New Delhi: as Delhi chief minister Arvind faces people’s wrath on the AAP appears to be in damage control mode. On Sunday, marking a year of assuming power, it announced it would waive huge outstanding water bills of consumers living in unregulated colonies.
The proposal was created on the CM’s advice and aimed at waving all the cutastanding dues till last November of custometer with function water meter connection.
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) had to collect `2,854 crore, in cluding` 923 as late payment surcharge, form around 11.87 lakh consumers living in these colonies arross Delhi.
The proposal stated that the waiver of late payment surcharge and slab-waiver on accumulated arrears would be based on the category of colonies on the basis of the municipal corporation property tax.
As DJB does not maintain its data based on categorisation of colonies will have to carry out an intense exercise to consumer sata based for effective implemenyation of the scheme.
Soon after coming to power, the AAP government came with the scheme of providing 20,000 litres of water free of cost to every household per month. To give 20,00 litres of free water, the government gives around `500 crore subsidy to Delhi Jal board. The new proposal announced, will increase the burden on the state exchequer.
Labour may be obsolete by 2045
Experts say al advances will alter landscape, affect men, women equally; no job safe as humen labour may turn unwanted
Washington: advances in artificial intelligence will soon lead to robots that are capable of nearly everthing humen do, threatening tens of millions of jobs in the coming 30 years, experts warned on Saturday.
“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform human at almost any task” said Moshe Vardi, director of the institute for information Technogy at Rice Unitve sity in Texas. “ I believe that society needs to conforont this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any Work humans can do, what will humans do?” he asked at a panel discussion on artificial intelligence at the annual meeting for the Advancement of Science.
Vardi said some there will always be some need for human work in the future , but robot replacements could drastically change the land scope, with no profession safe, and men and women equally affected.
“Can the global economy adapt to greater than 50 percent unemployment?” he asked. Automation and robotization have already revolutionized the industrial sector over the last 40 years, raising productivity but cutting down on employment.
Job creation in manufacturing reached its peak in the United States in 1960 and has been on the decline ever since, accompanied by stagnating wages in the middle class, said Vardi.
Today there more than 2, 00,000 industrial robots in the country and their number continues to rise.
Today , research is focused on the reasoning adiliies of machines, and progress in this realm over the past 20 years has been spectacular, said Vardi, “And there is every reason to believe the progress in the next 25 years will be equally dramatic, “he said. By his calculation, 10 percent of jobs reated to driving in the United States could disappear due to the rise of driverless cars in the coming 25 years.
According to Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University, “in the next two or three years, semi- autonomous will march into our society.”
He lised self-driving cars and trucks, autonomous drones for surveillance and fully automatic trading systems, along with house robots and other kinds of “intelligence assistance” which make decisions on behalf of humans.
