Verghese Kurien: Milkman of india

A man with B.E in Machanices, Graduate from Tata steal also graduate in Physics along with the PG in Mata logical engineering from Misigion University in 1946 when a big part of Indian generation was uneducated. Verghese Kurien left his government job for a group of farmers in Gujarat and worked whole life for them without any fee.

It may be unbelievable for new generations but it is true if he want he might join any company and any country but the best thing was he had joined a very simple group of India that was farmer.

He was the first person who made powder by buffalo’s milk and made a milk processing plant by the hard work of eleven months. He was the first man of Independent India who gave the first Brand product to country “Amul.”

Before Freedom peoples also have animals but it was not so wide after the efforts and innovation or the white revolution by Verghese, government’s schemes, Awareness between farmers, increased the animals and milk production in country. Today we have 1^st position to produce milk and its product in India; we produce 17 % milk of world in India.

If there is farming then there is animals and milk. Example for Delhi, NCR (UP, Haryana) is producing milk every day for Delhi, Their life start from 4’o clock in morning.

Verghese give respect and pride to Indian farmers. Before few days it was nice to see Sachin Pilot - Minister in centre government as a Leftinent in Indian Army. Many times peoples discussed “how many soldiers are fight or stand on boarders who are the son of leaders ? ” I think Sachin is the answer of this question. His father Late Ex home minister Shri Rajesh Pilot was starting his life as a milk man.

Today few strong challenges are coming for farmers which are direct or indirect related to milk production and farmers, As the high prices of animals food products, Regular acquisitions of agriculture land, Left farming and animals by next generation of farmers, Cold paper based government policy, Bans on animals in metro cities also increased the price of milk and its products.

At last a pray to the father of white revolution god give u peace, Verghese is always live among us in our heart and in the golden page of Indian History.

Thank You

Deepak Rousa 

Few beautifull Minds....(Deepka "Rousa")...part one..

From a long time I was thinking how the interview session works. Not for the job part because I have also give them but the Tv, radio or say print media interview. I was thinking what I can do about it. I decide to take it on, and get interview of few people who are rare to find but they have been quite influential in my life. “The last few good people”…

In first part I decided to take interview of one of my friend Deepak “Rousa”. He is man of many mood, sometime poet and sometime the reader, writer and even working also on his own job. But there are few things that only he knows about himself. So I decided to take the interview of him first to know about him more and let other also know. Initially he was little bit skeptical about interview but he got over his fear and ready to give me interview. It was such a beautiful to have a work with him over a Coffey and uncover lots of things about him.

Meri awaz meri pechaan hai ....agar yaad rahe...

Me: hello, Deepak bhai. So finally you are ready to give a full fledged interview to me.

Deepak: Saifi bhai, it is always a pleasure to give you interview. I think you will never writer what I will tell you but you will always end up writing what you want to. Don’t get it wrong but that is issue with all the blogger.

Me: I will try to stay true to this one as much as possible.

I took out a pen, paper and start writing few questions before stating. I knew once it is started, it will be difficult to stop and in the flow I will forget lots of things.

Me: So Deepak, let us know something about you early life in school, what type of student you were in the school?

Deepak: I thought you will be asking about my family first. Ok getting back to you question, my schooling was done from my school in the village. It was not so tech. savvy or say modern school but yet the education I received there was very important. Daily I used to go on stage and sing the Morning Prayer song, other child used to dance and some used to make the sounds also to disturb. It was strange but it was interesting. I used to study daily three hours in the home when I was in school. Personally I loved the stage from early age of my life. I am cleaver boy with simplicity in me. When I used to go to school my father used to look after my hair that it is in order or not. Till date I never abused anyone in my life till date with foul language because it is never taught me. The best part was I topped each class from 1 to 12 in school. I was not good in math’s and history but still I managed to top. Might be that was the reason why boys were not my good friends due to my marks but girls used to care for me as a friend. From them I learned how to more caring towards your friend. They are the best source of learning that has been my experience.

Me: It seemed you enjoyed your life in the school, how your family helped in life at that time. They were supportive what you do?

Deepak: Firstly I lived in the joint family so it was not the small family. I was always loved by family and best part I know I am the soul of my family. But saying so they have given everything that they have to me. They never rejected any of my demand from childhood in any condition either good or bad.

Today I would like to confess one thing that without the love of my family I would have been nothing. I hope I could do something for them.

Me: You father is farmer but then also he does not want you be farmer, why is that so. I am asking this because my father also felt the same way. Can you pin point what is wrong with being farmer in India or just this generation is seeing end of farming.

Deepak: It is tough question answer saifi Bhai. Well first thing Come in my mind after your question was “Jai Jawan and Jai Kisan”, these days both the profession are not any more attractive to our generation. People become Jawan by mistake and Kisan by accident but sayint that realize these both jobs are really tough. If I talk in a broader sense look everyone knows there are not good policies of government related to the agriculture. Even if they would have some policy that will also benefit the middle man in these field.

See the point is they are still following the English time rule in the agriculture field. Take a example of Land acquisition, it is still from the English laws and also it benefit hugely the govt. in term of revenue. They don’t want to change it and try to buy the land from farmers forcefully. Why is the question if you think, then there is economics involved. They purchase land from farmers in small price and sell to developers in large profit. Look if you purchase land in 10rs and sell it to 1000rs then there will be some issues. The only truth in this county is by being farmer you can only live on two time food. that’s it.

