Friday, December 30, 2011

Politics,Government and Business: Do's and Dont's @ Business Acumen ship

In India, after seeing the drama in Loksabha and Rajya Sabha on the passage of Lokpal Bill, we can describe the present politics in India by the term 'Mediocre', 'Inefficient' and 'Static'. Barring a few, most politicians don't even deserve to be in the Indian parliament. If we can describe some of these politicians as talented, some as patriotic, some as visionary and some as knowledgeable; we can also describe many of them as corrupt, many as traitors, many as short sighted and many as the burden on this great country. There are only few politicians in India today who are worthy of applaud and sincerely want to contribute towards Development of this country. But there are many Pseudo politicians who are more determined than ever to not to leave the agenda of pickpocketing nation's money and filling their own pockets. We at Indian Socialist People's Party are fighting these politicians with steel determination and vigor. All like minded individuals and group who want to be a change maker and contribute towards the goal of a developed and strong nation are welcome to join us at Indian Socialist People's Party. It's also important to be beware of politicians and people who play the old British game of divide and rule; Such low sighted people and politicians should understand that even British were partly successful in their strategy; While they were eventually able to divide this great country but finally they had to give up the rule. While most of the politics and most of the politicians have become burden on this nation, it is a pleasure to see ace Indian industrialist Mr. Mukesh Ambani committing more than Rs. 70 K crore investment in India in the coming two years. Government and Industry need to work in a collaborative manner to make the high growth rates possible. The need is to provide Industry with the world class Infrastructure, low tax rates and best business environment. Lets send the message to the whole world that "India is open for business".

Monday, December 26, 2011

Crisis of Governance in India: Reasons and solution@Business Acumenship

Mullaperiyar dam was conceptualized and built by the British government of Madras Presidency in the 19th century. The dam connected two rivers i.e. Vaigai and Periyar and provided irrigation facility to an area of 1,71,000 acres. The Dam enabled the farmers living in the Madurai region to cultivate 3 crops a year. Whole country benefited from increased production of food grains. The once famine stricken region transformed into the rice bowl of India. When project of such a magnitude could be built in the 19th century; Why cant we implement the River Connecting project which can be the potential precursor to the 2nd Green Revolution in India. The surprising fact is that the government and people in this country are more busy discussing non productive matters. The main reason behind this is that some are corrupt, some are protesters, some are viewers and some are apathetic. Who will care about productivity, planning and implementation in this country. देश की जनता का विश्वास उठ रहा है, ना केवल सरकार पर से बल्कि अन्ना और विपक्ष की अन्य पार्टियों से भी | कोई भी पुरे देश की जिम्मेदारी लेने को तैयार नहीं दिखता, स्वार्थ सिधि का साधन बना लिया है राजनीती को | अन्ना राजनीती से आगे तक की सोचते है तथा जनता की भलाई के लिए ही कार्य कर रहे हैं इस में कोई दो राय नहीं | अन्ना से विश्वास इसलिए उठ रहा है क्योंकि अन्ना के पास देश के भविष्य जो भ्रस्टाचार मिटने की गोली है पहले तो सरकार उस गोली को ही खाने नहीं वाली और खा भी ले तो इस चीज़ की सम्भावना कम ही दिखती है की इससे भ्रस्टाचार पर लगाम लगेगी | विपक्षी पार्टियों से ना उम्मीदी इस लिए है क्योंकि उनमें वो धार नहीं दिखती जो आदरणीय श्री जय प्रकाश नारायण और आदरणीय श्री अटल बिहारी वाजपई जी के समय में विपक्ष के पास थी | देश को जरुरत है एक ऐसे दूरदर्शी, स्वार्थरहित नेतृत्व की जो समस्त भारत के समग्र विकास को संभव कर सके| The answer lies in joining the Indian National Socialist People's Movement. Through this movement we can develop a country free of this corruption disease, and register a growth rate of more than 10% every year resulting in the comprehensive development. The objective of the Indian National Socialist People's Party is not to provide people with the Right to Food, Right to Information, Right to Education etc but provide people with Food, Information and Education. INSPP can be the solution that should have been implemented when we got independence and it will provide people with the solution that does not exist at present i.e. the solution to incompetence and corruption.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Stock Market Votality: Reasons and Investment Principles@Business acumenship

As the BSE and NSE are experiencing high fluctuations, many investor's are loosing their hard earned money. People, at every sharp decrease in the index, thought that it was the once a while opportunity to buy stocks at cheaper levels. I my self heard experts speaking on National Channels very highly about the cost effectiveness of stocks like SBI, JSW Steel, RIL etc, when sensex was hovering at a level of around 17500 levels. Markets lost more than 10 percent in a short period after that. Most people found themselves on the loosing side than on the gaining side. Even today people are expecting markets to go either way, some are expecting a further downturn while others are expecting an increase in share prices in the coming period. The billion dollar question is; What to do and what not to do.

It's of prime importance for an Investor to understand, how the market functions. Markets basically work on mainly three main factors which include the company, industry and Overall economic performance. While most of the top companies are able to perform well at the company level, they are finding it difficult to cancel out the effects of bearish industry and economic factors.

