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From RTI to RTO - The Last Blog Post

This is a very long post. It is still a work in progress and some of us will work on it to refine it. Since this website will stop working in a few days and some of you may find the ideas in this post interesting I thought of doing a last post on August 15th.From RTI to RTO?Right to Information (RTI) is considered a major success in India and it is quite likely that India would be much worse off without RTI. Most people will agree thatwhat the citizens of India need more than just RTI is RTO or…See More
Blog post by Sanjay Bhargava Aug 15, 2010
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Daily management system

'Daily management system' (DMS) is the system which is based on Total quality management (TQM).Everybody knows what is total quality management.It is the technique of management which is being implemented for more quality oriented customer satisfaction.According to TQM every product should maintain some standard quality so that the customer will be more satisfied.DMS is the procedure to achieve that quality.What the DMS is?DMS is the procedure of daily monitoring the activity of the…See More
Blog post by Saptarshi Ray May 3, 2010
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Immeasurable Poverty

The debate on the extent of poverty in India has been a matter of global interest in the recent years since the position of emerging India is matter of great concern in the today’s era of global trade convergence. Though in the wake of economic reforms, poverty estimation itself emerged as a challenge which making thiscrucial matter more complex and distant from actuality. In India, povertyestimation is primarily carrying by fixing a poverty line based on adifferentiated calorie-norm; this…See More
Blog post by Atul Kumar Thakur May 1, 2010
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Blog posts by Atul Kumar Thakur Apr 27, 2010

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Financial Inclusion & Inclusive Growth 4 Replies

Started by Basudeb Sen in General. Last reply by Basudeb Sen Mar 24, 2010.

Basudeb Sen

Payments System Vision: RBI contribution to UFA 2 Replies

Started by Basudeb Sen in General. Last reply by Basudeb Sen Feb 17, 2010.

 

"You" are the problem and the Solution

It is becoming clear that the people most to blame is the collective "YOU" in India. See the flash intro on www.letsdoitdelhi.org It takes time to load but be patient and see if you agree with the message.

We are to blame because we allow this abuse to continue and we have the power to change it.The Let's do it Delhi team is focused on Ward 200 ( Harkesh Nagar)and I am part of the team. The team wants to use collective action to transform Harkesh Nagar in 60 days, that is by May 31. Will keep you posted on the progress. We wanted MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) to hold a press conference and issue a collective action challenge but this is too radical a change in approach for them. They have assured us support. We shall see. If you are interested in learning more please read this Collective_Action_to_transform_Ward200.doc

UFA Movement Overview

UFA or Universal Financial Access is enabled by a "zero cost" financial infrastructure. UFA is achieved when we can provide micro – savings,payments, loans, insurance investment and pensions profitably . Innovation and technology can be used to eliminate the high cost problem.UFA will give every Indian self confidence and a path to financial independence without subsidies.

We have started a movement to get our PM to declare UFA by 2013 a national priority. With this clear signal we believe private capital will rush in and find ways to achieve the goal. The movement is about what needs to be done and not how it should be done.

India has already done this in telecom where we have near universal telecom access and the government has made money. This gives us confidence that if we have the will we can achieve UFA by 2013. If you feel inspired please join the movement and get others both institutions and individuals to join.
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From RTI to RTO - The Last Blog Post

This is a very long post. It is still a work in progress and some of us will work on it to refine it. Since this website will stop working in a few days and some of you may find the ideas in this post interesting I thought of doing a last post on August 15th.


