Kirloskar Institute of Advanced

Management Studies

Digital India campaign as rolled out by Indian PM, Shri.

Narendra Modi is an initiative which works towards not only

digitizing government operations and public sector under-

takings but most importantly empowering people with the

touch of the button. In Management parlance it is nothing

but empowerment of people with the power of technology

within every citizens reach. The Next Generation Network

(NGN) are very much part of Digital India campaign. This

programme addresses wide variety of issues including facili-

tation of availability of government services electronically

and perpetual information updates with communication

technology. This is apart from the programs which reach out

to schools and rural area with the help of technology which

makes teaching easier and through terminals and bigger

screens. This addresses manpower issues of school teach-

ers. Similarly public sector banks are now moving towards

mobile banking and easier and faster access to services giv-

en by the Public sector banks. Even, public works depart-

ments, local corporations across India (both central and

state governments) are driving the digital India campaign.

In this era of Next Generation Network, needless to mention

the focus has to be encouraging Digital Innovators across

India which may include Digital practitioners. There has to

be more coverage of Rural to ensure inclusiveness in Digital

India campaign. This program if implemented properly will

remove economic disparity and remove poverty. Digital India

through simple methods ensure removal of non-information

and empowering marginalized and information deprived peo-

ple with Digital literacy, access to digital tools including in-

ternet penetration and thereby creating revolution across

India.

Professor of HRM &

Principal Director,

KIAMS

From the Directors Desk

If the current (NDA) government is keen on this program to drive

the economic growth, must provide access and infrastructure and

make common people digitally literate to earn mileage out of this.

As a Management Professor, I would look at education and em-

powerment by enabling people with better health and education

facilities, skilling and livelihood opportunities using digital litera-

cy and tools related to technology. A proper governance through

this digital program will ensure that people voices are heard, and

better delivery of government services. This program can with

proper usage of digital tools, will empower grassroots-level civil

society, through digital literacy and protection of culture and her-

itage. I am glad that Chanakya has chosen this theme for this

month issue and related articles will surely highlight the markets

and enterprises related to digitally empowering micro-enterprises

and proper training in digital field will further strengthen digital

India campaign. This should at the end open up newer markets

through website presence and e-commerce routes for rural prod-

ucts and services. Last but not the least, is creation of data base

and Knowledge Hub through timely and proper interventions for

scaling up innovations and partnership depending on the socio

economic developmental needs. Digital India campaign can fur-

ther support and strengthen Make in India campaign to

change the fortunes of billions of Indians and rural population of

India can realize their dreams of economic progress through

these programs.

I appreciate the efforts taken by Prof. Gita Madhuri and Chan-

kaya team members in bringing out this issue with yet another

relevant theme which is very much contemporary in nature. I am

sure the articles in this issue will be useful to our readers.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Mr. K.Joshi Nadh

Ms. Aarushi Gupta

Mr. Tarun Pandey

Ms.Pratikshya Sahoo

Dear Readers,

In this Issue of Chanakya, We the Editorial team is proud to publish DIGITAL INDIA December Edition .

To build our next generation in a smarter way and em-powering people with the touch of the button with the power of technology.

We wish you all a joyous festive season and a blessed year in 2016.

Happy Reading.!!

The honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Digital India programme on July 1, 2015. The objective of this programme is to transform Indian economy into

knowledge economy where every citizen of India is digitally empowered and has access

to all the services of government of India digitally. This is a very big step taken by the

government of India towards the welfare of the people. But this initiative is not new. A

National e-Governance Plan was launched by the government of India 2006 which en-

compassed 31 projects across various domains and sectors. But even after a lot of

steps taken by the government, it could not cover the whole country. This programme

was launched to ensure that the entire public service system is managed using infor-

mation technology. It not only takes into account the cities and towns but also the ru-

ral areas. The core activities of Digital India programme includes creating digital infra-

structure, providing government services digitally and educating people to use digital

platform effectively. A lot of policies and procedures have been planned to make this

vision a reality in India. To implement this programme, the Ministry of Communica-

tions and IT has been assigned the task of nodal agency.

A lot of schemes like Digital Locker, e-health, e-signature etc. are some of the promi-

nent schemes planned to be implemented under Digital India programme. Further,

BharatNet and Next Generation Network are also included in Digital India programme.

All of such schemes require investments of over Rs. 1 lakh crore. This programme is

planning to make use of the National Information Infrastructure to provide broadband

network to all the cities, towns and villages of India. This mission is very big and if it so

happens, it would result into momentous consequences for Indian economy and its

people. Digital India can't be thought of without providing phones access to each and

every citizen of India. So major focus is being put on enhancing mobile networks

throughout India filling all the interstices. It has been calculated that over 42,300 vil-

lages are still devoid of phone networking facilities. So to make India digital, it becomes

imperative that mobile networks are made available in all the remote areas.

A number of services are provided by the government of India major of which can be provided digitally. So a lot of focus has been put on increasing such number of ser-

vices especially for villages and other remote areas. Currently around 1, 40,000 such services are provided using digital platform. The aim is to increase the count to over 2, 50,000 or at least 1 in every rural or remote region. In villages, people have to trav-

el long distances to avail basic services. So it has been planned to transform over 1, 50,000 post offices into modern service centers providing multiple facilities.

A lot of big projects keep hanging waiting for clearances and documentation work.

This works as a big hindrance in the path of development. Since many years, a lot of steps have been taken to prevent this situation but the target could not be achieved.

So through digital India programme, all the sanctions and documentation would be done online. It would help in speedy implementation of these projects. E-Kranti (electronic kranti) is a significant part of Digital India which has 41 mission mode

projects including e-, e-Healthcare etc. these are not just mere plans but speedy ac-tions are being taken to accomplish them. MCA21 project related to registrations of

companies has been completed and launched successfully. Under Digital India pro-gramme, there is a provision to educate 10 million students for IT jobs. These stu-dents would be from smaller villages where the students do not have access to proper

computer education. There are provisions for opening Business Process Outsourcing units in every northeastern state. This provision would help the north-eastern regions to grow and provide employment opportunities to their people. To make digital net-

work a reality in villages, there is a need of huge workforce. Keeping this thing in mind, the telecom operators would train about 3, 00,000 people who would work as

service delivery agents for them which is in itself a big challenge. The difficulty is not just of the count but of quality also. The under-trained or less skilled people would not be able to contribute effectively towards the projects. There is huge focus on in-

creasing e-Governance in the country. Currently the government maintains over 13 million mobile numbers and over 2 million email ids in its database which belong to government employees. The government sends messages and emails to its employees

to provide information about various government services. The aim is to increase the base and cover all the people. A lot of digital initiatives like biometric attendance in

the government offices, eBook in libraries, weather related information through SMS, Wi-Fi in colleges and universities etc.

