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1. Through conversion of Food wastes = 30,670,220 T

2. Through “spoilt” grain and other food = 30,303,000 T

3. By conversion of Vegetation matter etc = 39,375,000 T

These could be converted into about 115,000 MW power (both Electricity and Heat). Additionally, there would be an advantage of producing superb Bio-Fertilizer = 34,545,445 T. These conversions would offer “full time” jobs to not less than 6 million village people, in the 638,596 villages. The average Power potential per village would be about 200 KW (24 x 365).

It is sad and strange that a very respected and senior person such as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (Our Former President and a reputed Scientist) is coaxing the public to go for Nuclear Power! Does he not know about the potentials of RR based Power in India? If he does know that, why does not he tell the Government to go for such an environmentally superior system (a real CLEAN-TECH process) for Power generation? Or is there any hidden agenda?

We may also note that by going for RR based (bio-methanation) Power generation, we would be paving the way for simultaneously answering the Twin-problems of Global Warming and Poverty (GWP). Is it not the real answer to the UN MDG? In what way, a very costly and complicated (involving dangerous Radio-active materials disposals) Nuclear Power is considered more appropriate answer to India’s Power needs? This writer wishes to openly challenge every scientist and development economist in telling them that Bio-methanation is the answer to India’s Energy Security and it also helps in Rural Development through Job creation and cascading developments. Is there any one to challenge this statement?

GANDHI JI

AGRO-BIOGENICS (CLEAN-TECH) PVT LTD (http://agrobiogenicscleantechpvtltd.com/) Bangalore are prepared to take up the Challenge posed by MAHATMA GANDHI: that of Poverty Problem. We are prepared to solve both the Poverty Problem and the Energy Problem,  thereby simultaneously work on the twin-problems of Global Warming and Poverty (GWP)

Today (October 2, 2011) is Gandhi Ji’s yet another Birth day! And, although his unparalleled “Styagraha Fight” against the might of the British was rewarded with India’s being proclaimed as an Independent nation, we are still a Poverty ridden nation, “begging” with our bowls at the Doors of the Western world. Governments come and go: paying lip service to Gandhi Ji’s concept of Village Development and POORNA SWARAJ. Lakhs of Crores of rupees are spent in the name of Khadi, Village Development, Rural development and so on. Yet the 638, 600 villages where over 850 million people live are dilapidated and and in wretched conditions. The Governing people (Parliamentarians, Legislators, IAS officials, Planners, Government Officials, Industrialists and various Elite Groups) continue to become richer and richer; but the Villages are continuing to be poorer and poorer! But, YES! We ( AGRO-BIOGENICS (CLEAN-TECH) PVT LTD Bangalore ) have the answer to counter Poverty and the dreaded Energy problem too.

Our Population and Renewable Resources (Plants/ vegetation, Agrowastes, Organic wastes etc and Rainwater, Sunlight and Soil) are our Resources

RURAL POPULATION = 742,490,639 (61.36%)

URBAN POPULATION = 286,119,689 (23.64%)

CITY/ METRO POPULATION = 181,583,094 (15%)

We look at potential Energy Generation through Organics wastes:

1. Approximately 0.5 Kg of food materials are averagely wasted per individual, per day. These could be converted into the following (India’s population = 1.21 billion):

   • Methane Gas ………….. 30,670,220 T

   • Neutral CO₂ …………… 145,648.15 T

   • Bio-Fertilizer (Solids) … 70,583.33 T

   • H₂S …………………………. 2240.74 T

2. About 60 Million T of food grains are rotting in Godowns. If these were converted into Biogas, the following are the potentials:

   • Methane gas ……………… 30,303,000 T

   • Neutral CO₂ ……………….. 9,332,400 T

   • Bio-Fertilizer (Solids) …… 1,399,860 T

3. On the basis of 350 ha of land per village (Total “productive” villages estimated @ 600,000) the annual vegetation/ organic wastes available @ 5 T per ha = 1,050,000,000 T. If ONLY 50% were considered we generate the following @:

   • Methane Gas …………….. 39,375,000 T

   • Neutral CO₂ ………………. 68,250,000 T

   • Bio-Fertilizer (Solids) …. 33,075,000 T

   • H₂S …………………………… 1,050,000 T

Total Power Potential (both Heat + Electricity) from (1), (2) and (3) = 35,000 MW + 35,000 MW + 44, 950 MW (114,950 MW). India now struggles to produce about 130,000 MW, including private Diesel generated power etc (which itself is deficient by 30%) … The Energy Potential (Units) = 1,006,962,000,000 KWH.

