Respected Guest,

 I wish to see India as a strong and the best country of the world. I have developed a website namely “www.wakeupindians.com” to encourage the people in restoring “THE DIGNITY OF OUR MOTHER INDIA”.

      The wakeupindians.com site is dedicated to all those who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of India, and to all those whom we could have saved from diseases, fake drugs, fake milk, adulterated food, starvation, malnutrition, accidents, floods, draughts, water pollution, earthquakes, murders, suicides, fires, terrorist attacks and the immature decisions of some greedy politicians and bureaucrats.

      I am of the view that proper development and utilisation of technology can save India from the cancerous disease of corruption and the present silent civil war where at any time any body can suffer due to unpredicted road or rail blockages by a protesting mob, 1984 type anti-Sikh riots, 2002 type Godhra train burning incident and other common accidents. The information technology can help us tackle such problems more efficiently. We need to act faster than the culprits and we need to make the governing system transparent not only to the public but also to the persons sitting at the decision making positions. Most our leaders don't get the reliable input at the proper time.

      What prompted me to develop the www.wakeupindians.com is my experience with famous institutes related to following innovative ideas and my life tenure in Central Water Commission.

    Gravitational Attraction
    Surgery under Air Pressure
    Past Present Future
    Our thinking system
    Device for Grain Size Analysis
    Mystery of invisible God

       During 1991-92, in Central Water Commission my indigenously designed mathematical and hydrological models for river flow forecasting system were destroyed along with the magnetic tapes after the completion of UNDP aided Pilot project (No.IND/85/058). I remember the scene of the magnetic tapes getting rotten by heat and humidity in the isolated corners of corridors and the computer room being renovated again to accommodate another some other World Bank aided project which gave opportunity of foreign tours to Indian officials.

These magnetic tapes were having all the source code of India’s indigenously developed flood forecasting models and telemetry supported real time data base system along with thousands of man days work devoted to store several years hourly rainfall and discharge data for the Yamuna river catchment up to Delhi. These most valuable Indian models (CWCFF1 and PEM-FF), even at the development stage, were giving excellent results for actual real time forecasts for the river Yamuna at Delhi and Mawi. The foreign acquired models like SSARR (USA), HEC1F (USA), NCL-NLM (Czechoslovakia), NAM S11FF (Denmark) never gave satisfactory results. In the closing report of the UNDP project, SAUL COOPER, the principal consultant of the project had acknowledged the supremacy of India’s CWCFF1 model and advised for its further refinement and development.   I do not blame any individual for such but the present governing system which still lacks strict guidelines for documentation of official records and proper monitoring of follow up actions. 

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	Gravitational Attraction A few questions remained unanswered as: - How a smallest particle of the matter is able to send the gravitational waves in every corner of the universe, and from where it is getting so much energy for this tremendous work? - How a tinny particle can create such a strong wave which travels immense distances unaffected by the presence big stars as barriers? - How a gravitational wave when strikes an object on its way makes it to move in the direction from where the wave is coming? - The inward pulling tendency of gravity should make the universe shrink or at the most static. But it is not so as the experimental discovery of the expansion of the universe has made some fifty years ago. According to the Newton's law of gravitation objects attract each other with a force which varies directly as the product of the masses of the two objects and inversely as the square of the distances between them. The total gravitational attraction between the sun and the earth exceeds that between moon and earth by about 175 times. However, tides are caused by a difference in gravitational attraction on the near and far sides of a body, not by the total pull on it. Quantitatively, the tide producing force varies inversely as the cube of the distance.
	Surgery under Air Pressure A new method of surgery is being explained here in which there will be no bleeding from the opened part of the body. There will be no need to attach forceps at the exposed veins or arteries. It will help the patient to save his strength and the doctors will be able to perform some serious operations more efficiently. Some delicate parts of the body like brain which are hardly attempted for surgery can be opened for longer time without any risk to the patient.
	Device for Grain Size Analysis Explains how the government deals with an individual's independent research efforts even when the research is related to its own organization.

Now I am submitting above articles to the public especially to those who are in the process of acquiring new knowledge. I hope they will learn from my experience. I request others to participate with their own experiences and try to form a united forum for the sake of technologies that are mostly ignored or mismanaged. A scenario like cleaning of Yamuna River may be going on unnoticed in many departments.

Central Water Commission

We cry of corruption and scams when the devils are visible to general public through media or RTI,  but there are many unnoticed deep rooted bad practices that are weakening the basic foundation of this great country.

Central Water Commission is monitoring the life force of our country. Its basic function is to deal with the river related technical issues for every river of India. It has also been assigned to forecast river flows specially during flood seasons. The basic foundation for the functioning of this organization is history of past data related to river flow.

Rivers are like veins of a living body; and as such, mismanagement of rivers can prove to be suicidal in the long run. River management system is a vast subject which includes low flow or flood forecasting, reservoir regulations, development and maintenance of engineering structures and water quality monitoring etc.

