A great stunt was shown by our honorable Health Minister Mr Anbumani Ramadoss by banning smoking at so called public places on 02nd October 2008. The note further stated that the ban is effective from 02nd October 2008 and the offenders will be fined between Rs 200 to Rs 600. All the news channels were airing the Ban related articled the whole day. They created a view like INDIA will be a smoking free country from day one. In my point of view if our health is really interested in making INDIA a smoke free country then he must have taken some solid stand in banning the production of Cigarettes in India. Yes I agree that leads to lot many unemployment. Why don’t you have a rule stating only for exports we produce ciggarates and not for use in INDIA?
These guys will never take such aggressive decisions as it will directly affect the revenue of the country as well as some big shots. I remember they imposed such a ban some time before on the PAN products and the sales are still happening without any issue. Government should be firm and should put their foot down to impose such rules. It must be hard and strict in imposing such bans. Looks like that will never happen, then what is the purpose in bringing up such rules and having it only in papers.
I had these things in my mind for quite a long time and the information that I read today forced me to write this blog. Looks like the health ministry of Tamilnadu announced that a total of Rs 1.20,000 has been collected as penalty from the people who violated the smoking ban. In a state which has got population of around 7 crore people and after 14 days of ban they have collected only Rs 1,20,000. Which means they have penalized only (1,20,000 / 14) 600 smokers who had violated the rule. Ie.. around 42 persons a day. This is really funny. Do you think it is realistic? Does it mean in the whole Tamilnadu only 42 persons a day are violating the rule. If you are a smoker you can easily figure it out…
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Harthal!!!!!
Recently came across a news in the daily stating that the Tamil film industry is planning to shut down its operations for a day in order to extend their support to the Tamils at Srilanka. It is nice to hear that people in Tamilnadu, India care for our brotherhood living there in Srilanka and suffering for their survival. But I cannot understand the fact that what happens if these people shut down their operations for a day or so, Will it really help the suffering people? The answer is NO.
Whenever there are some issues people (political parties in specific) tend to call for harthal and Bandh and make sure the people suffer a lot because of the same. Will this definitely help the needy? Or by shutting down a day or so will the Srilankan government stop all the atrocious activities against Tamilians who live in Srilanka? What are they going to gain out of these Harthals???? Nothing…
Instead of calling for such unwanted Harthal’s why not they thinks something proactive and do something which will be really needed. Have read somewhere sometime before that in Japan if they would like to call for a Harthal or so they will never shut down the operations instead they will make sure that the production is on which will be of no use unless they put some more effort. For Example it is a Shoe Manufacturing company going for a strike, on the day of strike they will produce only right leg shoes and not the left ones. By this they express their grief as well as make sure that the production is not stand still. On the next day to strike they continue to work on the left shoes and by the end of next day the company will be in a comfortable position to ship the goods as per their plan.
Why we Indians are reluctant in doing this? By shutting down all the theaters one day we are no way helping the Tamilians at Srilanka instead we are putting our people in trouble. Think about the revenue loss in one days collection and all the directed and indirect earnings out of the same. Starting from the guy who takes token for your vehicles to the canteen guy who sells snacks to you will be loosing their one day wage. Instead they can contribute a part of their collections to the victims or even call for a high level discussion and make sure that the issues are sorted out at appropriate levels…
Wish to see such changes in INDIA soon which will for sure take us to the super power dream by 2020
Whenever there are some issues people (political parties in specific) tend to call for harthal and Bandh and make sure the people suffer a lot because of the same. Will this definitely help the needy? Or by shutting down a day or so will the Srilankan government stop all the atrocious activities against Tamilians who live in Srilanka? What are they going to gain out of these Harthals???? Nothing…
Instead of calling for such unwanted Harthal’s why not they thinks something proactive and do something which will be really needed. Have read somewhere sometime before that in Japan if they would like to call for a Harthal or so they will never shut down the operations instead they will make sure that the production is on which will be of no use unless they put some more effort. For Example it is a Shoe Manufacturing company going for a strike, on the day of strike they will produce only right leg shoes and not the left ones. By this they express their grief as well as make sure that the production is not stand still. On the next day to strike they continue to work on the left shoes and by the end of next day the company will be in a comfortable position to ship the goods as per their plan.
