Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 267
Palash Biswas
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Centre sends 600 more security personnel to Lalgarh
25 Jun 2009, 1910 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday sent
an additional 600 security personnel to Lalgarh area of West Bengal as part of
its operations against
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home ministry sources said.
They said six companies of CRPF, which
were put on stand by, have now been asked to proceed to Lalgarh, where the
forces are almost in the final stages of their operations.
With
Thursday’s decision, the total number of central security personnel in
Lalgarh region would be about 2,200 personnel.
School vouchers, please Govt monopoly is crime against children
ET Bureau
The
right to education cannot mean the right to attend a government school where
little teaching is done and students finish school functionally
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this is the interpretation of the educational establishment.
This
crime against children must be rectified by the new minister for human resource
development, Kapil Sibal. He will not be able to make government teachers
accountable for non-performance because they are protected by powerful trade
unions and an educational establishment that is so ideological that it would
rather keep students functionally illiterate than let them be educated in
private schools.
Just as the right to vote has no meaning if voters
can only vote for one candidate, so too is the right to education meaningless if
it means access only to the neighbourhood government school. One supposed expert
says education is an area of market failure, so the state must make provision.
This simply shows how illiterate supposed experts are. Education for
all is not a market product at all — it is a non-market service to be
provided by the government. Unfortunately this is an area of massive government
failure.
The answer lies in a private-public partnership through
school vouchers usable in private or government schools. This is not
privatisation, it is private provision of a public service through a
public-private partnership.
The education establishment says many
private schools are of poor quality. True, but government schools can often be
worse. So the choice should be made by parents. A recent evaluation of a Delhi
voucher scheme, run by the Centre for Civil Society, showed voucher school kids
performed better and were happier with facilities than similar children in
government schools.
Vouchers provide real choice only if private
schools exist within walking distance of localities. So vouchers are most
relevant in urban areas, and irrelevant in remote tribal or hill areas. Mr Sibal
should launch pilot voucher schemes in half a dozen cities, offering funding to
the state governments.
Inevitably there will be glitches, which
should be fixed before scaling up. Vouchers cannot solve all educational
problems. But they must be part of the solution in urban areas, including the
poorest slums.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/School-vouchers/articleshow/4699293.cms
Reform challenge of Mr Mukherjee
The President's address to Parliament
has dashed any residual hopes that the United Progressive Alliance II (UPA II)
might use its clear-cut
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reforms. Yet reform advocates must persevere.
There remain enough
reforms 'in transition' that a series of incremental actions could still make a
dramatic difference. Simultaneously, there is considerable scope for the
introduction of radical reforms in the social sector to which the UPA accords
high priority.
Perhaps the single most important reform that the
finance minister can safely push is the comprehensive Goods and Services Tax
(GST). As Dr Vijay Kelkar, chairman, Thirteenth Finance Commission, noted in his
brilliant address at the convocation at the Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research, this reform promises vast benefits via improved
productivity.
It will also stabilise the indirect-tax revenues in
the years to come. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee should announce a realistic
but definite revised timetable in the budget to bring this important reform to
its logical conclusion. To make the announcement credible, he should appoint Dr
Govinda Rao, arguably India's foremost public finance expert, as the 'GST Czar'
for a two-year term with the sole mandate to ensure that at the end of his term
India has a well-functioning GST in place.
Two reforms that had
broadly continued under the UPA I relate to small-scale industries reservation
and trade liberalisation. As of October 10, 2008, the government had trimmed the
list of items reserved for exclusive manufacture by micro and small enterprises
to 21.
Mr Mukherjee must now take the final step of eliminating this
list altogether. With imports from foreign firms permitted regardless of their
size, there is little rationale for insisting that our own producers of
stainless steel and aluminium utensils, laundry soap, steel furniture and
groundnut oil operate on the small scale.
Why punish our own
successful and productive entrepreneurs by insisting that they cannot expand
beyond the specified size?
While taking a tough stand in the Doha
negotiations, UPA I had continued the process of opening up the Indian economy
to foreign trade initiated in earnest by Dr Manmohan Singh in 1991. The peak
duty on industrial goods had been reduced to 20% in 2004-05.
It was
then brought down to 15% in 2005-06, 12.5% in 2006-07 and 10% in 2007-08. In
2008-09, then finance minister Chidambaram pushed the pause button on the
process perhaps because this was the last full-year budget prior to the
election. Mr Mukherjee should resume the reform and cut the peak industrial
tariff to 7.5% thereby bringing Indian tariffs within a hair's breadth of the
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) levels as per the promise made by
Mr Chidambaram in his 2004-05-budget speech.
Turning to social
programmes, a common lament among the top leaders of the Congress since at least
late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been that only a tiny fraction — a
bare 10 paise out of a rupee, according to a recent public statement by Mr Rahul
Gandhi — of government expenditures on anti-poverty programmes reaches the
targeted beneficiaries.
After six decades of failure of the
conventional schemes in achieving better results, is it not the time to give an
alternative approach a chance? Most economists now agree that cash transfers
through biometric accounts to the senior-most female member of the household can
eliminate this leakage entirely.
I have extensively discussed how
this can be done in my recent book, India the Emerging Giant. In addition to
plugging the leaks, this approach has at least three additional
advantages.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Reform-challenge-of-Mr-Mukherjee/articleshow/4699330.cms
Do you think the class 10 board exam should be scrapped?
Times of India - 51 minutes ago
Doing away with class 10 exam
Union Human Resources Development minister Kapil Sibal has hinted at
scrapping class 10 board examinations.
Union Human Resources Development minister Kapil Sibal has hinted at
scrapping class 10 board examinations.
Iran reform leader says he won't end his challenge
The Associated Press - - 20 minutes ago
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian
authorities have barred journalists for international news
organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in
their offices.
authorities have barred journalists for international news
organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in
their offices.
Steamy emails add to humiliation of South Carolina governor Mark ...
Times Online - 2 hours ago
As he tearfully confessed at a
press conference last night to being unfaithful to his wife, Mark
Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina, may have imagined that his
embarrassment was complete.
press conference last night to being unfaithful to his wife, Mark
Sanford, the Governor of South Carolina, may have imagined that his
embarrassment was complete.
Video: SC Gov's Vanishing Act, Affair 'Disappointing'
The Associated Press
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SC Gov's Vanishing Act, Affair 'Disappointing'
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SC Gov's Vanishing Act, Affair 'Disappointing'
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Maoists greet Chidambaram by blowing up a railway station in Koraput
Economic Times - - 1 hour ago
BHUBANESWAR: Suspected Maoists
on Thursday greeted union home minister P.Chidambaram by blowing up a
railway station and three mobile towers Koraput district.
on Thursday greeted union home minister P.Chidambaram by blowing up a
railway station and three mobile towers Koraput district.
