SOCSO

I bought a book in a book titled “Social Changes In India” by Kuppusamy in a second hand book shop while I was a undergraduate student.

In the book there was article about fishermen in Kerala India, whereby the government trained fishermen to use new technology in fishing by which they can increase their catch subsequently their income.

However, it did not work. The fishermen were happy with their daily catch and return home earlier once they got their catch similar to before resulting no increase in their income by more leisure time.

I do see the same trend even now where economic competition has increased, cost of living sky rocketed, some wants has become necessaries and so on.

I had observed many wives who receive SOCSO compensations after the death of their husband or for some other reasons, do not go to any work or find an extra income. They solely depend on the SOCSO compensations. My check with the department showed it is not a condition that the wife should not work if she gets the compensation.

These ladies earn sympathy from public by telling they are widows. They ask whatever opportunities available to get extra money just by telling their sad stories. They self impose poverty.

If the ladies determined to work and find an extra income plus the husband SOCSO compensation they can alleviate poverty, increase the investment on the human resource development of their children. They can have a happy family and live respectfully.

Indians and Patents

Recently I was reading an article on patent rights. I was surprised to note that curry was patented in Japan.

Curry is a Tamil word. Curry leaves were used by the South Indians for aroma purposes. It also has some medicinal values. Whether curry is patented in India or not, I do not know, neither the article mentioned about it.

There are several other products to which Indians were the founders but not patented in their own country.

Yogurt and sour milk are two dairy products were often mentioned by doctors for good health to which Indians were the founders. Dutch lady and Nestle are the largest producers. Both are non Indian companies. There are also many small companies in several part of the world manufacturing these products but I had not seen any Indian companies.

Apart from these dairy products there are also many others products to which Indians were founders but now manufactured and sold to Indians but I had not seen any products found by others and manufactured by Indians and sold to others.


May be Indians are not enterprising as others and level of application of knowledge for business purposes are limited among Indians. If we continue to be as what we are I see no change in life style for Indians others will continue to gain profit from us.