Why we Indians are reluctant in doing this? By shutting down all the theaters one day we are no way helping the Tamilians at Srilanka instead we are putting our people in trouble. Think about the revenue loss in one days collection and all the directed and indirect earnings out of the same. Starting from the guy who takes token for your vehicles to the canteen guy who sells snacks to you will be loosing their one day wage. Instead they can contribute a part of their collections to the victims or even call for a high level discussion and make sure that the issues are sorted out at appropriate levels…
Wish to see such changes in INDIA soon which will for sure take us to the super power dream by 2020
Monday, June 2, 2008
Atrocious Aircel
The day started off with a shock for me, I just tried to reach my mother on her mobile and amazed to hear a caller tune but she din pick the phone for quite some time. I just thought she would have placed her mobile some where and hence she is not able to pick the phone when I called her. Later I went down to meet her and asked for her mobile. To my surprise I cannot find any missed call details in her mobile. I just check all the other options like Call barring, Call Divert & Phone line and everything is proper.
If I dial from my mothers number I am able to speak to other people but even if I try to reach her from my land line I got the same Caller tune and still my mothers mobile din get any details pertaining to the call. After all basic investigations I rang up the Customer Care and to my surprise they said everything is proper and kept me on hold for around 15 – 20 mins and disconnected the line. Later after a couple of minutes they rang my mom and this time her mobile had received the call. I was a bit confused of what had happened.
Some time later I got a call from a number similar to my mothers number (Mother’s Number 98418 – ABCDE, The number from which I had received the call was 98411 – 8ABCD) and the called said that she had got lots of missed calls from my number. On analyzing the two number it was very much clear that the call to 98418 – ABCDE has been landed to the mailbox of 98411 – 8ABCD (if you can compare the number u can find that the 5 digits starting from 5th digit to 9th digit of my mothers number is same as the 5 digits from the 6th digit to the 10th digit from which I got a call).
After getting these details I contacted the Customer Care once again and explained the whole the problem and the response from them is very very funny, They just said that they have check the profile and there are no issues in the same and simple asked me to keep my mobile switch off for the next 30 minutes and switch on it later. I was clearly asking the reason behind the problem but they kept on saying switch off and on your mobile. After getting frustrated I disconnected the call. I was using AIRCEL (RPG) for some 6+ years or so and the quality of their services had drowned like anything.
Hope you guys are aware abt the cross talk issues which popped up some time before now, earlier I was reluctant to believe it and now I think that news would have been 100% true.
If I dial from my mothers number I am able to speak to other people but even if I try to reach her from my land line I got the same Caller tune and still my mothers mobile din get any details pertaining to the call. After all basic investigations I rang up the Customer Care and to my surprise they said everything is proper and kept me on hold for around 15 – 20 mins and disconnected the line. Later after a couple of minutes they rang my mom and this time her mobile had received the call. I was a bit confused of what had happened.
Some time later I got a call from a number similar to my mothers number (Mother’s Number 98418 – ABCDE, The number from which I had received the call was 98411 – 8ABCD) and the called said that she had got lots of missed calls from my number. On analyzing the two number it was very much clear that the call to 98418 – ABCDE has been landed to the mailbox of 98411 – 8ABCD (if you can compare the number u can find that the 5 digits starting from 5th digit to 9th digit of my mothers number is same as the 5 digits from the 6th digit to the 10th digit from which I got a call).
After getting these details I contacted the Customer Care once again and explained the whole the problem and the response from them is very very funny, They just said that they have check the profile and there are no issues in the same and simple asked me to keep my mobile switch off for the next 30 minutes and switch on it later. I was clearly asking the reason behind the problem but they kept on saying switch off and on your mobile. After getting frustrated I disconnected the call. I was using AIRCEL (RPG) for some 6+ years or so and the quality of their services had drowned like anything.
Hope you guys are aware abt the cross talk issues which popped up some time before now, earlier I was reluctant to believe it and now I think that news would have been 100% true.
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