Engineering structures like dams, reservoirs, bridges etc., are not like toys that can be re-build after finding some new parameters suggesting their improved designs. Generally, an engineering structure is never re-build till it completes its estimated life time or till it breaks down due to poor design or material. And if a structure is too strong, more than its actual requirement, the enormous wasteful expenditure will never come to light.

For precise design of engineering structures archive rainfall and river flow data is a primary requirement.

But, in several cases, the junior engineers allow a Khilasi (peon/attendant) to observe river gauge specially during rainy nights when no body will dare to go near river banks.  Even the data  is likely to be manipulated as there is no organisation to crosscheck it. Similarly, for rainfall observations, the IMD is also taking assistant from some remote schools and village heads from all over the country. A kind of outsourcing of job work to junior untrained and unqualified personals is mostly going on unnoticed.

Records reveal that history of data recorded before independence is exceptionally accurate as being recorded now. 

Saddest part of it is that during flood forecasting, most of the executive engineer passes the forecast results to junior engineers engaged for recording actual river gauge. Every executive engineer all over the country is able to show best forecasting performance by showing the results within prescribed range of error by using forecast formulation methods calibrated on past data which is not so reliable. A bad performance by an executive engineer at field postings is likely to delay their promotion to the post of director.  In this connection, I remember the day when I formulated a real time forecast for Yamuna at Delhi railway bridge by the use of PEM-FF model. At that time the executive engineer was on field tour and was constantly communicating with me by wireless network. When I passed on the forecast results for his approval, he overruled the results by suggesting a higher value. Surprisingly, his  forecast result matched the actual observation without any error. A gauge hydrograph of that period showed sudden rise of gauge readings for few hours when there was absolutely no rainfall in the upper catchment. Should not we have independent agencies to monitor technical performance of government agencies?  

Corruption can be controlled by better technology.

After the introduction of computers, computer based mathematical models has become an important part of engineering services in water resources development studies and real time river flow forecasting purposes. In the mathematical and hydrological models and conventional procedures, the results during their real time application depend on the correctness of their approach and the period and accuracy of data used to calibrate them.

In central Water Commission, several persons have been trained and exposed to computer based models related to river management system under different World Bank / UNDP schemes. But, to them, the foreign acquired models which represented a very complex logic supported by huge software package of several thousand lines, created such an illusion that some of them, who were a little familiar with software, never dared to know the exact software locations where the actual calculations of their familiar equations are carried out. Now the foreign countries has stopped providing source code  of their computer packages because they prefer us to be always dependent on them.

Generally, when any application, well tested by hand calculations, is transferred to a computer system, we just develop the software to follow the same steps of hand calculations without much knowledge that the computers are not only to increase the speed of processing but are capable of simplifying the entire procedure of processing. The hydrologists remain dominant to the whole plan of development leaving programmer as a mere tool for processing operation. If the hydrologist is well familiar with the power of computers, he can design his theories more adventurously.

With newer generation of computers flooding  the market every six months, more refined theories and software procedures are bound to be developed by the advance countries. 

In the year 1984 I got a chance to know the computer technology when I was posted to the computer section of the Upper Yamuna Circle, CWC, in India. An UNDP aided Pilot project (No. IND/85/058) for improvement of river forecasting system in India was in progress. At that time I was not having any computer knowledge and was completely unfamiliar with any programming language.

A number of foreign acquired hydro-meteorological mathematical models were being installed on the HP-1000 main frame computer which was being linked to fourteen remote sensing stations through a dedicated telemetry data collection network. Some of these were SSARR model developed by North pacific div. of US corps of Engineers, HEC-1F developed by Hydraulic Engineering centre, USA, NCL _ NLM Model model from Czechoslovakia and MIKE-11 model developed by Danish Hydraulic Institute.

I was able to understand the core structure of the flood forecasting models because of my exploring nature. During this period I could acquire the knowledge of Fortran-77 computer language and could understand  operation of main frame HP-1000 computer.

As the foreign acquired models were not giving satisfactory results I was impressed upon to develop India's own flood forecasting model; and a CWCFF1 model was developed. CWCFF1 model was based on new routing theory that I could invent in  just 10 minutes while I was analyzing actual data for errors by using my indigenously developed graphic software. I was also able to develop PEM-FF and CWC Unit Graph models. Not only the scientific part, but also the complete software were designed by a lone person like me. In addition to all the unique development work I was to write the papers for these models for senior officers with their names on the first places.  I could also develop the real time database and its link to all the foreign acquired models and the telemetry data collection net work. The activity of the UNDP project was considered to be so important that almost every fortnight some VIP was visiting the computer centre. Several hydrologists form the neighboring countries like Pakistan, Japan and China were shown the India's modern technology in the making.

When the UNDP project was over and all the foreign tours were utilized by the senior officers, they managed to get their postings to other better places. In the end I too was transferred from the computer centre and no body cared to preserve my  research and development work, and every thing along with CWCFF1 model, PEM-FF and CWC Unit Graph models got buried along with the outdated HP-1000 computer. I could see the magnetic tapes lying in the corridors and the computer room being redesigned to begin an another similar project.  

