Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Reforms targeting improving Indian Economy

1. Govt procuring electric vehicles and sale of 2 wheeler, 3 and 4 wheeler to target middle class and auto drivers a major contributor of transportation in India. Reduction in fuel import with massive electric vehicles drive will boost the market. Govt must procure 1lakh 2-wheelers (Rs.200 crores at Rs.20,000/vehicle or less), 50,000 3-wheeler and 50,000 4-wheelers. The vehicles must not be imported but completely made in India by current vehicle manufacturers like bajaj, hero, honda,tvs, yamaha.

2. Energy bill of commercial space has to be reduced significantly by asking commercial establishments to use their power supply and their water supply effectively at lowest cost. Solar power generators are not installed in most commercial places. Water meters are nowhere to be seen anywhere in India.

3. Manufacture of HAL aircraft's for transport purposes will save Indian govt a lot of money. HAL aircraft for UDAAN to be utilized.

3. Govt of India doesn't have its own CSR policy so that the public funds from taxes and other revenue streams are used to purchase college and school science projects. These projects should be purchased and patented by Govt of India and the concerned school and students should be made members of these patents. Patent revenue is a huge business. Why has govt of india not been able to fund one project like google which was helped and supported by USA govt and FB which was later supported indirectly by USA govt. Why has indian govt not been able to identify and fund any project like this in large scale? Has indian product development knowledge not been upto the market trend. Govt of India needs to first identify and purchase such projects and fund them. Private funding is purely a complex business. Govt school students and govt university students research must be funded extensively.

4. IRCTC having tourist option. Having add on option for all existing bookings for tourist and business visitors who wish to visit places. Strong legislation to ensure earned leaves and compulsory leaves are given in offices for tourist purposes. The family tours will give a break for the officials and govt staff and executive staff and employees in all types of organisations giving new ideas and inspiration from other states. Giving a break from the digital content, TV, internet for the general population will give breather of new ideas and tourism is promoted.

5. The concepts of Air travel by low cost hasn't picked up as expected. Weekend getaways have been costly by air since the many schemes are not properly funded by the central and state govts. The tax collected for air must ensure newly rich move to air travel and ensure the lower middle class go to higher end railways. But the air travel is not accessible by direct flights to many places within a state or to other state tier 2 cities. For example: chennai to tirupathi is not well directly connected. They all are transiting through hyderabad which aint should be the case. Mumbai to thirupathi and chennai to thirupathi atleast weekends must be targeted.

6. Weekend Getaway Tours  by Air and Rail - The tourists places of north east need well connectivity at extreme low cost as the hilly region needs inter -connected air travel at low cost. the north east and the islands must be available at low fare weekend getaways. Most websites offer 5 days or more days of tours which are costly and nobody would like to get bad name from the managers during work time and they have to only use their weekends. hence 2-3 days tours should be given high priority so that atleast 50% of their leave quota in earned leaves are used effectively. Govt has to pull this information internally and process the same.

7. Correspondence courses in India lacks a single format across all universities. Some universities offer best content some dont offer class rooms classes even for 1 day for that semester. The universities have failed to maintain standard. The govt of india has failed to maintain order in the nation in the case of higher education. Correspondence courses need to be streamlined for the human development index of individuals to improve on continuous basis. 



Add-On features for existing booking of train and flight tickets

Railways needs to make following changes to IRCTC website:

Use its IRCTC portal and apps to cater to existing booking with new add-ons like Cab booking, local tour (same day or 2 days), etc,. The repeated trial and errors will ensure IRCTC to capitalise on existing thousands of bookings. Some users will be struggling to book local tours with issue of local language, etc,. Railways may have to spend some of its budget to add these features.

The seats must be available in highly demand routes permanently once scheme picks up. Currently most tours are targeting 7-8 days but 1-3 days tours must be ensured so that people can use their leave allowances atleast to 50% or 2/3rd of their needs.

IRCTC can provide tourist option in home page after selecting from and to station Also for already Pre-booked tickets these options may be used. In apps and in website for already booked tickets irctc has made no effort to provide add-on service using local tour operators. Employment can be generated.
       
The option will ensure that the following option of choosing transit cab, hotels, food, local tours (2-3), places of visit with option to skip is provided in separate or same portal. No place within India will require 2 days or more for site near railway place. Even if 50% of day gone in transporting from railway station. 2 days must be more than enough to look at a place. Railways must focus on these areas.

Local tour operators will ensure employment to great extent and local cab aggregators can be tied up with or non app based drivers can be linked up to this scheme as well

Since IRCTC website has improved post the recent increase in capacity the above option as add on to existing visitors or direct tourist may be provided.

Those who are travelling purely for using the train will ignore tourist option so no issue but the other area of making tourism as a pillar of service sector GDP growth the above measure will help

Railways must also update its apps so that existing booking get modifications so that new options are available similar to theatre booking to select options of booking for cab, popcorn, etc,. The user will skip those options which they dont want.

Existing airlines and booking sites dont provide add-ons to existing bookings like cabs, local tour packages as part of the same. The local tours should target for 2-3 days and not for 7-8 days for tours within country.