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2020年9月22日（火）
The video of the event was circulated on social media platforms
The MP infamously had an altercation with an Air India official last month, which quickly escalated into a fistfight. I believe that Air India’s initial step to put a travel ban on Gaikwad was an apt one. Would I have been let off this easily? Probably not. It would have become a rule and then the rule has to be followed. Him being in a respectable post, and misbehaving, was simply unacceptable. He has been composite material suppliers
elected, and then he behaves like this. Consequentially, it led to him being boycotted by the national carrier. I wish they continued to blacklist him. It may be a favour from the airline’s part for him, or they don’t want to get into more troubles. However, the Indian Commercial Pilot’s Association sent a letter the minister of civil aviation Ashok Gajapati Raju seeking an unconditional apology to the officials. Other Federation of Indian Airlines member airlines followed suit. It’s disgusting that he did this, and it’s disgusting that the Parliament wasted so much time on this whole issue.
If a person is behaving badly, one needs to address it then and there. Instead, the need of the hour is to talk and settle the problem.‘It (blacklisting) was a very transparent way of reprimanding him’Madhu Saran, Social EntrepreneurPutting the MP on a no-fly list gave a strong message to wrongdoers. Air India being a government-run body had a lot of pressure and it’s quite understandable that they had to revoke their decision after all the threats they received from different sectors. You can’t pose a threat to people like this and just get away with it. Although it is unclear as to why the ban was lifted, it shows the pressure the airline has been under. One cannot have the VIPs of the country behaving this way. I keep wondering what repercussions I would have had to face had I misbehaved with an airline employee in such a manner.
The video of the event was circulated on social media platforms, and soon the MP gathered flak from several quarters. The move also showed that no MP could misuse his powers and humiliate the same people because of whom he was elected and had taken an oath to safeguard.‘Would I have been let off this easily? Probably not’Sushant Singh, Television Host, Savdhaan IndiaI think no-fly lists, in such cases, is an absolute necessity. You can’t possibly stop a person from doing something; it’s their right to fly.Prominent social servants and celebrities weigh in on the curious case of Ravindra Gaikwad.‘I strongly believe airlines should blacklist anyone who misbehaves’Ishika Taneja, Miss India Tourism Air India was setting a great example by barring Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad and ensuring that safety of others is more important to them. Even if a traveller makes a mistake, they correct them politely.
He harmed someone. Why are MPs getting such treatment? Are we trying to get out the message that some people are better than the others?I also think that had he issued an apology, it wouldn’t be an issue to lift the ban, but considering how Air India was literally forced to lift it, it isn’t acceptable. They should get what they deserve, however big or important they might be. I strongly believe that airlines should blacklist anyone who misbehaves with the staff and co-passengers.The ongoing spat between Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, and Air India, is revealing a plot twist every passing moment.‘It’s disgusting the Parliament wasted so much time on this issue’Indrajit Lankesh, Kannada film director and producerIt is rogue behaviour on his part. Now, they have lifted the ban.
As a senior politician, what Ravindra Gaikwad did to a member of the crew is not correct. No matter how big his position is, one should behave properly in such a place.In the recent chain of events, Air India lifted that ban after being satisfied with the statement given by the MP. They are quite patient.‘One needs to address it then and there’Ganesh Nallari, DesignerBlacklisting someone from flying won’t solve the problem.‘No matter how big his position, one should behave properly’Subi Suresh, ActorThe cabin crew cares for us, and serves us during the flight. It was a very transparent way of reprimanding him. Just like a driver’s license is banned in a case of drunk driving, the same way this ban should have stayed. You should learn from the way the crewmembers handle travellers during flights.
