मजेदार बात या विडंबना?

 आज से सिर्फ 99 साल पहले अर्थात 1925 में एक अमेरिकन डॉलर 10 पैसे की कीमत का था। 

आज 2024 में ₹84 का $1 है। मतलब सिर्फ 99 वर्ष में हम आर्थिक रूप से 840 गुना गरीब हो चुके। 

बावजूद इसके कि हमने इन सालों में सैकड़ो विश्वविद्यालय खोले। लाखों आईआईटियन बनाए। ढैरों प्रबंध संस्थान बनाए। बड़े-बड़े पुल, बांध, सड़के बनाईं। 

और मजेदार बात यह है: कि कभी का “सोने की चिड़िया” कहलाने वाला देश, जहां सारी दुनिया के नंगे फुक्के यायावर साहसी उद्यमी: डच, फ्रांसीसी, पुर्तगीज, ब्रिटिश, मुगल कुछ पाने के लिए आते थे; आज उस देश की हालत दुनिया के 133 देशों से नीचे पहुंच गई है; मानव संसाधन विकास सूचकांक के आधार पर। 

परिस्थिती यह हो चुकी है कि देश का सबसे होनहार युवा ब्रेन और महनती लोग, इस 84 गुना फर्क के चलते; देश छोड़कर बाहर जाने को लालायित हो रहे हैं। 

या मजबूर हो रहे हैं।  

शब्द अपने-अपने। 

फिर भी आज विडंबना यह है कि आप देश के कितने भी फटीचर, गटर साफ करने वाले से लेकर महानतम राजनयिक, ब्यूरोक्रेट, इंडस्ट्रियलिस्ट, विचारक, दृष्टा, लेखक, वक्ता, आयातक, निर्यातक, बैंकर, शिक्षाविद्, गुरू, कुलपति, कुलाधिपति से पूछो आप कैसे हैं? 

जवाब मिलेगा एकदम ठीक हैं। 

आप अपनी प्रतिक्रिया दें। 

कर्म और सच

भाग्य और झूठ के साथ जितनी ज्यादा उम्मीद करेंगे वो उतना ही ज्यादा निराश करेंगे तथा कर्म और सच पर जितना जोर देंगे वो उम्मीद से सदैव ही ज्यादा देंगे !!!

Common Causes of Bad Decisions:

1. Assumptions from small sample sizes 2. Wanting the world to work the way we want 3. Conforming to expectations/ authority/ group 4. Blindness to large trends 5. Inability to determine "and then what" 6. Using incorrect maps 7. This is the way we've always done it.

Be careful.

1. Tribalism. ...
2. The wrong incentives. ... Compounding small errors. ...
3. Underestimating adaptation. ... Letting people with different values influence you. ...
4. Ignoring unknown unknowns. ... Uncritical copying.
5. Misplaced objectives. In an uncertain world, we make almost all of our decisions based on the perceived reward versus punishment. ... Analysis paralysis. ...
6. Waiting for more information. ... Not thinking it through. ...
7. Confusing luck with skill. ... Our own intelligence. ...
8. Recent embarrassment. ...
9. Misplaced focus on the individual player.

The most important things in life are:

1. Family 2. Health 3. Time 4. Money 5. Status Many of us are lured into chasing 4 & 5 at the cost of the other most meaningful things in life!

The Challenge

 The Challenge

22.06.2024

Here is a list of top Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)

No.	Name	Founded	Converted as IIT	Website	Current Year	Age
1	IIT Kharagpur	1951	1951	www.iitkgp.ac.in	2024	73
2	IIT Bombay	1958	1958	www.iitb.ac.in	2024	66
3	IIT Madras	1959	1959	www.iitm.ac.in	2024	65
4	IIT Kanpur	1959	1959	www.iitk.ac.in	2024	65
5	IIT Delhi	1961	1961	home.iitd.ac.in	2024	63
						332

According to Annual Report 2019-20 of IIT Bombay In the 62 years of its existence, about 60,000 students have graduated from IIT Bombay. 

Assuming somewhat same output from the top 5 IITs, >3 lac students may have graduated till now.

Now we can see the efforts of these 5 IIT's cumulative 332 years (Three + centurie) that India’s rank in the List of 193 countries by Human Development Index dropped from 114th (out of 144 countries) in 1990 to alarming 134 (out of 193 countries) in 2022. 

So despite all that investment of money, efforts and brain power, today in the Human Development Index we are below more than 130+ nations. 

But at the same time we should understand that we are already number one in terms of population in the whole world.

Now if we want to jump from that 134 to 1 in HDI also, we must take some enormous steps at a fast pace.

We understood that all those other 133 countries may also work for that coveted position.