There are a lot of challenges before digital India vision. Digital India programme re-quires online database and record making instead of keeping them offline. So all the

database with the government of India need to be fed into the computers which in itself is a very daunting task. All the documents of the citizens should be available on online repositories. It has been said that almost all the e-governance project has been suc-

cessfully implemented in some part of the country as pilot project. The bigger challenge is to replicate these e-governance projects in all parts of the country at a bigger scale.

Laying cables in the rural and remote areas would not make sense if the count of the users does not increase. Even after installing broadband networks in most of the places in India, the number of users remained limited to around 15 million. Thanks to the

wonderful social sites like WhatsApp and Facebook which have increased the mobile broadband users to over 85 million. Similarly providing access to mobile phones to each and every citizen of India would not ensure that there is a working network. In a

lot of cities, the mobile network is so congested that the network breaks down resulting into call failures. In Indian telecom industry, there is a big problem of shortage of spec-

trum which boosts up the costs and deteriorates service quality. But the problem does not end here. Currently, there are around 100 million broadband users. About 85% of them are using broadband through mobile. It has been estimated that over 100 million

mobile broadband users would come into picture in the near future. The current net-work would not be able to handle such a colossal traffic. There is a dire need of more

spectrums in hand.

The expectations from the digital India programme are very much. The National optimal

fiber which should have been accomplished a few years back is still pending. Within a

span of 4 years, achieving such higher targets looks very difficult to happen. Filling this

huge digital gap would take many years. A lot of plans are made after numerous meet-

ings. But the implementation of the projects is extremely difficult task. There is a need

of extensive reengineering to make digital India programme a success.

There are over one billion people who do not have access to internet as per one of the

studies conducted by Facebook and McKinney. As per the rankings of the countries on

the level of difficulty in accessing internet, India has 20th rank. In the whole globe, over

4 billion people do not have the access to the internet. It means that India has 25 per-

cent share in this population. As per the study, most of the people who do not have ac-

cess to the internet are female or old. Also, most of them live in low income countries.

The report also suggests that the major challenges the whole country is facing like illit-

eracy, poverty, unemployment, lack of adequate infrastructure are important factors in

low internet access to the people in India. It has been calculated that of all the adults

in India, over 37 percent people are not literate. In numbers, this counts around 287

million people which is the highest in the globe. This high level of illiteracy do not allow

the people to gain internet access. A huge population in India do not know how to han-

dle a computer.

There is still a lot of unawareness regarding the applications of computer and inter-

net in human lives. Taking an example, there are a lot of facilities available on the in-

ternet which can be very useful to the farmers e.g. weather related information or in-

formation related to price trends. But the illiterate farmers are unaware and are de-

void of access to internet.

Cybersecurity is a major factor which prevents people from sharing information on

internet. There is absence of adequate privacy laws which exposes the internet users

to the cyber risks like misuse of database, risk of access to personal data, cyber

abuse etc. To increase the trust of people in using internet without any fear, there is

a dire need of strict cyber laws. There should be proper mechanism of data protec-

tion. Once people start finding internet safe, there would be increase in usage of gov-

ernment services.

Reference:

http://qz.com/274880/here-is-the-biggest-challenge-to-modis-digital-india-vision/

Ajay Singla

Indian Institute of Management Raipur

Post Graduate Programme (PGP)

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The Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous potential to drive economic value and so-cial change. But with 85% of things still unconnected and security threats pervasive,

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By:

B.V Swaroop

B18-KIAMS

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

Many businesses are unsure about the use of retargeting as

a form of online advertising and whether it is a successful way

of attracting clients. Bizrate Insights have found that only 15%

of online consumers dislike retargeting adverts meaning that

most consumers feel neutral or positive about them, while a fur-

ther 25% said they like to be reminded of what they have been

looking at.

The internet and all of its distractions means that consumers jump from page to page and can easily

forget something which they may have wanted to look into further. With the use of retargeting,

which works by leaving a cookie on the last webpage the user looked at, businesses can remind po-

tential customers of their product, tell them something new or offer them a tailored deal. While dig-

ital media can reduce costs and boost marketing effectiveness, these benefits come at a price of

their own. Automakers, for instance, lose partial control over the information flow that plays a criti-

cal role during the consideration and purchase-intention or shortlisting stages. The digital revolu-

tion is changing consumer behavior toward traditional buying channels.

Not just the reserve of e-Commerce sites

Retargeting is an easy, cost effective way of reaching people who have already shown

an interest in your service so show tailored adverts to visitors according to the pages they have vis-

ited but be realistic too and know its not always 100% accurate. There will be times when you get

it wrong as you are making assumptions about users based on the content they viewed, but for eve-

ry one you get wrong, youll hopefully be getting 99 right and the results should outweigh any con-

cerns you may have over accuracy.

4 Ways to Measure Social Media and Its Impact on Your Brand

Measuring Social Media Exposure

How many people could you have reached with your message? In social media, this

measurement is about as reliable as a print magazines circulation, but knowing your potential audi-

ence does have value because it represents your potential sales lead pool.

Measuring Engagement

How many people actually did something with your message?This is one of the most im-

portant measurements because it shows how many people actually cared enough about what you had to

say to result in some kind of action.

Measuring Influence

Influence is a subjective metric that relies on your companys perspective for defini-

tion. Basically, you want to look at whether the engagement metrics listed above are positive, neutral or

negative in sentiment.

The Lead Generation Funnel

After youve measured through the influence portion of the funnel, youre now creeping

into where too many companies are starting their measurement efforts: the lead generation funnel. This is

where the brand awareness portion of the funnel ends and the traditional ROI-driven action begins.

