HDFC and SBI, will they stick to a two way contract ??

Will SBI and HDFC stick to a 2 way contract or try to be unilateral and try to enforce a unilateral contract ? Sadly, since we are not aware of the legal provisions that could be invoked and enforced, we may out of ignorance and stupidity fall for these idiotic banks and their unilateral ways of getting things done.. Let us for the time being also forget that it is our money that is lying with these banks ..

Today I went to 2 HDFC ATMs in Koramangala, Bangalore and both did not have any money. This can happen to anybody anywhere in the country.

If there is no min balance in my account, HDFC can take Rs 250/-. Why not the other way round ? If the ATM does not have minimum balance, is HDFC ready to compensate me with Rs. 250/- two times, since I checked in 2 ATM machines ?

Spread this message.  Let's raise our voice against banks. Stop customer unfriendly banks like SBI, HDFC etc. fleecing customers. !!

George ..

PS : Pursuant to this on Thursday, 5 th April, I went to two ATMs of HDFC in Koramangala, and sad to say, the bank which I was having high hopes as a real customer friendly bank is out there to fleece me yet again .. They are adamant on punishing their customers and were locked today too. Can I expect them to be manly and customer friendly and pay me Rs 1000/- for the 4 disappointing and disillusioned visits to the branch ? Will I be yet again get disenchanted and regret my association with HDFC Bank as are the thousands of other HDFC and SBI customers ?

SBI may have become among the top 50 Banks of the world, but let them not forget it was the customers who made them so big . If they forget the customers and remain ungrateful to them, the fall will be great and pathetic for SBI, this is just a small warning..

Toyota Way at Toyota Kirloskar plant at Bidadi, Bangalore, India.

What makes Toyota the global top automobile brand ? In 2016 Toyota's 10.2 million automobiles automobile production globally was just slightly behind and very close to Volkswagen's 10.3 million automobiles. (click here for the Forbes Report) It is their unique production philosophy and outlook on life which makes Toyota click.

This article is a writeup on Toyota's Indian operations and how Toyota is planning to make the Bidadi plant (click here for the video on how Toyota Etios is being made) as one of it's top production sites in the world.

Toyota Automobiles, Japan started manufacturing operations in India as a collaborative effort with Kirloskar in 1997 in India in Bidadi, near Bangalore, Karnataka. The first vehicle of the  Qualis brand, a Multi-Use-Vehicle (MUV), rolled out by 2000. Qualis was a runaway success for Toyota in India. It was so popular, that this initial high quality manufacturing pitch prepared the right environment and acceptance among Indians of Toyota quality and great Toyota vehicles to be introduced in India.

Even though Qualis production was stopped in 2005, the vehicle is still seen on Indian roads twelve years after its withdrawal from Indian markets and introduction elsewhere in the world. The initial Qualis success saw the introduction of many Toyota brands like Innova, Corolla, Camry, Fortuner and Toyota's special product for the Indian market, Etios and Etios Liva.

The following steps will demonstrate the commitment by the management of Toyota Japan through this plant of Toyota in India to ensure high standards of environmental consciousness practiced in the plant. As claimed by Toyota Bidadi, this is one of the most advanced plants of Toyota in the world and includes great environmental sustainability and solar energy initiatives in the plant. Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM) Bidadi, India produces only 3,20,000 cars annually, producing 3 % of its global production.

First let us start with some of the great environmental and social steps initiated by Toyota which have been initiated in India, along with some of the other production sites in Japan. 

Monozukiri - manufacturing in harmony with the environment has been the guiding light behind Toyota's environmental sustainability initiatives. 

Environmental Sustainability initiatives :

1. Recycling of Water  - the water for daily consumption in the canteen, gardens, wash rooms, etc. are all recycled with the help of a water recycling plant that recycles 60% of all treated effluent. Only water for cooking and drinking is taken from outside. High volume Rainwater harvesting plant of 25,000 cubic metres captures rainwater using it for plant needs for 4 months and supplements the efforts at conserving use of water. As of 2018-19. 88% of total demand is met from Rainwater harvesting.

2. Minimise waste and implementation of 5S - the basic philosophy of lean is to minimise waste and orderliness to the shopfloor.  Minimising the eight wastes in the plant is Toyota motto (as is the guiding principle of Toyota philosophy, presently renamed as Lean manufacturing)

3. Transition to solar energy - a 3 MW solar plant now meets less than 50% of the power needs in the plant which Toyota is planning to increase to meet 50% of the plant energy needs by 2020 and is working to meet 100% energy needs by solar energy by 2035. As of 2018-19, 89% of energy demand in the plant is met from renewable sources.

