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Thursday, 19 November 2015

CODE OF CONDUCT @ Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society

Our never compromising attitude on quality front and never-say-die attitude, which makes even the most difficult task look easier, help us in building a robust work culture on the basis of which the code of conduct of the Organization is developed.

Here labourers themselves are the owners. The profits are equally divided among them after apportioning the capital required for future growth. No wonder, the Sangam (group) is moving forward successfully sans any internal bickering. The members of Uralungal Labour Contract Co Operative Society Ltd.,are fully aware that goodwill of the Sangam cannot be compromised at any cost. Otherwise, strict disciplinary actions will be taken against the offenders. This was another reason for the seamless functioning of the society.( http://ulccsltd.com/code_of_conduct/ )

At Uralungal Labour Contract Co Operative Society Ltd., a work culture emphasizing on integrity and ethics upholds the values of the Organization.

It hardly gives any room for corruption or misappropriation of funds. Adherence to fair trade practices, quicker turnaround time, labor strength, economic stability, a huge resource of raw materials and machineries etc. are the factors that contribute to our credibility as the best co-operative society. No doubt, our values drive us forward. We always want the ULCCS Ltd to grow along with us and are willing to adapt to the changing times. ( http://ulccsltd.com/value_and_purpose/ ) read more @ http://ulccsltd.com

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

20 States, 35 Tribal Community and 1500 people in Samvaad 2015! Long way to go before they occupy their rightful space in the society.

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-tata-group-chairman-cyrus-mistry-takes-part-in-tribal-conclave-samvaad-2015-2146340

ULCC - Kerala Labour Cooperative will make you more proud than AMUL!!! ULCC owns IT Special Economic Zone, ULCC turnover has been growing at 30% annually for the last three years, total worth of the Society would be more than Rs 10 billion!!

Kerala cyber park to be first in world by a cooperative society

Sruthin Lal, Hindustan Times, Kozhikode
Updated: Nov 18, 2015 17:44 IST

A crafts village of Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society. (HT photo)

It is 3 pm, well past lunch time. But the first question that P Ramesan asks visitors to his office is, “Have you had your lunch?”

Donning a white dhoti and a khadi shirt, 55-year-old Ramesan is the president of Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS). The largest labour cooperative in Asia, a diversified business organisation with an annual turnover of Rs 400 crore, is set to open Kerala’s third cyber park–the first in the world by a labour cooperative–in December .

His question is not just a formality; there is a reason behind it. It is related to the origin of the Society more than 90 years ago, when a group of low caste labourers of a small village in northern Malabar, Uralungal, organised themselves with a capital of just 37 paise, as per the guidance of Vagbhadananda, a social reformer of northern Kerala, to get out of starvation, poverty and feudel oppression.

“The primary aim of the cooperative back then, and for a long time, was to get food for every member. Wage was secondary,” Ramesan says in his northern Malabar Malayalam. Filling stomachs is still a part of their legacy, as reflected in the question he had just asked.
Today, the total worth of the Society would be more than Rs 10 billion. It undertakes multi-crore projects that include highways, bridges and flyovers across the state. It has eight business subsidiaries consisting technology solutions (software), affordable housing, urban planning and sustainability, agro-farms and a craft village, among others. The turnover has been growing at 30% annually for the last three years.

The 2.7 million square feet UL Cyber Park is the first IT Special Economic Zone in the Malabar region and is expected to generate about 40,000 direct employment opportunities. The UL Technology Solution, the software arm of the Society, that started with just four people in 2012, now has more than 60 permanent and 40 temporary employees and has been growing at 50% since then, now reaching a turnover of Rs 25 crore.

The 2.7 million square feet UL Cyber Park is the first IT Special Economic Zone in the Malabar region and is expected to generate about 40,000 direct employment opportunities. (HT photo)

“The most remarkable fact is that they are able to accumulate money, modernise and diversify, in spite of giving its members high level of wages and all the allowances and benefits,” says TM Thomas Isaac, former finance minister of Kerala.

ULCCS is centered around laboureres who manage it from top to bottom and usually start their membership as masons or breaking road metal. The average earning of workers at the Society is about 40% higher than their counterparts. Once a member, they are entitled to Provident Fund, insurance, gratuity, interest-free loans and many other benefits. They rise ranks over the years and some like Ramesan go on to lead the organisation that now employs around 3,000 workers directly and 6,000 indirectly.

