See how an Indian Government Department, on which expenditure of billions is made, is much worse than Astrologers, in deliveries.
A few years back, we had read news about an astrologer from Gujarat,
who was arrested by Police on the charges of creating panic and fear
among general public. What was crime of the poor astrologer? He had
predicted about a possible earthquake. Since, success
rate of his predictions was quite high, people believed on the same and
fled from the city. Due to misfortune of the astrologer and fortune of
public, earthquake did not materialize and the astrologer was arrested
due to obvious reasons.
What if the same phenomenon, albeit at a much larger level, was
created by a Government Department, on whose billions of taxpayers’
money are expended?
Elaborating the matter, we want to draw the attention of our esteemed
members towards an earlier interesting posting on this web page i.e. Meteorology vs. Astrology – Why this hypocrisy by Media.
In that post, we had informed that how ‘Meteorology Department’
of ‘Government of India’ had informed whole of India that Monsoon will
arrive on June 10 and as per prediction of team headed by Āchary Kalki Krishna, the said date was after June 27. However, Monsoon actually
arrived on June 28.
One may ask why we are making such a big issue of monsoon
predictions. The reason is very specific. Despite of high growth in
industrial and service sector, Indian Economy is still agro based. Two
third of Indians depend on Agro income and 65% of Indian agriculture depends on Rains. Rains in India are Monsoon driven, hence, this big issue.
However, the story of Monsoon prediction does not end with the
prediction of date of its arrival. For knowing the actual story, we have
to go through the predictions made by Meteorology Department. They predicted that:
1. The Monsoon will arrive on time,
2. Majority of rains will be in the month of June,
3. The quantum of rains will be less than average. Even drought like situation was predicted;
4. Latter half of August and especially September will be completely dry;
5. Scant or no rains in Western part of India.
Against above prediction of Meteorology Department, which sucks in
billions of taxpayers’ money, what the team headed by Āchary Kalki Krishna did predict? Just see:
1. Rain in totality will be above average.
2. Monsoon will only arrive after 27 June.
3. Majority of rain will occur, while Monsoon will start to return.
4. Good rains will occur in Eastern and Western India.
5. Major rains in the period between August 15 to August 30.
What was the impact of these predictions?
Impact of predictions by Meteorology Department:
1. Prediction of drought created panic like situation all over India;
2. Price of commodities, especially food grains and oil seeds started to touch new heights;
3. Hoarders of these commodities became active creating scarcity like situation;
4. Farmers either did not made any preparations for sowing or if made some sowing, it was made in the months of June and July;
5. Crisis management plan to face the so called drought was implemented in at least 13 states of India;
6. All the states, especially of Western India made huge preparations to
face the so called drought. For example, only Gujarat demanded 1,86,734
millions, a mind boggling figure, from the Central Government for
facing the drought;
7. Some states resorted to unusual means to tackle the crisis of
drought, e.g. State of Karnataka spent 170 Millions in worshiping Rain
God to avoid the so called drought;
8. Four states officially declared themselves in the grip of drought;
9. Funnily, our brethren in the field of astrology also were swayed by
the predictions made by the Meteorology Department. They also started to
hum the same tune. In those days, when we heard a very famous
astrologers telling media that there will be acute drought in North
Western India, It became very difficult for us to hide my grump and
disdain.
Impact of predictions by the team headed by Āchary Kalki Krishna:
As usual, no one took cognizance of the predictions. For obvious
reasons, no one takes seriously the predictions made by astrologers on
mundane affairs, except their entertainment or at best curiosity value.
What actually happened?
1. Very meager rains in June and July. All the sowing made in this
period, heeding the advices of Meteorology Department got wasted. Very
depressing for the farmers;
2. Just when, Meteorology Department started to clap seeing that their
drought predictions have become true, rain Gods thundered and water
started to pour from the sky in the month of August;
3. As predicted by the team headed by Āchary Kalki Krishna, majority of
rains arrived in the period August 15 to August 30. Actually, Hindustan
times dated August 30 reported August this year to be second wettest
August in 12 years;
4. Beyond all expectations and calculations, returning Monsoon, as
already predicted by that team, made a lot of rains, surprising all and
sundry;
5. Out of 36 meteorological sub divisions of India, 23 recorded normal
or more than normal rains. No sub division reported highly deficient
rains;
6. A lot of States, which were ready to face the drought, were caught in surprise by this out-pour;
7. Flood like situations happened in many states, especially from Western India, in which acute drought was predicted;
8. Most pathetic condition was in Gujarat and Rajasthan, where highest
rains in the last decade were recorded. They were caught off guard. Many
lives were gone. A lot of property and assets were destroyed. In many
areas, military has to be enforced to handle calamities and to undertake
rescue operations;
9. There were no preparations for late sowing. All the water went into
empty fields. Farmers are repenting for heeding the advice of
Meteorology Department;
10. While rates of consumer goods were gone high in the expectation of
acute drought, now there is excuse of late rains, no sowing by farmers
to keep the rates at high level;
Against this backdrop, we want to question all the think tanks of
India, had such type of predictions have been made by an Astrologer,
what would have been treatment of society with him?
We want to reiterate here that Astrology is a science, just like
other sciences. Just give it some space; and also some support, so that
it could come out of cheats, frauds and imposters. It is a full time
profession, just like other professions. If you approach a person, who
is pursuing astrology as a hobby or pastime, what will you get is only
half baked knowledge and nothing else.
Before concluding this post, we want to compare the performance of above two:
Performance of ‘Meteorology Department’ of ‘Government of India’:
Times of India reports that predictions of ‘Meteorology Department’
for the years 1994 to 2009 have been analyzed and all have been found
wrong. Hindustan Times reports that in the blast 25 years, its
predictions has gone wrong almost half the time. And this dismal
position is only when it shamelessly revises it predictions innumerable
times, every year.
Performance of the team headed by Āchary Kalki Krishna:
Since 2002, working on the dates for arrival of Monsoon is being done
and results are always better than those provided by Meteorology
Department. In majority of cases, there was not a variance of more than
two days. Even, deadly floods in Kosi River flowing in the Bihar State
were clearly predicted. It was only this time that they tried to give
sanctity to these predictions by their prior release to the media.
However, they are still lacking in providing place specific quantum
of rains, as their predictions are not getting desired results on this
test.
What is way out:
The Government of India and all the concerned departments should
awake to the grim realty on this front and should take help of all the
serious and professional astrologers, who are doing serious research in
the area of Monsoon prediction.
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