My analysis on initial step towards – Telangana

It was September when I wrote my article “The plight of Telangana”, talking about various aspects of Telangana sentiments, history and struggle. I have also talked about the remedies that can be had to avoid the division of the state, but ardently and out rightly I have also warned that if things are not understood to the core and not solved the division of the state cannot be evaded further!

Only after about a month, the Telangana issue had caught the limelight through the media coverage of the threatening of Fast unto Death by Mr. KCR. And today, only after two months of what I warned might happen has really started to happen; The Central Govt. has taken the initial first step towards formation of Telangana!!

Today let us deeply analyse it,

-The govt. has announced that initial step would be taken but no time limit has been framed for the final step. So, they can work on it on their whims and fancies and might actually not even work on it.

-Nothing has been talked about Hyderabad, which has become the main concern for the people and leaders of all regions. Was this done deliberately? So that the separate statehood can be stopped again citing this as a reason once this issue catches fire!

-Did the congress only wanted to help Mr. KCR by giving him a reason to break his fast and no way concerned about the issue? Should we look this development only in this sense? Really tough for anyone to answer this.

Now, let’s think of the effects once a separate state is formed:

-In Telangana there might be a decline in the dominancy of two communities, which has started after 1956. Earlier to it this region had very less community and caste based differences. But it has increased due to the mass movement of the people from Andhra and Rayalseema regions where these sentiments are widely spread.

-Based on the govt. policies Hyderabad might see further development or stagnation. All these years Hyderabad’s resources and funds had been diverted to the other regions. Now citing the backwardness of other districts of Telangana as a reason if Hyderabad is further exploited; then that would lead to a stagnation of Hyderabad’s development. Here the govt. has to be wary as if this happens; this would again fuel in the movement for separate Hyderabad.

-This might not create a huge number of govt. jobs, as the present functionaries of the govt. will function the way they are doing and the people of other regions will continue working in the same roles. It might in fact create jobs in the Andhra/Rayalseema as they have to set up new offices and functionaries in their capital.

-There might be voluntary migration to their native regions, but I don’t see this as a happening in a large way.

-The reality in Hyderabad might take a setback initially for one or two years due to the speculations. But it would plunge back into the same position as Hyderabad has travelled a large distance away from the position where it can get affected by these political issues.

There could be many more than these which I can think of later but as for now and for this moment these are a few!!

The plight of Telangana...

If for my earlier articles I had received either good response or indifference, for the present article I fear about the response I would receive as now I trade in to the topic of a particular region i.e, Telangana and Hyderabad in particular. I also fear of instigating a sense of displeasure among people from other parts or the people who have migrated and settled in Hyderabad. But that would not deter me from talking the facts, talking the events and talking about the situations…

We hear a lot about Telangana and the movement to separate it from AP but will it solve the problems of Telangana? Can we not have a better solution?

Being Unbiased:

The regional discrimination and biased approach has what led to the present situation where the separation itself is being seen as a probable solution. So, if that is the main problem the most possible solution also lies in it. The government can itself stop this movement and sentiments of the people by not being biased towards other regions against the other. Though a lot of allegations are made over the govt. policies and funds being managed in such a way that it helps the other regions to develop over Telangana, but still it is being continued without any retrenchment.

Even Hyderabad couldn’t escape from such a treatment; the revenues generated from Hyderabad are year over the year being transferred for the development of the other regions. The lands in and around Hyderabad are being sold due to their high value and that money is being used elsewhere. Which is completely unacceptable, till the needs of Hyderabad are met, large part of Hyderabad still remains neglected with dilapidated roads, ill fated traffic signals, centuries old underground sewerage which was constructed during the Nizam era, but now as the population of Hyderabad increased widely over the years due to the huge migrations which has become a prime reason for the floods every time even though it pours only a little, this needs an urgent attention. The companies which have come to the state eyeing Hyderabad are being diverted to other cities like Vishakapatnam, a biased approach even though it will lead to the even distribution of development, it might affect badly where in the state might completely lose the FDI coming in as it had happened in the case of Volkswagen.

Leaving Hyderabad aside, the inner parts of Telangana are in much miserable state where few districts affected with fluoride don’t even have proper drinking water, even after 50 years of state formation if people are being deprived of drinking water, the miss management cannot be better than this. It’s really heart rendering that even the few parts of Hyderabad are in this situation.

Tolerance and Mutual Respect:

For few years now the Telangana struggle has been taking the self respect turn, where even the major political parties have now identified it as an issue of self respect more than the development issue. Yes, they are right at least in this. We see a lot of mimicking happening around of the Telangana slang, its culture etc., it’s sad that it is just not confined to movies but it has reached into the lives. Any tradition, slang or culture can be portrayed to be funny if wanted to and it happens with Telangana every time.