What AGRO-BIOGENICS (AB) would Offer:

1. AB would collect all Wastes from Towns/ Cities/ Villages for recycling and further processing

2. At least 302,088,600,000 (Units, both Heat + Electricity) would be made available to the Grid @ Re.1 per unit. These would be provided in the form of METHANE GAS to an extent of 20,928,600 T. This volume could be re-worked and appropriate modifications made, as per ACTUAL conditions prevailing on the basis of an agreed “audit” every Three years

3. A total of 10,363,633 T Bio-Fertilizer (solids) would be offered @ Rs.5 per Kg to Local Farm community (to be decided on the basis of land and wastes supplied)

4. TOTAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT (about 600,000 Villages all over India), offering not less than 100,000,000 people “all the year” Jobs in their own local village environments, with average monthly earning power of Rs.5,000

5. The entire Projects could be completed in Five years in the First State that enters into arrangement (NOTE: As the Total Potentials are computed on All-India basis, the individual State potentials are to be estimated separately)

   NOTE: THESE ARE BROAD ESTIMATES. ACTUAL, MORE REALISTIC COMPUTATIONS ARE NEEDED FOR FULL ACCURACY

The following support policies are required:

1. Each Household and Establishment MUST segregate Food/ Bio Organics and Inorganic materials

2. Each Village, Street area MUST form an Association for Waste Disposal, and be responsible for the upkeep of the surroundings CLEAN

3. Any Littering in any place shall be Fined (The quanta of Fine to be discussed and decided)

4. Wastes MUST be segregated into the following Categories for collection:

   • Plastics/ Packaging (Paid @ Rs.5/ Kg)

   • Food wastes (Paid @ Rs.2/ Kg … dry)

   • Paper (Paid @ Rs.3/ Kg … dry)

   • Cloth (Paid @ Rs.5/ Kg dry)

   • Electrical/ Electronic (Paid @ Rs.3/ Kg)

   • Others (No payment)

5. Our Company and Joint-Venture Companies should be Income Tax exempted for Twenty years. All other Government levies (Sales tax, Excise, Octroi etc) also to be exempted. These must be allowed to every employee of the Company and Joint-Venture companies

6. All Food materials/ cereals rotting in Government Godowns MUST be offered to AB, unconditionally @ Rs.2000 per ton

7. All Agrowastes and other unclassified vegetation/ organic matter MUST be made available to AB, for which values @ Rs.0/50 to Rs.2/ per Kg would be offered

8. AB would have to be supported with a GRANT of Rs.30 Cr to set up an AGRO-POLYMER INDUSTRY COMPLEX (APIX) Pilot Project. The said APIX_Pilot would showcase Waste processing. Whichever State offers the same FIRST would get an additional benefit of 5% on the annual returns of AB’s Total Indian businesses, all throughout.

9. AB would also need some additional Government/ Public support that would be delineated in a more detailed statement

WE THROW OPEN THIS CHALLENGE TO ANY GOVERNMENT STATE/ CENTRAL, OR EVEN TO ANY ENTREPRENEUR. If an Entrepreneur comes forward to support our Projects with Funding, the said Entrepreneur/ Group would have 33% Stake allowed in OUR Company. These are for ALL-WORLD Developments … In the ENTIRE TROPICS where we are prepared to operate and take up the Problem solving of GLOBAL WARMING AND POVERTY (GWP)