A view of final assembly line, courtesy Malayala Manorama.

4. Solar sludge drying for drying and safe disposal of hazardous wastes produced inside the plant, based on the superior co-processing technology adopted by major corporations across the world has helped Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM) reduce its carbon footprint

5. Reducing CO2 emissions - Using route optimisation, the supply of spare parts to the various distribution centres across the country using LCVs having only 20% space utilisation was shifted to smaller vehicles ensuring 80% space utilisation. This helped TKM save 10.3 T of CO2 emission and saving INR 3,00,000 a year.

6. The bio-gasifier plant inside the factory premises handles daily 1.5 tonnes of food waste generated in the TKM canteen and converts it into 100-120 cu.m of biogas, a non-polluting renewable source of energy, saving 40-50 kg of LPG consumption a day and generating app 140 kg of solid manure daily used in the gardens..

7. Use of racks from suppliers while supplying spare parts reduces packaging.- Toyota may the first in the country to use this unique style of taking delivery of items from suppliers. Usually spare parts come in  paper or plastic packaging and once the parts are used in the assembly the packing material is waste that needs to be properly reused, recycled or destroyed. Toyota has come up with the unique method where by the suppliers are sent spare parts racks by Toyota which are filled by the suppliers and sent to Toyota. After the spare parts are used, these empty racks are again sent to the suppliers who fill them and return it to Toyota with new spare parts. The cycle continues saving large amounts of waste packing materials.

8. Toyota is the first company in India to use water based paints : the company was the first to use water based paint, even though it was costlier, it is environment friendly. Volatile organic compounds (VOC) that float around in the paint shop as the paint solvent vapourises, is a major health hazard. Water based paints are a great initiative from Toyota to reduce VOC emissions and build healthy workplaces.

9. Planting 2.5 lakh saplings inside the 432 acres Bidadi campus of TKM has helped bring back green cover and oxygen.

10. Toyota's great emphasis on ensuring safety - The customary Toyota hand gestures (pointing the right hand fingers sequentially to the front, left and right sides, ensuring there are no vehicles or people coming from any of these directions, before crossing any road, is a classical exercise which would catch the attention of any visitor to Toyota premises). In fact, visitors at the plant are given brief instructions on the safety precautions practiced on the shop floor, before they are allowed to visit the shop floor. Even while walking along corridors, visitors are given instructions to keep themselves to the left side. Toyota corridors are safe passageways for employees..
All Toyota cars came with dual air bags across all models, with 100 per cent anti-lock braking system and was awarded four star in the Global NCAP crash test.

Social initiatives : 

11. Gurukul, the learning centre. All of the employees who join Toyota are mostly unaware of the Toyota philosophy (or lean thinking). They are compulsorily made to take a 5 day primer course at the Gurukul. The Gurukul also gives training to the employees on maintaining good health and teaches safety precautions while inside the plant.

12. Toyota Technical Training Institute (TTTI) - established in 2007 as part of Toyota's Corporate Soial Responsibility Initiative (CSR) about 40 selected students after their 10th or 12th are given intense training for almost three years before they are inducted into the Toyota production line.

The unique nature in which Toyota differs from the rest oif the manufacturing world is the way in which they plan their manufacturing. While usually organisations make a demand forecast and try to plan to meet this demand, Toyota is one of the few companies in the world that manufactures to meet customer demand.

Takt time - production according to customer demand. Even though the Toyota assembly line is capable of a minimum takt time of 67 secs (ie. in a shift the maximum production possible from the line working 480 minutes in a shift is (480 x 60) / 67 = 430 units) depending on customer demand this varies. Toyota produces only to meet actual customer demand, not future potential customer demand. Presently the takt time is 465 seconds on the second advanced plant, ie. 62 units of automobiles of different brands a shift.

Were it not for the innovative manufacturing style initiated by Toyota, we would not have been blessed with some of the finest quality cars in the world today. As a tribute to the founding fathers of Toyaota a Visit to Toyota Hall is a must for all visitors visiting Toyota plant anywhere in the world. All visitors are explained the Toyota way of life in the Toyota Hall where every visitor gets to see an exhibition of pictures that highlight the birth of the company in Japan in 1939, its founders and key leaders, besides a power point presentation of the Toyota highlights and Toyota Production. 

