Show solidarity with the trapped tunnel workers

 

Forty-one workers are trapped in the collapsed Char Dham Tunnel. A week has passed, and they are subsisting on limited food and air sent through small pipes. How does a nation send them a message that we are with them and will spare nothing to ensure their rescue? Authorities seem to feel that the rescue will come within a week. A few thousands of us should undertake a fast ourselves, till the rescue is over. A few concerned leaders should join in the fast to show they are leaders who will be with us even when the going gets tough!

Srinivasan Ramani

Cut your credit card into pieces and then bury it!

 

Does your credit card company not know how to run a simple customer care operation?  Get rid of that card!

Recently a credit card company (CCC) sent me a new card as replacement for the one that was expiring. I have to run pillar to post to activate it! My app stopped working probably as the old card expired. I tried to log in on their website, but it said my login has been suspended due to inactivity. I tried to call their published customer care number. It cut me off saying that it is a chargeable number and that I should visit the Airtel website to find the right number. I tried that but could not find out how to get a working customer care number.

Then I realized it! Every CCC does not have managers who understand customer care. I will cut their new card into pies and bury it!  I can find another CCC which understands customer care!

Srinivasan Ramani

Finding uses for rice and wheat stubble

We should consider using stubble to make paper or cardboard. Or we can set up thermal power plants where we can use stubble as a fuel in way that reduces pollution. Tall chimneys would promote a higher level of combustion and reduce particle emission.

We should also study how to make bioplastics out of stubble.
(Visit https://thisisplastics.com/innovation/bioplastics-turning-plants-into-plastics/   
          https://bioplasticsnews.com/2019/07/31/turning-agro-waste-into-bioplastics/ ).

Finding uses for agricultural waste is essential to reduce stubble burning and resulting air pollution.  

Leading educational and research institutes should study this issue. It is of national importance.

A Drastic Alternative

If we fail to solve the air pollution problem, we should consider other alternatives. One alternative is to shift the capital to another location such as Dr Ambedkar Nagar, (Mhow).  I believe that it has a lot of Government land. It is more central than New Delhi. It is only 23 KM away from Indore and is well connected by rail and road.  Creating a new and modern city would contribute to our economic growth. Perhaps, we can plan to hold the first Olympics in India in Mhow!

We do not have to move everything out of New Delhi. A judicious move of selected Government entities is all that is necessary. 

Srinivasan Ramani