So in place of talking about our weaknesses we must focus upon our enormous strength which no other country can match with us.

If we train and deploy more than one lac additional young persons per year to just enhance the HDI, we can save more lives than the entire population of Switzerland within the next three years.

Rank	Δ	Country or territory	HDI value	% annual growth (2010–2022)
1		Switzerland	0.967	0.24%
2	-1	Norway	0.966	0.25%
3		Iceland	0.959	0.28%
4	-2	Hong Kong	0.956	0.38%
5	-1	Denmark	0.952	0.35%
		Sweden		0.38%
7	-8	Ireland	0.95	0.38%
	-3	Germany		0.19%
9	-1	Singapore	0.949	0.25%
10	-1	Netherlands	0.946	0.26%
	-1	Australia		0.20%
12	-2	Liechtenstein	0.942	0.23%
	-3	Belgium		0.26%
		Finland		0.27%
15	-3	United Kingdom	0.94	0.24%
16	-7	New Zealand	0.939	0.13%
17	-19	United Arab Emirates	0.937	1.04%
18	-5	Canada	0.935	0.22%
19	-3	South Korea	0.929	0.36%
20	-1	Luxembourg	0.927	0.14%
	-5	United States		0.10%
22	-1	Slovenia	0.926	0.33%
	-1	Austria		0.21%
24	-4	Japan	0.92	0.16%
25	-1	Israel	0.915	0.26%
	-3	Malta		0.50%
27		Spain	0.911	0.40%
28	-3	France	0.91	0.28%
29	-3	Cyprus	0.907	0.45%
30		Italy	0.906	0.24%
31	-2	Estonia	0.899	0.33%
32	-6	Czech Republic	0.895	0.22%
33	-3	Greece	0.893	0.18%
34	-3	Bahrain	0.888	0.80%
35	-3	Andorra	0.884	0.20%
36	-2	Poland	0.881	0.35%
37	-2	Latvia	0.879	0.51%
	-2	Lithuania		0.32%
39	-6	Croatia	0.878	0.53%
40		Qatar	0.875	0.45%
	-6	Saudi Arabia		0.70%
42		Portugal	0.874	0.42%
43	-10	San Marino	0.867	0.32%
44		Chile	0.86	0.47%
45	-9	Turkey	0.855	1.10%
	-5	Slovakia		0.14%
47		Hungary	0.851	0.22%
48	-6	Argentina	0.849	0.15%
49		Kuwait	0.847	0.36%
50	-1	Montenegro	0.844	0.38%
51	-2	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.838	0.49%
52	-8	Uruguay	0.83	0.47%
53	-3	Romania	0.827	0.14%
54	-1	Antigua and Barbuda	0.826	0.18%
55	-7	Brunei	0.823	0.13%
56	-3	Russia	0.821	0.25%
57	-3	Bahamas	0.82	0.21%
	-5	Panama		0.47%
59	-7	Oman	0.819	0.22%
60	-3	Trinidad and Tobago	0.814	0.30%
	-4	Georgia		0.54%
62	-2	Barbados	0.809	0.18%
63	-6	Malaysia	0.807	0.41%
64	-5	Costa Rica	0.806	0.39%
65	-3	Serbia	0.805	0.39%
66	-6	Thailand	0.803	0.65%
67	-1	Seychelles	0.802	0.30%
	-4	Kazakhstan		0.38%
69	-11	Belarus	0.801	0.12%
70	-12	Bulgaria	0.799	0.09%
71	-3	Palau	0.797	0.23%
72	-1	Mauritius	0.796	0.44%
73		Grenada	0.793	0.15%
74	-8	Albania	0.789	0.25%
75	-18	China	0.788	1.02%
76	-2	Armenia	0.786	0.52%
77	-1	Mexico	0.781	0.37%
78	-4	Iran	0.78	0.26%
	-6	Sri Lanka		0.50%
80	-7	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.779	0.68%
81	-5	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.772	0.17%
82	-12	Dominican Republic	0.766	0.67%
83	-1	Ecuador	0.765	0.32%
	-7	North Macedonia		0.21%
85	-4	Cuba	0.764	0.16%
86	-5	Moldova	0.763	0.53%
87	-13	Maldives	0.762	0.81%
	-2	Peru		0.42%
89	-1	Azerbaijan	0.76	0.30%
		Brazil		0.43%
