Friday, December 30, 2005

Your Excellency Prime Mimister Japan

Your Excellency,

An  Appeal- to  add to human wealth

     Human greed shall not be allowed to rob wealth of one community to enrich another community. Such development model is not sustainable.  A highly developed country with strong economy has a responsibility to see that their help to another country should not engender forces to sabotage effectively human growth. This can happen when the tremendous economic strength and short term interest of established industry of one community, leverage themselves to make local experts of another country to lobby for uneconomic and unsafe technology, killing local initiative to find better solutions. In fact, the short sighted aggressive marketing by companies of established economies, using their Government  support to provide long term  soft loans to cover up the inefficient old economically outdated technologies-  hurts long term interests of both the provider as well as the receiver of such aid. Fundamental financial sustainability if not ensured. It becomes an instrument of transfer of wealth and ultimately not sustainable.
     This scene can be re-written- by progressively innovating and re-engineering, one can keep service technologies within economic affordability. Communication technologies have shown the path already. The same cannot be said of rail transport. The same hundred year old coned wheel over rail has substantially continued, and the problems of derailments and capsizing continue. There is no positive restraining link between the guiding railway track and the running steel bogie- once the wheels leave the rail, it is an uncontrollable coach with passengers or cargo crashing out at any thing in sight with serious damages. If we can change this by providing the hither to missing positive link, we all should be happy to continue to use the proven railway technology! That is the innovation done by Mr B. Rajaram, when he presented the Skybus technology -granted patents by USA too. The same high speed transit on the same railway bogies is assured, while providing a positive link now, between the bogie and the rail track, so that coach can never derail nor capsize.
     In the year 2000 the concepts presented and in 2001 eminent scientists like Dr Abdul Kalam, Dr Anil Kakodkar as well as a working Commissioner of Railway Safety through bench marking process concluded that Skybus technology is an improved rail based technology, safer than existing conventional railway. The same railway bogies/ rails and all elements of proven railway only are used, so the existing industry need not lose the benefit of existing manufacturing facilities.
     The major advantage of Skybus technology an improved rail-based system, is that , earlier  we are forced to design providing for unknown forces of derailments etc- thus not allowing optimisation.  Skybus technology allows a more realistic estimates of forces to which the system has to be designed- so tremendous economy results in. For instance,  the capital cost of setting up an urban transport with a capacity of 6 million air-conditioned journeys per day over 100 km of network , works out to US$  1.5 b (in India), and will take  less than 3 years to commission. Compare this to current solution of conventional metro rail- you need to spend more than US$ 4 to 5 b and will take 5 to 7 years.  Thus the Skybus technology makes metro rail based urban transport financially viable and safer. Additionally the Skybus technology gives a total solution- can handle cargo too- which is not taken care of by conventional metro rail system. By adopting Skybus technology all the Governments in the world will be able to provide economic, safer and comfortable travel infrastructure with least burden on public funds.
     Since Skybus is substantially the same as railway technology, except much more improved- it is so easy to implement and safety levels are many times more assured, by avoiding crashing of coaches. Internationally respected certifying agency like TUV Rhineland, Germany assessed that the technology is mature for safe implementation. Dynamic test results prove that the Skybus technology improves the riding quality of metro rail ten times more!  But it is sad that common public is still denied the benefit of the technology because of the strong lobbies funded by the existing metro rail equipment manufacturing  companies. Yes for some period, the technology of Skybus could be delayed by such powerful lobbies- but eventually the Skyvus is the right answer.
     My prayer, as the sole inventor and developer of the technology, (and who has not retained any rights to derive personal benefit of the Intellectual Property, but assigned the same to the Government of India), is that Your esteemed country may initiate a process of introspection by your industry, as well as review policy of your government, unknowingly ( may be) force uneconomic and unsafe technologies not only in my country but in your country too!
     I believe all humans on the planet deserve a better deal- improved quality of life at reducing costs!  






B. Rajaram  M.Tech., F.I.E., F.N.A.E.,        
Former Managing Director/ Konkan Railway Corp.,
Inventor & developer; Anti-collision and Skybus Metro rail technologies
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India       Tel: (91)40 2740 0365/  HP: (91)9346555550
Dt 30 Dec 2005
Happy new year to Hon'ble prime Minister! I again pray that your technical experts can interact with me and examine why Japan should go on burdening my country with such heavy debt burden on metro rails , which anyway is not helping your countrymen too, but create white elephants- while alternative technology breakthrough Skybus metro rail is available, which makes the urban transport a financially viable proposition. You loans to my country is only helping the european industries and eroding the wealth of my country, not withstanding the praise being showered on bureaucrats of my country for enabling such wealth transfer activity- and it is sad that your country should become a partener in this. My technology of Skybus cannot be stopped, but delayed, but hope you will avoid the embarrassment of supporting a wrong cause. With regards to the Hon'ble Prime Minister

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