Gaikwad’s attempts at securing a ticket on Air India have been thwarted several times, and has even led to Shiv Sena MPs threatening to disrupt aviation services in Mumbai, if his status as a flyer isn’t restored. We should give the same respect back to them. They should have gone ahead with the ban. It was a lesson for other people too. Six other domestic airlines too asserted their solidarity with Air India, banning Gaikwad from flying, and blacklisting him. If a man is going to behave like this on a flight and beat someone up with his chappal, then take his own time to apologise and waste people’s time and money on this, it’s ridiculous.
elected, and then he behaves like this. Consequentially, it led to him being boycotted by the national carrier. I wish they continued to blacklist him. It may be a favour from the airline’s part for him, or they don’t want to get into more troubles. However, the Indian Commercial Pilot’s Association sent a letter the minister of civil aviation Ashok Gajapati Raju seeking an unconditional apology to the officials. Other Federation of Indian Airlines member airlines followed suit. It’s disgusting that he did this, and it’s disgusting that the Parliament wasted so much time on this whole issue.If a person is behaving badly, one needs to address it then and there. Instead, the need of the hour is to talk and settle the problem.‘It (blacklisting) was a very transparent way of reprimanding him’Madhu Saran, Social EntrepreneurPutting the MP on a no-fly list gave a strong message to wrongdoers. Air India being a government-run body had a lot of pressure and it’s quite understandable that they had to revoke their decision after all the threats they received from different sectors. You can’t pose a threat to people like this and just get away with it. Although it is unclear as to why the ban was lifted, it shows the pressure the airline has been under. One cannot have the VIPs of the country behaving this way. I keep wondering what repercussions I would have had to face had I misbehaved with an airline employee in such a manner.
The video of the event was circulated on social media platforms, and soon the MP gathered flak from several quarters. The move also showed that no MP could misuse his powers and humiliate the same people because of whom he was elected and had taken an oath to safeguard.‘Would I have been let off this easily? Probably not’Sushant Singh, Television Host, Savdhaan IndiaI think no-fly lists, in such cases, is an absolute necessity. You can’t possibly stop a person from doing something; it’s their right to fly.Prominent social servants and celebrities weigh in on the curious case of Ravindra Gaikwad.‘I strongly believe airlines should blacklist anyone who misbehaves’Ishika Taneja, Miss India Tourism Air India was setting a great example by barring Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad and ensuring that safety of others is more important to them. Even if a traveller makes a mistake, they correct them politely.
He harmed someone. Why are MPs getting such treatment? Are we trying to get out the message that some people are better than the others?I also think that had he issued an apology, it wouldn’t be an issue to lift the ban, but considering how Air India was literally forced to lift it, it isn’t acceptable. They should get what they deserve, however big or important they might be. I strongly believe that airlines should blacklist anyone who misbehaves with the staff and co-passengers.The ongoing spat between Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, and Air India, is revealing a plot twist every passing moment.‘It’s disgusting the Parliament wasted so much time on this issue’Indrajit Lankesh, Kannada film director and producerIt is rogue behaviour on his part. Now, they have lifted the ban.
As a senior politician, what Ravindra Gaikwad did to a member of the crew is not correct. No matter how big his position is, one should behave properly in such a place.In the recent chain of events, Air India lifted that ban after being satisfied with the statement given by the MP. They are quite patient.‘One needs to address it then and there’Ganesh Nallari, DesignerBlacklisting someone from flying won’t solve the problem.‘No matter how big his position, one should behave properly’Subi Suresh, ActorThe cabin crew cares for us, and serves us during the flight. It was a very transparent way of reprimanding him. Just like a driver’s license is banned in a case of drunk driving, the same way this ban should have stayed. You should learn from the way the crewmembers handle travellers during flights.
Gaikwad’s attempts at securing a ticket on Air India have been thwarted several times, and has even led to Shiv Sena MPs threatening to disrupt aviation services in Mumbai, if his status as a flyer isn’t restored. We should give the same respect back to them. They should have gone ahead with the ban. It was a lesson for other people too. Six other domestic airlines too asserted their solidarity with Air India, banning Gaikwad from flying, and blacklisting him. If a man is going to behave like this on a flight and beat someone up with his chappal, then take his own time to apologise and waste people’s time and money on this, it’s ridiculous.