5 characteristics of successful brand content

With this in mind, I stud-ied numer-ous suc-cess-ful brand con-tent cam-paigns and was

able to iden-tify 5 essen-tial con-tent features:

Be interesting, before being interested

The aim is to ensure that the audi-ence comes and remains pri-mar-ily for the qual-ity of

con-tent, and not pri-mar-ily for the brand. The con-tent should be based on the DNA of the brand, but

above all, in rela-tion to a tar-get, and not in rela-tion to a product.

Be entertaining, but not advertising

The sec-ond essen-tial char-ac-ter-is-tic of a suc-cess-ful brand con-tent is its abil-ity to be

enter-tain-ing and engag-ing, while remain-ing within the uni-verse of the brand, with-out falling into the

pit-fall of adver-tis-ing. Brands are not media and there-fore arent des-tined to be neu-tral: we must cre-

ate char-ac-ters, tell sto-ries, while remain-ing con-sis-tent with the brand values.

Create engagement and adherence

The goal of Brand Con-tent is to build a strong rela-tion-ship between a brand and its audi

-ence. For this, it is nec-es-sary to cre-ate con-tent that makes you want to share it, that will fit into a so-

cial sys-tem, and that will ensure Inter-net users trans-mit the brands mes-sage and content.

Be Free

A brand con-tent must be free: there shouldnt be any access fee to that con-tent because

the goal is to gen-er-ate atten-tion, and paid con-tent auto-mat-i-cally has a reduced scope .Be able to

spread in the dig-i-tal ecosystem .Finally, Brand Con-tent should enable the brand to reach its audi-

ence directly where it is located: on video plat-forms, on media por-tals, on social plat-forms, and not

nec-es-sar-ily on a brand site.

With the right color palette for your website, youll achieve online marketing success by drawing in

a new audience

If you take a close look at the most visited sites on the Internet, youll see an interest-

ing phenomenon: they all seem to use the same four colors. Its true. Many websites use the same

basic color scheme with slight variations. Usually, those colors include blue, white, gray, black, and

a color that pops. The last color could be yellow, red, or orange. White is the predominant back-

ground color with pale blue coming in second.

Annie steffi Sydney,S. Binil Sundar

MAT 724 infotech

Steffisydney09@gmail.com

On August 19th India took a big step in reaching

out to its unbanked sectors with the Reserve Bank

of India granting licences to 11 payment banks.

Payment banks bring banking services through

mobile phones. They provide facilities for deposits

and remittances. Payment of bills, money transfers

can all take place through their mobile wallets

which are similar to bank accounts. These wallets

are aimed to reduce the peoples dependence on

cash and go digital. Payment banks can contribute

significantly in improving the lives of the low-

income classes of the migrant workforce who can

now send money at one click.

Payment Bank: A Digital revolution in Banking Sector

Features of Payment Banks

Deposits of maximum 1 lakh are allowed for the accounts. Payment banks can pay interest on

this money.

Lending activities cannot be carried out by payment banks.

They can issue ATM cards, debit cards and forex cards. However credit cards cannot be is-

sued.

Mobile wallets can be used for automatic payment of bills, shopping and money transfer.

Distribution of non-risk sharing simple financial products like mutual fund units and insur-

ance products, etc.(RBI press release)

Payment Banks vs. Traditional Banks

I

f we look closely at the mobile phone operators who will be operating some of the payment banks, we see that

they are already large players n the market. There are 900 million mobile phone subscribers in India. Statistics

presented in Figure1 indicates that this will be an advantage to achieve the mission of financial inclusion.

Payment Banks Traditional Banks

No credit issuance activities. Sustainability in the

long run remains a problem.

Loans and credit is fundamental to banking indus-

try. Some of the license awardees like Airtel, Voda-

fone are already big players with a huge subscriber

base.

Commercial Banks would need a lot of efforts to

reach to every nook and corner.

Capturing rural unbanked sectors is relatively easi-

er given the increasing internet penetration.

Lot of investments needed to set up new branches

in rural areas.

In urban areas Payment banks can eat into the de-

posits of commercial banks. The real competition

is in the urban areas.

Inability to lower interest rates further on loans and

lack of capital.(moneycontrol.com)

Investments only in government securities are a

constraint.

Wide range of investments helps them to grow.

The source of income is largely the transaction

fees charged.

Various sources of income give an edge over pay-

ment banks.

Figure 1 Unsuccessful Financial inclusion through Traditional Banking

People in developing countries have fewer options for transferring money and accessing banking services

because of the high costs associated with opening bank accounts in remote areas, fewer ATMs, smaller

number of branches and high interest rates on loans. In India there is still 700 million unbanked population

who does not have bank account and are deprived of financial facilities. The total number of rural branches

has declined from 54 % of total branches in 1994 to 37 % in 2013 (the Guardian). The government of India

wants economic development, more employment and poverty reduction which can be fulfilled through

proper and timey access to finance. The institutional credit system is strong, but still the financial literacy

has not been penetrated into rural sections. To strengthen the financial roots in rural areas, the government

of India launched Financial Inclusion, which included rolling out of banking services in 20,000 villages

who do not have any banking facilities. But the Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small

Businesses and Low Income Households, headed by Nachiket Mor has submitted its report on Financial

Inclusion to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2013 showed that full financial inclusion has not happened

in India and not even progressing much due to some challenges in traditional banking process.

Almost 90 percent of small businesses in India still have no links with formal financial institutions

60 percent of the rural and urban population do not have a functional bank account

Savings as a proportion to GDP have fallen from 36.8 percent in 2007-08 to 30.8 percent in 2011-12 and

household financial savings declined from 11.6 percent of GDP to 8 percent during the same period.

(livemint)

Above mentioned points of the report suggest that there is still 60 % financial illiteracy in our country and

savings are declining which can hurt the economy badly and provides less development opportunities.

Need for Payment Banks

It could be uneconomical for traditional banks to open branches in every village. According to Naveen

Surya, Managing Director of ItzCash, The traditional banking model has worked only for 20 to 30 percent

of the population. But mobile phones coverage is a promising low-cost platform for quickly taking basic

banking services to rural areas. The Payment banks can provide financial services to low-income house-

holds, small businesses and migrant labourers (nextbillion.net). The advances in cloud-computing, Big Da-

ta and data-crunching technology, have allowed firms to come up with ways of lowering the cost of lend-

ing, moving and storing. The concept of payment banks in India is inspired by Kenyas M-Pesa, model

which can transfer cash via mobile phones on a mass scale. This form of mobile money is used by 75 % of

Kenyan adults (economist.com) Seeing its great success in poor countries like Kenya, Zimbabwe and So-

malia, a lot of companies in India requested RBI for Payment Banking Licenses.

