Ideas are the new currency!
TED Talks India Nayi Soch... A platform, where a good idea made great hanging around in darkness comes into lime light. It’s time to speak up because ideas are the new currency ! Here’s a gist of great ideas and thoughts that were presented today: 1. Gautam Bhan (Researcher, Faculty Member, IIHS) : “Basti is not a problem but a solution,” that’s how the talk kick started. We live in a country where there are many people whose monthly income lies between Rs.10000 and Rs.15000 and expecting them to live in a fully urbanized is just too much. A basti is a place which occupies minimum space and provides basic living space for many. People who work on this mother land for lifetime, do deserve a place for them to live and not sell it for the purpose of money. The stats presented were stunning (A basti in Gujarat turning into a well-developed colony of people Karnataka Govt. trying its best to make houses for poor, similar initiative ...