From RTI to RTO?…



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Posted by Sanjay Bhargava on August 15, 2010 at 8:59am — 2 Comments

Saptarshi Ray

Daily management system

'Daily management system' (DMS) is the system which is based on Total quality management (TQM).Everybody knows what is total quality management.It is the technique of management which is being implemented for more quality oriented customer satisfaction.According to TQM every product should maintain some standard quality so that the customer will be more satisfied.
DMS is the procedure to achieve that quality.What the DMS is?
DMS is the procedure of daily monitoring the activity…
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Posted by Saptarshi Ray on May 3, 2010 at 12:30pm

Atul Kumar Thakur

Immeasurable Poverty

The debate on the extent of poverty in India has been a matter of global interest in the recent years since the position of emerging India is matter of great concern in the today’s era of global trade convergence. Though in the wake of economic

reforms, poverty estimation itself emerged as a challenge which making this

crucial matter more complex and distant from actuality. In India, poverty

estimation is primarily carrying by fixing a poverty line based on…

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Posted by Atul Kumar Thakur on May 1, 2010 at 6:30pm

Atul Kumar Thakur

The World of Derivatives

Derivatives are a specialized contract which marks an agreement or an option to buy or sell the underlying asset of the derivatives up to pre choreographed time in the future at a prearranged price called as the

exercise price. The word “derivatives” originated from mathematics and signify

to a variable, which has been derived from another variable-they have no value

of their own and they derive their value from the value of some other asset,

that’s…

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Posted by Atul Kumar Thakur on April 27, 2010 at 8:14pm

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Inculcating a Sense of Banking Consolidation

At global arena, last few years would be recalled for all troublesome reason for banking sector…havocking recession and later relentless banking failures, bailouts, grim faces of western regulators were suffice to

epitomize the grimness of situation which on most of occasion appeared as out

of hand. In India

too, financial sector at large faced the ire of world-wide recession although

the scale was much lower in comparison of western counterparts owing…

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Posted by Atul Kumar Thakur on April 27, 2010 at 8:08pm

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Goldman Sachs-You too Brute!

Now, when the things started to slowly settled down at the Wall Street and regulators found time to back in their usual business; a new storm meanwhile again breakdown those slight cheering-this time, fraud

originated from iconic investment bank Goldman Sachs through creation of huge

investment designed to fail. The fraud struck inside the Goldman Sachs marks an

unusual tracts as the firm marketed mortgage-backed securities as they sought

to make profits…

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Posted by Atul Kumar Thakur on April 27, 2010 at 8:06pm

Atul Kumar Thakur

Self Help Groups: Catalyst of Microfinance Movement

Self Help Groups {SHGs} programme is the flagship microfinance intervention of NABARD which was launched as a pilot project on February 26th 1992 and deserve to be considered as a landmark development in the banking with the

poor. In its part, RBI accepted most of the major recommendations and extended

the SHG-Bank Linkage Programme beyond the pilot stage to as a normal business

activity of the banking sector. Now it’s a proven reality that the…

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Posted by Atul Kumar Thakur on April 27, 2010 at 8:00pm

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New Car Insurance in India

We bought a new car today and the dealer quoted insurance was Rs 42541. Had we negotiated the dealer would have probably given us a 15-20% discount on this. We checked with an agent we had got to know well and ended up paying Rs 24307 a saving of Rs 18234 or 42%. About Rs 3000 of this was because of an age discount and a voluntary deductible of Rs 2500.


The first car I bought I did not negotiate on insurance because I had just returned to India from USA. Even old India…
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Posted by Sanjay Bhargava on April 15, 2010 at 12:35am

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Well Done Abba

This is Abba as in Dad and not Abba as in the Swedish equivalent of the Beatles. I just watched this movie and found it hitting home. Had I watched it before being involved with civic services in Delhi I would have thought that the characters in the movie were far removed from real life. If you get a chance watch this movie if not in the halls then on DVD.

Posted by Sanjay Bhargava on April 15, 2010 at 12:04am

Atul Kumar Thakur

Challenges before Financial Inclusion Plan & Role of Financial Institutions

Financial inclusion plan today conceived in most of corner as “buzzword” which sometimes under evaluate its actual area of impact-as this movement refers towards

potential spread of institutional finance and financial awareness to cater the

needs of hitherto unbanked segment of society, so it becomes imperative to

judge the set of problems actually persists and its best suitable redressal.

Historically, India as a nation and economy remains stoutly attached…

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Posted by Atul Kumar Thakur on April 4, 2010 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

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