Though this land has provided a new life, livelihood for many a people from other regions, sad that many don’t tolerate Telangana’s customs, traditions and its slang is always ridiculed. The same persons if they happen to migrate to other countries, let alone tolerating their celebrations and customs, they even celebrate them as in the case of Christmas, Thanks Giving, Halloween and many other days!!!
That show’s we display a tolerance towards other countries but not to our own regions…. We should develop the regional tolerance.

The land of Telangana, was transcended by different communities like Qutubs, Asaf Jahi’s, Parsi’s, Sindhi’s etc and every community was heartily welcomed by the people of Telangana and they have intermixed their customs, traditions and even the slang. Most of the people from Hyderabad speak Telugu mixed with Urdu even though most of the Muslims of Hyderabad can’t even understand Urdu set aside speaking. Even the Dargah’s are visited by hindu’s largely, more than the muslims but other way it seldom happens.

Here it’s very sad to mention that people even exhibit the religion tolerance but not the caste and region tolerance.

These are the few little things if taken care of and followed; Telangana and more exclusively Hyderabad will be nothing less to any best places to live in. A mixture of modern and history, a mixture of cultures, a mixture of communities which is really a very rare pattern; this happens in only very few cities and Hyderabad is the rarest of the all!!!

But to end the probable suggestions, I also want to warn that if these situations are not handled gracefully and with respect even the greatest National leaders couldn’t stop the Nation from being divided even though none had the intent to partition. So, even this situation unless and until understood to the core and handled accordingly none and even the greatest powers cannot stop the happening!!!
I sincerely and ardently hope that it doesn’t….

History

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If interested in knowing the history and the events that have turned into this ugly situation please go on with the reading …

Why there is fuzz about Telangana and a movement or fight for its separation from Andhra Pradesh that we keep hearing on news channels etc…

To list out a few, Telangana was merged with the Andhra State against the wishes of the people of this region under the guise of linguistic based states. This led for utter discontentment of the Telangana people. Adding to it the major conditions which were agreed upon for the merger which is popularly known as ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ of 1956 was never implemented. Not a single person from Telangana was appointed as Advocate-General so far in the State's long history; more than this the agreement of nominating a telangana person either as CM or Deputy CM was never followed later on. The first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, ridiculed the post of Deputy Chief Ministership as the sixth finger and thus useless! While he served as Deputy Chief Minister in the B. Gopal Reddy’s regime till October 31, 1956!!

From then without any representation in the top posts of the state and in power making bodies, the people of telangana kept losing their ground. Before 1956, all jobs in Hyderabad State were filled with Mulkies with 15 years residence or birth in Hyderabad State. While no Telangana youth was appointed in Andhra districts, thousands of jobs in Telangana were filled by Andhras, some of them obtaining bogus mulki certificates. By 1969, it was estimated that over 22,000 posts were filled by Andhras with bogus certificates. In the name of rationalization of Departments, large numbers of engineers, doctors, gazetted officers from Andhra region were dumped in Telangana districts. They in turn brought their own Andhra staff for lower posts!!

Telanganas felt that their enrollment was not proportionate to their numbers. The selection of the city of Hyderabad as the state capital led to massive migration of people from Andhra into Telangana. Telanganas felt discriminated against in education and employment, non-Telanganas had been hired under the guise that qualified local people were unavailable. In addition, the unification of pay scales between the two regions appeared to disadvantage Telangana civil servants.

In such a situation, due to the public outcry an agitation for Telangana started in 1969 from the students of O.U. which spread throughout the region. Government employees and opposition members of the state legislative assembly swiftly threatened "direct action" in support of the students. The Congress-controlled state and central governments offered assurances that non-Telangana civil servants in the region would be replaced by Mulkis, disadvantaged local people, and that revenue surpluses from Telangana would be returned to the region. The protestors, however, were dissatisfied, and severe violence, including mob attacks on railroads, road transport, and government facilities, spread over the region. In addition, seventy-nine police firings resulted in twenty-three deaths according to official figures, the education system was shut down, and examinations were cancelled.

This led to the formation of Telangana People's Association (Telangana Praja Samithi) led by M. Chenna Reddy, who won 11 out of 14 seats in the elections from the region stating obvious support it had from the people of the region. But later due to political ambitions the association was merged into the Congress which became a debacle for Telangana.

With these unforeseen incidents, both the central and state governments passed Eight-Point programme of 1969 which protected the interests of Telangana but was never followed. Failure of which was succeeded by PM’s Five-Point forumla of 1972, following the tradition this again was never followed. Though these things couldn’t help the plight of the then Telangana, a reply for this was started from Andhra in the name of movement for Andhra. This eventually led to the popular Six-point Formula of 1973, providing decently good rights for the settlers from the other regions in Telangana.

