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Jul 1, 2019
Some measures for improving environment
With time, villages are becoming towns, towns to cities, cities to metros. Increased urbanization is demanding development of infrastructure. Once barren lands or green areas are now become concrete structures.
There is demand for land, water, electricity, roads, houses, etc. Increased population is leading to more and more vehicles on the roads and pollution levels are on the rise. There are vehicles everywhere on the road. Persons are not considering having own parking areas inside their buildings. Vehicles are parked on the public roads leading to congestion.
Cold and fever which were once seen for short duration are now not cured even after a month of suffering.
To improve environment, I feel that we should fix population density in terms of number of persons per unit area. Along with it, we also need to fix green density. Town planners need to consider this while issuing permission. There should not be any scope for regularization of unauthorized constructions. If anybody violates, instead of regularization, penalties need to be collected and the ownership of illegally constructed properties should go to government. No appeal shall be entertained in this regard.
Similarly, owners of vehicles parked on the roads shall be punished.
Rainwater harvesting and soak pits shall be part of every area developed. The percentage of area for this also should be fixed and to be followed.
For existing buildings, time frame of six months or one year to be given and these requirements to be complied. There should not be any extensions. And huge penalties to be imposed on violators.
On my commute to workplace, I see places with no water and wastage of water. People use water for washing and the washed water flows on the water. In some areas, people wait for water tankers to collect the little whatever they can get hold. Every service should be charged for its actual cost.
Jun 29, 2019
May 31, 2019
Faith / belief
Somewhere I read that if you believe in something, it can happen. I have mood swings on this statement. Sometimes, I experience it and other times, it all appears non-sense.
A reading of religious teachings makes me to agree that faith will lead to the change. The holy personalities in the ancient times made persons suffering from diseases to be healthy, make dead man alive. The curse by them became a reality those times (as per books). In Hinduism, holy men sprinkled water on the persons either to bless or curse.
Now a days, in whatsapp, everyday, several messages are received. Some of them say think, believe and do good. I feel there is nothing in wrong in praying or wishing good for all.
Having faith alone is not enough. We have to be good mentally and physically. It will give peace of mind and possibly do good to the individual, family, friends and the society.
We do not believe such things easily because the preachers whom we see mostly do not practice what they say and this makes us to ridicule their sayings. The person may be wrong but the sayings may not be wrong.
Look at history to get the knowledge. May be over a period of thousands of years, there can be some misconceptions crept in. But, definitely there will be knowledge to see objectively and follow it.
So, let us think good, do good and wish good for all. It will bring change within us and in the society also.
Apr 14, 2019
Too much illumination on streets
With the intention of good infrastructure, mobility, security, etc governments are striving hard for better facilities. One among them is street lights. But, this lighting has become so much that it has become excessive. In addition, the lighting provided by commercial establishment for bill boards, name boards, street side display boards, etc are adding to the illumination further. This looks like wastage of resources in generation, distribution and usage of power. Instead of providing street lights, local authorities may think of providing high mast lights which provide illumination to a large area and I think, it will save power also. Else, street lights at 100 m apart may be enough. Anyway, in main streets, the shops will be open till 2300-0000 hours and lighting from them will help the street users.
In inner areas, high mast lights appear to be sufficient. This will save valuable resources, power bills and maintenance charges.
Mar 31, 2019
Need for more safety officers, statutes are not favorable
Different state rules specify availability of safety officers at 4-6 in organizations employing as high as 10000.
But, this is grossly inadequate. A safety officer has to just walk through without stopping to cover such huge number of employees working particularly in construction/mining industries. And, then, if he observes any unsafe act or condition, he has to make a stopover and discussion will make the time available less for remaining areas. Then, to perform other duties like report making, coordination with statutory bodies, interactive meetings to brief management, etc does not make him to do his job fully.
Atleast one safety officer is required for every 250 personnel working so that he can perform his duty effectively. One may argue that nobody stops to engage more than statutory requirement. But, only few organizations have such attitude to engage more safety officers.
Mar 25, 2019
End of financial year - some to do listing
As the end of March month is approaching, industrial establishments will be working at frantic pace to meet their annual financial year production targets. It is likely that here and there safety requirements are skipped thereby increasing the risk.
It is better to plan testing of equipment like cranes, hoists, other material handling equipment, pressure vessels, safety relief valves, calibration of instruments, inspection and repairs of structures and buildings, painting of equipment/piping/structures, preventive maintenance of equipment, load centres, transformers, PDBs, DG sets; cleaning of drains, etc in the beginning of the financial year at which time stress levels are supposed to be low compared to the last quarter of a financial year. Even refresher courses can be planned and conducted wherein managers will relieve their staff to attend the programmes.
This will facilitate ensuring readiness of men and machinery and other infrastructure for safe work without accidents, incidents.
Safety monitoring should be done more stringently during peak production periods which will indicate the safety culture of the organization in times of pressures all around.
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