Click here for the Toyota Kirloskar sustainability report 2016 PDF format ...

Click for my earlier writings on Toyota , Ten points to some great learning and the other one on Lean Manufacturing at Toyota Bidadi ..

While the first assembly line of Toyota assembles the older versions of Fortuner, Innova, Camry etc, the modern second assembly line assembles Etios, Liva and Corolla Altis. Corolla is by the way, the automobile model which has sold almost 37 million numbers throughout the world and is the largest selling automobile model in the world from any auto manufacturer.

Bidadi plant of Toyota has an annual capacity of assembling 3,20,000 vehicles, though it is still  pain as Toyota still imports the engine, power transmission and gear box from plants around the world as they are not yet sure whether the workforce in India would be able to match up with the high standards of quality and excellence attained by Toyota around the world. This also partly explains why, after importing automobile components taking up almost 70% value of the final automobile, Toyota is not able to gets its cars on Indian roads at less than Rs 7 lakhs on-road price, while other low end Japanese, German, Korean and French manufacturers like Honda, Suzuki, Volkswagen, Renault, Hyundai are able to offer cars at less than or near about Rs 5 lakhs.

Click here for the link in Malayalam from the Malayalam newspaper Malayala Manorama, an excellent piece. Having been associated with Toyota Bidadi and teaching Lean Manufacturing at a prominent University In  Bangalore, I can say that this is really a great article on the Toyota Way of Lean Manufacturing. In the article, you find lean is not a just a manufacturing philosophy for Toyota, it is a life philosophy.

Toyota having built their most advanced automobile plant in India also speaks volumes of the importance Toyota attaches to this great and most ancient economy of the East, which has already pushed Japan to the fourth position and is the third largest economy of the world.

References : 

1. Toyota Kirloskar takes steps to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions, The Hindu, Business, 28 Dec 2016 

PS - 1. the author teaches Lean Manufacturing at Alliance University, Bangalore, India. He can be reached at geasaw@gmail.com 

2. Technological Innovation especially in energy area has helped India advance in critical areas of energy application. India's advanced expertise in the solar technology application area cannot be demonstrated any better than with the help of the world's first and only 100% solar energy powered, energy neutral International airport, a super critical application, fully functional and operational in Kochi, Kerala, India (the third largest airport in the country with 1.5 million sq ft area handling 9 million passengers annually) for the past twenty months without occurence of any accident or untoward event. Click for the link here...

Is excess networking welcoming IoT into our homes too early ??

You call it over-indulgence, profligacy, intemperance or extravagance, Bangalore in India is now flush with high speed ultra cheap 4G Internet bandwidth ..

A graphic on IoT ..

Maybe it is the technology capital of India, that is the reason. In my home, a moderate low intensity user family with 4 adults, I have 7 networked devices, which includes three laptops, three mobile phones and a tablet which are powered by three high speed networks, ie. 2 nos 4G and 1 no 3G broadband network.

A very soft version of Internet of Things is already existing at our homes. Access to millions of apps that automates or simplifies many of your daily tasks like knowing the weather, the best road to take to work, reading newspapers, to checking weather, preparing a document or a presentation, clicking pictures or videos, editing images, booking a train tickets or cinema tickets, communicating with friends over emails or group chats or social media, almost anything one can imagine to improve the quality of our life, can now be achieved over the Internet.

Technology roadmap on growth of IOT ..

With high speed and extremely low cost 4G and 3G broadband availability in India, the field is so competitive that a user need not pay anything, ABSOLUTELY FREE for basic telecom connection between subscribers across the country on multiple networks, major international telecom players like Vodafone found the environment too hot and competitive that it had to merge with another competitor to stay afloat. Even then it is not clear how long the new company can survive given the ultra high competition in the telecom arena in India.

The Internet of things (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings, and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
        - Eric Brown, "Who needs the Internet of Things', Linux, Sept 13, 2016.

Click here for a free download of (courtesy Verizon) the HBR Nov '14 report on Internet of Things ..

A day will come soon when sitting in my office I can switch on and off my microwave oven at home or the fridge and washing machines and give it the command to process things and soon all gadgets at home will get connected.

