DIGITAL ECONOMY A LEVELER OR A SOURCE OF INEQUALITY.

DIGITAL ECONOMY A LEVELER OR A SOURCE OF INEQUALITY

Digital economy refers to an economy that is based on digital computing technologies or on the internet. This is the age of science, technology, and the internet, today the internet is the most common thing that everyone even a child uses.

Earlier there was a barter system where people exchange goods for goods, later it comes to cash system and finally today we are working on a cashless economy. Today in In the 21^st century everything is online including payments and transactions but is it really worth or worse for us.

Digital the economy has helped us in many ways like it have reduced paperwork, resulting to save papers ad trees. Earlier because of cash payments there was a lot of paperwork that may get sometimes wrong making big troubles but due to the digital system, it's easy to manage all these things including transactions. It is also a great boon in making things transparent, thus helping to reduce the corruption rate because the money goes directly from consumer to seller, no other middle man thereby helping to develop a powerful connection between government and public. It makes us free from carrying cash everywhere and taking tensions to secure it. It also helps to lessen the rate of black money as nothing is secret.

Digital the economy also helps to increase the literature rate, as if all the things are done by smart ways, people have to be smart with the time. It also helps the poor farmers to sell their produce at the right rates as many times it happens that the poor farmers don’t have an option to sell their produce to middlemen who take advantage of these peasants. Widows and old citizens are also benefited from this type of economy as they get their pensions without any problem like they get their accurate pensions that the government has provided them without any condition to share their some percentage of money with the middle officers.

Today we can buy anything at any place by not worrying about cash and just paying online or by using the money transactions app. We just need our credit or debit cards even we can pay through mobile by having e-wallets.

In fact, in In many developed countries, this practice has become one of the biggest ways to pay bills.

In India too, to promote the digital economy our government have launched many campaigns like the DIGITAL INDIA to ensure that government services are made available to citizens electronically by improved online infrastructure and increasing connectivity in the field of technology. Its motto is “power to empower”. The digital economy has given rise to a world where innovation is more important than mass production.

The digital economy also refers to the convergence of computing and communication technologies on the internet and other networks. As we know that it's easy for us to store any type of data online or in computers. The human calculation might get wrong but computers always give us the right results resulting in safer and better transactions. The digital economy has helped to create an economic revolution. A tremendous economic change is taking place in our economy.

Digital India aims to enhance the process and delivery of different government services through e-governance and payments gateways. The Digital India campaign is a great initiative to integrated digital technology, thus increasing digital transactions for a better future. To promote digital transactions our government has also launched many apps like BHIM, Paytm, and other online banking software. They also give us cashback offers so that more people can get convinced to use this system.

However, in a developing country like India, it's quite difficult to convert all the transactions from cash to cashless. The government have to provide time-to-time information about new technologies and cyber attacks and the ways by which they can save their transactions. In fact, cyber attacks are a problem faced by every developed and developing nation also digital economy led's to loss of employment as the more we depend on technologies, the less we depend on human resources.  We can take the example of online banking. It also needs high investment which can be a problem for the poor or least developing countries.

Digital economy can be a leveler as well as a source of inequality   as it totally depend on us how we use it. To make it a leveler the government have to take many initiative lies they have to make digital transactions easy for all the persons in a country from rich to poor and guiding them on a macro scale.

POVERTY ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE.

POVERTY ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE.

Poverty is not only about lack of  money to meet basic needs like food shelter, clothes, sanitation, but it is much more than this, it is a lack of nourishment, education, proper environment, and a lot of tension about the future. Most often, poverty is the situation when people want to escape because their life is so far different from others. As a result, they feel uncomfortable, this enables them to think for a better future.

“Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere”, yes it is because if there is poverty there is a lack of everything. Aids originated in poverty-stricken to Africa. The poor countries in Africa did not have the resources to conduct research or identify and restrict the disease on time. As a result ultimately aids spread to such proportions that it became a threat challenge to people across the globe, and hence, the United Nations and other countries have to spend billions for curing this disease because this disease was continuously spreading worldwide from people to people and country to country. It is true that the whole world is connected, so impacts of different things also travel worldwide. If we see in our surroundings, we will find many poor people living in extreme conditions and are victim to many hazardous communicable diseases which automatically reach to the whole environment.

People don’t have enough money to live in better environment condition, proper sanitation, they don’t have proper food and water this all is because they are poor.

A country cannot be developed if there is very much difference between the rich and the poor but can only develop if there is a minute difference between them or all are treated equally. They also have good living conditions, sanitation, and proper health care.

We can see effects of poverty everywhere and it is an absolute truth that ‘poverty is the mother of crime’ because poor’s do not  have  any option to survive and hence, sometimes have to do many illegal and dangerous work which are both socially and medically dangerous. Like many poor people became terrorists or get involved in many illegal works.

Many forests get deforested because the people living near them encroach upon them and destroy them, affecting the biodiversity, indirectly affecting the nation and all prosperous people too. Poor’s cut trees for using wood as fuel or other purposes leading to increase in the amount of global warming in the environment which is affecting all of us. But here the poor’s are not responsible because they have no option left except to cut these trees. Many people kill the wild animals or birds for leather or for meals again affecting biodiversity.

All the things in this world are interconnected and if one will affect the other will also get affected. The causes of poverty are many but the consequences of poverty are humans only.

Extreme conditions by poverty are sometimes by the fault of the government only because they do not take proper measures to stop this. However, in recent years our government has taken many and major steps to uplift the poor sections of our society like providing them clean food, a better environment, and living conditions, giving them education, and providing them jobs. But, still, there is a lot of discrimination between them and the rich society. Many a time this happens because the rich society takes advantage and insults them, making them feel that they are not a part of society. But this needs to be changed because the poor’s are also equally important for the growth and development of the nation. We should try to work with them and stop discriminating against them because poverty, resulting inequality, and frustration make nations a threat to terrorism crime unrest, and humanitarian cries for prosperous countries. Therefore if prosperity has to aspire for future generations anywhere in the world, poverty needs to be attenuated from the world.

Children's are the future of every nation but according to UNICEF, more than 22000 people children die daily because and poverty and hunger. But this does not mean that there is a scarcity of food because “God had provided everything for everyone’s need, not for everyone’s greed. So, we should try not to waste our food or anything and share with the poor to uplift them. There are many causes of poverty and corruption in one of them. In many countries, the poor remain poor and the rich became richer this is because the poor’s are not given equal rights. There are many parents who don’t educate their children and let them do child labor because of extreme and if some educate their children too then they are not given equal opportunities to show their talent. This led the talents to suppress resulting in a weak nation. But this needs to be stopped, today our government had made many provisions for the upliftment of the poor sections of our society but they are yet somewhere discriminated and this is not because of the government but because of us only because the poverty of goods can easily be cured but the poverty of soul is impossible. If we want to suppress poverty then we have to enlarge our soles for helping others for getting the proper food and education, clean drinking water and sanitation, etc.

Poverty cannot come to end by increasing salaries of poor or by giving high positions to them who are not capable of holding them but by giving everyone equal treatment and giving everyone equal opportunity according to their talent. To reduce the poverty we should try to stop racial and caste discrimination,and should encourage women empowerment because to make a country economically strong all have to work together and avoid any discrimination on the basis of poverty.

Poor people are also a resource for every nation and if these resources get affected the other will automatically get affected from health to wealth

DESTINY OF A NATION IS SHAPED IN ITS CLASSROOM.

DESTINY OF A NATION IS SHAPED IN ITS CLASSROOMS.

It is true that children are the biggest gift from God and are the future of a country. They are like seeds, if we sow them properly they will give us a fruit full tree.

After home, classrooms are the second place for children to learn. Teachers and children are one of the biggest resources of a country. If the teachers are well educated and well trained then, they will teach the youth of the country well.