Though the six-point formula was in a way advantageous to the non-Telangana still what little advantages it had for the Telangana been kept routinely violated, 126 times till 2006!!! Not even 200 employees belonging to Coastal Andhra working in Hyderabad were repatriated till 2006; taking a sample in that year, 80 per cent of the 15,000 youths recruited through `outsourcing' for different departments were found to be from Coastal Andhra. So by and large discrimination still continued towards the Telangana.

If the above was about employment, Telangana still faces a large discrimination in the allocation of funds etc., which are usually raised and talked upon by the now TRS in the assembly but never they are heeded.





What is the role of Hyderabad here?

I always will be more interested to talk about Hyderabad than anything else, as I have a very strong boding to this place!!!

We keep hearing about that the formation of AP and making Hyderabad as its capital has led to Hyderabad’s development. Whenever I hear these talks I laugh my soul out…. Hyderabad was made the capital as it was already a highly developed and orderly city then and provided the best amenities and the infrastructure. Hyderabad has got a history of over 400 years and its twin Secunderabad over 200 years, how can a few 50 years add in such a great extent to it. Infact the resources of Hyderabad had been exploited for the development of other regions.

If the pre history of Kaktiya’s, Mughals, Qutub Shahi’s are set aside as discussing them will make this post never ending… From the Asaf Jahi’s era Hyderabad was well prominent state under the rule of the Nizams extending over the Deccan, including the Telangana and Rayalseema. Hyderabad was always seen as a well rich state with surplus money reserves, noting the fact that the seventh Nizam was once world’s richest, even the then king of Dubai before the advent of oil travelled regularly to Hyderabad for the material gains from the Nizam!!

Even before the formation of the AP state, Hyderabad had well constructed buildings. Which the government had used to set up its offices like High Court, Osmania Hospital, Assembly, Osmania University and lot many structures which are still in use. The recent boom of IT and real estate is also because of the Hyderabad’s well developed facilities and importance. Even before to these recent IT and real estate, Hyderabad was always seen as an integral part of Telangana. Recent arguments are usually taken up, such as International Airport could have been constructed elsewhere other than Hyderabad, had it not been the capital. But they might be unaware that Hyderabad had airport, at times when Vizag, Vijayawada or for that matter any other city in the state could even dream of!! Hyderabad was the first state to separate the Judiciary from the Executive in 1901.

Hyderabad was developed over the centuries with the money of the Nizam state i.e, Telangana largely and also a bit from Rayalseema as it was given away by the Nizam to the British government to attain autonomous over the rest of the left out region i.e, Telangana through an agreement. That is the reason why there were mass conversions into Chirstianity in Rayalseema for the favors from the British. Thus, Hyderabad was, is and should remain a part of Telangana!!!

A historic Fight for Hyderabad State:

The people of Hyderabad had gone through a lot of turmoil and agony to join with the Independent India; still citing their patriotic passion finally was able to win their war with the Nizam.

The Nizam was very anxious to become independent and it had been Nizam's ambition to secure Dominion Status for his State. He tried to achieve this ambitious desire with the help of Khasim Razvi of the Ittehadul Muslimeen and its storm troopers, the Razakars; they were even ready to join the Pakistan than with India.

Fortunately, the Hindus of the Hyderabad State accounted for 93 per cent of its population. They launched the "Join India" movement with the cooperation of a very few patriotic Muslims for the integration of the State with the rest of the country – hats off to them!!!

The negotiations between the Nizam's Dominions and the Indian Union proved abortive. The Nizam Government did not agree to the accession to the Indian Union. The activities of the Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen and the Razakars within the Dominions were posing a serious threat to peace and harmony. The growing violence by the Razakars seriously jeopardized law and order.

The Government of India tried to persuade the Nizam to sign the Instrument of accession with India. After tortuous negotiations, the Nizam finally entered into a "Stand Still Agreement" on November 29, 1947, with India for one year to maintain status quo.

This agreement provided the Nizam to gain time to procure military hardware from different parts of the world and smuggle them into Hyderabad. With the growing violence by the Razakars and the Nizam's attempts to get himself independent, the Government of India decided to curb these tendencies by launching a `Police Action' against the Nizam. The Razakars helped hand in hand for Nizam like digging and destroying the roads to put a hindrance for the movement of Police and the Army. The Indian Army, led by Major-General J.N.Chaudhuri entered the State from five directions and the military action was a brilliant success. On 18th September 1948, Nizam's forces surrendered to the Indian army and Mir Laik Ali, the Prime Minister of the Nizam, and Khasim Razvi were arrested. The merger of Hyderabad Dominions into the Indian Union was announced.





I feel highly distressed to say this that the people of Hyderabad and Telangana so
bravely fought with the Nizam and the Razakars to join with India, now they are being subjected to the discrimination and injustice in every govt. policy and funds and even its resources are being exploited.

SEPTEMBER 5..

