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Indian Customs is facing a challenge due to the erratic
functioning of a newly introduced Electronic Cash Ledger Wallet in the
ICEGATE portal. This portal facilitates the trade to make Customs Duty payments
for their Imported goods and on Exported goods where ever applicable. The
wallet was introduced to improvise on the existing system of reporting the
Duty collection figure at the end of the day to RBI. The intent was to help
the trade by giving a facility to use their wallets for ease of duty payment
and for real-time duty reconciliation for the RBI. The wallet was launched after due deliberations,
discussions, and User Acceptance Testing by the vendor team maintaining the portal.
However, post its launch the ECL got marred by multiple issues. The payments
got almost paralyzed and there became a huge pile of transactions stuck in
the system due to either Bank Payment failures or issues of integration of
the payments in the portal. The trade was badly impacted as shipments got
stuck at the ports for the want of necessary clearances on the portal. As a
result, many shipments had to be given Manual Out of Charge. Eventually, the issues were resolved in a war-like
effort. The system started functioning fine but the huge backlog could not be
cleared immediately. As a repercussion trade has been incessantly following
up for their blocked money or interest charges, demurrage charges accrued for
no fault of theirs. I have been compiling the issues being faced by trade through
the emails that they send to the Member, CBIC. After going through emails for
the last many days, a pattern has emerged on the major issues. Those issues
have been sorted and categorized for the higher-ups. The issue remains that the trader has to get a solution.
Coming into their shoes, I realize that I would have reacted similarly. If my
money gets stuck in the system issues it would cause me pain and frustration.
Above that, if I need to pay interest charges when I am not at fault I would
surely blame the system. These emails are all complaints highlighting their
plight. |
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Habit |
Review
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Exercise: My Religion |
Bike Ride 65 mins. Rehab at
home. Bike Ride: Drove to Aerocity, back to
Vasant Kunj at Nelson Mandela Marg. The main takeaway for today
was that I tried to feel the Zone 2 cardio state through the test of speech.
I tried speaking continuously for a moment. I realized that I became out of
breath while being at 140 bpm. It proved that biking was an effective way of
cardio and maintaining a Zone 2-3 cardio state. Cycling is Fun but I am not
yet used to long rides beyond 1 hour. I need to build up my way to at least 2
hours of Zone 2-3 cardio. Rehab: McGill Big 3 (1 set each).
Lock Big 3 (1 set each). Lying Back extension. |
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Book I read: My learning |
I am currently reading "Show Your Work" by Austen Kleon. It is a book that I badly wanted to read to get my writing started and publish my blog. I am reading it again after a few months as I am getting in the groove to publish content regularly. I needed a refresher. The best thing read today was that we should not be shy of sharing our likings and inspirations. Our taste is developed from our inspirations and we should not get influenced by others' opinions on the same. It also gave the idea that one can create content around the stuff that one is inspired by. It may be a sport, music, your heroes, what you read, someone you follow online, or practitioners of your field. Even this row inserted today is an inspiration from these lines. I can share my learning for the day and concretize my concepts. |
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Zone 2-3 Training: Heartrate 110-145 bpm on Garmin watch (180 minutes per week target) |
46 mins. For the week 74 mins |
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Meditate: 5 minutes of practice to start with |
No. I will try before sleeping. |
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Homework for life: A daily practice to capture important events of
the day that made an impact on you; that can form a story. |
Yesterday Papa sent a video of a singing
bird being captured by a team of photographers. It was hilarious as Papa
could not realize that it is a fake video and that too an evidently fake one.
He is gullible to spoof and fake videos. Probably he is a newbie in the tech
world. But he is otherwise a brilliant investigator. |
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Weight: Daily monitoring to track my eating habits and
goals. |
87.10 Kg. 300 gm less than yesterday Let’s see
progress till 30/05/2023. Target weight 85.40 Kg. |
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Push-ups: Just to have an everyday pump |
27. |
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Kegel: For a strong pelvic muscle floor. |
2 reps to
failure |
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Calves: To grow these minions |
80 (80 Standing) + 50
Tibialis Raises |
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Write: To take forward a passion not realized |
Blog |
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Mewing: Just a fad maybe. To breathe better; for a
visible jawline |
As I write this |
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One Podcast: Podcasts to learn and grow. Utilize Travel time |
Huberman
labs. Did not infer much. |
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Flossing: Remove Plaque, prevent cavities |
Done in Morning |
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Brush at Night: Needs no description |
Thankfully |
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Skin Care: To look at least my age and age gracefully |
Doing well. |
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Clean: No Intoxications for a spiritual, healthy,
productive, and meaningful life |
112 days |
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No Po: Abstinence from a vice |
361 days. 4 more for a milestone. |
Pic of the Day
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| 75 Suryanamaskars at HMI Base Camp, Chaurikhang (4500m) Mount Frey and Wife in the backdrop. |
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