Children are just like a pot which are given shapes in their classrooms. In a classroom children come from different castes, different races, different places but they all are treated one as students, this helps them to develop their mind, help them to mix with different people. In a classroom, students are not judged on the basis of their race and religion. Classrooms are where children get to know about different things this help them to think elaborately .Classrooms are a complete environment for children to study.

Just like each stair help us to reach our goal, different levels of classrooms also help to reach our goal in our life. There are different types of children having different  types of passion, some wants to become police, engineers, doctors while some want to become dancers, singers, actors and for doing everything one needs classrooms where they can be shaped, the way they should be to reach their destiny.

Children's are the future of a country and for a bright and beautiful future they should be given a highly advanced and good education. We know that education is the biggest tool to change the world and classrooms are the place where these tools are made.

In a  classroom, students learn how to interact with each other, work in teams and be punctual and honest and these all  help them throughout their life.

India is a diverse country, but in the 21^st century too there are many places where discrimination can be seen on the basis of race, color, or gender but education is the only way to come across this. Many of the marginalized communities are still socially discriminated and they cannot take any stand for them because they are uneducated. So, education is a must for every child. When children study in classrooms they get to know what is right and wrong and the ways by which they can stop the discrimination going around them. Education is a birthright for each of us and should be provided to each of us.

When all children are treated equally in the same class this helps them to think broadly and in the right way.

“Abraham Lincoln once said that the philosophy  of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next generation.” The early ages of children are the most crucial stage of their life. So, when we give them a better environment they will give us a better future. Like we should help children to form positive self-images and grow up respect for the people who are different from them too.

A country can only be developed when there is no discrimination and all peoples are educated. Classrooms are necessary for instilling the right values like kindness, cleanliness, gender equality to make children good and responsible citizens.

For children, classrooms are just not a place for studying but a place for developing their personal, social, and intellectual power of thinking and power to change the world for a good purpose. It's true that the destiny of a nation is shaped in its classrooms and nations with excellent classrooms have always been there on the path of development and success.

Environment vs growth.

ENVIRONMENT  VS GROWTH.

The living and non-living things which occur naturally on the Earth comprise the environment and growth is the development in every aspect of life. Today growth and development is the need of the hour. Everything needs to be developed but what about the impacts of these developments in our surroundings. Is this growth good for our environment?

Growth and development is needed to make our life easier and comfortable but the environment is necessary to survive on this Earth.

If we compare us from our ancestor then we get to know that we have come across from their times. Our life today is full of luxuries and comfort, science has reached its peak and because of that we can cure any disease today but on the other hand, these development are one of the reasons for so many diseases. Our environmental conditions are getting worse and worse day by day.

Our ancestors may not have these luxuries but they had a better environment than us where they could have fresh breath and a pollution-free environment. We have developed transports for making our life easier and to save our time but what about the pollution caused by them. We have set up many industries but what about deforestation.

The curiosity of humans are growth and development but the consequences of growth are bad environmental conditions that are directly dangerous for humans.

 Growth and development are not bad in fact it is the need of the hour but pollution and global warming are worse. Today the carbon dioxide one of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere has already exceeded 400 parts per million and due to the lack of a green environment, it is increasing day by day. The amount of green house gas in the atmosphere is already above its peak and can potentially cause dangerous climate change.

“Climate disasters are on the rise. Around 70% of disasters are now climate-related, up to 50% more from two decades ago and one of the biggest causes of this is the increasing growth and pollution.

Environment the destruction caused by humans is a global problem, and this is a problem which is increasing day-by-day. Environment changes are affecting all things from agriculture to humans to animals to other living organisms.

Development on the other side is a slow and constant process. Everything has some positive and negative impact, growth and development also have. Development is carried out for the benefit of humans but on the other hand, the environment is also equally important for us. Think if we have all the luxuries, all the things around us developed but not an environment to survive.

