Saturday, May 28, 2011

Day 39

27th May, 2011

The day started with a session from Suresh Khatri, an amazing session about how to use the quiet time and how to divide the time and make mind concentrate on some things that are useful. It was really a nice session. Next session was by Commercial tax commissioner of Karnataka. He talked about how to reduce corruption and how he has implemented projects in his departments to reduce corruption. The facility of e-sugam in Karnataka was started by him. He also shared some cases on which he is working presently. One of them being the tax evasion by the multiplexes. I was able to connect to the e-sugam part because I had worked on a similar project in TCS.

The solutions he came up with were quite amazing. It was a paradigm shift in doing things. Talking about the e-sugam project, normally at the checkposts, the documents would be brought by the truck drivers and they were entered manually in the computers. That took a lot of time and was vulnerable to errors. What he did was - Enter the documents before coming to the check post on the E-sugam site. Get a unique number and come to check post. The check post would just verify the number and let you go! Less efforts, more accuracy and less paper work.

Thats what I call think out of the box!

-SD

2 comments:

Gargi Parikh said...

this is cool....think out of box...

Nishit said...

Your first lecture was very much useful in now a days life. There're so many things to distract us from the work which is useful & productive. Everybody should know & utilize such techniques in day to day life.

I liked the idea but how a truck driver or someone knows about the entry booth & who makes an entry? These things can be more productive if people spread awareness of it.