TP Kunjikkannan, a noted economist in Kerala, cites ULCCS as a successful example of social entrepreneurship, where unlike capitalistic business model, wealth created is shared equally by every member. “Thus, each member, starting from an ordinary mason at the lower level to the director board, is equally responsible for its progress and success.”

In Kerala, a state often blamed for highly politicised and troubled labourers, it is a wonder that this labour cooperative hasn’t ever seen a single day of labour unrest, he adds.

“We are, of the workers, by the workers and for the workers,” says S Shaju, the secretary of ULCCS. The state government has given the Society an accredited agency status because of the timeliness and quality of work so that it can directly get work without going through a tender.

In Kerala, a state often blamed for highly politicised and troubled labourers, it is a wonder that this labour cooperative hasn’t ever seen a single day of labour unrest. (HT photo)

Away from the city, at a construction site, where a bridge was just completed, it was hard to distinguish VK Anandan, the vice president of ULCCS, from other labourers. Dropping out after his seventh class in school, he joined the society in 1977, with breaking road metal at a quarry as his first task. Pointing at a just finished 300 meter bridge he says, “We took just 10 months to complete this bridge, the deadline was one year. We worked 24 hours, in shifts, to finish it.”
And this is one of the secrets of their success, says Ramesan: “Our model is simple. You treat the workers well and pay them well, and they work well with commitment. And you are able to produce quality work, able to finish it much before the time and make profit out of the time and cost savings.”
He highlights the discipline and lack of political interferences as other reasons. “We may have our own political affiliations but we never allow that get into functioning of the Society. You may find fierce competition in the Society elections held every five years. But that just starts there and ends there too.”
“If someone shows indiscipline, we punish them, no matter even if he is a director,” Anandan says. A usual punishment is sending a person to a quarry, to break road metal.
The Society entered its high growth stage after the beginning of the millennium, when the number and money involved in the infrastructure projects in the State saw a high growth. “Big projects start coming up from government,” Ramesan says.
Facing labour shortage, the Society started acquiring heavy machinery to reduce it dependence on labour and began modernisation and diversification to other areas that included the ULTS and now the IT Park. “We saw that a transition is required if we are to attract the new generation to the Society.”
The United Nations has endorsed ULCCS as a unique sustainable rural development model for creating employment in multiple business areas with a social perspective.
In September 2014, the UN invited the Society to Europe, the birth place of the cooperative movement. “We were very small compared to the size of many cooperatives there, who were employing high technology, some even making robots,” says Shaju.
“But still they were impressed at our growth rate, and our diversification. And we found that we have been on the right track,” says Ramesan with a confident smile.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/kerala-cyber-park-to-be-first-in-world-by-a-cooperative-society/story-8LKalWRB1Z5eAcccqlqEmI.html

Monday, 2 November 2015

Soon, a Long Drive From Kolkata to Bangkok May Be Possible - NDTV // Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala cargo transport trial run flagged off - The Economic Times

Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala cargo transport trial run flagged off - The Economic Times on Mobile - http://m.economictimes.com/industry/transportation/shipping-/-transport/kolkata-dhaka-agartala-cargo-transport-trial-run-flagged-off/articleshow/49617042.cms

Soon, a Long Drive From Kolkata to Bangkok May Be Possible - NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/kolkata-news/soon-a-long-drive-from-kolkata-to-bangkok-may-be-possible-1239206

Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) sub-regional initiative for uninterrupted cargo movement.

Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) sub-regional initiative for uninterrupted cargo movement

Monday, 5 October 2015

Ageing Chinese dragon makes way for India in top growth spot among EMs: IMF

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/india-a-bright-spot-in-slowing-world-economy-imf/articleshow/49177233.cms

http://m.economictimes.com/news/economy/indicators/ageing-chinese-dragon-makes-way-for-india-in-top-growth-spot-among-ems-imf/articleshow/49230900.cms

Sunday, 4 October 2015

Mohandas: 20 who were inspired by him!! [Drop caste title Gandhi] - Read what Steve Jobs,Einstein,Mandela, King,Suu Ki,Bernard Shaw felt

“Well, dead or alive, that’s a pretty big list. You know, I think that it might be Gandhi, who is a real hero of mine.” - See more at: http://www.thebetterindia.com/35422/20-greatest-world-leaders-and-thinkers-who-were-inspired-by-mahatma-gandhi/#sthash.YCPeNO1F.dpuf