During my next posting at the River Data Directorate, I could develop Hydrological Data Maintenance And Processing System (HYD-MAPS). It remained in use during my stay in the River Data Directorate.  Many years of daily gauge, discharge and sediment data was being maintained by its use. It may be mentioned here that the World Bank consultants after seeing the demonstration India's HYD-MAPS, included its users log book feature and data typing error warning  part in their own HYMOS.  But again, myself and the indigenous data base was uprooted to accommodate a foreign acquired data base system namely "HYMOS" from Netherlands. CWC's transfer policy was used to throw me away to please the caretakers of "HYMOS". At this time I decide to take my premature retirement during 1999 as it was a great setback to see my work going to drain again and again. I was advised by senior officers not to mention any grievances in the resignation letter as it will lead to enquiries, harassments and delay in acceptance of the resignation. 

Every senior officer used to encourage me for my research and development work not for the sake of actual work but to find something impressive for the resumes of their own confidential reports. Any good work used to survive till it was associated with the foreign tours and other benefits.

I remember the two most remarkable happenings that need to be mentioned here to complete the scenario.

1. Once we were having tea with the foreign experts from the Denmark during lunch break of a training session. The training session was meant to select the participants for further fellowship at Denmark. There was a great battle like atmosphere. The participants were using their all resources and energy to win the fellowship. One senior officer got a novel idea to win the favor of a foreign consultant by expressing like this:

"Sir, your country doesn't have any big rivers at all, even then you have developed wonderful flood forecasting model that suits our huge rivers. How could you do that when you don't have rivers and data to test them on real time basis".

The foreign consultant smiled with proud and pointed his finger to his head and said, " We have got this". The officer nodded his head with a childish smile. Later he got the ticket to Denmark for six months fellowship.

2. My self was also selected, but for different reasons. The fellowship was awarded to me as a prize for helping the foreign consultants to link their MIKE-11 model with our telemetry supported real time data base system. Also, the consultants were too eager to know from me all the details of CWCFF1 model and the PEM model, which I could develop from scratch, and which were too irritating for them as the better performance of these models demonstrated their failure as the advisory consultants. I was a little worried to hear a comment from a visiting consultant who told me in a lighter mood, "Persons like you get police protection in our country."  These models, even at the development stage, were being used for actual real time forecasts for the river Yamuna at Delhi and Mawi. The foreign acquired models like SSARR (USA), HEC1F (USA), NCL-NLM (Czechoslovakia), Mike-11 (Denmark) never gave satisfactory results. The foreign consultants used to cover their failures by putting the blame on the accuracy of our archive data, but the achievements by CWCFF1 model put them all in the dock. A senior officer presented a paper on CWCFF1 model at Geneva and the same was published in "Hydrology of Disasters, WMO". Although, I was the inventor of all the theories and software designs for the CWCFF1 and PEM model, I came to know about its fame at Geneva only through Mr. J. C. Refsgard, Project Manager CWC/DHI project. He was too keen to know about all its details from me. Peter Gabris, a senior software consultant from Czechoslovakia had once told me that, "had you been in my country I would have absorbed you in my department".

I realized that it would be not in the interest of my research work to waste six months at Denmark for the sake of few exercises on the Mike-11 model, which I was sure, will not succeed for the unique characteristics of Indian rivers.

When I expressed my unwillingness to accept the fellowship, my colleague thought that I have gone mad. The next person in the waiting list of foreign fellowship was so delighted that he started inviting foreigners for dinners at his residence.  Member (RM) called me in his chamber and tried to convince me by saying like this:

" Mr. Rishiraj, forget about work. Go and enjoy your life at Denmark. No body goes there for the sake of work. People will call you a fool if you miss this chance. You will never get this chance again in your life. You must know that your CWCFF1 and PEM-FF models will disappear one day as CWC is not a research organization. They are alive till you are handling them. No body is fool enough to break his head on other's research work without any personal benefit. Take one more day to think over or give in writing that you are not accepting the fellowship not because of any technical reasons of foreign models but due to your family reasons only."

I opted not to go. But after some time realized that the senior officer was most experienced in his own field as he rightly forecasted the death of all my research work including the most sophisticated real time data base and the vast telemetry system.

Such scenario is dominant in our country. We talk of ills of corruption, transparency and reforms of the administrative system etc. But most of us act only when our own self-interest is involved. Here the transparency is required to the administrators who wish to reform their own organization. Before I took my retirement I had written directly to The Secretary, MOWR, Shram Shakti Bhawan, New Delhi to let me continue my development work but the powerful lobby blocked its early action and I left CWC. Had there been a scientific system for reliable and fast communication, complete transparency for officers sitting at the top, and most importantly for the public that owns this country, my research and development work would not have gone to drain.