Operating Model of Payment Banks

Figure 2

Revenue Model of Payment Banks

The Parameters of Revenue Model are

Low Technology Cost

Higher Volume of Transactions

Figure 3

Revenues will come only if the model will work on Lower Technology Cost and high volume of trans-

actions so that even after increase in competition and reasonable charges per transactions, profits

could be made out.Require all-time liquidity for carrying out transactions

Challenge to attract high deposits requires providing higher Interest rate.

To break the traditional banking mindset of the people

Penetration of Private Banks in rural areas

Low Risk Model

RBI has not mandated to keep a minimum Capital Adequacy Ratios as there is no credit risk for these

banks. They do not need to take care of NPAs also. However a robust and effective system is required

to avoid Operational Risk. These banks need to keep some amount of money to RBI as a part of CRR.

Advantages of Payment Banks

Payment banks can provide an ease in savings.

The payment banks with ease of banking facilities can help the household financial savings GDP to

go up. They can also shield people from the fraudulent schemes which come up to dupe them

of money.

Reduced dependence on cash

India has primarily been dependent on cash for end transactions. Payment banks with the feature of

cashless transactions can improve the economy in terms of increase in spending behaviour. Ad-

ditionally currency printing will reduce.

Impetus to small businesses

Small-scale businesses benefit from payment banks as the transactions are secure and the transac-

tion fee charged is less.

Challenges

There are some challenges associated with the operating model.

Asset- Liability mismatch as there are multiple debits by the customers as per demand

Require all-time liquidity for carrying out transactions

Challenge to attract high deposits requires providing higher Interest rate.

To break the traditional banking mindset of the people

Penetration of Private Banks in rural areas

Opportunities Ahead

In future, the Government might give small loan ticket to these banks, as the loan products are required

in rural areas and this will discourage the borrowers from taking the loans from moneylenders which

charge high interest. Partnering with banks for issuing loans can be a feasible option in the long run to

be sustainable. The ability to cope up with hawala or agent based fast money transfer is also a decid-

ing factor in peoples acceptance of payment banks. This would require a bare minimum or flexible

transaction fees. Low distribution cost can allow them to offer low covers at premium. With the Re-

serve Bank of India also issuing small bank licenses to 10 banks for financial inclusion the competition

gets more challenging and survival with these minimum charges gets tougher.

References

1. http://www.economist.com/

2. http://www.fastacash.com/

3. http://www.livemint.com/

4. http://nextbillion.net/

5. http://www.thehindu.com/

6. http://www.cgap.org/blog/what-will-it-take-payments-banks-succeed-india

7. http://www.business-standard.com

8. http://www.moneycontrol.com

Aparajita Mittra Sovit khurana

Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai

PGDM-Finance

Digitalizing Indian Insurance sector

Is there a leapfrog opportunity for Indian Insurance Co.?

While the world had followed the hard way of getting the reach and then going digital, the challenge

for Indian Insurance Co. is getting both, NOW!!!

The question is can we do it, the way we almost skipped the telephone and directly adopted the mo-

bile.

The Global Insurance sector with insurance penetration of 6.3% (premium as % of GDP), has seen a

significant growth in both life (56% share) and general insurance (44% share). India on the other

hand since liberalization in 2000, is able to achieve only around 3.9% insurance penetration which is

low compared to the world average and 80% of which comes from the life insurance sector alone.

What needs to be covered?

Several factors are responsible for the low levels of insurance penetration in the country. These in-

clude low consumer preference, untapped rural markets and constrained distribution channels.

As per the policy holder survey by GOI,

70% of the policy distribution is through agents

60% of the policy purchase preference is for untimely death or accidents

In urban region there are significant takers for tax saving and investment options.

For uninsured houses the main reason was insurance being too expensive and availability of lim-

ited products.

Digital: The Next Big Wave?

The digital megatrend is here and it is growing exponentially. It started disrupting the communica-

tion sector in late 90s, followed by music and the travel industry and most recently the retail indus-

try. FY15 saw major disruptions in the Insurance sector, especially due to advent of technology, mo-

bile and availability of digital platforms.

India is already the no. 3 economy on the digital dimensions mobile, social media, internet users.

On the other hand globally digital insurance is in the top 5 product category in internet usage. Both

the above factors make Indian Insurance Co. imperative to include digital as part of their company

strategy.

The Euro monitor report shows that the Digital adoption in India is faster.

As predicted by Intel Co-Founder - Gordon Moore the data density will grow double every year

and only those who are causing the disruption will survive.

Indian Co. need to act now and be part of this disruption to achieve the reach digitally.

The strategy

Distribution disruption

As the consumer becomes more and more exact and the supply chain becomes fragmented, businesses

need to find new routes to reach the consumer. With effective distribution strategy the total operating

cost goes down as scene in the below sectors. Digitalization holds a key in cost effective operations

through micro-transactions.

Digitally influenced purchase

The rise of a trust based economy. Especially in a market like India, consumers prefer to go online and

research about the product, but still feel more comfortable buying through an intermediary. With Digical

(Physical + Digital) kind of model companies can build the trust with the customer.

The recent Digital influence study by BCG, shows the influence level across the value chain.

Customization

Every person has a different meaning when it comes to insuring his/her life. The traditional

vanilla products or the serve all model will be redundant as the consumer base starts increas-

ing.

Policies in this sector are moving from an Inside-out to Outside-in approach. Now it is the cus-

tomer who takes decision regarding what kind of policy he wants. Over the period there will be

self-forming groups of customers who will negotiate bulk purchases from the insurer.

Analytics for Risk management:

Insurers have long relied on the four pillars of the value chain Risk Management, Investment, Sales and

Operations. With Risk Management being the key competitive advantage is losing its charm with the

advent of Big Data and Analytics. With years of data in the pocket, companies can take more informed

decisions supporting the risk consultants. Over the period there will be many more startups doing risk

management for these traditional insurance providers and thus we can expect some major acquisitions

in this space, like that in the retail space.

Indian Insurance Co. have a lot to achieve in coming years. Next time when you get a call from an in-

surance sales executive do appreciate his/her efforts in getting the country insured.