91	-6	Colombia	0.758	0.29%
92	-1	Libya	0.746	0.31%
93	-5	Algeria	0.745	0.27%
94	-7	Turkmenistan	0.744	0.52%
95	-27	Guyana	0.742	1.11%
96	-2	Mongolia	0.741	0.48%
97	-8	Dominica	0.74	0.06%
98	-5	Tonga	0.739	0.35%
99	-3	Jordan	0.736	0.10%
100	-18	Ukraine	0.734	0.35%
101	-1	Tunisia	0.732	0.22%
102	-17	Marshall Islands	0.731	NA[a]
	-6	Paraguay		0.36%
104	-2	Fiji	0.729	0.35%
105	-11	Egypt	0.728	0.73%
106	-6	Uzbekistan	0.727	0.62%
107	-7	Vietnam	0.726	0.60%
108	-10	Saint Lucia	0.725	0.07%
109	-21	Lebanon	0.723	0.29%
110	-6	South Africa	0.717	0.50%
111	-2	Palestine	0.716	0.33%
112	-1	Indonesia	0.713	0.56%
113	-2	Philippines	0.71	0.45%
114	-5	Botswana	0.708	0.69%
115	-7	Jamaica	0.706	0.06%
116	-7	Samoa	0.702	0.02%
117	-1	Kyrgyzstan	0.701	0.49%
118	-11	Belize	0.7	0.23%
119	-39	Venezuela	0.699	0.68%
120	-5	Morocco	0.698	1.21%
	-1	Bolivia		0.45%
122	-9	Nauru	0.696	1.84%
123	-6	Gabon	0.693	0.46%
124	-13	Suriname	0.69	0.07%
125	-10	Bhutan	0.681	1.32%
126	-2	Tajikistan	0.679	0.61%
127	-4	El Salvador	0.674	0.21%
128	-3	Iraq	0.673	0.57%
129	-12	Bangladesh	0.67	1.54%
130		Nicaragua	0.669	0.76%
131	-7	Cape Verde	0.661	0.15%
132	-7	Tuvalu	0.653	0.39%
133	-4	Equatorial Guinea	0.65	0.54%
134	-4	India	0.644	0.99%
135	-4	Micronesia	0.634	0.13%
136	-3	Guatemala	0.629	0.21%
137	-2	Kiribati	0.628	0.61%
138	-1	Honduras	0.624	0.38%
139	-2	Laos	0.62	0.90%
140	-4	Vanuatu	0.614	0.50%
141	-2	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.613	0.86%
142	-5	Eswatini	0.61	1.70%
	-8	Namibia		0.36%
144	-10	Myanmar	0.608	1.54%
145	-1	Ghana	0.602	0.44%
146	-3	Nepal	0.601	0.85%
	-2	Kenya		0.82%
148	-2	Cambodia	0.6	0.85%
149	-10	Congo	0.593	0.17%
150	-5	Angola	0.591	1.14%
151	-1	Cameroon	0.587	1.10%
152	-3	Comoros	0.586	0.94%
153	-2	Zambia	0.569	0.63%
154	-5	Papua New Guinea	0.568	1.12%
155	-18	Timor-Leste	0.566	1.01%
156	-4	Solomon Islands	0.562	0.13%
157	-1	Syria	0.557	1.42%
158	-1	Haiti	0.552	1.74%
159	-2	Uganda	0.55	0.80%
	-1	Zimbabwe		1.12%
161	-5	Rwanda	0.548	1.02%
	-2	Nigeria		0.97%
163	-2	Togo	0.547	1.29%
164	-3	Pakistan	0.54	0.71%
	-4	Mauritania		0.51%
166	-4	Ivory Coast	0.534	1.07%
167	-2	Tanzania	0.532	0.64%
168		Lesotho	0.521	0.86%
169	-1	Senegal	0.517	0.80%
170	-6	Sudan	0.516	0.45%
171	-4	Djibouti	0.515	1.67%
172	-1	Malawi	0.508	0.81%
173	-7	Benin	0.504	0.39%
174	-5	Gambia	0.495	0.82%
175		Eritrea	0.493	0.62%
176	-5	Ethiopia	0.492	1.55%
177		Liberia	0.487	0.48%
	-5	Madagascar		0.02%
179	-1	Guinea-Bissau	0.483	0.76%
180		DR Congo	0.481	1.06%
181	-2	Guinea	0.471	1.06%
182	-8	Afghanistan	0.462	0.24%
183	-1	Mozambique	0.461	1.04%
184	-1	Sierra Leone	0.458	0.80%
185	-2	Burkina Faso	0.438	1.37%
186	-5	Yemen	0.424	1.30%
187	-1	Burundi	0.42	0.32%
188		Mali	0.41	0.08%
189	-2	Niger	0.394	1.34%
		Chad		0.66%
191		Central African Republic	0.387	0.67%
192	-2	South Sudan	0.381	0.53%
193	NA	Somalia	0.38	NA[c]