Passport in India

Have you tried getting a passport in India? Yikes the system is so archaic and self defeating in present hi tech times!

You know you have to get a dozen passport size photos tediously fill in a form and submit it at Bangalore one citizen centre or the passport office with supporting documents.

Well I will suggest an easier format that is even more beneficial to the Govt. and foolproof.

Get a biometric machine that will record fingerprints and take photos as they do at the sub registrar offices in Bangalore for registration of land and property. This way the passport size photos system can be done away with and every thing is in control with the Govt, the fingerprinting system will disallow any kind of fake passports.

Fill in the details online and just print out the passport. It is as simple as that. Have plenty of such kiosks to issue the passports. Moreover this system will allow to issue e-passports at a later date.

That is easy e-governance for you!
- Sunil S Chiplunkar www.pharmaceuticalshealthcare.blogspot.com

Exubera

The times are achanging

There was a time in the pharma industry (1960s - 1970s) where one had to meet a nucleus of doctors give them a great looking MR, good presenter - charmer visiting them regularly, give some freebies, gifts, seminars, luncheons; good ego massage and the prescriptions would start rolling. Patients too would not be too assertive or questioning with the doctors.

Well times are achanging. Now its the internet era - the web 2.0 revolution is on. Business is at the speed of thought. Business plans get disrupted a lot faster. There is a remarkably high level of patient empowerment and societal consciousness on various issues. There are more assertive and informed stakeholders in the healthcare delivery process. Hence, diffusion of pharma innovations are a lot tougher. Perhaps if the Vioxx launch had happened in the 1960s it would not have had such an exit. They would have repositioned Vioxx as a short term use NSAID.

Exubera

Pfizer with high hopes, launched it like a bong
Thought - it would be click like a gong
But missing is the exuberance
All it got is malevolence
So will Exubera bomb?
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