• Food (@ Rs.50 per day for 365 days) ………………………….. Rs.18,250

• Energy @ 1.5 unit per day for 365 days …. 547.5 units … Rs.2,737.5

• Home/ Housing @ Rs.1000/ pm …………………………………. Rs.12,000

• Mobility @ Rs.25/ day for 300 days …………………………….. Rs.7,500

• Education @ Rs.1000 per month ………………………………… Rs.12,000

• Medicines/ health @ Rs.15 per day for 365 days …….;… Rs.5,475

• Leisure/ entertainment @ Rs.150 per month ………………. Rs.1,800

• Family @ Rs.1, 000 per month …………………………………..… Rs.12,000

• Old age security/ providence @ Rs.1,000/ pa ……………… Rs.1,000

  TOTAL MINIMUM DECENT LIVING STANDARD EARNINGS NEEDED BY AN INDIVIDUAL IN INDIA … Rs.72, 762.5

Compare this minimum need of Rs.72,762.5 per individual with the paltry Rs.11,680 (Rs.32/ – per day) in Urban areas and Rs.9,125 (Rs.25/ – per day) in Rural areas being prescribed by the Planning Commission. Is it not a SHAME on the part of the Government to prescribe Officially that the Poverty Line in India should be prescribed at less than 15% of the Minimum Decent Living Standard needs of an individual? Are those in the Government … Economists, Planners, IAS Officials, and other so-called experts aware of and  interacting with the Common People of India? Perhaps not! They seem to be arm-chair economists and planners with absolutely no botheration to understand WHO IS A COMMON MAN IN INDIA

How may we raise the living standard of such a huge population of 875 million?

The answer lies in TOTAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (TVDP), as against the so-called Industrialization and “Globalization”. It is noted that an average village in India has about 350 ha of “productive” land. This is an effective total of 223,508,600 ha of village/ farmland. On the basis of average per ha vegetation growth (irrespective of whether any agriculture operations are involved or not) of 45 T (“green” weight), the estimated total green weight biomass in Indian villages would be 10,057,887,000 T. Additionally, one-fourth of the total estimated population of 875 million in the villages are in NEED of decent livelihood benefits (with average decent living standard percapita earnings of not less than Rs.75,000 per annum). This is a whopping total of Rs.16,406,250,000,000. If this is 12.5% of the total value of “Wealth” creation, the annual wealth generation should be Rs.131,250,000,000,000 ($2,853,260,869,565). We may note that India’s villages do have the following “wealth creation Potentials”:

1. Power potential (both Heat and Electricity combined) …….. ……………….. 274,600 MW

2. Bio-conversion Products (Engineering materials, Bio-petrochemicals) … 3,017,064,360 T

[Total Values at current rates ... Rs.150,853,218,000,000 ($3,291,280,502,600)]

The questions: How do we arrive at such a development model? Do we have the Technology, Managerial capability and Entrepreneurship for these to happen? The answer to these questions is: YES We too CAN! Please also read: http://agrobiogenicscleantech.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/cleantech-euphoria/

Let us consider just TWO examples of Vegetation systems/ Plant growth – The Coconut Tree and Banana Tree … We may estimate the Coconut Tree resources in India’s coastal region alone as 18,768,750,000 T; and the total Banana plantation/ vegetation based resources would be 202,500,000 T. These are “Green” weights (with the water content also considered). Since there are both “food” materials and agro-wastes in these two Biomass categories, we shall consider only 50% of the biomass as being available for non-food conversions. While the entire available Banana tree biomass could be converted into Biogas based Methane, that from Coconut tree shall be considered for conversion into Engineered Products. The following are the Biomass conversions from Banana Trees and Coconut Trees [Note: The main Coconut tree could be considered as having a productive life of 60 years; hence the “dead tree” resources are computed on that basis = 63,750,000]:

1. Power generation through Banana Tree conversions ………………… 8290 MW

2. Power generation using 50% of available Coconut tree biomass … 3350 MW

3. Engineered products using balance Coconut Tree conversions ….. 50,595,237.5 T

[Total Values of Products and Energy = Rs.2,530,264,723,000]

It is high time that we re-look at the current euphoria of so-called Cleantech through Solar, Windmills, Atomic Power, Hybrids and so on. Nothing seems to have been done or thought of in taking advantage of the greatest and readily available REAL Cleantech … the Alternate and more Sustainable CLEANTECH THROUGH BIOMASS! Are the world’s scientists, entrepreneurs, academicians, environmentalists, and all those involved in this huge lobbying listening?