The question in everybody's minds here in India is

• Will India give the lead in IoT adoption given the ultra low Internet bandwidth rates ? 
• Does India have the capability and manpower to enable this switchover ? 
• Are our policy makers and politicians aware of the potential of this game changer technology which can add tens of trillions of dollars to our GDP ?
• Will it make humans more productive or lead to a destructive environment around the world ?
• Are machines going to dictate our lives ?
• Is technology helping to bring people together, like the Internet, or making them dumb and stay aloof ? 
• Will we be able to decide and play a role in our tomorrow ?
• Will technology and AI completely replace human intelligence ?
• Will technology through IoT improve the quality of our life ?

There are many interesting and impactful questions we would like to get an answer to. But they say it will take time.. Hope India will take a suitable appropriate decision to offer leadership to the world in this field.

george..

Telecom Cost Innovation war in India. Global telecom majors running scared ..

Look at the scale of cost innovation happening in India, thanks to the extremely competitive environment because of the entry of Jio !

Is India leading the world in the fourth Industrial revolution - information revolution ? Check for yourself !! 👍

In US a GB of 4G data is offered cheapest (?) by T-Mobile at $5, (Rs 328), in UK 1 GB of 4 G data is offered by O2 at £1.67 (Rs 136), in India 1 GB of 4G data was offered by Reliance Jio at Rs 10 or 15 cents, it was beaten at this by bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) at Rs. 5.50  (8 cents or 6 pence) ..

4G data :

1000 MB - 8 cents

100 MB - 0.8 cents

10 MB - 0.08 cents

1 MB - 0.008 cents

1 MB of 4G data - 0.5 paisa ..

When we thought this scale of cost innovation can happen ONLY in INDIA, here comes Telenor from Norway, a mobile player in India offering 58 GB for just Rs. 47/-, ie. a GB of 4G data at Rs 0.8 or 1.2 cents ..

1GB 4G data offered cheapest in US is $5, while a GB of 4G data in India comes at 1.2 cents or $0.012 or in otherwords 1 MB at 0.08 paisa or 0.0008 INR.

A GB of 4G data ( for that matter transmitting data at very high speeds of 10 Mbps and above) in US is 417 times (417x) costlier than in India. Is this what we call technological cost innovation leadership of the world  ??

A surgeon touching a 3D hologram of the heart ..

I can show how this is going to be extremely beneficial for India in the next 20 years. If we are interested in sending a 3D hologram of an individual, in all likelihood let us suppose it may take anywhere from 10 to 100 Terabytes. The transmission costs for 100 TB in India over your mobile phone connection would be costing 100 x 1000 x $0.012/GB= $1200. In US a 100TB 3D hologram of an individual would cost 100 x 1000 x $5/GB= 500000. The cost difference is again a massive 417 times ..

Indian IT company research in this area of 3D hologram imaging of humans has be carried out in right earnest so that India takes the edge over the rest of the world in commercialising it at the fastest rate.

George ..

PS : I am amazed at the excellent rates offered for data by the state owned BSNLto its customers. As of 2 April 2017, BSNL  offers 300 GB for just Rs 249/- pm. ie. 10 GB for Rs. 8.30. ie. each GB of 3G data is being offered  at rs. 0.83, ie. 1.3 cents.. I dont think anybody in the world will ever be able to match the BSNL rates at least for the next 2 years !!

The cheapest 1 GB rates offered in US is 384 times (384x) the cheapest rates offered in India. !!!

Wings to fly and roots to grow - Dalai Lama

LESSON FOR PARENTS

In two independent houses,separated by a compound wall, two people were living, in one a retired person and in the other a techie.

They had planted identical saplings on either sides of the compound.

The techie used to give lot of water and manure to the plants.The retired,just small quantity of water and little manure.

The techies plant grew into lush green,leafy robust plant.

The retired person's plant was a near normal but much luxuriant than his neighbor's.

One night there was a heavy rain with gusty wind.

Next morning both came out to see the fate of the plants.

To techie's surprise his plant had got uprooted where as his neighbor's was unharmed.

Techie asked the retired man as why his plant was uprooted despite such a good care where as the neighbor had hardly cared.

The retired person's answer should be a lesson for all of us.

*Look young man, you had supplied every thing a plant would need,in abundance and the plant did not have to go in search of it.Your roots did not have go down. I was supplying just enough to keep it alive. For the rest roots had to go down into the ground to fulfil it's needs.*

Since your roots were superficial the rain and wind could easily fell it.

Since my roots were pretty deeply grounded they could withstand the onslaught of the nature.