India was supposed to be safe from the present crisis in the European Markets as Its economy is still in the nascent stages of global economic connectivity; But as the Government and the industry in this country are still in the shock stage in the aftermath of 2G scam, the growth in the country has come to a standstill. India like country with so much growth potential due to its ever aspiring and growing no. of hard working people can grow at 6 % even without government supervision, so we can say that If the growth rate is closing around 6%,the government is not contributing even a single percent.

We can also conclude that the instead of contributing towards the economic development; The government is hurting the economy by encouraging corruption at the higher levels. I am not talking about small scale corruption, I am talking about corruption which is hurting the economy to the tune of lakhs of crore rupees every year. This makes a big hole the pocket of development.

International factor's are mainly driven by the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in the countries like Greece. Its impact over the global economy could have been avoided if the management of the crisis was done through an Internationally co-ordinated effort, But the European countries under the leadership of Germany and France took the sole responsibility to infuse more and more liquidity in the Greece Economy to help it avoid payment defaults. The need was not of infusing more and more loans in an already highly indebted and fledgling economy but assistance in the form of International aid. The infusion of liquidity was also needed to be assisted by the internal reforms in the Greece economy, which never became operational. Result a continuous strain on the markets around the world.

Investor's need to understand that stock markets functions totally in response to positive and negative sues. If the Investor feel that the company fundamentals are strong couples with positive Industry and economic outlook, they should invest; Otherwise, Its better to wait than to be sorry later.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Be the Change you want to see

Do you ever wonder why the things which were supposed to be in this way are going in that way? The problem does not only lye in the things modus operandi but also our modus operandi in terms of dealing with such situations.

What are we waiting for? We have become so much used to the day to day problems being manifested in the face of troubles engulfing our day to day life that we never bother even question the relevance of such situations in our life.

Life has different meanings for different people in this country of more than 1 billion people. For rich in this country life means using the luxuries they are granted by virtue of their well being and let the corruption go the way the way it is going on. For the poor life means a disastrous and troublesome journey which provides even not the basic human rights for granted.

Obviously poor have a need based urge and rich have a morality based urgency to raise their voice against this scenario. But the reality is that people of this country don’t have enough motivation to do the needful. The politic system of this country still seems a long way away from the point of getting out of their myopic caste and religious infestation.

We need to take a relook at the rich heritage of the country which was once popular as the “Golden bird” and should contribute towards its comprehensive development.

Importance of comprehensive livelihood approach in Skill development Interventions

In today globalized world, if we make any intervention of any kind to add positively to the lifes of disadvantaged sections then we need to make it comprehensive and customized to make it successful.
Customization is the buzzword on the marketing today, In social marketing too taking cue from our corporate counterparts and using IT solutions to their best we whould provide developmental solutions which will meet the requirements of the targetted beneficiaries till the end point.
To customize better and in a cost efficient way, so as to scale up to large scale, we need to utilize the already present knowledge base and with value addition as per requirement we should provide the end user customized intervention.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Inflation and the ways to control

As the inflation rate is skyrocketing in India, the government is in a slurry to control the inflation rate. The government has only followed a one way approach to control the inflation i.e. by increasing the repo rates. Is the government too lazy to take comprehensive measures to control the inflation or does it think that inflation is not a matter which deserves its attention. Whatever is the reason; poor in this country are worst suffering from inflation as its decreasing the size, no. and the quality of their meals as well.
The main contributor to the inflation rate has been the food related consumable items like food grains, pulses, milk, vegetables etc. The main discrepancy here is that their is a vast difference of up to 200% in the wholesale rates and retail rates of the food related items. For example if the wholesale price of tomato at any wholesale market is Rs.10/Kg the retail consumers are paying more than Rs. 30/Kg for 1kg. This anomaly describes the true picture of the present state of mismanagement of farm produce supply chain; and in this supply neither the farm producers nor the retail consumers are getting benefited but the middleman.
So the need of the hour for the government is to find an optimum solution to this supply chain problem. This can be sorted by regulating the prices of fruits and vegetables in the same manner as food grains like wheat and rice. As time passes the governments needs to take the responsibility to take the welfare of the people and food security to the next level. This is the right time for the government to get out of its laziness, RBI dependence and take the food security in this country to the next level.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Futuristic Business Approach in India

Today almost all the world MNC's see India as the most potent market of the 21st century. All the companies have India specific business and marketing plans. As we will move further and deeper into the 21st century the importance of India on world business map will increase significantly.
The main driving factor behind India's sharp economic rise will be its demographic advantage as well as a vast pool of trained man power resource. All the companies who are only depending on the demographic factor are only making a mistake. They need to specifically look for categories of population who have something to deal with the organization.
Targeting and segmentation need to be objectively sound so as to increase the effectiveness of any business campaign. Any waywardness in this respect can do irreparable damage to any brand. Response time to change in marketing indicators will keep decreasing and companies will need to react on a whisper taking cues from the market sentiments. Any fall can become a drift for any organization if not taken well care of.
Overall the markets will follow the Darwinian survival theory and the fittest companies will be the ones walking on the surface of the corporate world.