Kasab suffering from stomach ulcers
Hindu - 25 minutes ago
Mumbai (IANS): Pakistani
terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has been diagnosed with stomach ulcers and
is under treatment inside the jail here, the special court hearing the
Mumbai terror attacks trial was informed on Thursday.
terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has been diagnosed with stomach ulcers and
is under treatment inside the jail here, the special court hearing the
Mumbai terror attacks trial was informed on Thursday.
We'll not hand over 'any individual to India': Pak
Indian Express - 4 hours ago
A special court in Mumbai has
issued non-bailable arrest warrants for 22 Pakistanis, including JuD
chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Pakistan has ruled out the possibility of
handing over to India any of its nationals linked to Mumbai terror
attacks and made ...
issued non-bailable arrest warrants for 22 Pakistanis, including JuD
chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Pakistan has ruled out the possibility of
handing over to India any of its nationals linked to Mumbai terror
attacks and made ...
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'US to help in 'every possible way' to settle Kashmir'
Indian Express - 2 hours ago
The Obama Administration would
help in "every possible way" to settle the Kashmir problem and to
resume the stalled Indo-Pak dialogue, a top US official said in
Islamabad on Thursday responding to Islamabad's request for assistance
in resolving the ...
help in "every possible way" to settle the Kashmir problem and to
resume the stalled Indo-Pak dialogue, a top US official said in
Islamabad on Thursday responding to Islamabad's request for assistance
in resolving the ...
FTN: Pakistan using Sarabjit to bargain with India
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ISRO to help security forces track down Maoists
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ON THE LOOKOUT: Central forces
patrol Jhitka forest during their operation against Maoists in Lalgarh.
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- Wikipedia: Operation Lalgarh
Maoist Insurgency and Lalgarh stand OFF proved to be favourable SUBVERSION as we, being most IMPULSIVE and Passionate, often do overlook the developments in the wings. We never know how the Citizenship amendment act was passed with parliamentary CONSENSUS. We have no idea how Marxist Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya succeeded to rope in Chidamabaram to declare BAN on the Maoists while officially the LEFT insists on POLITICAL Process and discards Military and zero Tolerance Options adopted so far. We easily overlook the ABSENCE of STANCE on the part of the Left parties as far as Nationalities, Identities, North East and AFPSA are concerned.
We may SWAY or Swing in reaction as Criminal Procedure began against the group of Bengal Intelligentsia which visited Lalgarh and ignore the GENOCIDE and ETHNIC Cleansing DRIVE launched countrywide with ane EMERGING Tri IBLIS Satanic Zionist New Power AXIS of Adwani, PRANAB, MAMATA, BUDDHA, SIBAL and Chidambaram led by Dr Manmohan Singh. In fact, opposing the REGIMENTED Gestapo in Bengal gas Chamber we VOTED for the AMERICAN Colonial Government led by Dr Manmohan singh to TRANSFORM Indian nation into an INFINITE DEATH CHAMBER ruled by Manusmriti Rule and supported by the Left as well as RSS. They all stand TOGETHER under the worldwide Umbrella of ZIONIST ILLUMINATI and continue to launch Monopolistic Aggression. Toilet Media exposes the modifies SKIN only, while the MEAT remains within. We remain DIVIDED into Caste system as well as parliamentary Politics without any Empowerment, Representation, Participation and Sharing! Without any POLITICAL Process we assume to breathe in DEMOCRACY NON EXISTANT.
Thus, we failed to note that the Marxists in India supported the Manusmriti Hegemony since the FIRST day. They remained COUPLED with Nehru, INDIRA, Bajpayee, RAO, GUjral, Gauda and Dr Manmohan Singh without any virtual break!
We never knew that the DISINVESTMENT and SELL OFF strategies were actually finalised during Gauda and Gujral governments under LEFTIST Common Minimum Programme! Disinvestment Ministry without any liability was the BRAINCHILD of our Comrades who JUNKED all TRADE UNION Activities and SOCIAL movements to help MNCs and Corporate Imperialism. We believed them while they were SCREAMING against Fascism, Imperialism, Globalisation until the Marxist Capitalism was SRIPPED NAKED in Nandigram and SINGUR.
We lost the VISION as we happen to be BLACKED out how Realty, Construction, Health and Chemical, Retail and Commodity, Aviation, Education, Oil, Steel and Mines, Bank and Insurance, Post and Railway, Agriculture and food processing, Infrastructure, Science and Technology, IT and High technology, Energy and Nuclear Energy, Forest, Ocean and environment have been SECTORWISE SOLD OUT!
We NEVER know the Ind depth story of AIR INDIA Crisis. Neither we care for LIC, SBI, SAIL or ONGC. We never knew that CHIDAMBARAM Deregulated the BANKING Sector right in 2005 amending the Banking Regulation act.
Just see the SAMPLE and make out the MOTTO DISINVESTMENT:
The government is ready to help Air India, but the aviation
minister said on Wednesday the struggling state carrier must become
"leaner and trimmer" to secure backing it needs to get through a
liquidity crunch.
The carrier, which has said it wants to cut employee
costs by 5 billion rupees ($103 million) annually and has asked senior
employees to forego salaries and incentives in July, has sought extra
cash through equity and soft loans from the government.
"The government's support is there but the
government's support also comes with a condition that Air India must
shape up, must become leaner and trimmer and also must put its best
foot forward," Aviation Minister Praful Patel said in New Delhi.
Patel did not say how much cash would be made available, but said the airline would not be given "an open-ended chequebook".
Patel said Air India will have to implement
measures such as manpower restructuring, including of top management,
and cost-cutting. Air India must submit its restructuring plan within a
month, Patel added.
KAPIL SIBAL is playing the MASTER STROKE of DE TRAUMA to DEREGULATE EDUCATION on the line of IT and Vocational Education. SARBA SHIKSHA Education was the FLAGSHIP Programme which was HYPED enough to make us believe the EDUCATION Welfare and which made our teachers GOOD Cooks only and our CHILDREN BEGGARS! On the other hand, a high-level committee on renovation and rejuvenation of universities
headed by noted educationist Yashpal has recommended that IITs
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converted into full-fledged universities so that they aict as pace-setters and
models for all such institutions of higher education.
Meanwhile,in what could send the
government back to the drawing board to rework the route to economic recovery,
rainfall prediction was lowered
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foodgrain belt of India — Punjab and Haryana — on notice for a
failing monsoon.
UPA pundits hoping to post an economic recovery on
the basis of strong results in the agricultural sector have been set back by the
new estimates.
A fall in agricultural production could come as a
double whammy for economists. It would dry up demand from rural markets which
have been the stabilising factor in the economy. It would also increase demand
for social sector interventions such as NREGS, sucking a higher level of subsidy
and putting fiscal deficit limits to test.
Yashpal said
the report would be given to the government soon.