As I brood over today’s date i.e., Sept. 5, I remember about the two most memorable days among the wonderful days I had at CBIT (my college). I always write about the social issues and politics of India, so this time around to have some break why not I try writing something about those two exciting and memorable days; I feel I should, so let’s pass through those times ….

I was in my 3rd year of engineering and it was three days prior to Sept. 5. While I was getting down the stairs of C-block, I saw one of my senior (4th yr) on his way to home which made me increase my pace and as I reached him patting his shoulder I said, “Hey boss, how things moving on……? Hey, by the way how are the preparations? Need any help let me know”. With a puzzled look he said, “What? Preparations for what”

I replied, “Hey in two days we have Teacher’s day and we usually have some celebrations for it, right!” For which he said “Oh! Yes, no idea dude may be this time we are not having anything”. With a sense of disbelief I said “But, last time your seniors did organize it amazingly, we really enjoyed on that day. And it’s a tradition which won’t be good if we drop it this time”. While I was talking to him, the last time celebrations just flashed on my mind. Where, I along with my friends was sitting in a group behind every one, commenting on every program that was being performed there. While this was going on all of a sudden I got up as I thought of some suggestion which could have made the program more exciting, so went up to one of the seniors present in front and before I could even talk to him; he brushed me aside saying we know how to organize things. Dismayed by his reply, I came back to my place and continued having a great time.

I got back to our discussion when he began his reply, “Harish, common we have so many other things to take care of, this is our final year and our placements are going on, we have our tensions don’t add any more to them!”. With a smile on face, I replied, “Ah, yes I was unaware of your problems; still I guess I will talk to the CR (class representative – topper for that semester) of your class”. He burst out with laughter, for which with a smile I continued, “I know CR in CBIT is nothing but a nerd, who only cares for his marks. But this is his responsibility and he is expected to take up the initiative, or why else should he be called a CR? Now it’s up to him he if takes up or not; I shall talk to him. Anyways have a good day, see you.” He replied back, “Sure, see you.”

Next day in the morning during break between the sessions, I was able to meet their CR. I asked him the same and as was expected, he gave a weird look; upon which I thought he might not even hear of something of that sort. Then I said to him, “No problem, I will take care of this event” without thinking and being unaware about the process and things involved in it. For which he gave a pleasing smile.

Here, I could have still gone back as none was there to help me out with the event and I kept thinking how I can manage everything all alone. But the ardent desire that the tradition should not be dropped made me to go ahead with it. I found out that the ISTE group present in the college was sponsoring this event for each branch with the props, cakes, snacks and other stuff. So that reduced my anguish considerably and got me a confidence that the event can still be pulled out though I was left with no time for the preparations, this news gave me a huge sense of relief.

After coming back to home, I started to ponder on it again. The celebrations will not be confined to only cake and snacks we still need to have some programs to make it exciting and here I was at home with little or no time left to even list out persons who can put up some show. Then something struck to my mind, two of the girls from the class junior to us (2nd yr) from the other section C-1 sings really well and we often used to make them sing during the ragging. Before I could think much on it, I called up one of them and persuaded her to sing for the event, after the usual ‘No’ that every one puts up, she agreed eventually, after I took much trouble in convincing her; thanks to her. Then I called her friend but this time it was bit easy to persuade. “Hey, your friend has agreed” always works wonders!!



I thought, now I have some song performances and I can add up antakshari and musical chairs to finish up the event. It might not be a great event but still a decently good one and much better than completely dropping it. So, had a good peaceful sleep that night, but next day morning little I knew that I will get myself again into the same tensed situation. I missed the bus that morning and reached college very late around 11 leaving only one hour to invite the lecturers. And in that one hour I have to prepare the invitations as well and missing even one lecturer will be such an embarrassing situation. I was cursing myself that had I come early before the classes started I could have caught a 1st year junior. May be god might have heard to me, I saw a guy passing at a long distant. Instantly, I called him to come near to me, The fact that I never saw him earlier in college made my belief strong that he should be a 1st year. But right in front of the classes, also without knowing much and calling from such a distance is considered to be risky for ragging and I was in a mood to take that risk.

As he came towards me, I asked him, “Which year?” to which he had replied “MCA 1st year”. Though we never rag MCA 1st years we only concentrate on the engineering 1st years but here I was in such a damn need. So, I told him, “I will not rag you not even interested in it, I need some help for which you have to bunk your class for this hour”. Surprisingly instantly he agreed without any buts’ and if’s. I took him to a lab where the invitation cards and other stuff were stored, then assigned him the work to place those cards in the covers and ran from there to the staff room.

Panting and in urgency approached the staff in-charge there, to which she was bewildered. With a smile I asked her, “Mam, I need the teaching and non-teaching staff list of CSE”. She instantly took the print out and gave to me without asking any question, maybe she understood the reason and was expecting someone would ask her for the list. That made me think how bad it would have been had we dropped the celebrations. Came back to the lab and sat along with him and completed the invitation cards. Assuring that invitation cards work was done, saying thanks I asked to him leave, once he left it flashed to me that I forgot to even ask his name!!!