The same applies to your children too. 🙏🙏

Most of us are unaware of this truth. 🙏🙏 Very good message ..

 The more we care and give them more comforts and more money out of our ignorance, the less rooted they become and more lazy, less inclined to take on challenges. If we really care for our kids, let us allow them to take some decisions themselves, let them lean and earn it the hard way !!

Earlier Kerala CS Jiji Thomson used to quote from a Dalai Lama talk in most of his speeches, let us give our kids wings to fly (education, family etc..) and roots to stay firm (values, morals, belief in God etc..).

George..

Moving to Ubuntu 17.04 ...

Gnu/Linux has always been our cup of tea. And it will continue to be so .. ¹

This is a soft invitation to all my friends to come experience a new software world. The world of Free and Open Source software, FOSS or in other words, Gnu/Linux. It's been almost thirty two years since Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 and twenty six years since Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel in 1991.

You can select the ISO image for download (1.5 GB file), make a bootable USB. (scroll down for the link to do that in Linux and windows). Change your BIOS boot commands to make USB your first boot device. Switch off and switch on your machine to experience an out of the world experience.

You may already be one among the 96% of computer users globally using Gnu/Linux without your knowledge.

• If you are already one of the 1900 million users of Facebook, you are already using Gnu/Linux software in a big way, as FB is a great user of Gnu/Linux software as OS and RDBMS packages. 
• If you use Google search engine for your search, the Google cloud for word processing purposes, you are an avid Gnu/Linux user. 
• If you watch videos over Youtube, you are one among the 1.3 billion hardcore Gnu/Linux user watching upto 4 billion videos daily, 



The advantage which only Linux offers, constant upgrades
and an out of the world experience ...

• not to mention of Linkedin, twitter (1.3 billion registered users) Google chrome browser etc.

The author, an avid Linux fan wanted to test the latest Ubuntu 17.04 beta version, set to be officially released by 13 April 2017 (17 and 04, giving it the version no 17.04) and name Zesty Zapus .. (click here for more details about zesty zapus) Zapus, is by the way, the enthusiastic American common mouse, the only mammal in the world with 18 teeth in total.

The author uses a simple five year old HP 430 laptop, 2 GB RAM for SOHO use, all actions are on the Google chrome browser and Google cloud.

The many advantages of using the present Ubuntu 17.04 Gnu/Linux for your SOHO use, which you may find interesting are as follows.

• Its cool. No hassles, you don't have to carry a heavy conscience of using pirated proprietary Operating systems like Windooze
  
  
• don't have to pay heavily for the OS nor the upgrades, thousands of software, technical and general, are aviable FREE
  
  
• can lecture about the OS and copy it any number of times, its different software and don't have to worry about taking permissions from some unknown entities for getting the benefits of IT to the masses
  
  

• 

  Zesty Zapus

  have a vast number of high quality volunteer programmers working round the clock in different parts of the world to constantly upgrade the OS and the software to prevent it from being hacked and getting outdated
  
  
• you will be amazed at the audio / video capability the OS and the software offers to moderately heavy computer user
  
  
• Unlike earlier versions of LibreOffice which was found dragging and slow, the Ubuntu 17.04 version of LibreOffice is super fast. So is the case with the Firefox browser, even though the browser version is not changed. The underlying OS and 4.1 kernel has made all the difference.
  
  
• The response time is very less compared to earlier versions of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions
  
  
• Regarding long term support (LTS), the even year releases offer upto 5 years support while the odd year releases like the present 17.04 release, gives support for only two years, which means that one will have to upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04 in two years or next year upgrade to the LTS 18.04 version. This may make a difference for commercial users of Ubuntu but for SOHO users, it rarely matters.
  
  

• 

  Mark Shuttleworth

  
  

  using this as a live version on a USB, since it is the beta2 version. Once the official stable release is out by 13 April 2017, I may think of changing from the present Ubuntu mate 16.04 to Ubuntu 17.04 then ..
  
  
• can export output straight to PDF from Libreoffice
  
  
• Google Cloud and Apps usage is very cool
  
  
  The response of all software is lot quicker than earlier versions of Ubuntu. In short the 17.04 release is faster, cleaner, leaner and more efficient as it uses a recent updated Linux kernel 4.1.
  