Dheeraj Lamkhade, PGDM

Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai

SMEs contribute immensely to so-cio-economic growth of a country. In India, the sector consists of around 36 million SMEs accom-modating about 80 million employ-ees. It contributes 45% to the total manufacturing output. 40% of the export of the country is from SMEs. But, if compared globally, the MSME sector's GDP contribu-tion varies from 22% in Brazil to 85% in Taiwan, whereas it is mere-ly 8% in India.

Digital Transformation in India Today India is riding on a digital wave and many sectors are undergoing digital transformation. SMEs too have to adapt to the new changes brought forth by digitization. But presently, they lack Digital-Readiness. According to a Microsoft report, not even 10% of the SMEs have a web presence in India. The number of internet users in India is increasing rapid-ly with availability of low-cost smart phones and af-fordable mobile. Hence, with increasing Internet penetration, digital technology has become a critical success factor for the SMEs.

Employment generated by MSME as a percentage of overall

Employment globally Source: www.kpmg.com/in/

Source: www.financialexpress.com

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF SMEs IN INDIA

Examples of Digital Transformation There are various digitally enabled platforms to enhance the capabilities of SMEs. Here are a few ex-amples -

Google My Business: It is a mobile/desktop application launched by Google India exclusively for SMEs. It avails the SMEs to update their business information on various Google platforms such as maps, Google plus etc.

E-Commerce platforms: SMEs are expanding virtually across borders through e-commerce. For

instance Snapdeal has an association with over 1 million sellers. In addition, it recently launched a Zero Commission mobile-marketplace platform named Shopo, similar to Olx and Quikr. Such platforms can help handicraft clusters, amateur artists and homemakers etc. in ex-panding their reach across borders.

How to digitally enable SMEs? As per Zinnov report SMEs in India were likely to spend $11.6 billion on IT products this year (2015) in order to increase their customer reach, manage customer relationships, and ensure efficiency in oper-ations. Some SMEs in India, just like their larger counterparts, are increasingly focusing on emerging digital technologies for growth such as social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) -

Social Technologies: There are various social websites such as facebook, twitter, Instagram, pinter-est, linkedin, google+, etc. Facebook alone has over 100 million users in India. Hence, the use of right social media platform and campaigns can help SMEs to increase customer reach in the desired segments.

Mobile: These can assist the enterprises in their operations as well as in taking decisions even when

on the move. Through mobility solutions such as easy and multiple payment modes, app, etc. the SMEs can provide ease-of-use for the customers and ease-of-business for themselves.

Analytics: The availability of affordable Business Intelligence tools and competitive nature of mar-

ket has led Indian businesses to place greater emphasis on data-backed analytical business. An-alytics helps in increasing the operational efficiency, business decision optimization and under-standing the customer behaviour that helps in customer delight and in turn in driving the reve-nues.

Cloud Technologies: Businesses can opt for cloud technologies instead of investing huge upfront

costs in software, hardware, storage etc. Cloud technology not only ensures safety of data but also enables seamless recovery thereof.

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It can be said that the Indian SMEs that join the digital bandwagon will reap the colossal benefits that this disruptive technology has to offer. The quicker they join the better!

By:

Gayatri Mutakekar, MMS

Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai

Lets Dig-it-all (DIGITAL MARKETING)

Digital marketing is an important term for the targeted, measurable, and interac-

tive marketing of products or services using digital technologies to reach and con-

vert leads into customers .The key objective is to promote brands, build preference

and increase sales through various digital marketing techniques.

The term 'digital marketing' was first used in the 1990s. In the 2000s and the

2010s, digital marketing became more sophisticated as an effective way to create a

relationship with the consumer that has depth and relevance. While the term

'digital marketing' may not have been used until the 1990s, digital marketing itself

has roots to the mid-1980s when the Soft Ad Group, now Channel Net developed

advertising campaigns for several major automobile companies, wherein people

would send in reader reply cards found in magazines and receive in return floppy

disks that contained multimedia content promoting various cars and offering free

test drives.

The rapid evolution of digital media has created new opportunities and avenues for

advertising and marketing. Fueled by the proliferation of devices to access digital me-

dia, this has led to the exponential growth of digital advertising.

In 2012 and 2013 statistics showed digital marketing remained a growing field.

Digital media growth is estimated at 4.5 trillion online ads served annually with digi-

tal media spend at 48% growth in 2010. An increasing portion of advertising stems

from businesses employing Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) to tailor advertising

for Internet users. Though an innovative resource, OBA raises concern with regards

to consumer privacy and data protection. Such implications are important consider-

ations for responsible communications. Digital marketing is often referred to as

'online marketing', 'internet marketing' or 'web marketing'. The term 'digital market-

ing' has grown in popularity over time, particularly in certain countries. In the USA

'online marketing' is still prevalent, in Italy is referred as 'web marketing' but in the

UK and worldwide, 'digital marketing' has become the most common term, especially

after the year 2013.

DEVELOPMENT AND STRATIGIES IN DIGITAL MARKETING

EMERGING TRENDS IN DIGITAL MARKETING

The invention of this phenomenon has been termed communal marketing or more

specifically community media marketing and the implications it has for how busi-

ness will souk and profit in the next decade are massive. Strictly defined, known

marketing is the ritual of with shared influential media outlets, like networking sites

and other online communities, for the intent of marketing an artifact or conducting

consumer relations and public outreach. In recent existence, the addict bases of

these types of sites have adult exponentially, creating these load markets of demo-

graphically diverse people all able to be reached through the same forum, the net-

working location itself. Now the businesses have wedged onto the verity that, when

handled suitably, they too can craft personalities that survive to communicate

Emerging Trends in Marketing with their audience solely via the group media groove,

marketing through these media has grown as well. A commerce can gain from party

marketing in a surfeit of different behavior, but one of the most important is the

truth that it is a great place to disclose relatives to your website and, hence prize up

a huge quantity of expected transfer BLOGGERS and informational website owners

have been using networking sites to share their significance for years, why shouldnt

the same awareness raising techniques work for businesses with something to plug?

While common marketing activity can indeed help you make sales, memorize to use

a more delicate approach than you would in a natural marketing atmosphere.

THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL MARKETING

Due to the rapid expansion of the internet facilities and the ubiquity of computers

and social media, digital marketing has expanded at an unmatched pace. With the

rapid adoption of online modes and social media platforms digital marketing has

grown leaps and bounds. In fact, it is being used widely these days by businesse

from all spheres of the society.