“Gandhi’s ideas have played a vital role in South Africa’s transformation and with the help of Gandhi’s teaching, apartheid has been overcome.” - See more at: http://www.thebetterindia.com/35422/20-greatest-world-leaders-and-thinkers-who-were-inspired-by-mahatma-gandhi/#sthash.YCPeNO1F.dpuf

http://www.thebetterindia.com/35422/20-greatest-world-leaders-and-thinkers-who-were-inspired-by-mahatma-gandhi/

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Older persons are an enormous asset to society and make a significant contribution to global development” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52088#.Vg11ypC6btI

1st women DG of DRDO cluster: another glass ceiling broken!!

http://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/j-manjula-7-things-to-know-about-drdos-first-woman-director-general/articleshow/48896502.cms

Other malalas: Meet the incredible young women standing up with Malala for human rights http://qz.com/511657/photos-meet-the-six-incredible-girls-helping-malala-to-educate-the-world/ also see

If they can do wonders in Afghanistan, Pakistan, why not we in India....

http://qz.com/511657/photos-meet-the-six-incredible-girls-helping-malala-to-educate-the-world/

Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Meet the lady who provides free quality education online through her videos. via @dna http://dnai.in/cUn3

http://dnai.in/cUn3

Bus Driver's Valiant Attempt to Save Youth Proves Futile-Good that passengers to coopetater to drive the patient 15km whithout stopping to get down

Bus Driver's Valiant Attempt to Save Youth Proves Futile-Good that passengers to cooperated to drive the patient 15km whith out stopping to get down. Humanity fought a good fight!

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Tiruchy-MTC-Bus-Drivers-Valiant-Attempt-to-Save-Youth-Proves-Futile/2015/09/22/article3040707.ece

Saturday, 19 September 2015

Ideas for generating jobs for educated youth...

Reduce teacher to students ratio to increase job in education sector,
performance based pay in govt,
strict anti corruption drive to weed out corrupts to give job to youth,
fill gap in healthcare provisioning by more govt hospitals and para medics,
promote emigration to less populated countries,
reduce labour replacing mechanisation by innovative fair consensus based labour laws,
reduce working hours , general retirement age and pay proportionately so that many get jobs,
boost tourism with learned certified guides,
highly integrated proactive tech intensive employment exchanges.......

Cooperatives like Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF) I.e AMUL is good example how collectives can ensure job creation, quality products and fair business practices.... cooperatives will distribute wealth, not concentrate as pvt industries does.

But for all that to happen and to ensure justness in operation, we need thousands of visionary sincere democratic inclusive bold innovative leaders...I think we have many rough diamonds are waiting to shine

Women is reintroduced to herself by Dr.JsB - Women's life cycle,Women's problems, Pitfalls, Emotional Turmoils, Approach required, Care required, Roles as Daughter,Daughter-in-law/Mother-in-law etc etc

Women is reintroduced to herself by Dr.JayanthaShri Balakrishnan Shares so many insights about Women's life cycle,Women's problems, Pitfalls, Emotional Turmoils, Approach required, Care required, Roles as Daughter,Daughter-in-law/Mother-in-law etc etc

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRmwaflzgw (Birth to 15 and 15 to 25 age)
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ACoflMcNQ (25 to 35 ; 35 to 45 age ; 45 to 55 age)
For full series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCioXFjn-j1S_XNoMYOoaVmQ/feed

Lucky if you know Tamizh,Get benefited !!

For more topics see http://peace2047.blogspot.in/

Thursday, 17 September 2015

Sunita Narain on status of Indian Agriculture today ....

Sunita Narain on status of Indian Agriculture today ....

1. we need to invest big time in weather sciences/ 25-30 per cent reduction was done in last yr annual budget...

2. prices are artificially "fixed"; and when shortages grow, government rushes to buy from heavily subsidised global farms. This cannot go on...

3....everything from cities and roads to ports and dams - must be built in a way that they are compliant with best environmental safeguards.

4.....our so-called crop insurance schemes are poorly designed and even more poorly executed. Once again, this cannot go on.

For full article see http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/sunita-narain-end-the-killing-fields-115091300747_1.html

Conferece on Traditional Natural Organic Food varities in Chennai - 26 Sep 2015

WANTED PEONS:: 255 Phd holders, 25000 Masters holders and 23 lakh others have applied for 368 positions of peons in UP govt.

WANTED PEONS:: 255 Phd holders, 25000 Masters holders and 23 lakh others have applied for 368 positions of peons in UP govt.