Now let us look at how the scheme works:

“About 57% of India’s population does not have electricity and for many more the supply is unreliable. SELCO’s approach to the lack of working electricity through much of rural India relies on three principles: the poor can afford sustainable technologies; the poor can maintain sustainable technologies; and one can run a commercially viable venture serving the needs of the poor. ” … http://www.schwabfound.org/sf/SocialEntrepreneurs/Profiles/index.htm?sname=173458&sorganization=0&sarea=0&ssector=0&stype=0

1. A Company is formed by a group or individual (always having had experience and studies in the US or other highly developed European nations) to support so-called Clean Technology/ Green products. The said Company (Co) gets various Certifications, based on yardsticks that are approved by the Government. The Government, in turn, looks for standards prescribed by the World Bank or other US based Corporations and Institutions

2. The said Co buys certain basic systems and equipments from the US, and gets those set up in India. Various manpower are recruited and trained, as per the skills developed in the US, sometimes having to send senior Technical people to the Us for training

3. Solar Lamps (SL), as designed and suggested in the US, are manufactured in India

4. The Government of India (Gvt) organizes certain subsidies for Solar based products/ lamps, under directions of various UN institutions. These are approved by the World Bank for Financial supports. The ultimate trigger are from Multinational Corporations in the US, who form the Centers for all these Solar systems all over the world

5. The Co now scouts for NGO (Non Government Organizations) groups who are asked to find markets for these SL. One type of SL that could be used by a Street vendor during the evenings/ night up to about 10 pm could cost Rs.3500. The arrangement is that each SL would be leased to a vendor at a daily “rent” of Rs.15. These street vendors (almost their entire family members) work for all 365 days (say effective 360 days). That would mean their annual cost for SL would be Rs.5400 (540% more than the original price)

Now, let us ask: Who are the ultimate beneficiaries? Is the so-called Clean Technology product (SL) helping the average Street vendor earn more? If, Yes, what is the increased earning? Whys is the Gvt subsidizing a Multinational product, but are not subsidizing the Poor Street vendor, instead?

INFERENCE: The “chain” of activities in the entire Operations that finally culminate in the Street vendor paying for the SL makes sad story. The world seems to be living by squeezing the Poorest. These actions are thrust on them by each local Gvt under directions from the US or other European based Power centers. In this case, for example, even the so-called Entrepreneur who manufactures the SL is serving US interests; nothing being available to the real beneficiaries, who are supposed to be served. What a tragedy and travesty of justice?

POST-SCRIPT:

Now let us look at the manner in which the answers to poverty ‘alleviation” is being found. We again go back to the “questions” that the Business Looks at:

“(i) the poor can afford sustainable technologies; (ii) the poor can maintain sustainable technologies; (iii) and one can run a commercially viable venture serving the needs of the poor”

Item (i): Here, the Poor are Consumers; not Job seekers, looking for better living standard. Thus, the business takes away their frugal purchasing power, as if by doing that the living standards of poor would improve!

Item (ii): Here the poor are assumed to support so-called Sustainable Technologies that are developed in the west. This Sustainability is for those in the west (the RICHEST on earth!), who squeeze the poorest to sustain themselves!!!

Item (iii): The Local entrepreneur runs a commercial venture, using the Poor people’s money squeezed out! Ultimately benefiting the richest in the west!

Our Great Men of Imagination, Vision, Mission

Were we to study and compare India’s democratic progress with that of Pakistan’s retrograde progress, it would be noted that our founding “fathers” had the greater vision and “mission” compared to the “leaders” and self centered “founders” of Pakistan. Let us look (dispassionately) at the Two FIRST leaders of India and Pakistan. India’s prime leader was Jawaharlal Nehru, and that of Pakistan was Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Except for the fact that Nehru was a Hindu by religion and Jinnah was a Muslim, the overall knowledge, qualities, stature and competency of the two were one-to-one matching equally! The comparison stops here. While Jinnah decided to go ahead with the concept of Pakistan being converted into a Theocratic Muslim State, Jwaharlal Nehru (along with all other leaders of the time) decided to make India a truly Democratic, Secular, and Socialist nation. While Jinnah “surrendered” to the United States for everything that resulted in Pakistan being essentially a sort of US Satellite country, Nehru stoutly and firmly refused to be under the dictates of the US. India began magnificently under Nehru and the original Congress (in spite of various contradictions and cancerous Power centers growing within and outside the Congress party). Nehru also “authored” and promoted the Non-alignment movement, (worldwide) which is now being pooh-poohed and destroyed by the Present Congress supported regime (slowly making India a “slave” of the US). India’s initial progress were created through Five-year Plans, development in Irrigation, Power, Industry, Agriculture, Science, and Education. Various other sectors also were developed, apart from Health sectors, Art/ Entertainment, Private enterprises and total democratic processes. Atomic Power was independently developed (without the US or other western supports; and it is even believed that Dr. Homi Bhabha, the architect of Atomic Power in Indida, was murdered to retard Indian Atomic Science progress). Inasmuch as India were slowly and steadily marching forward, Pakistan became a Military Dictatorship, and the founding father Jinnah was imprisoned; and the rest is History. Today, although the basic qualities of the Pakistani people are no different from the Indian communities (especially those in the Norther Indian regions of India), the unfortunate military dictatorship + theocratic concepts seem to be destroying Pakistan. They are TOTALLY dependent on the US, resulting in the unfortunate militancy and so-called terrorism, with no real “local control”