The committee has
suggested that regulatory bodies like All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Medical Council of India
(MCI) and the Bar Council of India (BCI) be divested of their academic
functions, which should be restored to the universities. It has also said that
all universities have full range of knowledge areas and that no single
discipline or specialised university be created.
The committee has
also said the practice of according status of deemed university be stopped
forthwith. It would be mandatory for all existing deemed universities to submit
to the new accreditation norms within a period of three years failing which the
status of university should be withdrawn. A single accreditation window for all
institutes of higher education has also been suggested.
Yashpal said
the idea to change the name of the committee — originally meant to review
UGC/AICTE —was his and there was no pressure to do so from the HRD
ministry.
Though HRD ministry's attempt to set up a commission for
higher education failed, the committee has suggested creation of an
all-encompassing Higher Education Commission, a central statutory body to
replace the existing regulatory bodies like UGC, AICTE and NCTE. This
commission, it has said, should be free of all ministries and have complete
autonomy.
The proposed HEC will create a curricular framework based
on the principles of mobility within a full range of curricular areas and
integration of skills with academic depth. This will imply that a student of any
stream can do a short course in an unrelated subject and get
credits.
HEC, committee said, will initially consist of five
divisions dealing with future directions, accreditation management, funding and
development, new institutions and incubation, and information and governance. An
eminent individual with a tenure of five years will head each division. The
chairperson of the HEC will be appointed by a search committee comprising the
Prime Minister, the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice
of India.
We have already been DEPRIVED of Higher Education, research and development. NOW SIBAL is going to ABOLISH UGC and making all deemed UNIVERSITIES , IITs and IIMs Private UNIVERSITIES!
But the EDUCATED as well as INTELLIGENT People of INDIA remain HABITUAL to make DECISIONS on the FEED BACKS, MIND CONTROL, Brain washing, Mis Information sustained campaign of the TOILET Media!
In Americanised India, No One mourned the the DEPARTURE of Rajpoot Strong Man King ARJUN Singh from the Ministry of Human Resource Ministry. Anti Reservation Passion amongst the Caste Hindu Media and Intelligentsia sighed in relief rather to be liberated from Reservation and Quota Raj in Faculties and Brahaminical Monopoly ENSURED in Elite Education centres like IIT and IIM.
The Entry of Kapil Sibal on the wave of Manipulated MANDATE for the CONTINUITY of so Called ECONOMIC Reforms has been CELEBRATED in every campus thanks to YOUTH For Equality!
But the BIG Debate EXPOSURE on CNBC TV Channel heralded the REFORMS and Strategic Marketing Policies in EDUCATION Sector dictated by India INCS and ILLUMINATI.
I have been engaged in intense interactions with friends countrywide and all of us agreed to relaunch Students` Movement in the Campus once again to RESIST the CONSPIRACY to DEPRIVE the Majority masses of Higher and quality education. I am sorry to say that we could not INITIATE any mobilisation at any stage. Interestingly, while the SFI and DYF have been SILENT .
the RSS outfit AKHIL BHARATIYA Vidyarthi Parishad only VOICED Protest against SIBAL ENTERPRISES!
Since SIBAL DETRAUMA episode is GLAMORISED on TV channels and media with manipulated landslide support in the Campus, only West Bengal Government and the RSS backed GUJARAT Government dared to OPPOSE the so called REFORMS!
Sibal told The Indian Express: “The Indian education system
which is marks-centered and examination-based is a source of trauma for
both parents and children... knowledge, like everything else, should be
user-friendly, and the acquisition of knowledge should not be a
stressful exercise.”
Children, Sibal said, should not be judged by
percentages with an emphasis on learning by rote, and the whole system
of examinations should be looked at afresh.
“I am thinking of relooking at the necessity of
having a Board examination for Class 10,” he said. “A child moves up
from Class 9 to Class 10 in the same school and there is no reason for
either the student or the parents to get traumatised by the 10th Board
exam,” he said. As a first step, the HRD Ministry will consult state
governments and state education boards, Sibal said. “I hope to move
forward very soon and set up an alternative system of evaluation of
students that is based on percentiles rather than percentages.”
The minister believes that it is for the students
to decide which stream to follow in Class 11 rather than for the
schools to force it on them. “Ultimately, it is the student’s aptitude
that should decide whether he or she wants to study arts or science...
not the school,” he said.
In a pathbreaking step towards reforming India’s school
education system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal is
considering doing away with the Class 10 Board examination, and setting
up an alternative evaluation system based on percentiles, not
percentages!
In far-reaching reforms, Government proposed making 10th board
examination optional and setting up of a single school board at the
national level for a uniform examination for class 12.
A new scheme of interest subsidy on educational loans
for professional courses by economically weaker students will be
launched in the first 100 days of the UPA government, HRD Minister
Kapil Sibal told reporters in New Delhi.
"We must detraumatise education. It cannot be
traumatic for parents and children. This is unacceptable," the Minister
said unveiling the education agenda.
Government will also introduce a system to replace
the present assessment procedure of giving marks with grades which will
reduce stress, he said.
The single board would replace 33 boards in the
country including CBSE and CISCE and hold a uniform examination for all
students on the pattern of combined law admission test being organised
for admission to law institutions.
"By appearing in a single board, a student can
decide which university he wants to go. It is happening in the law
(courses). The aim is to reduce the trauma," he said adding that states
would be consulted on the issue.
Taking note of students and their parents
complaining of sleepless nights at the time of board examinations,
Sibal said the government wants to make 10th examinations optional for
students wishing to continue in the same school.
"If a student wants to go for pre-university
course, he may appear for 10th board exam. But in case of a student
pursuing the course in the same school, he need not appear in the
class-10 exam for promotion to class-11," Sibal said, adding that an
internal assessment would suffice.
Government will review the functioning of existing
deemed universities which have come under spotlight following
allegations of heavy capitation fee charged by some of these
institutions.
An autonomous overarching authority for higher
education and research based on the recommendations of Yashpal
committee and the National Knowledge Commission would be established.
Sibal said a law will be enacted to prevent,
prohibit and punish educational malpractices. For the disadvantaged
sections of the society, Equal Opportunity Offices would be created in
all universities, he said adding a new policy on distance learning
would be formulated.
The ambitious bill to provide free and compulsory
education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be taken up
during the budget session.
The government also wants to set up an All India
Madrassa Board which will award degrees equivalent to CBSE and other
boards. The board will frame policy to impart secular and technical
education to Muslims without interfering with the religious teachings.
"We will strive to evolve a consensus on this issue," he said.
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New human resource
development minister Kapil Sibal is strongly in favour of allowing foreign
direct investment (FDI) in India's
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"synchronise" madrassa education with the mainstream.
"FDI must come
into India. Entry into the education sector must neither be limited nor
over-regulated. I want the system to be accessible from outside too," Sibal, 61,
who is a practising lawyer, told IANS in an interview.