Unemployment Forces PhDs To Apply For Posts Of Peons

For 368 positions for peons at the Vidhan Sabha Sachivalay or state assembly in Lucknow, more than 23 lakh people have applied. Of them, 255 have doctorates in engineering, commerce and science and around 25,000 have master's degrees.

BY TEHELKA WEB DESK

The UP government has received 23 lakh people for 368 positions for peons at the Vidhan Sabha Sachivalay or state assembly in Lucknow. Of them, 255 have doctorates in engineering, commerce and science and around 25,000 have master’s degrees.

Prabhat Mittal, secretary, said, candidates applied online against the advertised posts. “We were shocked to see the response,” said Mittal.

What is more appalling is that two lakh applicants are at least armed with BTech, BSc, MSc and MCom degrees. Around 255 applicants have a PhD degree in hand.

All that the government wants in a peon is school education and bicycle-riding skills. Not even a written exam is needed.

To understand how best to tackle the deluge of applications for the post, the government is consulting experts. If so many candidates are to be interviewed, the selection process could take four years, say officials.

Applicants like Alok believe it is worth the wait; a peon’s job means a salary of at least Rs16,000 and all the benefits that come with being on the government’s payroll.

Officials believe soon, the staff sitting on benches outside government offices, waiting to deliver files or fetch water, could be those with doctorates in history, philosophy or psychology.

“It is possible after getting the job, these candidates might feel frustrated and other officials might hesitate in giving them orders,” said UP backward classes welfare minister Ambika Chaudhari.

Candidates have their reason for applying. “It’s better to work as a peon than to roam without a job,” said Alok, an applicant who holds a PhD degree. Graduate Ratan Yadav added, “there is nothing wrong in taking up menial work.”

http://www.tehelka.com/2015/09/unemployment-forces-phds-to-apply-for-posts-of-peons/

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Current data from Indian labour bureau: https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://labourbureau.nic.in/Press_note_4th_EUS.pdf&ved=0CEEQFjAJahUKEwih-8Pg_fvHAhWGjo4KHQq0AbQ&usg=AFQjCNFrQGSOndjSJrKaUUsfZW-01IGAwg&sig2=EVfFyfcbtafYDx5_xHRuJw

"Only 60.5 per cent of persons aged 15 years and above who were available for work for all the 12 months during the reference period were able to get work throughout the year at All India level. In rural and urban sector, it was 53.2 per cent and 78.5 per cent respectively."

We need to worry about our unemployment rate than that of USA👥👳

Indian youth need to create their own jobs!! There are lot of scope in manufacturing and service provisions.

Ex: Organic long term food crops and products🍚, instead of factory manufactured biscuits and chocolate🍭, home made delicacies with few days shelf life, handlooms, handicrafts, cold pressed oil instead of factory refined oil, village tourism, baby sitting & household works to help working women and aged, coconuts instead of colas, hand grained atta/idli batter/chutneys instead of instants, cycle rickshaws instead of cars, more repairman instead of use and throw products, labour intensive local resources based dwellings..............but for this to flourish we need to create demand⏫ for it.............all this above may remind you of the great weapon of our freedom movement "charka"☺ Let our thoughts reveal keys to the problems of the day🙏🌍 Murugaram Jayabharathi

Rent a Bicycle in Delhi and Paris !!!

Rent a Bicycle: Delhi metro - DMRC's initiative becomes a hit at Vishwavidhyalya Metro Station

http://www.iamin.in/en/north-east-delhi/news/rent-bicycle-dmrcs-initiative-becomes-hit-vishwavidhyalya-metro-station-45895

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) launched the first software based ‘Public Bicycle Sharing scheme (PBS)’ as per which commuters will now be able to take cycles on rent from a residential area and travel to the nearest Metro station and then again rent a cycle from a departing Metro station to the nearby localities.
http://www.delhimetrorail.com/press_reldetails.aspx?id=C0KYrggV5Fslld

Vélib’ is a large-scale public bicycle sharing system in Paris, France. Launched on 15 July 2007, the system encompasses around 18,000 bicycles and 1,230 bicycle stations,[1] located across Paris and in some surroundingmunicipalities, with an average daily ridership of 85,811 in 2011.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vélib%27

If Delhi and Paris can do, Chennai can do it....
Remember we in our childhood used to hire tiny cycles during vacation...
In Puducherry hiring a motorcycle by tourist is a normal practice....