Proper Digital Marketing mix is necessary for the required impact. It has been ob-

served that during the recent recessionary period, most of the companies had cut

their expenses on traditional marketing but since digital marketing is low on cost.

Blogs forums and other tools are inexpensive or economical to operate. Another

low cost benefit of digital marketing is that since the content is user generated,

hence it either costs nothing or very less.

Social media is also preferable since it steps beyond awareness to actual engage-

ment with the consumers. At times of recession, it is less effective for the consum-

ers to change the awareness created by traditional marketing to purchasing behav-

ior. Social media is like a platform wherein your customers will interact and form a

relationship with each other as well as with you. It is also helpful as the customers

directly tell you the pros and cons of the product you are offering.

Companies like Dell have set up social networking sites to encourage feedback

from customers for improvements and innovation. This certainly results in better

products with lesser costs. Companies that slash their investments on social me-

dia marketing during recession do so at their own risk.

If your company is targeting Gen Y then internet marketing is a better option as

they are 247 on the internet. Hence, to target a tech savvy generation social me-

dia is the best way.Digital marketing has greater Return on Investment (ROI). It is

largely, Word of mouth (WOM) marketing. Moreover, the word spreads through

friends and relatives and hence the views are expected to be more credible.

Retailers are using digital marketing generally at times of product launches. It is

estimated that if a product is promoted on social media during its introduction

stage, then its sales are expected to increase by 25%.

Moreover, digital marketing results in onsite targeting.

In a nutshell, the whole impact of digital marketing on your business can be huge

and extremely rewarding if the marketing mix is properly designed. It requires

some expertise to design the digital marketing plan and this skill can be developed

by some courses in digital marketing.

These days online digital marketing courses are also available. Hence, we at Edu-

Kart.com have designed a course in Digital marketing which is certified by IAMAI.

By:

Dhanush H R

Khushboo Choudhury

PGDABM (2015-17)

National Institute of Agricultural marketing, Jaipur

At the nexus of business innovation and climate protection is the Information Commu-

nication Technology (ICT) industry. ICT can be cast as either the hero or the villain in

these climate negotiations. On one hand, computers and servers consumed about 2.5

percent of the global energy produced in 2013, and this trend is increasing. Some esti-

mates project that the number of energy consuming connected devices will reach about

50 billion by 2020, that's an average of over 6 connected devices for each person on the

planet!

On the other hand, new generations of ICT devices often provide better performance

while using less electricity. For example, at AMD we recently assessed the carbon foot-

print of our latest Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). The APU combines a central pro-

cessing unit and a graphics processing unit on one chip to efficiently power personal

computers. When compared to the previous generation, we found that users can re-

duce their carbon footprint by up to 50 percent while enjoying improved computing

performance.

Digital Technology Affects Climate Change

By Tim Mohin and Justin Murrill

As world leaders gather at the

United Nations Climate Summit in

Paris in December, the stakes are

high for the planet. 2015 is shap-

ing up to be the hottest year on

record, projected to beat the previ-

ous record holder, 2014. While the

previous 20 meetings of the Con-

ference of Parties (COP) failed to

produce a meaningful global cli-

mate agreement, hopes are high

that COP21 will result in a break-

through.

Beyond energy efficient devices, the bigger story about ICT and climate is the role of

technology in making the world more efficient - this is the part of the story where the

hero emerges. An example that is familiar to many is the Nest Thermostat. When this

device (or any connected thermostat) replaces an unconnected thermostat, it can be

used to remotely adjust the heating and cooling for a home. And, even more im-

portantly, these connected thermostats can sense when people are present or absent

from the home and automatically adjust the temperature to save 12-15 percent on av-

erage on heating and cooling costs.

This is just one example of how ICT devices can be the hero in the battle against cli-

mate change. Another example is cloud computing, which avoids the need for onsite

computing services (e.g., storage equipment) and, as a result, can reduce overall ener-

gy and emissions up to 50-90 percent.

The "SMARTer 2030" study concluded the "ICT has the potential to decouple growth

from environmental degradation" - meaning that economic growth can continue with-

out negative impacts on the environment including climate change. This is the es-

sence of sustainable development. According to the study, deploying smart technolo-

gies could help to hold global CO2 emissions at 2015 levels by 2030. Stated another

way, ICT can avoid 10 times more emissions than it consumes by 2030.

Technology is one of the few industries where new products tend to get better AND

use less power. It remains to be seen, however, if this rate of energy efficiency im-

provement can offset the carbon emissions from the rapidly growing number of de-

vices.

Typically environmental protection comes at a substantial economic cost. However, at

least in the aggregate, this does not apply to deploying digital technology. The SMART-

er 2030 study forecast that ICT will enable $6.5 trillion in new revenues across key

sectors and $4.9 trillion in cost savings from greater efficiencies and decreased waste.

The opportunities are seemingly endless: from farmers maximizing crop yields with

less water and energy by using weather prediction, to shipping companies navigating

to the quickest routes using real-time traffic data, to building systems that can self-

adjust heating and cooling, ICT enabled systems can improve efficiency, cut carbon

emissions and promote sustainable economic growth.

Skeptics can point to the rapid growth in digital technologies and some seemingly

frivolous uses of our digital devices to paint technology as a climate villain. But the

rapid advances in ICT energy efficiency, coupled with its unique and enormous poten-

tial to help the world be more efficient, makes technology an emerging climate super

hero.

Tim Mohin is Director of Corporate Responsibility for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

and the author of the book, Changing Business from the Inside Out: A Tree hugger's

Guide to Working in Corporations (Greenleaf and Berrett-Kohler). Justin Murrill is

the Global Sustainability Manager for Advanced Micro Devices. Their postings (and

comments made in Mohin's book) are their own opinions and may not represent

AMD's positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites, and references to

third party trademarks, are provided for convenience and illustrative purposes only.

Unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links, and no

third party endorsement of AMD or any of its products is implied. Follow Tim

@TimJMohin and Justin @JustinMurill and check out AMD's latest Corporate Re-

sponsibility Report.

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By:

Kunal Patnaik

B18 KIAMS

MRC Representative

What if India had not invented the zero? Perhaps computers would not have seen

the light of the day and the world would not be connected through information

technology. With the Digital India programme, India may have an opportunity to in-

spire and transform the world yet again.