INDIA’s PRESENT SITUATION

Ever since Nehru’s period ended, although Indira Gandhi tried to usher in the continuance of non-alignment and indigenous (Swadeshi) developments, corruption in Congress party and within all government systems created unprecedented problems, resulting in various upsurge (including the so-called JP movement). Slowly and steadily the deterioration in law and order as well as in balanced functioning of the democratic systems got jeopardized. From a “zero” dependence on the US for development we slowly began “looking” at the US for economic development model. And the matter took serious turn during Rajeev Gandhi’s period, and we are more or less 100% under the dictates of the US for almost everything, now. Thanks to the Ten year “slave-mentality” rule of Dr. Manmohan Singh. Today, we have no “independent” economic (and hence social) policies. Whether we are to have a Gas supply arrangement with Iran or other country is dictated by the US; our medical systems are directed by the US; our energy policies, Atomic Power policies, Science development, Education, Agriculture and almost everything … is dictated by what the US wants us to do! Even a local “movement” such as the recent Anna Hazare’ movement against corruption seems to be having some “push” from the US corridors of Power.

India now seems to be moving away from a totally independent strong democracy to a banana republic that looks at the US for everything happening here! We foolishly consider the so-called IT revolution (which seem to offer some “paper money” to some English educated youngsters of our nation) as economic development! Our entire Industry and Agriculture now depend on Multinational (mainly those of the US) corporations for upkeep, technology/ market. Our commodity prices are decided in the US (and other western nations); our raw materials (based in our land) prices are decided in US; our “Standards” are decided in the US; our education methods and qualities are decided and dictated by the US; our science/ medicine systems, and even cultural systems (dress codes/ cinema/ art “brand names” etc) are either decided in the US or influenced by the whims and fancies of US cultures! There is a peculiar “elated superiority” feeling amongst the so-called educated (English speaking) youngsters as if the US-tag to all that they do/talk/feel/imagine is the be-all-and-end-all for everything! Added to this is the greatest misfortune… our entire educational Institutions (IIT, IISc, IIM, NIT and all others) proclaim from hill tops that each one is the better for youngsters to enter and study so that they could be 100% sure to go to the US!

This writer is neither a communist nor a “right wing” Hindutva nationalist; neither a cynic nor a soothsayer; nether a negative thinker nor a revolutionary … But there is a strong feeling in the writer’s mind for Indian Culture, ethos, Philosophical thoughts, and above all… a feeling for India’s great Diversity in Resources and People. India’s independence and strength would depend on how we convert these resources through our own concepts and through our own people’s wisdom, without being dictated by alien Western Intellectual Traditions. There is a sad feeling that under the present weak ruling regime our democratic set up seem to be not only crumbling, but India’s very independence is being compromised by a sort of “slave-thinking” national behavior, under the dictates of the self interests of the US. If this is not stemmed right at this moment (instantaneously), there is no other way for us than the way of the “failed state” Pakistan. The so-called internal “troubles’ and “movements” that we see in the forms of various uprising (Mao movement, Naxalites, ULFA, Telengana, Tamil separatists, J & K Separatists, Khalistan, and so on) would NOT be able to sustain if we completely desist from being under the dictates of the US. If not we are bound to be pulled into a quagmire from which we would not be able to come out! One Anna Hazare’ would not be able to change these; but we may need a thousand Anna’s!

