A few interesting articles.

Over the past month, a couple of articles captured my imagination a lot.
1. An article on the reservation in IIM's, IIT's,etc.
2. Oil consumption in India is actually on the reduce, when taking into consideration the mammoth increase in the number of locomotives.

The core idea of the first article is there’s no point in dragging the finishing line closer, when the starting line is still far fletched for many backward classes.
Pretty self explanatory I guess - The education at the primary level or grass roots need to be ironed out first, before smoothening the path to the elevated echelons of study.

Latest Developments:

The bill for 29% reservation was passed recently, (2days back), the point to notice was skimming the cream or not, i.e. the southern allies wanted reservation for even the " economically well off OBC's" a gross misnomer. It was later decided that only the economically backward OBC's would be given the elevator - A real saving grace. Still don't know how the scheme would gel gotta wait and watch.

The second article mainly states that improved automobile technology has actually reduced fuel consumption drastically to what it was 3 years back, i.e. in equation to the number of vehicles. More stats on these to follow, please keep reading.

According to British Petroleum's Statistical review of World Energy 2006 says that oil consumption in India has dropped by 3 percent last year, alarming right!!!???

The chief reasons behind this being:

1. Increased use of CNG
2. Electrification of Railways -
well railways use 66.6 % of diezel sold in India, hence electrifiation nearly saves 4 million litre/year for a streach of 100 k.m.
Anothar utility of electrification:
Carrying small range trucks over flatbed freight trains, hence many trucks are carried over a single electrified line, which drastically reduces the fuel input.

Statistic:

A single small 2 - axle truck could end up saving 8500/- Rs for a trip from mumbai to mangalore port.
Thats amazing right, think of the number of trucks sent everyday of these trains, great economy at work here!!!