Now, it was time to invite the lecturers for the celebrations. Thought it won’t be good if I go alone and invite so I asked few of my friends to accompany me and they did. We invited everyone, even the students which includes our juniors and as well as the seniors from both sections C-1 and C-2. After these events, we had a class session and having completed the work even I attended the session but all during the session I was so anxious thinking “How will it go, What if it dulled?”



The timing for which I booked the assembly hall and the end of class session had only five to ten minutes break in between, so I had put myself again into anxious moments by attending that class. As soon as the class was over, I rushed to the room where the cake, snacks and cool-drinks where placed. Saw a person in-charge there and requested him to send those to assembly hall right away. But, he showed his helplessness as he had no attendants to send those and told me he would do that as soon as he find someone. But, I was in no mood to wait as the time I was left with was miniscule. I requested him to give them to me and I will take them; he gave a surprised look too. They were around four to five big boxes, seeing them I understood why he had given that puzzled look; I had to carry them alone from that room to the assembly hall above the canteen one after the other. I could have called up my friends but I was not in a position to wait.





This confirmed my preparations where all done and set. And the assembly hall was also decently filled up with batches of all three years and again two sections in each of them and the teaching and non-teaching staff were all present. I had still around few minutes to start the proceedings. But then something stuck to me that if I start up the event with welcome message with my seniors and the outgoing batch sitting in front, it will amount as disrespect to them. So, I took one of my friends from the 4th year aside and told to him, “We have only two to three minutes prepare some welcome note and you have to start the event”. After those two to three minutes he came to me with the note and said, “Harish, look at it if this is fine”. To which I replied, “Whatever it is, its fine. People are waiting there, rush and start the program”.





After all the initial glitches and anxious moments I was into. The celebrations went really well with the help from my friends in organizing the shows and in distributing the snacks etc. Apart from once or twice running to the generator room from the assembly hall placed at diagonally opposite corners of the college, for the electrician to set the speakers right; everything else went on perfectly. Though when I compare this to the celebrations I attended when I was in 2nd year, this looked not so good but the sense of happiness and satisfaction was tremendous for me. As, if in that celebrations my words were not even heed to, here the very next celebrations I can proudly say that it was organized and even worked on completely by me.





This was the Sept. 5, 2005; it was my 3rd year of engineering, which will remain forever into my mind…. But little did I knew, what was in store for me for the coming Sept. 5!!! Interested in knowing what might have happened? Then read the next commencing part ….

Sept. 4, 2006; I was into my 4th year and final year of CBIT life. I along with my group of friends was idling our time in front of the sports room, post lunch; our usual favorite way of spending time. Then fortunately I happened to remember the date. I shouted with sudden rapidity, “Oops, today is 4th!!” someone from the group at their usual humorous best shouted back, “So what, is it your death day to be?” I replied, “Stop mocking guys, I am serious. Tomorrow we need to organize the Teachers day celebration”. For which Ratty (modernized version for Ratnakar) - if his looks has to be described. A tall, hefty having a typical nature of talk with heavy glasses slashed onto his face, anytime of the day makes him look a big nerd. Which he is, he is also the most decent and organized member of our group, he stood up and said, “Oh yeah! So shall we do it this time too?” I replied, “Of course we have to!!” and I continued, “Last time it was completely upon me but this time we all will do it together”. For which everyone were more than happy to work in their way.


So, I took Ratty, Pavan – person of extremes, if he can be taken to be the ultra modern kid as he enjoys and lives on rock music and other tech savvy stuff. He has got another side to him too, he equally is well aware and lives on the other kind of music (mass music in local slang) too and lot of other stuff too and always witty to the core and can get the nuts out of you, if you have happen to annoy him and if you do so, very easily it can considered your most unfortunate day; he has such great ability. He is a lean medium sized guy with always fully combed hair, sporting branded wear every moment. Along with Ratty and Pavan few other came along with me to the ISTE in-charge. I asked him, “Will you be providing the stuff for celebrations in similar manner, as it was done last time?” He gave me a complete shocker by saying, “No, this time we are not funding the event!!”

I was in full shatters, as again there was not much time left out it was almost the end of the day. So, whatever we can do we have to do only the next day. But this time I had greater hope, as I was not alone but my friends were also equally interested in organizing it. So, I told to Ratty and Pavan, “That’s ok, we will contribute ourselves. Tomorrow in first period start collecting in the class from our friends”. So, that’s what all we were able to plan on that day. And about the programs or shows to my amazement I didn’t even think of them.

Next day morning, I continued my legacy of going late to college and class. This was and is one thing which never comes into my control. Luckily as usual, the lecturer allowed me into the class. After having settled down at my place I looked at Ratty and Pavan, they said they were collecting. Till the end of the class session we had collected considerable amount, which I asked to keep it with them.