  

  "We are a tiny band in a market of giants, but our focus on delivering free software freely together with enterprise support, services and solutions appears to be opening doors, and minds, everywhere. So, in honour of the valiantly tiny leaping long-tailed over the obstacles of life, our next release which will be Ubuntu 17.04, is hereby code named the Zesty Zapus".
  

  
  

  Mark Shuttleworth, CEO, Canonical software, that releases Ubuntu

It is worth trying out the new Ubuntu beta 2 version ( I use it from a USB as a live distro for the time being ..). been using it regularly through live USB for about three days now and I am going to install it on my HD very soon.

Its worth giving a try, When you use a live USB, your old windows partition and data stored on that partition will not at all get affected, you are only using your laptop RAM and the USB memory .. Its very safe ..

Click here to write a Live USB stick in Linux

Click here to write a Live USB stick in Windows

You can erase the USB stick later if you are not satisfied with the Gnu/Linux distro or install Gnu/Linux on your hard disc if you are floored by the distro. You may need some handholding to install Ubuntu 17.04 on your hard disc. Your techie friends can help ..

george..

1. The author was fortunate enough to work on Solaris at IIT Bombay during late nineties, Unix on the College of Engineering, Trivandrum IBM Mainframe around the early eighties and again on a NELCO mini computer at Goa Engineering College during late eighties.  

How can Indian corporates be more environment friendly and socially conscious ?

Kochi International Airport, the world's FIRST AND THE ONLY totally green 100% solar energy powered energy neutral airport in the South Indian state of Kerala has been unchallenged in solar energy implementation for the past one and a half years. It is not that the technology needed to effect such an energy changeover is not available elsewhere, but is the commitment and the leadership that is lacking in the developed economies of the world.

Kochi airport has also taken a giant leap to greening the airport by growing vegetables and creepers in the areas surrounding the solar panels. Due to constant water cleaning and washing of the solar panels, wild vegetation started growing around the panels. By growing organic vegetables  as it has the manifold benefits of

The green organic produce at Kochi airport

a) preventing birds from flying to peck at the wild fruits and berries which grow around the panels, these birds are an environment hazard for aeroplanes at the airport.

b)preventing wild shrubs from growing around and covering the solar panels, blocking the sunlight on the panels and

c) giving the needed ambient temperature around the panels to help the solar panels generate energy at greater efficiency.

d) The fourth and most important benefit of growing vegetables around the solar panels is the feeling of camaraderie it generates and help improve the motivation levels and labour relations environment at the airport.

e) The fifth benefit is that it ensures that the employees get good organic vegetables grown at the airport premises at very subsidised rates.

Sasken Technologies, Domlur, Bangalore, 

Sasken Technologies at Domlur area in Bangalore (click here for the link) has also started growing organic vegetables at a vacant one acre plot in their campus which is keeping the employees busy during their freetime and promoting great harmony in the company. It is yet to be established whether such greening opportunities have a direct impact on improving employee productivity besides improving the personal work-life balance of the employees.

Home roof solar panels

As a researcher I am interested in knowing the impact of such environment sustainability initiatives from forward looking organisations in Kochi and Bangalore on the employee productivity and employee-employer relations.Over time, has this resulted in any other benefits for the organisations like better worker satisfaction and morale ?

Another greening opporunity is in the area of power generation. With Sasken taking the lead in greening in a literary sense, a sure step for the Information Technology (IT) industry in Bangalore to take up the sustainability initiative of the country is to make a project plan in switching their energy needs over a fixed time period of five to ten years from non-renewable sources to renewable sources like solar, wind energy etc. In-house power generation plants can be a big motivator for other organisations / institutions and educational institutions around the country to switch to more environmentally sustainable energy sources.

Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore, rooftop solar panels

IT majors like TCS, Infosys, WIPRO, HCL and educational institutions can take up a solar energy generation  initiative in their offices in Bangalore and other cities to help the country tide over its energy crisis and help reach energy to distant parts of the country which are still unreachable. Rooftop solar pl;ants on government offices across the country is yet another great opportunity.

Another great sustainability initiative from Tamil Nadu govt is where organisations in Tamil Nadu have the opportunity to produce energy through wind turbines installed in Tirunelveli in south TN which is fed to the TN Electricity Board grid which can be tapped from any other point in TN by the same organisation. Corporates should take up such sustainability initiatives and opportunities in other parts of the country.

Sasken Technolgies, photo courtesy Bangalore Times.
Kochi airport - photo courtesy Mathrubhumi and Deccan Chronicle.

george..