He says
allowing private investment, including from abroad, in education "does not mean
you have fly by night operators." But, Sibal says, the country should not
prevent quality learning from coming.
"After all, 160,000 children go
abroad from India at an overall cost of seven billion dollars. Before going they
face all kinds of visa problems while after going abroad, there are issues like
the attacks in Australia," Sibal, who studied at the Harvard Law School, pointed
out.
"When the demand exists, why should we send our children out?
Foreign universities can come at our doorstep; India has the potential to become
a global provider of quality graduates."
The minister said he would
take forward the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and
Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill,
which was cleared by the cabinet in February 2007 but has been hanging
fire.
It seeks to regulate the entry, operation and maintenance of
foreign education providers and protect students from receiving sub-standard
education offered by institutions that view it as a lucrative
business.
When told that the opposition, especially the Left parties,
was against FDI, Sibal says: "The Left is not against foreign universities per
se; they are concerned about fly by night operators. Everything has to be
regulated and it will be."
He said this did not mean "you deny access
to quality education to our children." The minister added: "Education is a
socio-economic activity. Why should it have impediments in the form of
bureaucratic red tape?"
"There will be a whole lot of structural
reforms basically to free up the system; to end licence raj." He says it's been
two weeks since the new government started work, so things will unfold
now.
The minister who was re-elected as an MP from the Chandni Chowk
constituency of Delhi is also looking at bringing madrassa education into the
mainstream.
"There will be attempts to make education in madrassas
relevant and equivalent to modern education. We will not touch the religious
part; the point is their degrees should have equivalence with the others," says
Sibal.
He said his directives to the University Grants Commission
(UGC) to review the working of private institutions which have been given the
status of deemed universities and to put a freeze on new applications for it
were intended to ensure better quality education.
"My mantra is
expansion, inclusion and excellence. Expansion means access to education to all;
inclusion translates into equity for the Scheduled Castes, tribes, girl child,
Muslims. And excellence means quality. When I say this I mean the entire
spectrum from primary to higher education."
But he says the
government cannot handle everything. "There will be multi-farious set of
players, there will be corporate investment in school education, joint ventures,
public-private partnerships, more Kendriya Vidyalayas," Sibal says.
Manage new IIMs like corporates: Panel29 Oct 2008, 0210 hrs IST, D Suresh Kumar, TNN |
CHENNAI: A high level committee has
said that the six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), proposed in Tamil
Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir,
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"should function on the pattern of the most modern corporates, in terms of
administration and financial process."
Besides, they must be
established keeping in mind the future demands. Recommending a corporate
structure, the IIM review committee headed by R C Bhargava, chairman, Maruti
Suzuki India Limited, has said "where possible, outsourcing possibilities should
be seriously considered. Common systems and processes should be developed for
the six new IIMs. Since some degree of modernisation is also required in these
areas in the old IIMs, they too could benefit from the development work."
One of the biggest challenges while establishing new B-Schools would
be recruiting faculty, especially in the functional disciplines.
"The system of making contract appointments should be tried out.
Also, the use of technology, in conjunction with an existing IIM, should be used
to compensate for faculty shortage. In fact use of technology, once well
established, could be used to reduce costs," the committee has recommended in
its report submitted to the union human resources development ministry last
week.
The building plans for the new IIMs should take into account
future requirements of expansion and ensure that optimum use of land is made.
This recommendation comes in the wake of the increase in intake of students over
the last few years in the existing six IIMs at Ahmadabad, Kolkata, Kozhikode,
Bangalore, Indore and Lucknow.
The panel has also suggested the
buildings at the new IIMs must be designed in an environment-friendly manner.
"While designing the buildings and infrastructure, the need to be
environmentally as friendly as possible and to minimise use of energy and water
should be kept in mind. The use of solar energy should be considered as also
water harvesting and recycling. Expert agencies could be associated in this
work," the report added.
It would be ideal for the government to
constitute a committee of three present or past directors of IIMs to study the
detailed project reports for the new IIMs. Also, the new institutions must be
mentored by existing IIMs.
Despite all this, it is not unlikely the
new IIMs may have difficulties shortening the time taken to function at the same
level as the older IIMs. The committee has cautioned that, "If these IIMs are
not able to maintain the standards of the other IIMs, not only would this dilute
the brand image of all IIMs, but would result in a huge waste of public money.
For this reason, it would be definitely desirable that each new IIM is managed
by one of the existing IIMs."
Monsoon rains to be below normal: Govt
New Delhi India's monsoon rains, a lifeline to
its trillion dollar economy, have weakened and are expected to be below
normal, the government said on Wednesday.
"Rainfall is likely to be below normal," Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan said.
The minister said the 2009 monsoon rainfall would
be 93 per cent of the long-term average, lower than an earlier forecast
of 96 per cent.
The annual monsoon hit the southwestern state of
Kerala on May 23, a week ahead of schedule, but its progress has
gradually weakened, threatening to hit the country's farm output and
impact the economy.
The four-month rainy season normally kicks off around June 1 and covers the entire country by mid-July.
With only 40 per cent of farmland irrigated, most
of India's small farmers rely on the monsoon to water their crops. A
good season of rains also boosts rural demand for a range of products
and is a key factor in determining expansion in the larger economy.
Orissa: Maoists go on rampage ahead of Chidambaram visit
Bhubaneswar Hours before the visit of Home
Minister P Chidambaram, Maoists struck in a big way attacking a railway
station, damaging communication towers and looting a block office in
Orissa's Koraput district on Thursday.
The armed Maoists descended on the Kakiriguma railway
station and ransacked it besides damaging the control panel which
affected train movement on Rayagada-Koraput section.
Following the incident, the Bhubaneswar-Koraput
Hirakhand Express was held up at Rayagada while a couple of other
passenger and goods trains were also affected.
The ultras then blew up three mobile phone towers inlcuding one belonging to the BSNL at Kakiriguma using landmines.
Another large group of ultras swooped down on the
block office, 530 km away at Narayanpatna, which has been witnessing
heightened Maoist activity in recent weeks. They caused extensive
damage to the building besides destroying furniture and setting ablaze
official files.
The Maoists also damaged two computers and took away 42 bicycles from the office.
They raised slogans against the Centre's decision to proscribe the CPI (Maoist).
Security personnel were rushed to the area and
combing operation launched as the union home minister is slated to
commence his two-day visit to the state from the Maoist-affected
Koraput district this afternoon.
The Maoists had cut off all communication to
Narayanpatna since June 15 by felling trees on the roads connecting the
town. They also triggered a landmine explosion on June 18 killing nine
securitymen when they were trying to clear the blockades.
About 400 security personnel, including CRPF
jawans, had remained cut off at Narayanpatna and helicopters were used
to airlift food and additional forces there on Tuesday.