 Today deforestation is on its merge we are continuously cutting down trees to develop industries, but what will happen when there will be no trees which mean no oxygen and no organisms including us. To live happily it’s necessary to manage both the environment and development because growth  can only be possible if we have a life and an environment.

INDIA-" A NUCLEAR POWER".

INDIA- A NUCLEAR POWER

Today we are in the 21^st century. And the world  have reached its peak in science, technology and nuclear development. This is a nuclear era. The word nuclear defines producing of energy that is created when the nuclei of atoms are split apart or joined together commonly known as nuclear fission or nuclear fusion.

Nuclear energy is used for making weapons, generating electricity or making nuclear bombs.

However nuclear power plants are highly expensive and dangerous as nuclear energy releases radioactive waste which is highly dangerous for humans and all the organisms on this earth. So, radioactive waste needs to dispose correctly. Any type of carelessness to nuclear power plants can cause destruction to the whole people living or working in and around the place. In fact it can create problems for the next generations also. So, nuclear power plants needs highly security and carefulness.

There are many countries who have taken big steps in the field of nuclear era including India.

In fact, nuclear energy is the fifth largest source of energy in India after coal, gas, hydroelectricity and wind power.

It was right for India to make a move toward credible nuclear deterrence by conducting five nuclear tests on May 11 and 13, 1998 named as pokhran  tests.

After this tests India declared itself a full fledged nation. The pokhran test made an incredible impression on the political powers of the world, specially the countries which is in the nuclear club.

AFSARA is also its one of the biggest success as with this India become the first  ASIAN country outside the erstwhile soviet union to have designed its own nuclear reactor.

Dr. Homi Jahangir bhabha is called the father of atomic energy in India as he had played a major role in making India a nuclear power.

It was necessary for India to project itself as nuclear power to meet the challenge coming from the neighboring countries. Weak countries have to compromise willingly or unwillingly to so many discrimination among all other developing countries. They have to sacrifice their [progress, do away with self respect. Despite so many painful experiences and defeats from other nations today India proudly stand sixth among the nuclear power and the credit for the crowning glory goes to the vision scientists. Nuclear status has won us respect and India has elegantly occupies the position behind highly developed, so called nuclear self sufficient countries like America, Russia, China and France.

However India has clearly declared that it will not use its nuclear power for any bad purpose.

Presently India has 22 nuclear reactors in operation in 7 nuclear power plants and in our coming generation it will increase more.

It is true that self sufficience in nuclear power has opened a new door for India in the path of their success and this success is lit with so many lamps and hope for a golden future.

Artificial Intelligence.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence programmed in robots, software ,computers and in machines in such a way that they can take their own decisions like speech recognition, learning, planning, problem solving ,reasoning and ability to manipulate and move objects. They can be broadly classified into two types i.e., strong artificial intelligence and weak artificial intelligence.

Strong AI refers to the software or robots which are fully self independent , which can think like humans, understand like humans and perform like humans without any external help by humans.

Weak AI refers to the software or robots which are seem very intelligent but they are programmed for a particular function and can do that only, they can’t do each and everything or give you answers about each and everything they are not programmed for. e.g of weak artificial intelligence include Siri, IBM Watson supercomputer because they can perform only the task they are meant for.

Machine language and robotics are also  connected to AI. Machine language is the branch of AI which focuses on the development of computer programs that can access data and use it  themselves.

Robotics is also a major field connected to AI because robotics need artificial intelligence to perform different tasks.

The scope of AI in the future is bright but there are many cons which can’t be neglected. AI is better than humans , like it does not need any breaks, it has an increase work efficiency, error reduction, difficult exploration, cyber security. The scope of AI in the field of science is the largest. Medical and health care activities are processing day by day and helping us greatly in the field of treatments. In a latest survey scientists found that AI brain has much more larger storage capacity  than human brain. Recently  ‘Eve’a robot scientist find out that triscolan, a material found in toothpaste can cure malaria. This is a great and very helpful discovery in the field of science, many such helpful things can be possible with AI.