After the class sessions during the break, we went around each staff room inviting every lecturer. Mean time, Uday – supposedly the topper of class, takes up responsibility each time very well and he has a patient and friendly nature. To describe him, his style keeps changing; his hair keeps changing at times he complains of getting plump and eats all grass that he can find, at times he complains of being the same old personality.

And Bhanu – the other decent member of our group, who never talk’s bad and most dedicated to career and classes, never misses to take down the notes in class. To describe his looks, he is a tall, well built, and hairy with very unique gait. All his good manners will be lost in a second if he is any Disco or DJ, he would be the first person to hit the floor and gets into his own mood unaware of the surroundings, every time vows to eat less and not to eat non –vegetarian and ends up eating more than anyone else could and also ends up eating only non –vegetarian.

Both Uday and Bhanu took up the work of getting the best cake from the surrounding places. And we after inviting everyone went to the canteen at college and ordered there, for supply of the snacks and other stuff for the celebrations. And that officially were the end of the preparations, but for the shows to be put in there, we still had no clear idea. So, I took up that matter with my friends and after discussions we decided we will go with the conventional things like Antakshari, dumbsher arts, musical chairs etc, there was no time left for us to be creative and innovative.



Everyone including the faculty along with the HOD started assembling in the hall and we had our preparations going on too. Then I saw Uday coming in with the cake, as soon as he came in, I had some relief only then I remembered that a mam was not there in her room when we went to her staff room to invite. I went to Uday and told him, “Can you go and invite the mam, as she was not there when we went?”

May be he was tired roaming for the cake and began shouting on me, “Nee… @#$%&$ vere valu lera ….. (Youuu …. @#$%&$ you don’t have others …..)”. Being completely unaware of the fact that I had the microphone in my hand and it was in full active mode. His sound was echoing from the speakers which made him put a sudden halt to his word and embarrassingly he left from there to invite the mam. The funniest situation that can happen, we had a good laugh!!





Then, I started the proceedings with a welcome message and other programs followed it. We had a very good time with the lecturers and our other friends there. When it was time for the cake cutting, everyone pushed in towards the table to have a glimpse. And as, I was left with very little space, I pushed out myself from the crowd and was standing behind few others. Then there was the most memorable moment I cannot even think of. The HOD, after having done with the cutting of cake ; for the first piece of the cake he was searching for me and as I was standing behind, he was unable to locate me and had to wait for few seconds, still I got the first piece of the cake.



I Felt on top of the world, so euphoric and satisfied. Adding to it as it was a complete team work and more importantly along with my very good friends I was more enthralled and elated this Sept. 5, 2006 celebrations than the last year’s celebrations i.e., Sept. 5, 2005.



Next year, I was in Mysore for my training at Infosys. When I enquired my juniors on how they had celebrated Sept. 5, 2007. I felt dismayed and dejected to know that there was no celebration and an end to that tradition had finally come!!!

Is there a need for the Govt. (A.P. precisely) to re-strategize its higher education and employment policies?

Few days back while I was reading the paper, a news article about “No takers for IT SEZ, Govt. not favorable to allocate the space to other domain companies…” caught my attention instantly. Then I thought why the govt. is still hanging around to the decades old strategy of employment by the then govt.?

Another day I saw some other news “No takers for the traditional sciences/courses at colleges”. Then again I cursed the govt. for pushing the students away from the basic sciences, arts and other courses which are very much needed in every field and walk of life. This has happened because of the Govt. strategy of promoting only the engineering field and more specifically IT courses for few years now, as this field has created a huge pool of employment. Certainly then the reason for the promotion seems to be out rightly correct. But, is it really a right approach? Let’s dig deeper into it.

Very recently I saw some other news which was stating that around 1.6 lakh attended the engineering counseling from 3 lakh plus eligible candidates, where as last year almost every eligible student attended the counseling. Adding to it, only very few dared to take CSE/IT and many seats are left vacant. Seeing this, I was left so confused, if students are not getting into traditional courses and they are also not getting into engineering (precisely IT)? Then which other courses are they getting into? May be they are even more confused than I am, as for years taking a traditional arts/science was seen as degradable and a complete NO for a bright student and the IT which has provided the highest employment to almost all the engineering graduates, has back fired from past 1 yr.

Who is responsible for the present situation? The students and their parents are clueless of what field they can trade into. The way I see it’s majorly the ill efficiency of the Govt. agencies coupled with the wrong social outlook by each one of us.

