I have been helping my wife Anita with the Lets Do it! Delhi movement with an outrageous goal of cleaning Delhi in a day by September 2010.

Please check out LDID and join as an individual or partner if it makes sense for you to do so. Joining requires taking an oath not to litter and to pick up ten pieces of litter in a month. If you do join LDID please join UFA group on LDID website as well.

I see a lot of synergies which is why UFA is partnering LDID. For example if all the "safai karamcharis" who are likely to become members of LDID have bank accounts and it becomes possible to tip them Rs 1 per month if they did a good job then I think we will have very motivated people and clean streets not just because of the monetary incentive but because of the recognition that their good work is being appreciated.

UFA or Universal Financial Access is enabled by a "zero cost" financial infrastructure. UFA is achieved when we can provide micro – savings,payments, loans, insurance investment and pensions profitably . Innovation and technology can be used to eliminate the high cost problem.UFA will give every Indian self confidence and a path to financial independence without subsidies.

We have started a movement to get our PM to declare UFA by 2013 a national priority. With this clear signal we believe private capital will rush in and find ways to achieve the goal. The movement is about what needs to be done and not how it should be done.

India has already done this in telecom where we have near universal telecom access and the government has made money. This gives us confidence that if we have the will we can achieve UFA by 2013. If you feel inspired please join the movement and get others both institutions and individuals to join.
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