• Title: SC Orders Mandatory Sale of Helmets With Two wheelers
  Analysis: It may sound a welcome step to many that SC has decreed mandatory sale of helmets along with a new two wheeler. But what about the guarantee of good quality helmet would be sold with bike. SC has overlooked many aspects while announcing this new directive. Pillion riders will go without helmet as if their heads are stronger than those of drivers. A better alternative would have been to prevent sale of 'watermelon' skins in the name of helmet on many footpaths lining across the roads of major cities. Even ISI mark can be seen on those helmets. I fail to understand how dare those people manufacture those kinds of helmets under the very nose of law. Nobody ever thoughts of penalising them instead of penalising the user. The best way is to raise awareness through proper campaigns. Two wheeler companies can come to the rescue by making sustained awareness campaigns and should not indulge in window dressing by making it part of the inconspicuous statutory warning in fine print. Probably a time will come when a person riding a Rs. 70,000 bike will not buy a helmet worth Rs. 100.
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• Title: Mandatory Rural Stint For Doctors
  Analysis: All students who are preparing to become future doctors should be ready to face the rough and tumble of rural India. Although the recently announced proposal to give additional marks for rural stint is good in intentions, but it is ignoring the practical facets of the implications. Most of the aspiring future doctors belong to the middle class or upper middle class families. Some percentage also belong to the lower class families. But let us look at what it means to be well educated in India. People try to get a professional degree to get rid of the utter poverty and lack of bare minimum facilities in rural areas and smaller towns. Given a chance majority of people would like to migrate to better cities so that they and their future generations can be assured of a better quality of life. India is land of uneven development, where behind every mega city there is a slum, and nobody wants to live a life of slums. Many people become highly depressed when they are posted in some primary health centres. In such situations often the sole bread earner has to live away from his family because of practical compulsions of quality of life in all spheres. If the government is able to hold its sway then we may see doctoring of certificates to show rural stint to get that extra edge in career pathway. To avoid this the government should think in terms of making our rural areas a better place to live. In most of the developed nations people prefer top live in rural areas. The villages in those countries are villages by definition only. They have everything in terms of infrastructure and public facilities and from an Indian’s perspective they hardly look like villages. If the government achieves such standards in India then people wont have to be pressurized to serve the rural stint.
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• Title: Reason of Price Differential from Farm to Market to Consumer
  Analysis: In a country where farmers are sure-shot vote-banks, it is fashionable to cry hoarse on how the poor vegetable vendor goes for profiteering. Most of the newspaper headlines talk about how the not so poor farmer is not getting his due share of the pie. While highlighting these points, column writers often ignore the other side of the coin. Let us try looking at the difficult daily routine of a vegetable vendor of a big city like New Delhi. A vegetable vendor has to start in the wee hours to beat the traffic jams and to be at consumers’ doorstep at the right time. More often than not its about 50 to 60 kms travel. After that he has to ferry his wares to every nook of his chosen colony. In a country where people are used to get ‘home delivery’ of everything most of the vegetable sellers have to climb stairs to deliver goods to consumers who are living on 4th floor. All this hardwork must be energy sapping for the vegetable vendors. For providing such a good service if he is charging some premium then there is nothing wrong in it. The market place wholesalers and vegetable vendors are channel partners and they provide the much needed market to the farmer in an organized way in the unorganized sector. Like channel partners in any segment they also deserve their fare share of the profit.
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• Title: How does livestock population aggravate global warming?
  Analysis: A major digestive byproduct of livestock is methane. Methane is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of greenhouse effect (Ref: TOI, dt. 5/12/2009). The more nations prosper there is more consumption of meat and dairy product. This necessitates rearing of animals on an even larger scale. The ultimate result is more greenhouse gases.
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• Title: Where does India stand in terms of polluting nations of the world?
  Analysis: India is among the least polluting nations as far as per capita release of pollutants is concerned. But given the large size of our population it has enough potential to cause the damage. The obvious culprit is the USA because of its consumption culture. Given the way Indian economy is growing this is high time to create awareness among masses so as not to replicate the US.
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