Tuesday, June 08, 2010

OBC face of the Ram Mandir movement

It may be recalled that even after the BJP had expelled Uma Bharti, the RSS continued to support her. The RSS mouthpiece ‘Organiser’ had also attacked the BJP leadership over her expulsion. She was arguably the party's most charismatic backward caste face. Uma has been associated with the RSS and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) since her childhood before coming into the BJP fold. She was a gifted child preacher who was groomed by the Parivar. And since the BJP's inception in 1980, Uma had been a loyal soldier of the party.

On being asked if RSS was pushing the BJP to re-induct Uma Bharti, RSS spokesperson Mohan Vaidya completely denied this and said, “This is a party matter. The BJP will decide. They will do whatever they think is good for the party.”

Soon after appearing on the national scene in the early 1990s, the BJP began a project to build a strong backward caste leadership with the help of K. Govindacharya, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharti but after their departure, BJP had started to look like a party of floating leaders without a mass base. According to sources, the party is planning to re-induct many stalwarts like Babulal Marandi and Govindacharya as well. As a senior leader says, “Govindacharya’s departure had been extremely costly for the BJP. The former was one of the key strategists of the party.”

According to one faction of the divided party, differences related to Uma Bharti’s re-induction have been solved but the other side is still opposed to the move. But the opposition notwithstanding, the fact remains that Uma Bharti has the strong backing of a section of the RSS. Her re-induction cannot be ruled out. Sources say that the announcement to launch Uma Bharti as the face of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh will be made very shortly.

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Monday, June 07, 2010

Indian generic tribe

Explaining his company’s outlook in the generics space, Ramesh Adige, President, Ranbaxy tells TSI, “Ranbaxy is today well positioned in the global generics space and is amongst the top 10 generic companies globally offering products in over 125 countries. With over $80 billion of drugs going off-patent by 2012 and a higher generic penetration across developed and emerging markets, the generics market will continue to provide attractive growth opportunities in future.” Even Uday Baldota, VP – Investor Relations, Sun Pharma tells TSI, “In our view, generic drugs is a significant, growing and profitable opportunity, worldwide. We are working towards getting a meaningful presence in the worldwide generic industry over the longer term.” While Dr Reddy’s stands to gain the most, there are others like Ranbaxy and Sun Pharma which are amongst the top gainers. Even Cipla has filed for permission to market generic/low-cost editions of drugs that make over $45 billion annually! While 10 Indian firms have seeked permission to sell generic versions of the highest-selling Lipitor, in US alone, it is Merck’s Cozaar (anti-diabetic drug) and Astra Zeneca’s Arimidex (anti-cancer), which have received the maximum number of applications.

So how can Indian pharmacos leverage the opportunity? There are over 100 USFDA approved drug-manufacturing units in India that represent the swarm willing to strip all opportunities to the bone. Indian drugmakers have captured $23.6 billion of the $110 billion value of drugs that went off-patent since 2005, and if history is some proof, then of the $160 billion worth drugs that will lost patent rights by 2016, Indian drug manufacturers would at least be looking at a windfall of $34.32 billion over the next six years, making it the world’s third largest by value, at $63.42 billion and the highest by volumes by 2016 after the US and Japan. Says Adige of Ranbaxy, “The Indian pharmaceutical market will continue to observe double digit growth in the coming years. With increasing incidence of lifestyle diseases, rising disposable incomes, a growing middle class, greater penetration of health insurance and expanding medical infrastructure, India’s consumption of pharmaceutical products will go up.”

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Friday, June 04, 2010

Congress high command

First, the Congress high command does not dictate the PCC on local elections and leave it to them, as the party’s policy and principles do not really reflect in these polls. And it is impossible for Delhi to take local factors into consideration. For once, Sonia Gandhi has left the issue to the state Congress leaders. Secondly, knowing full well that the state Congress leaders are against any disrespectful alliance, Sonia withdrew herself, leaving the ball in the state leadership’s court. It has a dual message - let the unhappy PCC leaders prove themselves, whether they can retain their seats. If they can, then a different scenario will emerge before the 2011 Assembly election. Congress leaders would not have to dance to Trinamool’s tune. An alliance, then, would be among the equals.