Though, the govt. needs to be appreciated for its quick grasp of the then newly emerging IT field and using it efficiently to create wealth and employment but anything overdone is hazardous, which is what has really happened in A.P. now. Though the govt. can very easily wash away its hands by putting the blame on the present Global recession, but the fact remains is; this was going to happen with or without the recession may be the recession has pushed it a bit earlier. I always get surprised, that no politician or official talks about the govt. functioning towards the higher education and relevant employment. Most of the times they talk about very straight topics; the likes of agriculture, farmers where they don’t really have to put much of thinking and only needs to follow the set guidelines and even there they messes up hugely and keep discussing on it and side tracking the other major issues.

If, I have to cite a similar example; Detroit was considered as automobile hub earlier to the recession due to the presence of GM and Ford, the automobile veterans. Based on that, the govt. there (Michigan) should have promoted only mechanical and automobile education as they can get employment easily; but I am sure they haven’t. And why does our Govt. in AP always promote only IT and very few other sectors as a basis of employment for the educated youth?

The other reason for the present situation is the social pressure that an individual goes through. We in our society start glorifying and idolizing certain things over the above. Like for past few years Software Professionals were glorified and made poster boys everywhere and now when the situation has changed very quickly they are being asked, is your job secure, does your company started firing. Since the IT was promising along with huge pay checks till few years ago, everyone was being encouraged to get into it even though he might have not been interested in that work. The students were pushed away from their interest in other sciences, course etc. and influenced to join engineering as the IT companies majorly preferred engineering graduates over the other courses and for these companies even the branch of engineering never mattered and so was to the students, as at the end they were sure of being employed by an IT company.

But, are they really doing justice of the engineering education they had imparted? Very few get an opportunity to do that, since the work in an IT services company can also be executed by anyone and everyone with a few months of training in a technology and there is no engineering involved there. May be in few product companies the engineering skills are really vital, but the work in major IT services is not engineering and all that matters is knowledge in the technology/language and most of the job profiles there don’t even require that, it will be a mere work on excel and word with a bit of script execution. Hence the companies started hiring the other graduate students as well for the same job profiles with little bit less pay.

Being unknown of these points the work at software was always glorified which has greatly influenced most of the young men from this part of our nation to take up as a profession. The work here can very easily be compared to work in any other domain or even the Govt. organizations with only more strict process being employed, with more professionalism, with a little bit higher pay levels which is fast diminishing, with good naming conventions involved for the job profiles. But, it is highly volatile as it is depended on the foreign markets for the projects by ignoring our own local market which is also changing and changing for good, because of which there might not be big packages to the associates anymore. IT services are majorly used in automation of a process may be for a company or any other organization. By now lot of automation has already happened, largely for many process involved in various organizations of developed nations; that is the reason why we see an increase in maintenance projects and a decrease in core development projects. Also by now lot of applications has already been developed and huge and huge lines of codes are already stuffed into the repositories of various companies and now if there is any need of automation or any application development it’s a mere search into their repositories that can get the code for a particular required module. If this trend is followed I guess in coming years, every possible process will have an application developed previously and only customization of it will solve the problem, that way the opportunities in the service industry might sharply decline!!

I had to elaborate on a particular industry as it is misunderstood by many outside of it and also by the men inside it; When I had a discussion over the growth in IT sector with my friends before the recession, none agreed when I said, “Growth is not the same as it used to be and it will deteriorate further”. Now when I ask the same persons they themselves say that they see no good growth. I also had to elaborate on it as it was hugely glorified in our society and now it is being downgraded. Here is where we need to change our outlook towards the various work domains. Every industry has got its relevance, also good and bad; it is not right to weigh an industry over the other and glorifying a professional belonging to a domain over another professional of other domain.

Coming back to the Govt. strategy of promoting IT services as it creates high employment over the other sectors, yes it’s true that the service sector will have a good potential of creating employment. But how good an employment is, if it is seen as a volatile job and how good it is when insecurity is always running at back of the mind and more importantly if it is not relevant to what we have studied.

So, here we need to change the decade old mindset, when I see the discussion shows about the less numbers turning out for engineering counseling, the officials are still backing with their strategies and the only reason they see for this happening is because of recession. It’s high time that they realize their mistakes or else it’s the people who will ouster them as they did with the counseling. They need to rethink about it and come out with more focused and sustained plan for the higher education and relevant employment. If I have to propose the strategies for it, I think of the following:

More focused and practical oriented, quality Higher Education for EVERYONE:

The higher education be it the traditional science’s/ arts and other courses or be it the engineering; the reliance on the exam’s quickly need to be refrained. The need of the hour is provide the best of the education with good faculty and good infrastructure at each of the universities and their affiliated colleges. Colleges being run only for the name sake and which lack the facilities should either be shut down or supported to enhance their levels. Decentralization also needs to be done, i.e, the present system of glorifying few good colleges’ needs to be stopped. Presently the focus is only on the IIT’s , IIM’s and few other colleges, this way the funds for other colleges is ill effected. Due to the high idolization of these institutes other colleges are always looked down.

