Another promising start-up

I will tell you another promising startup. Build-my-home. Through this app. First, we can draw a plan for the building, no matter whether it is a simple home or hotel or restaurant or factory or whatever. This plan will give you a real life picture of the building with furniture, interior designing. Next it will connect builders, interior designers, engineers, furniture marketers, bricks, painters, even basic workers with the customers who want to build their home. Definitely this startup is gonna fetch billions of dollars.

First, select the number of rooms, in case of building home. Choose the place, adjust its size, drag and place it anywhere you like. Choose its color, choose interior designing from standard ones or contact designers through app, who are best rated or who will suit your budget. Even vasthu can be checked through our app. Know how the entire home will look like and know the approximate expenditure to build the entire home. Company will also provide blueprint designers, certified by the company, who knows very well, how the app can be used to design. Select available engineers, again rated or based on your budget availability. Choose masons available in your locality. Basic workers can connect with this app to be notified, wherever they are wanted.

Manufacturers of things like taps, fittings,  furniture can have agreements with the company to enable customers to know the entire picture of their home, fitted with their parts in advance. Customers can buy from local vendors with Product ID numbers, not above the agreed price. Or buy from the manufacturer directly.

For someone, who says i just want to see the model and leave everything to the company. That also can be done by Full time Engineers. Company will take commission on all services say 5-10% of cost of the home and connection it makes. Every designer or engineer, will have to pay fixed commission to the company, based on the cost of the building. They have to work with the customer with a fee per hour or per month basis not exceeding already agreed upon fee with the company. If the customer refuses to accept  the engineer or designer after  contact being made, customer has to  bear the commission what Engineer or designer has to make to the company. The app will show, Engineer and designers already done work, the review made by already worked customers. Regarding materials for building, only if they transact through the app, they get a good bargain. So, that commission can also be secured.

Company will charge 15% upfront the cost of the project. 5-10% commissions  for all the connections including laboir  It will calculate every expenditure done to build the project, as the project enters phase to phase. At the end, Company will calculate all the expenses including commission it got for raw materials, excluding labour. That will exactly tell the cost of the project and company will take 10% of it and refund, if any extra cost it already received.

Next, we will look into the loopholes. Engineer tells different rates to customer and the company. Not possible, since customer will not give more money to the engineer, designer, mason than exhibited in the app. Engineer or blue print designer puts cheap fittings and reduces the percentage charged by the company, and buys costly fittings directly from the vendors. For that, we will charge a separate rate for the initial blue print design. After that customer can take the print out and leave. It's just a photograph, without product IDs. That alone will serve no purpose for customer, since he wants to buy costly fittings at low price and vendors outside our app will not sell products at this minimum possible rate.

Just like Ola doesn't own cabs, company will not invest in any products required for building home. Not even bricks. Customers have to buy the things, at every step. We will reduce it's price, through our agreement with manufacturers. That's it.

Engineering Admission tests

Throughout India it is a general practice, that engineering students, should score in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Why should a AI Engineer learn physics or chemistry? Why should a biotechnology engineer learn Mathematics? And why is Computer Science being left out, when huge number of engineers are Computer Engineers?

So, I propose a system, where instead of 3 papers, Students study 2 papers, if they are sure about their Engineering choice. 3 and 4, if their choice increases.

First, All Computer Science degrees
Paper 1 - Computer Science +1
Paper 2 - Computer Science +2
Paper 3 - Mathematics, both +1 and +2

Second, All Electronics and Electronic
Civil, Mechanical
Paper 1 - Physics +1
Paper 2 - Physics + 2
Paper 3 - Mathematics, both +1 and +2

Third, Biotechnology
Paper 1 - Chemistry +1
Paper 2 - Chemistry +2
Paper 3 - Mathematics, both +1 and +2

If a Student decides to do one of a Computer Science degree from a lot of choices, all he has to do is study Computer Science and Mathematics. We can examine his Computer Science skills deeply through 2 papers, but his study burden( not exactly. Ha ha ha) will not increase, because he puts the same effort, if u ask questions from +1 and +2 together or separately in two papers. This will help students concentrate on their choice of study, rather than putting unnecessary effort on other subjects. Suppose, a student is not sure, whether he wants Computer Science degree or a whole lot of other choices like Electronic, Electronics, Civil, Mechanical and all the choices it gives or literally all Engineering degrees, he simply puts the same effort of studying 3 papers, as earlier. Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics. I believe that introduction of Computer Science paper in JEE is important, as India is growing fast in IT sector, and most IT recruiters, would like to test students in basic Computer Science skills, before allowing in their concerns to do Specialization in a particular field.