If the first message goes to PCC leaders, the second one is for TMC. The examinee is Mamata Banerjee. She has to answer the questions she herself raised. Mamata has always tried to liberate West Bengal from the ‘Left misrule’. She is against any compromise on this. She has gradually increased her opposition to CPM. This political rivalry has divided the Bengali society into ‘Amra O Ora’ (Us and Them). It has become somewhat like Bangladesh, sharply divided between Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia. Like the fundamentalists in Bangladesh, Maoists are trying to fill the void here. Till date, this is the net outcome of her ant-CPM stance.

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

A 'uncaged' way forward

Employing prisoners in call centre is a good precedence

Every initiative for a good cause is worth mentioning. This time it is nothing big but certainly should not be overlooked or underestimated as well. An Indian company by the name Radiant Infosystems, a global provider of end-to-end IT and Enabled services across industries, such as media, publishing education, and healthcare is planning to employ prisoners in Hyderabad's Cherlapally Central Jail. Around 250 inmates will work in the new centre, initially processing insurance claim forms and bank account applications for Indian clients. However, the company promised that all the precautionary measures will be taken to address various possible irregularities.

According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, there are 3,76,396 inmates in central, state and jails in national territories in 2007 while the total available capacity is 2,77,304 and with the occupancy rate of 135.7 as against 141.4 in 2006. Though the data related to their education background and qualification is unavailable, figures show that over 41,996 inmates have gone through various vocational courses from agriculture, carpentry, canning, tailoring, weaving, handloom and many others. The gross value of goods produced by inmates touched about Rs.6075.5 lakh. In such situations, initiatives like employing inmates in call centres, giving them real exposure, would definitely enhance the status of prisoners. More importantly, as researches show that inmate earns less than 20 pence per day for making furniture today, with the new initiative; if they are hired by the call centre, they may be able to make up to £1.50. There are many qualified inmates imprisoned for dowry or like small cases.

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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Chinese companies are being safeguarded hints at a big scandal

It’s not that India can’t manufacture SIM cards as per requirements. The secretary of Smart card Forum of India, Jagdish Raj Purohit, says, “The country has an annual demand for 60 crore SIM cards. Indian companies are capable of fulfilling this demand. Many companies are even exporting their SIM cards.” Yes, Chinese SIM cards are dirt cheap. R. Srinivasan, a senor defence expert, “Chinese equipment, especially SIM cards, supplied at cheap prices is a strategy to break into the internal security ring of the country at minimum cost. In my opinion, these SIMS are embedded with kinds of malwares, spywares, Trojan, hidden software etc.”

The eight parameters which were finalised by the committee included Data Confidentiality, Communication Security, Data Integrity, Privacy. If we pay attention to these four parameters, then SIM cards require security clearance. The interesting point is that when BSNL issued a tender on June 26, 2008, for the purchase of SIM cards, one of the conditions was that only companies having personalisation centres in India need apply. It is evident that even two years back, the government was aware of the dangers from Chinese SIM cards to internal security. When a few companies requested permission to buy Chinese SIM cards after the December 3, 2009, circular, they were denied security clearance. TSI has the copy of the letter no 10-8/2009/AS.III/Unitech sent by the department of telecommunication on February 18, 2010, to Unitech Wireless Private Limited which did not allow it to buy SIM cards personalised in China. Why is this double standard? We tried to speak to several DoT officers including DDG (security) Ram Narayan. But no officer spoke to us on the phone. Apart from this, we even asked for official information from corporate communication officers of Bharti Airtel, Reliance and Idea which buy SIM cards from Watchdata and Eastcompeace. But no one cared to respond to our queries.

The minister of state for communication and IT, Gurudas Kamat, while replying to a question, said in Parliament that “In the interest of the national security, the Government has directed BSNL in May, 2009, that resources should not be procured from Chinese vendors for deployment in the sensitive regions of Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra.” When it is a matter of national security, then why is the direction given to just BSNL and not to the other private cellular companies which have more subscribers than their state-owned counterpart.

This problem goes bigger as India has no legal treaty with China. India has neither extradition nor any cyber treaty with China. In this situation, if anyone sitting in China commits a crime against India, he will never be brought to book. Further, our cyber laws are pretty weak. Well-known cyber law expert and Supreme Court lawyer Pavan Duggal says, “It is not just an issue of SIM cards as our cyber laws are silent on any type of data protection and privacy. Spyware is not even mentioned in Cyber Laws and IT Act-2000.”

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