Sixty years ago, South Korea decided to change itself in a similar fashion in what is

now known as The Miracle on the Han River. The transformational change has

been a result of next generation corporations adopting technology and staying in-

vested in innovations across the spectrum.

Industries, built over 50 years, have helped South Korea sustain its leadership po-

sition across the world. Technology has been the foundation of this growth. From

being the poorest country among all UN members in 1961 with a per-capita income

of $79, South Korea has grown into a developed nation with a per-capita income of

$33,629.35 (December 2014).

Digital India has the potential to unleash a similar miracle in the land of the Ganga.

Will it be able to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and a

knowledge economy using a gamut of electronic services, applications, products

and devices? Time will tell. But imagine farmers in remote villages using mobile

phones to find out the right price of their food grains, or to check for monsoon up-

dates.

Or children going to school with only a tablet preloaded with all the curricula in-

stead of carrying heavy school bags. Or communities reaching out to governments

through their smart devices to demand a road that hasnt been built for

years. Imagine modern cities whose transport systems, healthcare facilities and civ-

ic services are controlled through gadgets and apps.

All this may seem like a distant dream, but with technology galloping away into the

future, you have to jump on to it and take control of the reins, now. Smart cities are

springing up across the globe and the idea of Internet of Things (IOT), where all de-

vices at home or in office are connected to the internet and are able to speak to

each other, are being developed as we speak.

How Success of Digital India Programme can benefit India.

This power of technology, however, has to be delivered to every citizen of the country.

Digital accessibility is a prerequisite to, and a mandatory goal of, the idea of Digital

India. A digital network, which will form part of this mammoth effort, will belong to

the people, just like roads, railways and power lines.

Currently, only 300 million of Indias 1.25 billion people are connected to the net,

around a half of them through mobile phones. Rural penetration and usage is pretty

dismal. All these will translate into opportunities for large corporations and a grow-

ing number of young entrepreneurs as the digital revolution will be led by innova-

tions and development of a variety of applications. While airwaves and optic fiber will

form the mesh of this network, content will form its backbone.

Industry recognizes that the next level of inventions and innovations could come out

of India. While the services sector will continue to provide more opportunities, Indias

next surge would come from the manufacturing sector that would create more jobs

and incomes in both urban and rural areas. In short, the future belongs to those cor-

porations that would have a strategy of Make in India and Make for India. If Indian

companies could focus on technologies and products that could help build Digital In-

dia, their manufacturing strategies could have greater relevance to a changing na-

tion.

The proposal to use technology and gadgets in the area of education is a good move.

Samsung Smart Classes have been set up at over 200 Navodaya schools across In-

dia, and another close to 200 more will be added this year. In each Smart Class, stu-

dents use smart boards and devices, which are loaded with the course curricula, to

study the digital way. More than 1, 60,000 students have already benefited from this

initiative.

Thanks to the proliferation of smart phones and social media, young, urban India is

crossing the so-called digital divide fast, adapting to technology changes seamlessly.

However, the nation will require a vast workforce skilled in the digital space.

Corporations must work with the government to make that vision possible through

skill development. A public-private partnership will only be a win-win situation for

both government and industry.

The success of the programme, however, will depend on the benefits accrued to

people when it rolls out. If India is able to usher in a digital revolution, it will not

just improve the lives of its billion-plus people whose ancestors laid the founda-

tions of many great civilizations, but it will also benefit the world at large. (The writer is president and CEO, Samsung India)

By: Lalit

B18 KIAMS

The Digital revolution is the

Third Industrial revolution af-

ter Agrarian and Industrial revo-

lution. It has transformed the

world into a better place. This

technology can bring in the full

potential as a game changer to

the old ways of doing businesses

by enhancing the productivity of

individuals as well as organisa-

tions.

India currently the fastest growing large economy in the world, is a part of this

growth story and has become a key player in providing IT services to the world. In

India, while the 2 actors of economy, the household (especially the urban) and firms

are keeping pace with the digital explosion, the third actor the government is still

following the same old methods which are slow and promotes red tape, scope for

corruption and thus ultimately creates a negative impression of government as well

as its working style often referred to as sarkari.

The signature Digital India program is launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra

Modi with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and

knowledge economy.

To improve the work style of government, Digital India program includes E-

governance by delivering government services digitally. Reforming govern-

ment through technology can be done from many initiatives such as: form

simplification, field reduction, making applications available through internet

and track of their status, use of online repositories for voter ID cards, school

certificates etc. and thus creating an Electronic database where all databases

and information will be electronic instead of manual. It also tend to effective-

ly leverage the development of IT sector for Public Grievance Redressal system

to automate, analyse and respond data to identify and resolve problems over-

all to improve process.

Digital India :VISION

While this look challenging but this has already been implemented for example

in Gujarat where grievance redressal through initiative like SWAGAT (state

wide attention on grievances by application of technology) has given the com-

mon man direct access to the Chief Minister himself. SWAGAT has won the

UN Public service award 2010 for improving transparency, accountability

and responsiveness in public services.

In order to empower people to use public services digitally, there is a need to

create digital Infrastructure. To create the digital infrastructure under Digital

India, Broadband Highways (now BharatNet) would be built which includes

broadband for all rural, all urban and national information infrastructure.

This holds the key for all other schemes under Digital India program to reach

all the people of the country especially in rural area.

This ambitious project has already been developed in Gujarat where every vil-

lage is connected with broadband internet and it can be implemented in the

country. The challenges that comes under this plan is not laying fiber optics

cable but ensuring that each point of broadband is functional, used and dis-

tributed which requires necessary basic operational knowledge of internet

and its usage at every village.

National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) or Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA)

Scheme has been launched to provide IT training to more than 50 lakh per-

sons, including Anganwadi, ASHA workers and ration dealers in all the

States and UTs across the country. It plans to provide two level training to all

the non IT literate persons.

Public Internet Access Programme, this includes Common Service Centres and

Post Offices as multi-service centres. Common Service Centres would be

strengthened and its number would be increased by one CSC in each Gram

Panchayat. CSCs would act as end-points for delivery of government and pri-

vate sector in the area of agriculture, health, education etc. About 150,000

Post Offices are proposed to be converted into multi service centres.

