China vs India

Roads china vs. India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways_of_China

asr: so atleast $15 billion/year they spent, compare how much it costed India vs. China for each 1000 Km express way ...

The total costs of the national expressway network will be 2 trillion yuan (some 240 billion US dollars). From 2005 to 2010, the annual investment will run from 140 billion yuan (17 billion US dollars) to 150 billion yuan (18 billion US dollars), while from 2010 to 2020, the annual investment will be around 100 billion yuan (12 billion US dollars)

China National Highways

wow see their 100 , 200, and 300 series ... great

see India's Roads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_(India)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Expressway_(India)

see this site has good comparisions

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Philanthropy

eduction for poor kids

get indian experts into a forum on education at underprivilleges ares ( slums , rural poor etc.)

- show the agastya.org model and see if sombody like Nagarjuna can sponser for 1 district on trail basis to setup ( pay for ) of the science Lab by buying lab itmes from agastya

- see if some of the expert panel can offer advice how to get 50% of the price tag from State government and remaining 50% from a donar like ANR

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rural earning JOB training.

issues: what they can produce , they can not produce some thing for export ( see china army of factories for socks manufacturing , on price front nobody can compete with them

issue: rural poor,

what they need: a) clean water b) food, c) reasonable house d) TV

what they can offer: 8 hours of labor , but they are not skilled, even after training their skill set is too below to economically produce any thing that is real issue

solution: find out what is the % of cost split for building homes a) materials vs. Labor cost

Build a community labored house ( multi story) with govt. housing subsidy + LOAN on house + they labour.

- train and build local facilities to make Bricks, wooden windows , steel work etc...

RWH 100% compliance for top 5000 companies in india

www.cse.org

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/happenings/water_wells.htm

asr: see Dr. Reddy labs 2009 report they said they had 100% of their water from Rain Water Harvesting RWH , study them how they did it and blog it in detail with numbers so the top 10 Phrama in india can do it( show awareness and presue for other 9 to follow). do Same for other industries with help of CSe.org

asr: this wakeupcall author can be good resource to get data on 9 other Pharma compapies and their usage of 'water' RWH and how to persue them to meet 100% like Dr. Reddy Labs.

2) same thing of RWH can be done for all TATA firms, Reliance , Godrej and document them

3) advice this wakeupcall.org gentlemen to form this kind of agastya.org broader coaltion and from like specific projects such as making top 10 pharma ( and other) indurty to compy with 100% RWH

http://agastya.org/who/management.html

- so be specific like apply RWH to all top 5000 companies in INDIA , work on required goverment legislation , incentives

some stats

http://www.wakeupcall.org/administration_in_india/world_class_governance.php

http://www.wakeupcall.org/administration_in_india/poverty_line.php

http://www.wakeupcall.org/administration_in_india/country_of_india.php

Drinking Water

asr: 10% of total Gloabal unsafe water in india, 1/3 or 33% of global do open defecate , what a sad story

These stats are as of March/2003 as reported in this URL

http://www.waterforum.jp/worldwaterforum3/themeWwf/en/sessionDetail.do{0id=59{9.html

1. Globally,1099 millions people lack access to safe water. In India, 125 million people lack access to safe water.
2. Globally,
   2403 million people defecate in the open. In India, 700 million people lack access to sanitation facilities & resort to defecate in the open.
3. Diarrhoea claims the lives of 2 million children around the world every year. In India, 1 million lose their lives to diarrhoea every year.

India is one among the developing countries facing serious drinking water problems. It was reported that a major freshwater crisis is gradually unfolding in India as a result of inadequate water management and environmental degradation by human action. Further nearly one million children in India die of diarrhoeal diseases each year directly as a result of drinking unsafe water and living in unhygienic conditions.

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see if these listed people have any INPUT in solving the issue

CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH RESEARCH (CCHR)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (MOWR) CHAIRMAN ( GROUND WATER)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI Dr.SAUMITRA MUKHERJEE
CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH RESEARCH (CCHR) Mr. VIMAL MAMMEN CHERIAN
UNIVERSITY OF KERALA PROF. G. LASITHA/Dr. V. R. PRAKASM

Children learning and development

- Main idea is to teach kids

- debating and communication skills teaching for kids ( for all indian schools )
- ability to focus : sit 30 minutes to focus and solve problems ( by age 6 ), so sit 10 minutes by age 4
- thru community approach , this can lead to measured child development between ages 4 - 10 which builds foundation to child whole career.
Need to have a comprehensive plan and resources well writeen and given to parents.
- This list will have what to expect at each 6 month period like
3.5 , 4, 4.5 , 5 , 5.5 ,6 years of age and beyond.
- more importently having tested best boards easily available for parents to buy for kids. best tested because otherwise bad games etc.. child won't use parents gets discouraged to buy later.

- for Gitu, we neglected puzzles for 6 months due parents to not paying attention . If you have above 6 month incremental plan ahead with expectations and where to buy borads etc.. parents will follow. conduct a club to meet every week end to reinforce.

1. puzzble boards 6 , 12, 24, 48, 100 piece as they grow ( see amazon for all these , see by ranking to get best games ..)
2. word games simple letter cards to form words, next level then final level scrabble
3. strategy games
4. chess

drawing
piano

physical games:
- monkey bars, climbing structures ..
- basketball
- ping pong
- soccer

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you can conduct a picture competition with kids , give a topic and ask them to draw a picture. Here is a global warming sample ( world competition best pictures )