This Man is Yuvaraj. He is one of the Few IITians who make me eat my words about Indian Talent.
He built a Auto Filling Mobile Application that enabled the user to book his tickets directly into the Indian Railways - bypassing the Tatkal Reservation Program Algorithm.
Over 100,000 People found ticket booking much easier with his application and he charged a fee for it.
Ethically Wrong? Perhaps but this boy has done something. He has actually achieved something. Unlike the Zeroes of IIT Delhi with their “revolutionary inventions” - that exist only on paper - this Kid has created something truly revolutionary - something that can revolutionize the Queue Management System using Preferential Selection (I am merely stating what the App is based on its Google Apps Application).
China? USA? - They would have identified the Boy - and in 3 months time - he would be working for them. He would be rated as an Asset to the Nation.
Instead in India - He is now an Accused. His name is on record. A Case has been initiated against him. A Case for Fraudulently swindling Rs. 20 Lakhs. He did nothing that a Registered Railway Vendor would not do. Railway received every penny of Ticket money. He just took a commission from the people.
Yet Bureaucracy raised its ugly head again.
Do you think the Kid will be dreaming of doing things for his country? No. An IITian - a Brilliant IItian now in Police Station
If this Government truly means 0.1% of the nonsense it spouts daily - it should first meet this boy, sign a contract to buy his app for Indian Railways which makes Tatkaal Booking 2.5 Times faster and more selective, to pay him a royalty of 0.75% per Ticket which is what they pay TCS or Infosys or any Big Tech.
They should give him a contract with NIC to develop more such Apps for Queue Management especially now with the Corona Virus Vaccine about to be developed so that Waiting Lists and Lines can be managed.
If they let this Kids life get ruined by Police and Courts - The Fate of the Country goes as well.
Every Kid will take the first flight out to US or even China and work for them.
I am not justifying what he did was right but in our Country - nothing else can be done.
You have a revolutionary product - you want to give it to the railways - You will have to spend 3 years waiting on different fifth rate unqualified bureaucrats , even more unqualified near illiterate ministers and then you will face competition from second rate big tech companies who will try to get your app for a steal or push you out through Bribery and Corruption.
So the Kid decided to short cut this chain of bureaucracy.
I would have advised the kid differently - I would have advised the Kid to take a flight to Los Angeles and work with over 20000 Different VCS out in that country or even take a flight to Shanghai or Tokyo. He would have been richer by a few millions in 6 months or so instead of being an accused and facing police inquiries.
This Country gives nobody a fighting chance. I believe it is dying or dead.
It saddens me but its the Truth.
I am not optimistic about but seriously hope- Modiji or the Railways Minister can change things and give me 1% hope that this country has some future and that 20 years from now - we will not be taking handouts from Bangladesh or even Pakistan.
Source -Quora
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