During his one-day visit to Koraput, Chidambaram
would talk to SPs of Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nawrangpur and Koraput
districts and visit the location of a upcoming CoBRA Battalion Centre.
Chidambaram was also scheduled to visit relief
camps in Kandhamal district tomorrow where riots and attacks against
Christians had taken place earlier.
Terrorist threat still high in J&K says Antony
New Delhi India on Thursday said infiltration
from Pakistan has declined in the recent past, but the threat from
terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir is "real" and there is no question of
lowering the guard. "Of late, there has been a decline in infiltration
in the borders but we cannot say it is an improvement," Defence
Minister A K Antony told reporters after addressing the Unified
Commanders' Conference here.
He made it clear that "there is no question of
lowering our guard, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, as even now these
terrorist outfits are working there. It is a real threat." Antony said
the relations between India and Pakistan can "move forward" only if
strong action is taken by Islamabad against anti-India outfits
operating from across the border. "We are emphasising and trying to
convince Pakistan that they have to take strong actions against the
anti-India groups operating from there. Only then the two countries can
move forward and we can help in improving relations," he said.
He termed the security situation in Pakistan as a
"matter of great concern" for India. On India's plans to raise two
mountain divisions in Arunachal Pradesh, he said, "India is not against
any country. We want to maintain friendly and cordial relations with
all our neighbours but at the same time it is our duty to increase our
capabilities."
About his proposed meeting with US National
Security Advisor (NSA) James Jones tomorrow, Antony said the security
situation in the region, especially Afghanistan, is likely to figure
among other issues in the discussions. "We are going to discuss the
security scenario around us. While discussing this, we cannot avoid
Afghanistan. Taliban is a threat to world peace and threat to our
region and a threat to India also," he said. On the progress made on
the issue of a Unified Command for the armed forces, the Defence
Minister said that after initial resistance, the three services have
realised the need to work together.
"There has been considerable progress in the last
eight years. Initially there was resistance from three services but now
they have realised the necessity of jointness because in the modern
times just one service cannot protect the security of the nation and
meet challenges," he said. "That realization is there. So, things are
moving very fast and this conference is a turning point," he said.
When asked if the controversy on the issue of
price of Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov could have any
negative impact on Indo-Russian defence relations, the Minister said,
"Discussions are going on for Admiral Gorshkov. As far as our defence
relations with Russia are concerned, they are very cordial. There is no
doubt about that."
SSC, HSC results to be out on net
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Express news service
Posted: Dec 07, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
Pune, December 6 The Maharashtra State Board of
Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Thursday announced the
websites where the results for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be put up
at 11 am on Friday. The results will be released on the internet
simultaneously as they are given out to the schools and junior
colleges.
Students who appeared for the HSC examination can
avail of their results at www.mh-hsc.ac.in, while the results for the
SSC examination will be put up on www.mh-ssc.ac.in.
Meanwhile, the results as per individual centres
and the eight divisions Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Amravati,
Kolhapur, Nashik and Latur will be available at www.msbshse.ac.in.
All the information on the results can be
downloaded from these websites. For further details on the results,
students can contact their respective secondary schools or junior
college.
Air India gets PM’s promise of help but told to tone up
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ENS Economic Bureau
Posted: Jun 24, 2009 at 0913 hrs IST
New Delhi The Prime Minister on Wednesday
committed himself to throwing the “entire weight” of the government
behind crisis-hit Air India, but set tough conditions for its help:
asking the national carrier to undertake massive organisational,
financial and manpower restructuring in return.
AI was categorically told that it would be difficult
for the government to give the airline unconditional support every time
it ran itself into trouble.
“Air India will have to go for massive cost
reduction and increase revenues in both the short term and long term,”
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said after a two-hour meeting with
Manmohan Singh, at which top ministry officials and AI’s
newly-appointed CMD Arvind Jadhav were also present.
“There is excess flab on the entire body of Air
India, not only of manpower but due to salaries and the internal
functioning style,” Patel said. “The airline will have to improve its
on-time performance, aircraft engineering, commercial operations,
especially in the face of competition and choice (available to
customers).”
Independent directors will be inducted on AI’s
board, and the top management of its business units will be recast, the
minister said. “The management restructuring will be completed within a
month,” he said, adding, “The complete turnaround of the airline may
take around two years.”
AI has been given a month to submit a
restructuring plan to a new four-member bailout committee comprising
Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar, Principal Secretary to the PM TKA
Nair, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla and Civil Aviation Secretary M
Nambiar. The committee will review AI’s performance every month.
The carrier — sunk under accumulated losses of Rs
7,200 crore and a financial outstanding of Rs 30,000 crore till May
2009, and staring at a loss of around Rs 5,000 crore for 2008-’09 — had
submitted a highly ambitious bailout wishlist to the government,
seeking an equity infusion of Rs 5,000 crore, a grant of Rs 2,000
crore, and a soft loan of Rs 7,000 crore. It had also asked for a
review of sixth freedom rights and capacity freezes on foreign
carriers, and curbs on domestic airlines.
Patel dismissed suggestions that AI’s Rs-44,000
crore aircraft acquisition plan could be wrecking its finances. “These
are two different issues,” he said. “Debt (for aircraft acquisition) is
a long term issue. Deferring or rescheduling aircraft deliveries would
not help (the airline) at all.”
On fixing responsibility for the crisis, Patel
said: “Nobody is accountable. It is a combination of factors. Air India
people have not risen to the occasion.” He also cited increases in fuel
prices, fall in traffic, lower yields at low fares and the
price-sensitive nature of the Indian market as reasons.
Patel was impatient with threats of a strike by AI
employee unions. “Let them go on strike. They will hasten their own
demise,” he warned.
The unions have threatened to strike work from June 30. CMD Jadhav will meet them in Mumbai on tomorrow.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Manmohan-asks-Air-India-to-tone-up/480816/
Nilekani quits Infosys, to join Govt
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Reuters
Posted: Jun 25, 2009 at 1528 hrs IST
New Delhi Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No 2 outsourcer, has resigned from
the company's board to join the government, the company said on
Thursday.
Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, has been
invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to head government agency
Unique Identification Authority of India in the rank of a cabinet
minister, Infosys said in a statement.
Nilekani, a former chief executive of the company, was not involved in active management since becoming co-chairman in 2007.
Shares in Infosys, which has a market value of
about $21 billion, were up 0.7 percent at 1,771.25 rupees at 0849 GMT
in a Mumbai market down 0.5 per cen
BSE loses 77 pts on monsoon delay fears
Mumbai Prospects of weak
monsoon, the poor showing by ONGC in the fourth quarter and weak
European cues dragged down the BSE Sensex by 77 points as investors
squared off positions on the concluding day of the derivatives series.
