Indian engineer uses his ingenuity to solve the most challenging social pro

[Korean]

I listened to this while driving to church today and I was simply astounded by what I was hearing. The Wall Street people talk of how India will overtake China in 20 years, and they do it because of gifted Indian people coming up with most creative solutions to solve the most difficult problems. You simply don't see this kind of creativity in China and this is why China cannot really compete against India in the long run, because India has what it takes to advance into the developed world, while China doesn't.

NPR.org » Indian Engineers Build A Stronger Society With School Lunch Program

Indian Engineers Build A Stronger Society With School Lunch Program
Published: April 06, 2012
by Shankar Vedantam

But Suchitra's story isn't a tale of woe. It's actually a success story. And it's built around a program that's figured out how you place a very nutritious, freshly cooked lunch every day before more than a million schoolchildren. And yes, it's found a way to do it at a cost of 11 cents per meal.

VEDANTAM: No child in India should be deprived of education because of hunger. That's a vision for tens of millions of children. It's a messiah-type vision. Venkat doesn't look like a messiah. He's a clean-cut guy - glasses, buttoned-down - an engineering-type. In fact, he is an engineer and his program has designed an engineering solution to keep hungry kids in school.

VENKAT: We have never failed to deliver a meal on any day in the last 11 years.

VEDANTAM: So you're saying that of the 1.3 million children you have right now, who get meals every single day, there has not been a single day the children have not gotten meals?

VENKAT: Yes, absolutely.

They chopped mountains of fresh vegetables. There's steamed lentils. Buckets of turmeric and other spices are ready. It's fresh cooking on an industrial scale. There's no butylated hydroxyanisole or sodium benzoate, no preservatives because everything made in this kitchen is going to be eaten by 100,000 children within four hours.

VEDANTAM: The trucking and delivery cost of each meal is about 1 cent. With efficient routes, Venkat might save a fifth of that 1 cent. Multiply that tiny amount by a million and the savings feed another 20,000 kids.

Shaving 0.2 cents off in delivery cost via truck route optimization software would make the UPS and Fedex salvage on the dreams of a fatter profit, but these Indian engineers do it to feed more children.

 

[kingkobra]

I have already posted this dude...and yes this program is a very good success story...Now we are trying to bring this to maharashtra...there are already such programs in maharashtra but not as efficient as this one..

 

[Korean]

You have to wonder why India stayed backward all these years when there are so many gifted people over there.

Maybe it's the Hinduism that place less emphasis on the riches of this world that was the cause.

 

[kingkobra]

You have to wonder why India stayed backward when there are so many gifted people over there.

Things move slow in India but we do see results...what we need is to bring more people into these projects...which is exactly what people are doing using social media now..

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

You go to church Friday night and post about it at 3 AM?

Route optimization software is nothing new. It's been around since the Russians invented linear programming in the 1930's. Using it to feed children is new, but that's not a scientific or engineering breakthrough. That's just using things that multinationals have been hoarding to themselves for a social goal. This is very commendable however.

Indians are good at traditional engineering. That is, like Koreans, they are good at incrementally improving existing devices and processes but not at discovery of new ones. There's been nothing that's shattering to the scientific paradigm out of India, Indians, Korea or Koreans like the neutrino oscillation experiments from Daya Bay or inventions at the very edge of science and technology such as the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, the various supercomputers, or quantum communications. Even ethnic Koreans and Indians in the US have not come up with things that ethnic Chinese like Steve Chu, Yang Tseng Ning, Lee Chun Dao, Samuel Ting and Yao Shing Tung.

Chinese dare to imagine. That's why we've come up with things like artemesin (winner of the Lasker Awards, one of the highest prizes in biochemistry), fastest supercomputers and neutrino oscillations, and Indians shave 0.2 cents off delivery costs.

 

[Peregrine]

Now i know where this user ''Korean'' actually hail from

 

[parkland]

You go to church Friday night and post about it at 3 AM?

Route optimization software is nothing new. It's been around since the Russians invented linear programming in the 1930's. Using it to feed children is new, but that's not a scientific or engineering breakthrough. That's just using things that multinationals have been hoarding to themselves for a social goal. This is very commendable however.

