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Anubhav Dubey | Chai Sutta Bar

Started with a minimal capital of 3 lakhs, Chai Sutta Bar  (CSB as we say) has a turnover of more than 100 crores. It has 400 franchise outlets spread across India and abroad including Dubai, Muscat and Nepal. Welcome to ShekharArena! Today we will let you know about Chai Sutta Bar and elements of business that have helped them achieve this feat. Till today, Chai Sutta Bar is a bootstrapped business. Bootstrapped means they haven't taken any loans or external investments to fund their business. Product Range: Initially they kept adding new products to the inventory and made it to 200 products. This is a common mistake that most early age investors do. Menu design should focus on how we can maximize no of products with less raw materials, less resources and same SOP with little modifications. They learnt it the hard way and now they serve only 21 products. Initial Team: The initial team structure should align with your vision. Not only the team should give 200% efforts plus can prov...
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Sindhutai Sapkal | Mother of thousands of Orphans

 From begging on stations at the age of 20 to becoming the mother of more than thousand orphans, how did Sindhutai Sapkal became mother of so much kids. She saw life at the worst and then decided to help others for whom no one is there to help. Welcome back to Shekhar Arena! Today we will let you know about a person who all of us should know for the noble cause she did to the society without asking anything in return. Today we will talk about MAI- that's what her kids and people who knew her called out of love and affection.  At the age of 20, she was sitting, crying at a station and had a 10-day baby with her. She saw another beggar crying in loneliness and disgrace. The person wanted to have some water before death. She went to the beggar, offered him roti so that he can have food and water before he dies. Fortunately the beggar didn't die nor did Sindhutai. She started "Sanmati Baal Niketan" for orphans and beggars. In today's world where everyone is thriving b...
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Expiry of Water | Solutions

 According to a Reuters report, we use 40 billion plastic bottles every month,1.3 billion every day,54.9 M every hour and 1 M(10 lakhs) bottles every minute. Assume how fast these plastic-borne diseases can spread among us. Welcome back to Shekhar Arena! In the last blog, we talked about how aggressively we drink water in plastic bottles and their adverse impacts. If you haven't read the blog, link is in comments. We will be discussing about what feasible solutions we do have to tackle this issue. You might be wondering what other option do we have. Almost all water bottles readily available in market are made up of plastic. What can we do? Carry our own water bottle. This may sound a bit inconvenient but it is one of the most effective solutions. Do buy a reusable bottle and carry it everywhere we go. This will not add any further plastic into nature. Carrying these bottles everywhere is not convenient Yes it's not but it is our choice whether we want to face diseases like can...
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Expiry of Water | Shekhar Arena

 You are enjoying a day off in a park and suddenly you feel thirsty. You pick a bottle of water from a store and drink that water. We all do this a lot on regular basis. What if I tell you this water is expired? Does water expire? There is no expiry of water but the plastic bottle in which it is packed can cause a lot of problems for us. Assuming how? Let us explain. What these plastic bottles does to water is wrong. From getting produced in factories, delivered to markets and till the time we consume this water, it takes approximately 2-3 months. Water stays in these bottles for this long time. Experiments show that this water becomes acidic in nature . This is indicated by PH value. What's PH value? PH i.e., Potential of Hydrogen is a scale used to determine the nature i.e., whether something is acidic, basic or neutral.  PH value of normal water-6.5-8.5 This is slightly alkaline and mostly neutral. PH value of this bottled water: 4, acidic in nature and consuming acidic wat...
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Efficient email management can save Environment | TechSpace 101

 When you open your mail, do you also have 564 unread mails, 600 spams and 25 messages in drafts? If your mailbox also looks like this, unwillingly you are contributing to air pollution. Welcome back to Shekhar Arena! Today we will talk about how using your mails effectively can help protect the environment. Have you ever wondered where are our mails stored? They are stored on multiple servers in different parts of the world. To run these servers, a lot of electricity is required and most of this electricity is generated through fossil fuels. Also this can lead to extreme air pollution. According to reports, one spam mail can produce upto 0.3 gm Carbon dioxide. Emails with attachment can generate upto 50 gms Carbon dioxide. Around 60 bn spam mails are sent everyday that generates roughly 18 lac kg of carbon dioxide. That's the calcualtion for a single day! After all this knowledge, what can we do? There are multiple steps we can take to reduce carbon foot prints. A.   Delete u...
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Agneepath Scheme | Myths and Facts-II

Everything seems great and advantageous-people will get jobs, more salary, benefits, one-time amount, bachelor's degree and preference in other jobs. Then why are people protesting? Why is a big debate happening all over the country over this Agneepath scheme? Hey everyone, Welcome back to Shekhar Arena! If you haven't yet read the first part of the blog, please do. 1st minus is medical benefits, no pension or gratuity. To clarify 11 lakhs is a one-time amount that any agniveer will get after completing 4 years of service. In case if the agniveer dies, benefits will not be same as that of a regular Indian army jawan. It is basically creating a class difference as in adhoc and permanent employees. No security or Settlement  Comparing it to SSC-10-14 years of service which is also not considered a fair scheme, it does not facilitate any permanent security or settlement which is a major factor of people looking for these jobs. There are thousands of cases pending in our courts reg...
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Agneepath Scheme | Myths and Facts

Agneepath is a really good scheme but there are some changes that was required or advices should have been taken from army personnel or general public before the launch. Hey everyone, Welcome back to ShekharArena! Today we will be talking about the Agneepath scheme, pros and cons and how this scheme can change a lot in defense tools, technology and innovation.  Before we get into Pros and cons of the scheme, let's talk about what is the scheme first. Basically there are 2 ways to join armed forces right now- Permanent commission and short service commission i.e., SSC. While in permanent commission, people work till the age limit of particular army wing they are working for and get ex-serviceman benefits when they retire, in SSC anyone works for a period of 10 years(extended to 14 years in rare cases). There is no pension as such in SSC. Again there are 2 levels at which anyone can join armed forces- Officer level or Jawaan/Soldier level . Agneepath is now a 3rd mode of recrutimen...
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