Saturday, April 08, 2006
Mandal Reloaded
The quota system that we have here in our country is something that always used to bother me when I was growing up. I have seen my uncles who despite of getting good marks were not able to get jobs up to their potential. I was worried coz thought of landing to same destiny was inevitable. Thanks God that there is Boom in market since 2003 and we have so many MNC and Desi companies.
Now there is talk in Delhi about enforcing 50% reservation in premier institute like IITs and IIMs. Naturally this question “How effective its going be in improving the status of backward class?” pops up in our mind.
Lets me tell you about one of my states, unlike other I belong to Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, In Chhattisgarh there is almost 70% reservation in Professional Exam (50%(SC+ST+OBC) + 16.5(girls) + 3-4% to relative of Army personnel and freedom fighter. A student coming from modest background and general category hardly has any chance in getting good seat. We don’t get tired in cursing our education system and reiterating this again and again that there is fall in standard in students, but we forget that by increasing reservation we are actually jeopardizing chances of getting a better student.
I do accept that still today people coming from so called backward classes, are relatively poor and are not as financially sound as say a person coming from “forward caste”. But what I have seen, at least in Chhattisgarh, that 70% of reserved category student who finally got admission were economically well off. I mean they enjoyed all the luxury in their life also studies less or were not competitive enough but got better seat then their “upper caste counterpart”. But on other hand there are other backward people who are living in extreme interior of Chhattisgarh hardly know anything about that this quota system. First and foremost thing that government should do is to make people aware of these existing plan then only revise current structure. To say make people aware is easy thing on contrary it is really a hell of a job. For that our established Dalit brothers have to go out and spread this information to the needy people. I mean they know better then us whom to contact and what exactly barriers are in improving social structure. Lets us not allow these politician in creating barrier between us. Lets not put brake in country booming economy say no to this increase in quota.
“A country is as good as its people”
Comments invited.
The quota system that we have here in our country is something that always used to bother me when I was growing up. I have seen my uncles who despite of getting good marks were not able to get jobs up to their potential. I was worried coz thought of landing to same destiny was inevitable. Thanks God that there is Boom in market since 2003 and we have so many MNC and Desi companies.
Now there is talk in Delhi about enforcing 50% reservation in premier institute like IITs and IIMs. Naturally this question “How effective its going be in improving the status of backward class?” pops up in our mind.
Lets me tell you about one of my states, unlike other I belong to Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, In Chhattisgarh there is almost 70% reservation in Professional Exam (50%(SC+ST+OBC) + 16.5(girls) + 3-4% to relative of Army personnel and freedom fighter. A student coming from modest background and general category hardly has any chance in getting good seat. We don’t get tired in cursing our education system and reiterating this again and again that there is fall in standard in students, but we forget that by increasing reservation we are actually jeopardizing chances of getting a better student.
I do accept that still today people coming from so called backward classes, are relatively poor and are not as financially sound as say a person coming from “forward caste”. But what I have seen, at least in Chhattisgarh, that 70% of reserved category student who finally got admission were economically well off. I mean they enjoyed all the luxury in their life also studies less or were not competitive enough but got better seat then their “upper caste counterpart”. But on other hand there are other backward people who are living in extreme interior of Chhattisgarh hardly know anything about that this quota system. First and foremost thing that government should do is to make people aware of these existing plan then only revise current structure. To say make people aware is easy thing on contrary it is really a hell of a job. For that our established Dalit brothers have to go out and spread this information to the needy people. I mean they know better then us whom to contact and what exactly barriers are in improving social structure. Lets us not allow these politician in creating barrier between us. Lets not put brake in country booming economy say no to this increase in quota.
“A country is as good as its people”
Comments invited.
Life as we know it
There is talk in our office that employee like us will be given access to the server from our home PC. So that we can leave early(read 20:00 IST) to our home and can have some social life. So I am imagining life post working from home.
Client/Partner (CP):- What is agenda for today meeting?
Partner/Vendor (PV):- I think today we can listen some mp3 coz I have 40 gb of old Hindi songs. What say you?
CP:- (Trying to understand the joke) Did you guys completed model.
PV:- You bet our whole team(5 of us) participated in Koramangla Modeling competition. We got eliminated in 2nd round. We aren’t that gr8 dancer you know.
CP:- (Getting frustrated) Business has critical need for these model, we will appreciate if you can let us know development, IN STATISTICAL MODELLING, since our last call.
PV:- Ohh! That will be finished before deadline (Sound of children crying in background) ……….. Shut up!!
CP:- What??
PV:- I am extremely sorry madam you know my kids they don’t know me and are kind of scared seeing stranger in home.
CP:- They don’t know you are you kidding.
PV:- Oh yes Madam Finishing all the projects lets me see them while they are sleeping.
CP:- What about weekends?
PV:- Is there is really any thing like that I mean on every Monday we have some critical deliverable that make us work even on sat and sun.
CP:- Ok leave that but you know that deadline is on coming Monday so we are hoping that you would complete all analysis and prepare business deck and please mail it across to my gmail as I won’t have access to office mail, I am going for short trip in weekend.
PV:- Jaan Kurbaan
CP:- Nice Weekend!!
There is talk in our office that employee like us will be given access to the server from our home PC. So that we can leave early(read 20:00 IST) to our home and can have some social life. So I am imagining life post working from home.
Client/Partner (CP):- What is agenda for today meeting?
Partner/Vendor (PV):- I think today we can listen some mp3 coz I have 40 gb of old Hindi songs. What say you?
CP:- (Trying to understand the joke) Did you guys completed model.
PV:- You bet our whole team(5 of us) participated in Koramangla Modeling competition. We got eliminated in 2nd round. We aren’t that gr8 dancer you know.
CP:- (Getting frustrated) Business has critical need for these model, we will appreciate if you can let us know development, IN STATISTICAL MODELLING, since our last call.
PV:- Ohh! That will be finished before deadline (Sound of children crying in background) ……….. Shut up!!
CP:- What??
PV:- I am extremely sorry madam you know my kids they don’t know me and are kind of scared seeing stranger in home.
CP:- They don’t know you are you kidding.
PV:- Oh yes Madam Finishing all the projects lets me see them while they are sleeping.
CP:- What about weekends?
PV:- Is there is really any thing like that I mean on every Monday we have some critical deliverable that make us work even on sat and sun.
CP:- Ok leave that but you know that deadline is on coming Monday so we are hoping that you would complete all analysis and prepare business deck and please mail it across to my gmail as I won’t have access to office mail, I am going for short trip in weekend.
PV:- Jaan Kurbaan
CP:- Nice Weekend!!
Lost in Transition
Life in last 10 months has totally changed. I still remember the fun we use to have in IIT Kanpur. Throughout my life I avoided working hard I mean I use to work hard enough but not to this extent that I am doing these days.One of my well wisher mailed me that hope from coming week your work load will decrease, I replied him that this is not an option either there is so much work that u cannot complete it or you will just manage to complete it.
Life in last 10 months has totally changed. I still remember the fun we use to have in IIT Kanpur. Throughout my life I avoided working hard I mean I use to work hard enough but not to this extent that I am doing these days.One of my well wisher mailed me that hope from coming week your work load will decrease, I replied him that this is not an option either there is so much work that u cannot complete it or you will just manage to complete it.
