A case for Privatization

An not so pleasant experience with United India Insurance.

I have a policy for my 2 wheeler from a branch of United India Insurance company from branch Y. Now my office has shited and I wanted to renew  the policy. Office Y is 20 kms now from my office. Also all UII offices dont work on saturdays. Hence I decided I will renew the policy in office In  which is hardly 3 kms from my office. I try to call up In and nobody recieves the call.

I reach the office and I am refused to renew the policy. Reason? Bcos they cannot cater to whole of the city. They serve only people who stay nearby..Ha. Another reason, Theirs is not networked branch, hence she has to fill in all the details herself . Another very very valid reason.

I call up Y. They say In  might or might not renew the policy. No rules here. Depends on managers " marzi".

Anyway, I am happy that I dont have to suffer such inconviniences for most of the things. eg. Banking, Life Insurance Telephone etc etc. What if people are losing their job. They deserve it.


P.S.I have complained to UII on their website. Lets see what their response is.

Of biodiversity and mass production

Somebody had said " When there is a conflict of interest between a Law and Interest of the Masses, it is the masses which has to eventually win."

Today there is a big conflict between the laws governing the conservation of forests and the welfare of the masses living around the forests. The forests are the obstructions for the expansion of there fields, they hold wild animals which attack their fields and live stock, the forests contain immeasurable wealth in terms of flora and fauna which is 'so near yet so far'.

Today is a capitalist society where money is everything. One with money however far from nature will (it seems) lead a happy life, while a poor person even in the very lap of nature's best will remain hungry and lead an unhappy life. Thus the motivation for people to break the countries laws is getting bigger and bigger in terms of monetary benefits. Bigger the motivation, more the number of  criminals living of the forest illegally. And the motivation is bound to get bigger and bigger and so the destruction is going to be larger and larger. And more and more animals are going to get extinct.

The laws have to change as they are in conflict with general interest. And as anybodies guess this is going to be the end of the forests..may be in 50 years, 100 years? or even 10 years.

But there is hope. Teach the local citizens the ill effects of over-using forest. Show them the state of similar lands around the world and MOST importantly teach them how to maximize the benefits without destroying the nature. And even more important is to make sure that the benefited are not only the local elites but almost everyone.

And wait and see the forests flourish.

--
Rahul Vaidya
New blog added on 27th January in [http://reasonablethoughtsfromme.blogspot.com/ ]

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same
-- Oscar Wilde

--
Rahul Vaidya
New blog added on 31st March in [http://reasonablethoughtsfromme.blogspot.com/]

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same
-- Oscar Wilde