2020年9月8日（火）
The author is wise in limiting his objectives to build his narrative
This "silent killer" is very much like inflation. Air pollution, the author reminds us, affects the poor the most.Investment incentives for clean coal and efficient industrial equipment aligned with the excellent work already done by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, needs sustained support.The author points to the dire need for collective action by citizens to press government into doing more to avoid people from falling sick — often terminally with lung cancer; becoming prone to diabetes or deficient in Vitamin D because the healing rays of the sun are often shaded out by soot particles from burning biomass or poorly maintained coal-fired power plants — many of which are owned by the public sector. This government has the satisfaction that inflation has reduced during its term and continues to be low.
But simultaneous action is key on all the four main sources — power generation from big coal plants and distributed diesel generators used by the rich and by industry to fill the gaps in electricity supply; private vehicles particularly diesel cars, trucks and buses; coal-fired industries and the burning of biomass.Some of this pollution is due to the burning of rice stubble in November to clear the fields for the winter wheat crop. Much of this is because there is an empowered institution — the Reserve Bank of India which has a performance metric, since 2015, to keep inflation low. This is a lucidly written account of why India is so polluted. To the impatient reader these come as distractions from the main story.Read this in conjunction with Chapter 2 which is intriguingly titled, "Love in the Time of Air Pollution". Similarly, nimble, public sector incubators and "green" equipment supply aggregators, like the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) should be networked into a pan-India "green" manufacturing community, which leads the way to uncover the piles of "gold" hidden under the pervasive soot.
The first three chapters like a novel with a bottom-up view of what air pollution means to the ordinary Indian and the havoc it can cause in everyday lives.The short point is there is contradictory evidence about the load of pollutants imposed from different sources.The political economy issue with enhancing the supply of quality public goods (like clean air) is that they are not as effective for getting votes as reducing the cost of private goods (food, fuel and fertiliser) for getting votes — the final metric in a democracy of how and where capital is allocated. This cloud of death hangs about the northern plains just below the Himalayan range. India is a soft state. The author purposefully dumbs down the narrative. The existing institutional architecture is weak and relies heavily on direct intervention by the Supreme Court to achieve this objective.The Great Smog of India is in the genre of everything-the-intelligent-person should know about air pollution in India. There are other point sources of emission like construction, industry and transport.
Unlike China, top-down directives are unlikely to work. It’s attractively written with an easy, breezy style.This would not however end air pollution in the Gangetic plain. It instantly sets the reader at ease that she is not about to be inundated with complicated scientific models and graphs about climate change.Managing air and water pollution is an executive responsibility. Clearly this is suboptimal. There is a great deal of overseas work on the source and health impacts of air pollution but relatively little about India. The costs associated with cleaning up our coal, biomass and oil economies is miniscule when compared with the likely health impacts of further neglect. We learn for instance that a million people — around 10 per cent of total deaths — die every year prematurely due to air pollution. Just `240 billion could virtually end pollution on this account by subsidising the purchase of farm equipment in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh which can cut the stubble, plant the wheat crop and grind the paddy straw into the soil as desirable, protective mulch for the wheat seeds.
But it would cut the peak loads which push air quality into the hazardous range during winter. He emphasises that the success and affordability of making better healthcare accessible to all — on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid great stress — depends on ensuring that less people fall ill in the first place. The wonder is that this paltry sum is considered unaffordable as a public outlay.Sanjeev Ahluwalia is adviser, Observer Research Foundation.Smog is a North Indian problem caused by the mighty Himalayas which block the dust and soot, carried by strong winds from as far away ptfe membrane manufacturers as West Asia, from transgressing into Tibet and thence China. Such readers are advised to proceed directly to the last chapter. Spread across the affected population of at least 400 million citizens it amounts to just `600 per head — less than the cost of a tandoori chicken meal for two in a Punjab roadside dhaba.The book is an engaging, albeit rambling forest walk, with the author happily heading off into side trails, ranging from energy efficiency in the manufacturing sector to the economic history of agricultural production in North India; coal mining practices and the structure of the transportation market.
The way out is to make adequate capital allocations such that polluters — many of whom are public sector companies, like the oil companies, which have yet to roll out Bharat VI standard fuel — make the necessary capital investments and control end-of-pipe pollution emissions.The author is wise in limiting his objectives to build his narrative by aggregating existing literature.As elections near, all political parties race to appease poor Indians who are the largest voter group.Dealing with pollution requires a similarly empowered institution whose performance is tied solely to controlling pollution. But the title is just a hook to get the reader down to some serious reading about the sources of air pollution and the health impacts thereof.