GOD SAVE INDIA!

JAI HIND

 We must understand the truth in Indian Politics today, without bias. It is not easy to dislodge highly competent (but corrupt and mafia-quality) Politicians such as Lalu Prasad, Mayawati, Bal Thackeray, Karuna Nidhi … to name a few. While MAHATMA Anna Ji has kindled the “fire” in a section of the people (especially the younger generation and the highly educated class) for the First time against corruption, the wily Politicain-Mafia-Officers nexus cannot be easily dislodged. The present operational methods (in a Good system) being all in their “dirty” hands, they are extremely powerful and will thwart any move by even such a giant personality like Mahatma Anna Ji. This is because it is not enough to be capable of getting mere public support for these causes; and instead, the public have to enforce these through Parliamentary processes, which are completely controlled by these Politico-Mafia-Officials nexus (including the so-called impartial Judiciary). Even if Mahatma Anna Ji does have the support of many knowledgeable personalities such as Arvind Kejriwal, Shanthi Bhushan, Kiran Bedi, Justice Hegde and many other real “super” stalwarts, all of them put together cannot be a match to the Politico-Mafia-Officials Nexus. And these are ultimately remote-controlled by the Western based Multinational Corporations (especially those in the US), whose largesse’ in the form of “commissions” to the very same Politico-Mafia-Offials nexus would make sure that not even a hundred MAHATMA Anna Ji’s could counter this Imperialistic forces. History is very clear. As long as Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were the Topmost Leaders of India, we were never under the dictates of the West nor were we “educated mental slaves” of the west. To-day, all these are different. Not even the BJP (with very high quality Leaders), which is the main Opposition to the biggest Ruling Mafia Congress group in parliament, would be able to handle this unfortunate situation. This writer shudders to visualize the impending consequences that are in store for us. Many who have been brainwashed by the western imperialists, would pooh-pooh this as cynicism and foolishness. But, to every one of them, the writer would like to tell, “see the writing on the wall”: Just see around us and analyze the happenings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, East Europe, Nigeria, Congo, Kenya, Yemen, Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Zimbabwe, Philippines, Indonesia Syria, Lebanon … etc; and slowly and steadily spreading in India! There are over 4 million Indian born people in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and some other “European origin” nations. It is sad that they are unable to see through the designs of the west (especially the US); and instead, they are very wrongly giving a PUSH to go “western” in almost every thing that is happening in India. The happy imperialists are making hay when the Political leadership is in the hands of the weakest and most incompetent groups. We can only say… GOD SAVE OUR NATION

JAI HIND

This writer is of the opinion that no amount of so-called economic development inputs would help real development of the people. If such real development of the common village people is to happen, EVERY ABLE BODIED INDIVIDUAL IN EVERY VILLAGE would have to earn decent livelihood benefit within ones own local environment.

THE NEW POTENTIALS

The development of any nation depends on the availability of resources and manpower. India has both these in abundance. While India’s population is about 1200 million, the annually Renewable Resources (RR), in the form of vegetation and animal matter (@ 40 T per annum per ha) are estimated to be 13,149,200,000 T. If we consider only the non-forest (@ 75%) resources “solids” portion @ 23% (the balance being water), the annually available solid RR in India = 2,268,237,000T. These include our entire food materials (cereals, oil seeds, fruits and vegetables, and various other non classified grasses, water hyacinths and even domesticated animal resources). It may also be noted that the annual rainfall based water available in India is of the order of 3,616,030,000,000 Cu m (over 8,256 l per capita per day). Add to this the “recoverable’ water from the RR (earlier mentioned). That works out to 4298095150 Cu m (10 L per capita per day). Now the question may be asked: what do we do with these resources? The answer is: we could have the following SOLIDS Resource Conversions made possible:

1. Energy Conversion using 500,000,000 T RR  ………….. 181,159 MWe (24 x 360 days; India now produce less than 120,000 MWe Power )

2. Bio-Petrochemicals using 500,000,000 T RR ………… 500,000,000 T (India’s present total petroleum consumption is about 155 Million T; in which India’s own production is about 35 M T, the rest being imported petroleum)