The market surrendered its initial gains due to fairly
heavy selling from foreign institutional investors (FIIs) amid the
forecast of below-normal monsoon.
The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index ended the
day at 14,345.62, a net loss of 77.11 points or 0.53 per cent from its
previous close. It touched the intra-day high of 14,578.46.
Bonanza Portfolio Assistant Vice-President Avinash
Gupta said, "The market opened strong but the selling pressure pulled
it down. The selling intensified in the later part of the session on
cues from European markets. The market activity was stock-specific
today rather than sector-specific."
Similarly, the National Stock Exchange's 50-share
Nifty dropped by 51.10 points or 1.19 per cent to close at 4,241.85
from its last close.
The market continued to witness a high level of
volatility as investors rolled over positions as also squared off their
long-outstanding holdings at the end of the June contract of the
futures and options segment.
UPA's first challenge: 'Below normal' monsoon predicted
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Agencies
Posted: Jun 24, 2009 at 2007 hrs IST
South-west monsoon is likely to be below normal this season,
government announced on Wednesday raising concerns about its impact on
agriculture and economy.
"South-west monsoon from June to September is likely
to be below normal," Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan told
reporters in New Delhi.
He said quantitatively, monsoon rainfall for the
country as a whole is likely to be 93 per cent of the long-period
average. This is three per cent less than what the India Meteorological
Department (IMD) had forecast in April.
Chavan was subjected to a volley of questions,
including whether he visualised the monsoon scenario as worrisome,
whether the country is in for a drought and whether he foresaw a
situation of water-rationing.
"I will not call it worrisome as of now," he said downplaying questions about water scarcity and drought.
"Plans are in place in every department of
Government of India as to what needs to be done when there is excess or
deficient rains," was his refrain.
According to the forecast, the north-western
region of the country is likely to get deficient rains while monsoon is
expected to be below normal in north-east and peninsular India. Central
India, which is yet to receive rains, is expected to have a normal
monsoon.
Death toll from US drone attack on rise
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:40:56 GMT
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As
the death toll from a US air raid on Pakistan climbs to 80, Islamabad
has once again slammed Washington for attacks on its soil.
Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman said such attacks undermine the
country's sovereignty, adding that Islamabad made regular contacts with
the US over the issue.
On Tuesday, some 80 people have been killed in what has been the deadliest US missile attack on Pakistani soil yet.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit urged the US to
stop such attacks as military operations to eliminate militants in
tribal areas were well proceeding, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The missiles, that left nearly 100 people injured, hit the funeral
of people who were killed earlier in the day during a similar strike in
the volatile region.
The US has carried out at least 35 drone attacks on Pakistan's
tribal areas, killing and wounding over 500 people over the past year.
RZS/MMN
the death toll from a US air raid on Pakistan climbs to 80, Islamabad
has once again slammed Washington for attacks on its soil.
Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman said such attacks undermine the
country's sovereignty, adding that Islamabad made regular contacts with
the US over the issue.
On Tuesday, some 80 people have been killed in what has been the deadliest US missile attack on Pakistani soil yet.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit urged the US to
stop such attacks as military operations to eliminate militants in
tribal areas were well proceeding, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The missiles, that left nearly 100 people injured, hit the funeral
of people who were killed earlier in the day during a similar strike in
the volatile region.
The US has carried out at least 35 drone attacks on Pakistan's
tribal areas, killing and wounding over 500 people over the past year.
RZS/MMN
Time running out to find Air France 447's 'black boxes'
CNN International - 12 minutes ago
(CNN) -- Investigators probing
the deadly crash of Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic are running
out of time to find the flight data recorders which could prove crucial
to working out what caused the disaster.
the deadly crash of Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic are running
out of time to find the flight data recorders which could prove crucial
to working out what caused the disaster.
Pakistan urges US to end drone attacks
The Associated Press - - 50 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD (AP) - President
Barack Obama's national security adviser reiterated the United States'
strong support for Pakistan in its battle with Taliban militants during
talks with senior Pakistani leaders on Thursday.
Barack Obama's national security adviser reiterated the United States'
strong support for Pakistan in its battle with Taliban militants during
talks with senior Pakistani leaders on Thursday.
North Korea threatens nuclear 'fire shower' if attacked
guardian.co.uk - 2 hours ago
North Korea today threatened to
retaliate with a nuclear "fire shower" if it is attacked by the US and
warned it would expand its nuclear arsenal, a month after it carried
out a controlled nuclear explosion in defiance of the UN security
council.
retaliate with a nuclear "fire shower" if it is attacked by the US and
warned it would expand its nuclear arsenal, a month after it carried
out a controlled nuclear explosion in defiance of the UN security
council.
The Associated Press - Reuters - RIA Novosti - Aljazeera
To take charge of national ID proj in July: Nandan Nilekani
Moneycontrol.com - 2 hours ago
Infosys Co- Chairman Nandan
Nilekani has been appointed by the government to head the National ID
Card Project and will step down from the company's board.
Nilekani has been appointed by the government to head the National ID
Card Project and will step down from the company's board.
BT deal to boost Tata Comm's performance
Economic Times - 1 hour ago
Tata Communications' voice
services agreement with BT is likely to improve its network
utilisation. This offers some relief to Tata Communications at a time
when growth in its revenue form voice services, which forms nearly half
of total revenue, ...
services agreement with BT is likely to improve its network
utilisation. This offers some relief to Tata Communications at a time
when growth in its revenue form voice services, which forms nearly half
of total revenue, ...
* FY09 net falls 60 pct, misses forecasts
Reuters - - 48 minutes ago
MUMBAI, June 25 (Reuters) -
India's Tata Steel Ltd (TISC.BO), the world's No. 6 steel maker, on
Thursday missed forecasts with a 60 percent drop in consolidated net
profit for the fiscal year ended March and said 2045 jobs in Europe ...
India's Tata Steel Ltd (TISC.BO), the world's No. 6 steel maker, on
Thursday missed forecasts with a 60 percent drop in consolidated net
profit for the fiscal year ended March and said 2045 jobs in Europe ...
Mangalorean.com - Myiris.com - Reuters
The Tech Herald - CNET News - CNNMoney.com - ZDNet
More on the Windows 7 upgrade program
CNET News - - 37 minutes ago
Although Microsoft is on track
to deliver Windows 7 for the holidays, the new operating system will
miss the back-to-school buying season.
to deliver Windows 7 for the holidays, the new operating system will
miss the back-to-school buying season.
Nokia N86 Hits Indian Shores
Techtree.com - 3 hours ago
The much awaited N86 8MP has
finally arrived in India after what is undoubtedly a much delayed
launch. Close on the heels of the flagship N-Series device the N97, the
N86 launch has, in effect, made clear Nokia's intentions on how it
wishes to straddle ...
finally arrived in India after what is undoubtedly a much delayed
launch. Close on the heels of the flagship N-Series device the N97, the
N86 launch has, in effect, made clear Nokia's intentions on how it
wishes to straddle ...