Electronics manufacturing, if implemented correctly, will act as one of the biggest

reform to reduce Indias Current account deficit as Indias largest import after

crude oil is Electronics equipment. Digital India program aims to target net zero

Imports of the same.

Under this, initiatives like establishing a dedicated mobile handset and electronics

manufacturing facility at Andhra Pradesh by Indian mobile makers like Lava,

Micromax, Celkon and Karbonn has been taken place. But, there are bottle-

necks which need to be eliminated in order to push the manufacturing like ease

of doing business, infrastructure, IPR issues etc.

IT Platform for Messages: DeitY has developed a Mass Messaging Application that

will cover elected representatives and all Government employees. To increase ef-

ficiency of government offices Biometric attendance has been introduced that

will cover all Central Government offices in Delhi.

A similar usage of biometric enabled technology can be seen in Gujarat where in its

efforts to end unwanted pilferage and black marketing of subsidized rations and

commodities, the state introduced biometric digitized bar-coded ration cards and

food coupons with real time monitoring system and transparency portal. This

model is applauded by the honourable supreme court, recommending other

states to adopt it

In addition to this under digital India, Wi-Fi in All Universities, Public Wi-fi

hotspots to be provided to Cities with population more than 1 million and tourist

centres. National Portal for Lost & Found children which would allow real time

information gathering and sharing on lost and found children and would go a

long way to check crime and improve timely response. Recently, the Khoya Paya

Portal was launched.

Digital locker is a dedicated personal storage space for e-documents as well as Uni-

form Resource Identifier (URI) of e-documents issued by government depart-

ments. The system will have an e-sign facility, which can be used to sign stored

documents. Each locker is linked to the resident's Aadhar number. The move is

aimed at minimising the use of physical documents and provide authenticity to

edocuments, thereby, giving secure access to documents issued by government.

It will also reduce administrative overhead of government departments and

agencies and make it easy for the residents to receive services

Information for All: under this, Government will pro-actively engage via social

media and web based platforms to inform citizens. MyGov.in has already been

launched under the same as a medium to provide ideas and suggestions to

Government. It will provide a 2-way communication between people and gov-

ernment.

IT for Jobs: under this more than 1 Crore students from smaller towns & villages

will be provided training for IT sector jobs over 5 years. In every north-eastern

state BPOs would be set up to facilitate ICT enabled growth. More than 3 lakh

service delivery agents would be skill and trained to run businesses delivering

IT services.

Overall, with Digital India we are trying to achieve more efficiency, less bureaucra-

cy and more transparency which will transform India into a better nation. But,

there are challenges and barriers that needs to be addressed timely and quickly. For

example, many of the schemes requires mandatory to have Aadhaar number which

every person may not have it. Government is trying to link the account with

aadhaar and mobile (JAM- Jan dhan Aadhaar and mobile) which need to be imple-

mented quickly. Besides Aadhaar, it requires massive training personal which can

provide training basically to almost all the villages which are connected digitally

across India. Because as our Prime Minister said, Digital India is our dream for the

nation. When I say digital India it is not meant for the rich but for those who are

poor.

By:

Rishabh Varma

Master of Management (2015-17)

Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay

Telecom gearmaker Ericsson today announced

setting up of a new unit -- Industry and Society -

- which will focus on smart cities, the Digital In-

dia campaign and other technology projects from

the government. It's expected to account for 20

percent of the group's overall business from In-

dia. "We are setting up a new unit 'Industry and

Society' that will focus on Digital India, smart cit-

ies, public safety, utilities and transport seg-

ments.

We are looking for a fifth of our business to come from our Industry and Society ver-

tical by 2020," Ericsson India V-P and head of Engagement Practices Nishant Batra

told reporters here. He said the central government's interest in Digital India and

smart cities offers "enormous business opportunity". The government has clubbed all

its digital programmes under Digital India with an estimated Rs 1.13 lakh crore pro-

jects initially. It has also approved a plan for building 100 smart cities in India with

an outlay of Rs 48,000 crore. "With the government becoming a significant buyer,

there is a massive opportunity for the industry. This is something the telecom sector

in India is seeing for the first time. We are seeing a lot of interest in utilities and pub-

lic safety from different state governments," Batra said. Ericsson has registered its

highest-ever sales growth of 81 percent in India during the three months to Septem-

ber, driven by higher investments in mobile broadband service. The Indian arm of

Ericsson registered a net sales of 3.6 billion Swedish Krona (SEK), or Rs 2,769 crore,

in the July-September 2015 compared with SEK 2 billion, (Rs 1,525 crore) a year

ago. "Ericsson is uniquely positioned to bring the right mix of technologies and deliv-

ery models to industries. Over 40 percent of the world's mobile traffic passed through

our network equipment. We have been doing this around the globe and we are lever-

aging the same in India," Ericsson Industry and Society Head Orvar Hurtig said.

ERICSSON : Benifiticial from DIGITAL INDIA

By

Ipshita Shukla

B18 KIAMS

Chalte chalte kuch piche chut gaya

Kuch dost aage nikal aaye

Koi sathi piche chut gaya

Ghr se dur aaya toh aagan

Pas gaya toh yaron ka pyar chut gaya

Lafzon se khelte hue ehsas chut gaya

Jab ehsas ko pirona chaha lafz tut gaya

Dekhte hi dekhte tum aage nikal aaye

Ki tumse aankhen milane ka hausla chut gaya

Bete lamhe yaad aate hi

Yunhi ankhon se kuch beh gaya

Na jane kaise kyn koi chut gaya

Unki taraf chalte hi auhta unka bhul gaya

Phr dekh san o saukat bebak bolna bhul gaya

Chalte kadam piche ho gaye

Bachpan ka woh hasna khelna bhul gaya

College ki yadein raton ki woh batein

Dastan woh pyari bhul gaya

Lab kapne lage dil ne rok liya

Yunhi unki galiyon se picha chut gaya

Sangam ki nagri chut gayi

Munderon ki galiyan chut gayi

Raton ki tafri chut gayi

Dino mein civil lines ka chakar katna chut gaya

Chat se unhe dekhna

Ladakpan ka pehla pyar chut gaya

Na jane kab mujse doston sath tera chut gaya

Ek manzil ko gale lagane ko

Kyn pyara woh manjar chut gaya

Tarun Pandey

B18-KIAMS

Yadein

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B18-KIAMS

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