But simultaneous action is key on all the four main sources — power generation from big coal plants and distributed diesel generators used by the rich and by industry to fill the gaps in electricity supply; private vehicles particularly diesel cars, trucks and buses; coal-fired industries and the burning of biomass.Some of this pollution is due to the burning of rice stubble in November to clear the fields for the winter wheat crop. Much of this is because there is an empowered institution — the Reserve Bank of India which has a performance metric, since 2015, to keep inflation low. This is a lucidly written account of why India is so polluted. To the impatient reader these come as distractions from the main story.Read this in conjunction with Chapter 2 which is intriguingly titled, "Love in the Time of Air Pollution". Similarly, nimble, public sector incubators and "green" equipment supply aggregators, like the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) should be networked into a pan-India "green" manufacturing community, which leads the way to uncover the piles of "gold" hidden under the pervasive soot.
The first three chapters like a novel with a bottom-up view of what air pollution means to the ordinary Indian and the havoc it can cause in everyday lives.The short point is there is contradictory evidence about the load of pollutants imposed from different sources.The political economy issue with enhancing the supply of quality public goods (like clean air) is that they are not as effective for getting votes as reducing the cost of private goods (food, fuel and fertiliser) for getting votes — the final metric in a democracy of how and where capital is allocated. This cloud of death hangs about the northern plains just below the Himalayan range. India is a soft state. The author purposefully dumbs down the narrative. The existing institutional architecture is weak and relies heavily on direct intervention by the Supreme Court to achieve this objective.The Great Smog of India is in the genre of everything-the-intelligent-person should know about air pollution in India. There are other point sources of emission like construction, industry and transport.
Unlike China, top-down directives are unlikely to work. It’s attractively written with an easy, breezy style.This would not however end air pollution in the Gangetic plain. It instantly sets the reader at ease that she is not about to be inundated with complicated scientific models and graphs about climate change.Managing air and water pollution is an executive responsibility. Clearly this is suboptimal. There is a great deal of overseas work on the source and health impacts of air pollution but relatively little about India. The costs associated with cleaning up our coal, biomass and oil economies is miniscule when compared with the likely health impacts of further neglect. We learn for instance that a million people — around 10 per cent of total deaths — die every year prematurely due to air pollution. Just `240 billion could virtually end pollution on this account by subsidising the purchase of farm equipment in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh which can cut the stubble, plant the wheat crop and grind the paddy straw into the soil as desirable, protective mulch for the wheat seeds.
But it would cut the peak loads which push air quality into the hazardous range during winter. He emphasises that the success and affordability of making better healthcare accessible to all — on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid great stress — depends on ensuring that less people fall ill in the first place. The wonder is that this paltry sum is considered unaffordable as a public outlay.Sanjeev Ahluwalia is adviser, Observer Research Foundation.Smog is a North Indian problem caused by the mighty Himalayas which block the dust and soot, carried by strong winds from as far away ptfe membrane manufacturers
as West Asia, from transgressing into Tibet and thence China. Such readers are advised to proceed directly to the last chapter. Spread across the affected population of at least 400 million citizens it amounts to just `600 per head — less than the cost of a tandoori chicken meal for two in a Punjab roadside dhaba.The book is an engaging, albeit rambling forest walk, with the author happily heading off into side trails, ranging from energy efficiency in the manufacturing sector to the economic history of agricultural production in North India; coal mining practices and the structure of the transportation market.The way out is to make adequate capital allocations such that polluters — many of whom are public sector companies, like the oil companies, which have yet to roll out Bharat VI standard fuel — make the necessary capital investments and control end-of-pipe pollution emissions.The author is wise in limiting his objectives to build his narrative by aggregating existing literature.As elections near, all political parties race to appease poor Indians who are the largest voter group.Dealing with pollution requires a similarly empowered institution whose performance is tied solely to controlling pollution. But the title is just a hook to get the reader down to some serious reading about the sources of air pollution and the health impacts thereof.
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