Will Apple's First "Approved" iPhone Porn App Last?
PC World - - 1 hour ago
"We uploaded topless pics today.
This is the first app to have nudity," said Allen Leung in an interview
with Macenstein [link semi-nsfw].
This is the first app to have nudity," said Allen Leung in an interview
with Macenstein [link semi-nsfw].
The Tech Herald - CNET News - CNNMoney.com - ZDNet
Iraq Reports First Cases Of H1N1 Swine Flu
Medical News Today - 4 hours ago
Iraqi health authorities
confirmed yesterday that six people recently returned from the US have
tested positive for H1N1 epidemic or swine flu, making this the first
lab confirmed cases in the country.
confirmed yesterday that six people recently returned from the US have
tested positive for H1N1 epidemic or swine flu, making this the first
lab confirmed cases in the country.
Swine flu: 4 more quarantined
Indian Express - 14 hours ago
Four more passengers were
quarantined in the state for swine flu on Wednesday. So far 48 people
have been quarantined in the state.
quarantined in the state for swine flu on Wednesday. So far 48 people
have been quarantined in the state.
Grim forecast for chem hub
Times of India - 15 hours ago
KOLKATA: The Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee government may be confident of the Centre's support for
the Nayachar chemical hub, but a crucial member of Manmohan Singh's
Cabinet didn't sound all that enthusiastic about the project on
Wednesday.
Bhattacharjee government may be confident of the Centre's support for
the Nayachar chemical hub, but a crucial member of Manmohan Singh's
Cabinet didn't sound all that enthusiastic about the project on
Wednesday.
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Email this storyCream of the crop: 69 of top 100 JEE rankers pick IIT-Bombay
25 Jun 2009, 0535 hrs IST,
Hemali Chhapia, TNN
Hemali Chhapia, TNN
MUMBAI: The composition of the elite technological club has changed. A decade ago admission to the IIT-Kanpur ensured demi-god treatment. Only
there. No longer. Mumbai is the new Kanpur, with Delhi and Chennai snapping at its heels. A look at the students’ choice of institute by the top 100 JEE rankers down the last half-a-decade reveals that preferences have changed dramatically. A number of factors have been responsible for the reordering, from geography to gastronomy and placement records to what coaching classes preach to students. Of the top 100 JEE-2009 rankers, considered the elite group among engineering aspirants around the country, 69 students preferred to join IIT-Bombay over any other IIT. This was followed by Delhi — where 19 of the top-100 — have been admitted. While Bombay has been bettering its performance over the years, number of toppers going to Delhi has slipped. "IIT-B's decision to introduce minors in all programmes has seen more students wanting to come to the Powai campus," reasoned the institute's JEE-2009 chairman A Pani. In 2008, the institute ushered in academic reforms and permitted students to pick a minor course along with the core area of specialisation. This, explained Pani, has resulted most streams opening and closing admissions at higher ranks than previous years. On each IIT campus, the top 100 students are considered as the rich creamy icing. Twenty years ago IIT-Kharagpur was the engineering mecca. The oldest IIT of the country, IIT-Kharagpur did not receive a single student from the top hundred this year; and before that, in 2004, only three of the top 100 went there. A former JEE chairman explained, "While Bombay and Delhi were still building themselves, Kharagpur's students had already occupied top positions in big companies. Students looked at Kharagpur's illustrious alumni and rushed there. Now this has changed." | |
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Cream-of-the-crop-69-of-top-100-JEE-rankers-pick-IIT-Bombay/articleshow/4699579.cms |
1,100 quota seats in IITs not filled this year25 Jun 2009, 0520 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN |
burn the midnight oil for months to get into the hallowed Indian Institutes of
Technology. But as
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— there weren't enough qualified candidates to fill up the reserved seats
on offer for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, or the physically
challenged.
IIT heads told TOI that over 1,100 seats will now be
transferred to the preparatory course. This course, which is like a feeder
class, trains quota students for a year to equip them to qualify for the IITs.
Students for the preparatory course are selected by reducing cut-offs even
further.
On the OBC (other backward classes) reservation front too,
53 seats were transferred to general category candidates, though the IITs are
still only in the second year of the quotas (they are implementing 18% quota
before moving to the total 27% reservation).
The IITs, in fact, had
made various concessions to ensure they could fill the SC/ST seats. They lowered
entry levels for these categories and even went as low as 50% below the last
general category student's marks to do justice to the quota. Even this did not
help them get the required number of backward category students.
Centre asks IITs to give SCs/STs more shots at JEE
13 Apr 2009, 0336 hrs IST,
Hemali Chhapia,TNN
MUMBAI:
Buoyed by the success of implementing the OBC quota, the government now wants
the Indian Institutes of Technology to employ reservation
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admission process begins. This time around, the Centre has written to the IITs
asking them to allow Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students more shots at
the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE).
Currently, the premier tech colleges
adopts a caste-blind policy towards all aspirants at the preliminary stage of
conducting the exam. Each one, no matter what group he or she belongs to, is
allowed a maximum of two attempts at the competitive entrance
exam.
Gautam Barua, director of IIT-Guwahati, the institute which is
in-charge of JEE-2009, confirmed the receipt of such a letter from the
government. However, he said that the note came in late for such a rule to be
implemented this year. "The Joint Admission Board will take a look at the letter
and examine what a provision like this will translate into. Even if we decide to
implement the request, it will only be done for 2010,'' Barua
added.
Most selection and admission rules for JEE are drawn from the
recruitment norms designed for appointing Union government officers. In fact,
till recently the JEE, like the civil services exam, was a two-tier test —
lakhs of students sat for the preliminary screening, following which a few
thousands took the mains. Aspirants could then attempt the exam any number of
times.
But in September 2005, a committee headed by C N R Rao,
chairman of the Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Committee, reviewed the
system and decided to limit the attempts to two. Rao observed that several
aspirants languished for years in coaching classes trying to crack the exam,
"little realising or believing that they were cut out for something else'', a
director had then said, while giving a reason for the committee's
decision.
In 2006, the JEE turned a new chapter and became a
single-tier, objective, race-against-time exam testing students on the
fundamentals (and their applications) of physics, chemistry and maths. But time
and again, the JEE has come under the attack of political interference. "There
is a lot of pressure from the government to allow SC/ST students to take the JEE
more number of times,'' said a JEE-2009 chairman.
The IITs already
set aside 15% seats for SCs and 7.5% slots for STs in each stream of engineering
offered. A separate merit list with relaxed cut-offs is drawn up each year for
selecting reserved category students. In fact late last year, the IIT directors
decided to allow a 50% relaxation of scores for them from 2009, up from
40%.