AI can teach us, play with us, work with us and discover with us. In fact they can be a boon in tasks like managing huge amount of databases, problem solving, gaming, security, healthcare, economy, communication etc. In a recent championship “alpha-go” an AI robot won game go by defeating Go champions Lee Sedol and Ke Jie, becoming the strongest Go player.

In fact in a latest survey AI programs are predicted to be better than humans in translating languages, running vehicles, working in the retail sector. Today in every aspect of life AI is present.

Every single thing is this planet has some advantages and some disadvantages including AI.

AI has helped us tremendously, making humans addicted, dependent and unemployed.

Its also a big question that if robots will be having a strong AI making them powerful in everything  can they set up a robot colony and dominate humans? Is strong AI is inversely proportional to weak humans and whether AI's long term positive effects will always overcome the negative impacts?

Its difficult to answer because strong AI may dominate the humans or can  help the humans. Its also true that humans curiosity to invent new things can one day cause the destruction of humans itself.       

AI is not bad but the scope of AI with humans may become bad because AI is and    will be a boon but it may be a curse too if in wrong hands.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Diwali The Festival of Light,Not Pollution

Diwali the Festivals of Light, Not The Festivals Of pollution.

India is a country of colors and festivals. It is said that there are seven days in a week but nine festivals. They are a grand joy and happy moments in the life of Indian people. These are the occasions of family gatherings, exchange of greetings and sweets, joys, praying , fasting, and feasting. People visit temples, holy places, worship gods and invoke their favorite festivals come around the year and add colors,  joys, happiness, and a variety of spice to life.

Diwali or Deepawali is one such festival. It is the festival of lights, joys, and pleasure. Children love this festival as they get many gifts, holidays from schools and they are free to enjoy the festival of light with their family and friends. They get new clothes, women make elaborate preparation to celebrate the occasion.

Deepawali falls in the month of Kartik on Amavasya day(Lunar eclipse), mostly comes in the month of November. The harvesting time closes and the crops reach the houses of farmers. After a year of hard work, the crops come as a light in the life of farmers. Diwali is a harvest festival and farmers celebrate it with great pomp and happiness.

There are two Diwalis celebrated on consecutive days; Chaturdashi or Choti Diwali and bari  Diwali followed by Govardhan pooja and Bhai dhooj respectively.  This is the time when people remain busy cleaning and whitewashing their houses and business places. There is hardly any house of a Hindu which is left uncleared on the auspicious occasion of Diwali.

People make rangoli's on their house entrance and decorate their house with lamps, candles, and earthen lamps. We will found lights all around us on this festival.

This significant day marks the return of Lord Rama after his exile of 14 years with Lakshaman and goddess Sita. It is a jubilation of goods victory over evil. On the occasion of their returning the whole Ayodya was decorated with earthen lamps and this festival is celebrated every year in the memory of Lord Rama and goddess Sita.

People exchange sweets, greet each other, exchange gifts, and wish each other to celebrate their happiness. They also burn various types of crackers to celebrate their happiness. Many people play cards and gamble as a traditional ritual to celebrate this festival.

But the real way to celebrate festivals is  not to burn crackers that do not provide any good effect on the environment and people but to  bring light to the life of the people who needs it. Burning crackers is a full wastage of money its better to throw that money in the pond at least it does not cause harm to the environment or causes any health hazard.

In today’s world, there is a lot of pollution and diseases and these crackers bring much of it. Think about the innocent animals who die because of the sound of these crackers and the patients who are suffering from severe diseases. These crackers contain many chemicals and may cause harm to us also. We light our houses with many lights but there are many people who can't afford candles to light their houses.

The real way to celebrate a festival is to bring a smile to the face of others. We should try to minimize the use of crackers and should try to stop other people also from doing this and should encourage the practice of donation. We should donate that money for crackers to the poor beggars who barely need it.

We should not forget that Diwali is the  festival of lights and happiness, not the festivals of noise and pollution.

So, we should try to make safe,secure \green and pollution-free Diwali.