It is 5pm on December 16th.
And I am continuing to struggle to complete my list of
50 new ways of doing things better. Over the last two weeks, I have struggled
to come up with not more than 4 more; perhaps this had to do with my busy
travel schedule (if I were to be generous to myself); closer to the truth may
be the fat that my lateral thinking capabilities are not as good as I would
like to believe. In any case, I list below the four that I have been able to
think of.
1.
(and
this is an idea that my wife helped me with, and which is already seeing some
implementation) – the use of automatic vehicle tracking scanner systems at toll
booths across the country and the use of scanned data to for revenue-related
and infrastructure-related policy development and implementation.
2.
The
development of agriculture export zones (on the lines of software export zones
and special (manufacturing) export zones) in the vast hinterlands of India,
with technologies that can help grow any food (organically) that is staple in
different countries, but where there is limited land and manpower availability.
3.
The
rationalisation of tax systems – whereby every cheque and credit card
transaction is automatically taxed at 1% (0.5% debited from payer and 0.5% from
payee) and every cash withdrawal from bank is automatically taxed at 2% (this
higher tax is to discourage cash transactions) on withdrawee. The benefits are
self-evident.
4.
Democratic
institutions need to be mandated to include 50% of the elected representatives
to be under 35 years and to include 50% women.
Hope you are having a great
weekend.
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