3. Engineered products using 500,000,000 T RR ………….. 830,000,000 T

4. Food production and Processed foods potential ……… 600 Million T

5. Full-time Employment potential (additional) ………………. 250 million people

The Total estimated values of productions are: Rs. 104,326,068,800,000 (about US $2,318,357,084,444). On the basis of 18% of these values as the benefits to the working class, the average annual income for 250,000,000 people are: Rs.75,115. This is 1250% more than the current per capita earnings in Indian villages. Additionally this value is above the estimated minimum decent earnings needed per individual (@ Rs.72,000 per capita)

Typical Indian Village - Poor and Desolate

TOTAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (TVDP)

The above mentioned Village Development potentials are the parallel potentials that do not have any thing depending on any existing economic activities, except that these new arrangements would be within the geographical regions and systems involved. These new programs would be named: TOTAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (TVDP), which look at every gram of all available Renewable Resources (RR) in every one of the 638000 villages across India. Although the different villages would have different RR and resultant animal and other organic resources (including various local skills), we shall look at averages for our estimation. Thus, the average GROSS VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR (GVDI) for India = Rs.163,520,484 ($3,633,788.5). This is the Gross Products in an average Indian Village. Every one of the 638000 villages would have electricity and most requirements for decent living; every able bodied person (male/ female) would have earning power. These earning power would create sufficient conditions for various cascading developments: resulting in Schools, Markets, Hospitals, Restaurants, Recreation facilities, Destitute homes and various other infrastructure. No village would depend on any Government schemes or other “outside” directed schemes (almost all of which are mere eyewash and arrangements for “others” to swindle money!).

JAI HIND

Each year we have the ritual of Independence day celebrations – a ritual continuously being followed by every Government from August 15, 1947, when the British Colonial rulers proclaimed India as an Independent nation. The Prime Minister, The President, most Congress party bigwigs and many other national leaders perform the ritual of calling up on the people to emulate Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Sardar Patel and various other leaders of yesteryear. Their main thrust would be to tell us about the heavy “sacrifices” of our great leaders that resulted in Independence. However they do not tell us how they themselves have performed in comparison with the “heroes” they want us to emulate! Almost all these leaders would perform another ritual of showing how they do “shram daan” or other “village development” works! Examples of such activities are: Road side cleaning; Cooking food for the poor; Distributing sweets to school children… and many more gimmicks, depending on the imagination and creativity of the “leaders” and those of the party workers!!! There after both the Leaders and the community forget about all these, till another August 15^th arrives!

Today, sixty four years after that original date, let us look back and ask ourselves … “Is India really Independent?” To this writer, the answer seems to be “NO”

1. Our education system is dictated by the Western Intellectual Traditions (WIT). Almost all schools, starting from kindergarten through the 10^th standard, vie with one another in teaching our future generation more about Western thoughts and ideas than about Indian concepts. Our children would be taught about Tundra region Maple Trees, Fox and Caribou instead of local Palmyra Trees and Local farm animals(many youngsters in cities like Mumbai would never know what is Palmyra tree!!!)
   

2. Every function in schools, colleges, companies, institutions (and even in most middle class homes) is carried out with western ideas, concepts, and food service systems. For example, the so-called “Traditional Cake Cutting” is the ritual for almost every Birth Day … the said system is not an Indian concept

3. Our food habits have been completely overhauled in such a way that almost 100% of our food systems depend on Western concepts of processing, packaging, and service. For example, although our original oil preparation methods of mechanical means using original oil seeds are more nutritious and healthy, we have completely switched to refined oils, which have no nutrition and health values. However, the Western world where Olive Oil is made continue to manufacture in the traditional way (without refining) and are marketing unrefined Oils here at exorbitant costs and profits. Our Government and public are foolishly falling prey to these gimmicks. The losers being those who eat these (by paying very high rates for far inferior product) as well as our poor farmers (who loose business)

4. Our agriculture and animal husbandry are completely under the dictates of multinational companies (especially those of the US). Almost 100% of our original crop systems have been totally modified and hybridized to an extent that over a period we may mutate into a different clan. Our milch cows and all other animals are also “mutated” and we are now eating foods that are less resistant and less nutritious. Further, for 100% of all technologies and material needs we are dependent on multinational US companies – being dictated by their whims and fancies. This has resulted in complete impoverishment of our farm communities whose knowledge in traditional farming and agriculture have been smothered and overcome (under Government’s connivance) by the multinational alien inputs

