<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/1100-quota-seats-in-IITs-not-filled-this-year/articleshow/4699526.cms >1,100 quota seats in IITs not filled this year !!!
This is a clear indication of the failure of former Human Resource Minister and the governments that ruled our country for the past six decades.
Education is a pyramid. Producing lakhs of Engineers takes us nowhere; in fact it reduces the quality.
Its a simple logical fact that first you ought to strengthen the primary and secondary education in the country especially in rural areas. Then the "backward" people will be able to enter the elite institutions even without any quota.
The condition of primary schools in India is pathetic (leave away the posh private and International schools). Thousands of the really backward people (not just w.r.t caste) are struggling to get the basic education and even the basic needs of life. In such a situation instead of concentrating on the crucial issues, our wonderful politicians, as usual for their own selfish interests increase and add quotas in the elite Institutions in the country. Our former HRD minister went another step ahead and started you-know-how-many IITs. These stupid steps harm the quality of higher education in the country. Such damages cannot be easily undone.Its a simple logical fact that first you ought to strengthen the primary and secondary education in the country especially in rural areas. Then the "backward" people will be able to enter the elite institutions even without any quota.
Every year hundreds (now thousands) of quota seats are not filled, denying the opportunity for other deserving general category students.
Will the government ever raise above petty selfish interests and really work in the National Interest?
5 comments:
true da,
this is really sad, thankfully he is not serving his second term in office..
PS-put link to the article.. :)
@ Adithi
Yeah.
All that we can hope is the new HRD minister doesn't take anymore insane steps !
Thanks! I have put the link to the news article :)
u spoke about the education as a pyramid, which is a well known fact. wat i would like to hear from u is how we as youngsters can affect change?
> Vote in next general elections.
> Convince others around us to vote.
> Once we start earning help another student to get his/her education.
> ...
There are a thousand ways in which we can make a difference. The steps might seem puny but taken by all of us, they surely will make a difference.
I believe coming up with tools and solutions like the ones outlined below would be more effective...
Instead of lines - let me illustrate my point via links -
1. http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html
2. http://laptop.org/en/
3. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
4. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
5. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
there aren't enough teachers - let's teach the kids how to learn (if at all they need to be taught that - which I doubt) and give them the tools and facilities to learn...
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