Saifi do you ever heard any leader son was killed or any leader was killed in any fight? Answer will be no. In India at basic level there is no democracy only a mask of democracy. Autocracy is always in power and authority. I saw these drams on the grassroot level. I think in the end us and only we can find the answer for the problem of farmer. Nor the govt. and nor the leader.

It was turning out to fascinating discussion and interview with Deepak “Rousa”. In next part he will tell about his college life, his struggler, belief, life and other things like poem…

What about Online retails store, FDI opponent.....

Yesterday night I was watching some English news channel and a quite aggressive debate was going on FDI in retails. I know everybody has his own opinion and they are entitled to have it. But justifying it with wrong answer is not correct.

Let’s check out the major argument against FDI in retail sector. The first argument is it will kill the kirana shop in the neighborhood, they will monopolize the retail and it will affect our economy. But nobody noticed the increasing size of online retailers. I will give you a small example, I used to go to my neighbor shop for mobile recharge but now I do it online myself because I can recharge my mobile and also I get the free discount coupon of same amount of various Brand like Mcd, pizza hut etc.

There are distinct advantages to couch shopping – and forget about the kirana shop, even the largest brick-and-mortar retailers are affected. “You don’t have to camp out in front of the stores itself only to be trampled upon the minute the gates open by eager shoppers who like you are trying to get the best bang for their bucks. Worse, you run the risk of being pepper-sprayed by a ‘competitive shopper’, just like what happened at a branch of Walmart in Los Angeles.
Second, no long lines at check-out counters no matter how many items you buy. All you have to do is click, click, click. Third, you save on gas and on precious time,” says News Veteran.
None of the discussions that one has heard and seen on TV or read in newspapers, magazines and websites has debated or discussed the increasingly important role that e-commerce is playing in India.

The Internet and e-commerce has already made the traditional ‘mom-and-pop’ travel agency redundant in India – and they’re making others redundant as well.

“Ecommerce portal FlipKart.com has said that the website’s consumer electronics products are expected to contribute as much as 50 percent of the company’s revenue run rate of Rs 500 crore for financial year 2011-12. The company also expects electronics and appliances to contribute around 30 percent of its total revenues in the next two quarters,” says Alootechie.
That’s Rs 500 crores of revenue which, hitherto, went to mom-and-pop and Indian (organised retailing) corporates with brick-and-mortar bookshops, appliances shops, electronics shops and so on.

And that’s just one company, Flipkart. “According to the study titled Indian Digital Consumer Industry by financial services firm Avendus, the number of people transacting online is expected to touch 39 million by 2015. The estimated online transaction will further boost the Indian e-commerce market which is estimated to grow to $24 billion by 2015 from the current $6.3 billion. Currently 8-10 million people in India transact online, which is about 11 percent of the 80 million internet users in the country, which represents a penetration of 7 percent of the population and 17 percent of the urban population,” reports Jagran.

All this business (the majority, admittedly, from travel) has moved away from traditional retailers. The major factors that spur the growth are the price, the convenience of shopping from the comfort of your home or office and convenience of delivery.

So what will retail FDI opponents do about this phenomenon? Ban e-commerce in India? Reserve e-retailing for Indian companies only?

Why haven’t they done so already? Any Indian can be shopping on 100 percent foreign owned sites such as amazon.com, to name but one site, legally and there’s nobody asking for a ban on amazon.

Why not? Perhaps because there’s no political dividend?

Indian Agriculture ..A big scene behind it...

In India I feel the biggest problem is not corruption but the development. As a developing nation I do not find enough thrust in the nation most reliable and one time base of economy .i.e. agriculture.

The agriculture field has been always been neglected in India either in the name of development or by the name of modernization. Believe me they have nothing to do with agriculture growth and its development. Have you heard a word of modernization in the agriculture field by the government, for surely I have not heard that, have you?

In India where still half of its population is dependent on agriculture, where is the next revolution in this field. Farmers are killing themselves not because they are not able to take risk but they know that it is impossible to come out of this never ending debt circle. As I have been living in a village for over 20 years I know the exact problem of them. They do not want the subsidy for the agriculture but they demand few things from the government.

Firstly they need basic infrastructure, it is easy to say in India agriculture is not up to standard but are we giving them fare chance. Look at ground reality Electricity is not available in the villages for almost 12 hours; water is a problem and if the entire problem is solved then also there is fight for the timely fertilizer from the govt. believe it or not it never ends, even if you pass all these tests then the biggest is to get the market for your product. Which is basically a place where only farmers are exploited nothing more. They sell their product on 10 Rs but it end up in market with just double price.

Bizarrely we all blame govt. for all suffering but a framer never does that simply because he even not aware what are policies that govt. has for them. They will sell their crop at cheaper rate then set by the govt. because at ground they need money to stay alive and survive another day.

When govt. set Rs 32 as minimum required for the living there was huge cry from the middle class people and all those who say they are intellectual. But the next time they will went to a shop of fruits or vegetable they will bargain for half hour for one Rs and might not purchase from there. They will happily buy same product on higher price from Relience fresh just because it is a BRAND.

That is the reality in India, for farmer there is only one thing in India i.e. sympathy. Hope it may change soon let’s hope. Let’s hope that farmers get there due and get the right infrastructure to work and grow.