Central and
States )
* HRD Ministry ( Central )
* Skills Development Ministry / NSDC
* Finance Ministries ( Central + States )
* NITI Aayog
* Income Tax Department
* Any other server that you may want to
# MAD app is integrated with a STANDARD / COMMON ,
software system
for computing daily wages / monthly salaries of ALL the persons working
in those 100 million establishments ( whether they are casual /
contractual / trainee / apprentice / probationer / permanent / retained
# As each person joins in any of these establishments
, data re that
person must be inputted by the Employer into the App , such as :
* Name / Contact Details / DOB / Aadhar Card No / Employee Number
( Each unique Employee Number will be auto-generated by the
common Salary Payment Software , running on IT Dept Server )
* Employee's Jandhan Yojana Bank Account Number for salary EC
* Employer's Jandhan bank account / Unique Employer Number
* Payment Mode ( Hourly / Daily / Monthly Rated , wages / salaries )
* Leave provisions / PF rate / TDS rate /
Allowances / Reimbursements
* Any other relevant data ( either about employee of for employer )
WHAT
ARE THE ADVANTAGES ?
# For employees , no need to file a
separate annual Income Tax Return
# Direct deposit of PF / TDS amounts into bank accounts of Govt Depts
# Direct Benefit Transfer ( DBT ) to every Employer for Stipend Subsidy ,
based on
number of total trainees / apprentices employed
# Total number of employees in India (
category / region / industry )
# Employment Density ( Industry wise / Region wise / Skill
wise etc )
# Net Employment Growth Rate ( weekly - monthly /
Industry-wise )
# Co-relation with no of persons
graduating at various levels
# Data about those Unemployed ( "
Graduating " less " Employed " )
# Overtime Statistics ( Use / Abuse )
# Work-hour Analysis (
Ave hours / week - month )
# Wage / Salary Rates ( Rs per hour ) - Industry wise
/ Region wise
( of great interest to Foreign Investors looking to bring down
manufacturing costs , by outsourcing to India / manufacturing in India )
# Compliance with labour laws / tax laws /
Apprentice Act etc
# Job Market Forecasts through BIG
DATA ANALYTIC ( region / industry )
# Demographic Profiles of employees
( Rural to Urban migration )
# Per Capita Income
Growth for persons using MAD app ( MOM / YOY )
# Changing composition between Blue Collar and White Collar employees
Then there could be many other
benefits not envisaged now
Here is an opportunity for :
* Manufacturers of Smart Phones
To shrink stationary / bulky / common ,
bio-metric devices to mobile /
small / personalized / hand-held devices
{ Remember ?
If you don't make yourself obsolete , someone else will }
* Tech Start Ups
To come up with the Mobile App
( MAD ) / Technology Platform
* NDA Government
To implement what Shri Narendra Modiji said on 15 July 2015 :
" If China is like a manufacturing factory
of the World , India should
become the human resource capital of the World .
That should be our target and we should lay emphasis on
that .
We should have a futuristic vision and prepare plans for the next ten years "
MAD could well be an important
element of that " JAM PLAN " !
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23 March 2017
www.hemenparekh.in /
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