India is trying to be the first country to become an industrial giant with an illiterate and unhealthy labour force-Amartya Sen

India is trying to be the first country to become an industrial giant with an illiterate and unhealthy labour force-Amartya Sen

The Country of First Boys

Interview by MANJULA NARAYAN, SEPTEMBER 15TH 2015

Just before the release of his new book, The Country of First Boys, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen talks exclusively to the Hindustan Times‘ Manjula Narayan about our blindness to poverty, flaws of the Gujarat model, miniaturisation of great ideas by the Hindu right wing and interference in academia.
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A recent report says the number of poor children in India is much higher than many countries in Africa.

Yes, and the undernourishment is enormously worse. The immunisation rate is not worse than Africa but not much better and certainly much worse than Bangladesh, and dramatically less than Southeast Asia.

Why are we still grappling with this after so many years?

I don’t think we have got the seriousness of the issue. I mean when people say that Gujarat was a successful economic model, they overlook the fact that, in terms of undernourishment, illiteracy, lack of immunisation, Gujarat has one of the worst records, and as the Economist magazine points out, under Modi’s chief-ministership, Gujarat’s position slipped down rather than slid up. It was slightly better than Bihar earlier and it became worse than Bihar. In some ways newspapers allow people to get away with this, as if infrastructure is just physical infrastructure; just roads and power. In fact, infrastructure is also education and health care. India is trying to be the first country to become an industrial giant with an illiterate and unhealthy labour force. I don’t think it can be done. To me, it’s one of the biggest problems.

A version of this article originally appeared in the Hindustan Times. Used with permission.

- See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2015/09/amartya-sen-on-poverty-in-india/#sthash.66ALqXCo.dpuf

Is all this true??
Do we need to do something??
What will happen if we don't act?
Inequality and socio political economic injustice may derail peace in our backyard!!
With today's advancement in technology, young population, eagerness to progress...this country and world can soon become a better place, it is all within our individual capacity and choice. Murugaram Jayabharathi

‘Cycling burns fat and cars build fat’, ‘This burns calories not fuel’, ‘One cycle = One less car in the city’, ‘I go to office like this, why don’t you?’, ‘No carbon footprint’ ,‘No parking charges’ and ‘No Stress’. People thought cycling to work would affect my work but the result has been just the opposite,”

Sharath Nambiar who has been cycling to work since 2008 is a much-needed inspiration.

Traffic in Chennai is getting worse by the day. We all know that but do we do anything to find a way out of it? We still use cars and bikes to commute and deal with the nagging traffic every day.

Back in 2008, Sharath Nambiar decided he had had enough. He was no longer going to allow the traffic to take control of his schedule. An ardent fitness freak, he decided one day to cycle from his home in Tambaram to Dakshinachitra on ECR. He completed a distance of about 26 kilometres in 55 minutes. He usually took one to one-and-a-half hours to complete the journey in a car or bike. “I leave my house at 7.30 a.m. and reach my workplace in 55 minutes. This time has not changed over the years. I leave with my cycling gear, reach my workplace, take a shower and then change into office clothes,” he says.

And that’s how it started. Since 2008, Sharath, who is the chief operating officer at Dakshinachitra has been cycling to work every day. He promotes the “Cycle to Work” campaign, encouraging people to commute the healthy way.

He has stickers with quirky messages pasted all over his bicycle. Sample these — ‘I go to office like this, why don’t you?’, ‘No carbon footprint’, ‘No parking charges’, ‘One cycle = One less car in the city’, ‘No Stress’, ‘Cycling burns fat and cars build fat’ and ‘This burns calories not fuel’. “ People thought cycling to work would affect my work but the result has been just the opposite,” says Sharath. “Now, many others at Dakshinachitra have started cycling to work. I want people to make it an every-day routine.

I know the weather can be an obstacle but if you leave early in the morning, it becomes much easier. Once you start riding, you get used to it. Anyone who enjoys cycling can do this.”

What about the sweat?

“A decent shower at the office is all it takes to deal with this problem. If people are motivated enough, they will push the office management to invest in such a facility,” he says.

Inspired by him, many people have taken to cycling, but Sharath is not content. “I want the administration to take notice and work towards making Chennai a cycle and pedestrian-friendly city by having dedicated cycling lanes. Perhaps, as in countries such as Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, we too can have certain lanes open only to cyclists and pedestrians.”

http://www.thehindu.com/features/downtown/cycle-to-work-if-i-can-you-can-too/article7141041.ece

An Idea worth trying, will implement and share my experience! Happy cycling to stay fit and help dear earth!!☺- Murugaram Jayabharathi

MJ

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