Indians are good at traditional engineering. That is, like Koreans, they are good at incrementally improving existing devices and processes but not at discovery of new ones. There's been nothing that's shattering to the scientific paradigm out of India, Indians, Korea or Koreans like the neutrino oscillation experiments from Daya Bay or inventions at the very edge of science and technology such as the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, the various supercomputers, or quantum communications. Even ethnic Koreans and Indians in the US have not come up with things that ethnic Chinese like Steve Chu, Yang Tseng Ning, Lee Chun Dao, Samuel Ting and Yao Shing Tung.

Chinese dare to imagine. That's why we've come up with things like artemesin (winner of the Lasker Awards, one of the highest prizes in biochemistry), fastest supercomputers and neutrino oscillations, and Indians shave 0.2 cents off delivery costs.

actually dude u need to go and check how many chinese have won a nobel prize and then check what is the average read of a scientific paper from a chinese uni and compare it with india, then come back and say sorry to us for posting an offtopic stupid piece of **** rant.

now dont come back and say the ppl in nobel prize committe are america and stuff. africans russians, germans, japanese and even some iraninians and 1 pakistani has won the prize. china on average wins once a decade. once breakthrough is not enough brahh

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

You have to wonder why India stayed backward all these years when there are so many gifted people over there.

Maybe it's the Hinduism that place less emphasis on the riches of this world that was the cause.

Socialist economic policies and bureaucracy.

 

[Patriot]

Now i know where this user ''Korean'' actually hail from

I had my doubts but this thread pretty much nails it.

 

[Audio]

You go to church Friday night and post about it at 3 AM?

Route optimization software is nothing new. It's been around since the Russians invented linear programming in the 1930's. Using it to feed children is new, but that's not a scientific or engineering breakthrough. That's just using things that multinationals have been hoarding to themselves for a social goal. This is very commendable however.

Indians are good at traditional engineering. That is, like Koreans, they are good at incrementally improving existing devices and processes but not at discovery of new ones. There's been nothing that's shattering to the scientific paradigm out of India, Indians, Korea or Koreans like the neutrino oscillation experiments from Daya Bay or inventions at the very edge of science and technology such as the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, the various supercomputers, or quantum communications. Even ethnic Koreans and Indians in the US have not come up with things that ethnic Chinese like Steve Chu, Yang Tseng Ning, Lee Chun Dao, Samuel Ting and Yao Shing Tung.

Chinese dare to imagine. That's why we've come up with things like artemesin (winner of the Lasker Awards, one of the highest prizes in biochemistry), fastest supercomputers and neutrino oscillations, and Indians shave 0.2 cents off delivery costs.

Do you actually know what quantum communication means without Wiki? And neutrino oscillations aren't all the rage in the physics world despite the fancy name. Just saying...

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

This have been in Tamil nadu state since 1950s...
We have a god enrollment rate in govt school because of this, thanks to kamaraj!!!

 

[parkland]

Do you actually know what quantum communication means without Wiki? And neutrino oscillations aren't all the rage in the physics world despite the fancy name. Just saying...

loll these ppl are idiots they think only china is working and rest of the world is just masterbating. similiar mentality japanese had in their time. china made one breakthrough and they start jumping when america wins 7 nobel prizes a year china has won 7 since indeoendence.

here something for him:

rediff.com: IIT professor makes prime mathematics breakthrough

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Do you actually know what quantum communication means without Wiki? And neutrino oscillations aren't all the rage in the physics world despite the fancy name. Just saying...

Sure. Do you?

Neutrino oscillations, to be honest, I don't understand. Quantum field theory isn't my thing. Neither you nor I are in a position to say what's all the rage in physics. Physics isn't a popularity contest. High Tc superconductors were hot 10 years ago and people predicted an explosion in applications; didn't happen. As for the neutrino oscillations, its your scientists that are making a big deal out of it.

Daya Bay: Discovery of new kind of neutrino transformation

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

The midday-meal scheme has been a success in some states like Karnataka.

While not successful in certain other parts.

The Indian exception

 

[Vinod2070]

Chinese dare to imagine.

Yep, only they could imagine that great leap. Leaving behind 50 million was never a big deal.

Or scraping the 400 millions in the womb.....

They imagine what they are told to imagine by the CCP regime. Not one iota more, nor less...

Even 50 cents can't change that.