In tamilnadu, we simply need to add computer science subject, as it was neglected before. Like pure science, we will introduce pure computer science.

Degrees awarded by Industries

It is high time that Government of India allows Corporate Companies or MNCs beyond a certain revenue to start their own diploma programs, as per their needs, syllabus duly approved by UGC. These companies may allow +2 students to apply for their degree program, based on marks scored in Higher Secondary or based on their own entrance and interview. These programs should be accepted across industries, as it is approved by Government. MoU can be signed between government universities and the industry. But still big corporates should be allowed to conduct their own degree programs, if they wish, based on their agenda, since it will meet their requirements and more advantageous to them. Not full fledged university, but certain very sophisticated programs. The purpose of these programs is to give Corporates a free hand to select the best talent, give training and recruit them. This will hugely benefit the students. Suppose Samsung wants to start a Diploma or Degree program, say B.Tech in Cellphone Technology. Is there a better place than Samsung Company itself to learn with in-house experience to every phase and detail. No university can provide such learning experience even with MoUs. Advantage for Samsung is they can get best talent in India and do some research on cellphone technology.

The best way for MNCs to admit students is through Engineering cut off itself in Anna University for tamilnadu, combining their seats they allocate with seats provided by tamilnadu colleges, through single window counseling.

Need for specialization in education

I will discuss Tamilnadu's Bachelor degrees now, because i now know only about it. 48% of Engineering seats in Tamilnadu is not filled. And a majority of Tamilnadu's graduates are not employable. Why? Because there is a huge mistake in the syllabus of not only Bachelor of Engineering degrees, but even in Bachelor of Science degrees. This education system is also too focused on certain popular programs, which affects the diversity of industries in Tamilnadu, which inturn makes a majority of youth unemployable, because their skills don't have takers in industry.

The solution to all these problems is specialization of education. If there is a separate Diploma for let's say Furniture making, first it helps Diploma holders to completely understand the whole process of making different kinds of furniture and the technical process behind it, business of selling and the chain of operation behind it, entrepreneurship behind it. It helps big furniture makers easily find skilled people. Inturn flourishes the whole furniture making industry, with takers who are skilled in that particular field. In that way, it brings diversity of business happening in the country.

Next, why despite being degree holders, people are not employable. Because there is a complete mismatch what industry wants and what knowledge, education system provides them. Since, being a Masters in Computer Science, i can tell about it. The only common thing we have to provide to all computer science students is programming, remaining all can be specialised without any doubt. I would suggest that universities provide BS of 3 years with specializations like AI, IoT, Programming, with common first year for all computer science students. Note that, not for all engineering students. The most important things in these programs is that each paper should be tailor made to teach only different aspects of that particular specialization, after first year. If you teach AI, i would suggest, Every single topic of Mathematics paper should teach a particular aspect of AI, not teach unnecessary topics, even programming languages should be taught on how programs are written for AI. BS aspirants of computer science should have studied computer science as a subject in +2. These should cover as much of specialization as possible like embedded systems, robotics so and so. This specialization programs should be extended to all engineering programs like electronics, electrical engineering.

Next, how to make India updated and skilled with latest developments. Give atleast 25% seats in every college specialization programs to industry. They can directly come to second year of BS. Let the industry re - skill and up-skill with latest technology. It will happen only if colleges provide a first class education, better than industry, atleast to SMEs. Everyone from student to professionals, skills need to be updated, otherwise everyone as a nation will fail. Yes. Old specializations will go and new specializations will come as per the industrial requirements, which is very important, and will make the education system dynamic and up to date.

Next, the question of recruitment. Is specialisation going to increase the chance of employment. Obviously yes. Companies will be more than happy to recruit a person, who has shown good performance in that particular field, as they are already experts in that field, which is verified, and needs less training or none sometimes. Will a electronic student's chance of employment increases, because earlier he can go even to a software company. Now also nobody says u can't go to a software company. But, why would you choose an electronic field, if u want to be a software engineer. It's not your aspiration. More electronic companies are going to come in the future, as the skill available has increased. New jobs will be created and new diversified fields will come.

I can assure you that, if Colleges in tamilnadu provide these kind of diplomas, maximum seats will be filled and there will be a resurrection of education field and inturn bringing development to tamilnadu as a whole.