5. Our entire Real Estates are being bought by so-called NRI’s and other people of Indian Origin (almost 100% being US or other European/ Canadian/ Australian citizenship). The largest chunk (over 3 million in number) are US citizens (out of a total of 4 million). If, therefore, the US Government one day decides to take over all those Citizen properties under some “emergency rules”, we are slated to arrive at a peculiar situation whereby all of India’s Real Estates would be owned by the US. This is not far off, as the US is terribly afraid of so-called Terrorists (something which they alone created, including the Sikh terrorists working against India for over 40 yrs now) … and they could take any barbaric actions to counter those perceived threats, including this extreme step!

6. All our higher education systems are tuned to help systems and operations in the US, with the result India has absolutely no skills available to transform Local community knowledge into world-class Commodities (our original carpenters, masons, potters, black smiths, basket weavers and many many such highly skilled groups have become irrelevant or turned away to other professions which are alien and need special Western technical training, under their supervision and standards). No IIT, IISc, IIM etc have anything to offer toward utilizing our own Skills and Resources. In fact we are not aware what are our real Skills and Resources … lost or dormant for over 400 years when Vasco da Gama set foot in India
   

7. Our Government does not support or attempt to develop our Local Indian Medicine systems (Ayurveda) and instead, the entire system of Medicine is based on Western Concepts, which are alien, having no relevance to local conditions of tropical climate and related environment. It is a tragedy that Ayurveda systems are NOT APPROVED by most State Governments and Central Government Institutions/ Offices/ departments – a sort of “self-goal” in a football match!

8. Our Music systems, Entertainment systems, Food processing, Packaging and almost anything that are needed for human existence are all under the dictates of the Western Intellectual Traditions (WIT). This creates an inferiority complex and every brand name, and even Cinema arrangements are all based on WIT

9. India does not enjoy the right to have its Oil/ Gas Contracts signed with a neighbor Asian nation, Iran; and this is dictated by the US. They direct Indian Government not to Sign any agreement with Iran. Instead, we are forced to associate with the US multinationals and Ex-President Companies (Clinton is an example) who advocate so-called Clean technology in the name of Solar, Wind etc. A total hoodwinking of the Indian public (of-course, this is due to the Foolish and Incompetent leaders who come to power through elections, and who are under the “Agency Commission” lists of the western world)

   … There are many other umpteen systems and operations that are directly controlled by the US (including the entire Industrial operations), and India Cannot have any Independent decision power – all due to the unpatriotic and traitor behavior of the entire political class, who have cornered the electoral Seats in Parliament through brute force and subterfuge. Even the courts are controlled by these forces .. and the common people in India are actually helpless

The latest salvo in the plethora of dictums and dictates that the US sends to the “agency commission” unpatriotic leaders and “rulers” is that connected with How the Government should handle the issue of Anna Hazare’. For a change, this time it is against the “undemocratic” manner in which the Government is alleged by the US … to be handling the same. And adding salt to injury, the news is that one US Consulate official who took part in a seminar in a Southern Indian University had recently made a terribly shameful statement … That She has become black and dirty like Tamilians! So much respect for the very Tamilians who had called her to address the Seminar! And here too, this writer is ashamed and aghast that our people would never learn!!! ALWAYS WANTING TO BE SLAVES OF THE WESTERN WORLD

This writer is pained, angry and ashamed that these “slavery systems” of the US directed on Indian polity (and hence affecting every one of us) are becoming more and more pronounced over time… with potential to take over India through a new Modern method of indirect control and “Mental Slavery” … as pointed and enunciated above. Where could we go for justice against such “slavery” that is abetted by our own unpatriotic (but elected “representatives of the people?) leaders and all systems of Governance and economic methods? One sometimes wonders if the so-called “fight against corruption” staged by Anna Hazare’ and Co is also stage managed by those Dictating from the US!!!

A POST-SCRIPT: On the PLIGHT of Indian farmers, after 60 + years of so-called Independence: (Click to enlarge)

Courtesy: THE HINDU

JAI HIND

Please also Read: http://pvhramani.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gandhi-jis-dream-of-independent-india/ and http://pvhramani.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/what-ails-india-and-other-tropical-nations/