With regard to the JEE-2008 scores, if the last general category
student was admitted with an overall score of 172 out of 489, the aggregate
cut-off for an SC/ST student was 104 (after a 40% relaxation). If the general
category cut-off in 2009 remains the same, the bar for SC/ST candidates would be
lowered to 86 (50% of 172). Similarly, subject-wise cut-offs would also be
affected 2009 onwards.
The JAB will soon take a call on the
government's note. But several old-time professors in off-the-record
conversations have rued the unfolding political interference. "As academicians
we tend to steer clear of the bureaucracy. But of late, vote-bank agendas are
being thrust on our institutions. Either we will have to change, or the IITs
will change, forever,'' an IIT-Kharagpur faculty member said.
QnA:
Would the IITs be compromising on the quality of their students if they have
reservation for SCs and STs?
IIM-A students have plan B ready to tide over crisis11 Mar 2009, 0353 hrs IST, Vasundhara Vyas Mehta, TNN |
are facing the heat of global meltdown at this year's placements, have an
alternate plan just in case
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The new
trend among IIM-A students is to accept job offers but also have an enterprise
running by the side. Take Sameer Gandhi, who has been offered to head the
marketing division for Sangini Diamonds in the US. But Gandhi prefers to
continue with his stock trading website he had launched with two of his
classmates.
"This website was an outcome of our curiosity about the
stock market. It gives a virtual stock trading opportunity for the beginners
like students, housewives or retired individuals. For the last two years, while
I was in IIM-A, my other friends were taking care of it and now with the course
over, I plan to get involved in whichever way possible," said
Gandhi.
Wanting to be known as an entrepreneur eventually, Gandhi
said, "While I was considering the job offers, I was looking for something where
I would get opportunity to work and learn as an entrepreneur. This is possible
only with small or medium-scale enterprises."
Another student, Srijan
Pal Singh, who plans a career in politics, has accepted a pre-placement offer
(PPO) made by a top consulting firm. But he first wants to work with a political
party during the three-month period before joining the BPO. Singh told TOI, "I
have approached a leading political party with a project on how youth can be
involved in politics and elections. The youth is absolutely indifferent to
politics and if we want to change the condition, politics seems to be the most
potent force. The proposal that I have submitted to the political party is about
bringing new ideas and delivery mechanism in Indian politics. The party is
considering the proposal."
Singh honed his communication skills
during his two years at IIM-A. He was in the team that organised a social
entrepreneurship fair, initiated a constituency management course and
participated in former president APJ Abdul Kalam discourse.
Plan panel favours IIT, IIM offshore campuses22 Jun 2009, 1342 hrs IST, Mahendra Kumar Singh, TNN |
Indian universities and government-run institutions like IIMs and IITs to set up
campuses abroad to
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society.
The Planning Commission is in favour of formulating
guidelines to allow Indian universities and government-run institutions to run
business abroad to fund higher education for the poor back home and to expand
the educational infrastructure in the country.
The move has come at the
time when India is wooing foreign universities to set up campuses in the
country.
Interestingly, as of now, there are no rules and
regulations to permit government-run institutions to set up offshore campuses.
So far, only private educational institutions were free to explore education
opportunities abroad. Private institutions like Symbiosis and BITS, Pilani, have
already opened campuses abroad.
Only in May this year, Pune
University became the first government-run institution to open its campus
abroad, in UAE, after considerable legal and bureaucratic
hurdles.
The human resources development ministry had objected to the
proposal of Pune University on the ground that there were no guidelines on
opening campuses on foreign soil by government-run institutions. Pune University
had to knock the doors of the PMO to get its proposal cleared.
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Every 2nd student in India enrols in pvt college21 Jun 2009, 0441 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN |
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MUMBAI: Despite higher education being vital to a rapidly developing country like India, the government's share in higher education — in terms of
— has dwindled over time. Simultaneously, academics note, the stake of profit-seeking politicians in the higher education business has risen. In 2001, when private unaided institutes made up 42.6% of all higher education institutes, 32.89% of Indian students studied in them. By 2006, the share of private institutes went up to 63.21% and their student share went up to 51.53%. In other words, every second student in India signed up with a private institute. Globally too, the private sector has seen opportunities in higher education, but there have been few takers in comparison to India. For instance, although there are 39.1% private higher education institutes in China, merely 8.9% students study in them. In the US, private universities constitute 59.4% of higher education institutes, but only 23.2% of American students pursue their education in them. "It does signify that higher education in these countries is predominantly a public service," noted Ved Prakash, vice chancellor of the National University of Education Planning and Administration (NUEPA). Academics in India have researched on how public spending by the Union and provincial governments has fallen. In his work, Prakash notes that between 2002 and 2006, deemed universities — or 'doomed universities' as one academic waggishly described them — grew by a whopping 96%. In the same time span, central and state universities grew by a modest 11% and 22% respectively. This unabated growth without any quality check has forced academics from Harvard University to scrutinize this sector and note, "The rapid expansion of capitation fees colleges came about as a result not of great middle-class pressure or demand, but rather the entrepreneurial activities of politicians." Even the Supreme Court recently expressed its concern about the quality of education in private institutes and the corruption that is rampant there. Within private higher education, the professional streams have seen the maximum growth. Private engineering colleges, which accounted for just 15% of seats in 1960, now account for over 85% according to data from the All-India Council for Technical Education, the regulatory body for professional technical education. From a tiny base in 1970, medical colleges in the private sector have grown by an eye-popping 900%. The private sector now accounts for over 45% of medical colleges in the country. In 2006, Sanat Kaul in his paper ‘Higher education in India: Seizing the opportunity’ highlighted instances of a single politician running more than 100 educational institutes. "There are rampant cases of malpractice in the form of illegal charges for allocating seats from the management quota. Income tax raids have revealed that seats are sold for cash, and a medical seat can fetch as much as Rs 25 lakh. The black money involved runs into thousands of millions of rupees," Kaul observes in his study funded by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. But none of this has elicited any action from the government. And naturally so. In their 2004 paper, ‘Indian higher education reform: From half-baked socialism to half-baked capitalism’, Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, both fellows of Harvard College, argued that politicians who had been sugar and liquor barons had turned to higher education as an industry because of its high returns. "Even as political parties rail against de jure privatization, de facto privatization continues unabated," they noted. Kapur and Mehta acknowledged that while there was no statistical data, "there is little doubt that a majority of private institutions have been supported or made possible by the direct involvement of politicians." Arun Nigavekar, former chairman of the University Grants Commission, said private institutes have been granted recognition without a sense of responsibility. "Time and again, the HRD ministry has failed. There is a need for a surgical process to undo certain decisions taken by it," he said. Echoing Nigavekar, academics say that minister for science and technology Kapil Sibal will not only have to untangle some policies set by his predecessor, but also work to ensure high quality in public higher education. QnA: Are the private colleges giving placements worth the fees that they are charging? | |||||||
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