But, is there any study or survey done, which can prove that an IIT’ian or IIM or ISBian performs really well over the other college educated professionals in their further professional levels? They might get higher salary initially due to the idolization of the institute they are from; but it is always possible that a professional from other college performs well and better than him and can command more respect in the organization. If we have to relate it to US; the Harvard’s, the Stanford’s are highly respected, regarded and recognized but not idolized. There even the other universities have their own relevance and equally good facilities. But here back in India, it is seen as a crime if we have got low CAT or JEE score and got into other college. I might have exaggerated, but the situation is no better than that, it is seen as an end of one’s career if he has not been able to get into these institutes. But what everyone fails to recognize is eventually they have to get into same companies with some different pay packages obviously and from there it’s the individual performance that matters.

Due to the present over focus on the few institutes, the funds and the attention are always to those institutes and other colleges get a step motherly treatment. Because of this the students are going through tremendous pressure for the entrance exams to get into them and then we start publicizing that getting into IIM’s is more difficult than getting into world best schools as more number of students compete for few seats (here we forget that most of them are not serious about it, and it is not a single but group of institutes) and we take pride in it. Rather we need to be depressed with the present situation; our strategy has failed to create more good institutes and thereby increasing the competition among the students for very few seats, not because of lack of funds but due to the lack of strategy, lack of willingness and lack of planning. Also because of this the talented and skilled are being restricted to only few colleges, but when these people are distributed over the other colleges the rest of the students will also gain the all important exposure from them.

I find it really silly when a state fights with the center for an IIT or IIM as A.P. did, lead by the noted academicians’. I don’t understand what for they want more of these institutes, even if one more IIT is granted what good it will do to the huge pool of students, only few hundred’s will get a quality education leaving the rest lakh’s of students to their destiny. What for they want to create world class amenities in very few selected schools when large number of other colleges and schools lack basic facilities like labs and at times even the tables and chairs. How good this strategy is working for India? The few selected students who were given quality education, how many from them work in India or work for generating revenue for India? Does any study or survey been conducted? So, focus needs to shift to other universities and colleges as well, they are needed to be empowered with faculty, infrastructure etc. The basic structure of the universities and colleges needs to be upgraded to higher levels.

And the students need to be encouraged to think according to their interests and not to go by the popular beliefs and paths. Though some routes might yield higher pay’s initially and there might be a social pressure to get into that domain and work, but eventually following the interest and skill levels will be more fruitful and also towards the end only it can earn higher recognition and also remuneration. This needs to be propagated well into the society, as most of us are presently giving away our interest levels in our subjects and skills and take up a higher paying job or get into more popular path to US and there again get into the same work of IT with the help of all helpful consultancies. Here I talk about the majority and not the exceptions and not about the other few because we will have exceptions everywhere.

We are thrown into such situations as we believe we are not competent enough may be because of the low standard education we received, the reason is again the same. Along with the increase of quality education, research is what needs to be stressed on. How many innovations we were able to make? How many patents we have filed? If we compare these with other nations we stand somewhere down the queue.

Each vertical of the education be it a science/arts or others have to be given its due relevance:

The present situation confronting the students whether to take up engineering or not, whether to take up other courses or not, is due to ill planning that has been done over the years. Each and every field is important and relevant, it’s important that we excel in whatever field we take up to earn high returns. And that can only be done only if we are really interested in the work we are doing. This also needs to be widely promoted.

Create employment opportunities in other sectors too:

Along with recognizing the power of service sector in employment, the Govt. has to promote other sectors too. Every domain has got a power to provide employment, so it is needed to encourage setting up of more enterprises, industries and businesses. Encourage the entrepreneurs tremendously as they are not only reducing the burden of the Govt. as a job seeker but also creating jobs for fellow nationals, the present policies of encouragement are nowhere close of being helpful a lot still needs to be done here. A lot of employment happens through small enterprises and business and not the big corporate, but the sad state is that the big companies which doesn’t need any encouragement receives high level of assistance and where as the small companies end up getting discouraged with the stringent policies.

These are the few points which I present for now, there might be many added to it as well. To the end I want to warn the officials and responsible persons of the state that-

“Nothing can do more harm to a nation, than an aimless and clueless educated Young men and women.”

And for a nation like us, where we back upon our population and human resources it can cause even more harm. Naturally our biggest strength is our young population and if they are being pushed into the dark and left clueless; our biggest strength can also turn into our biggest weakness and a disaster. I only hope they take note of this!!!

Indian Education a flawed or a business centered System?

The present statements of Mr. Kapil Sibal, the union HRD minister regarding the present education system prevalent in India aroused a sense of happiness in me and also pushed me into the immediate past, a few months back into my memory lane…
It was a sunny Friday in Norcoss, Atlanta, I was chatting with my friends who were online from India. All of a sudden I realized that I need to visit Bank of America (BOA) for transfer of my funds back to India. So I started out my walk to BOA, it was past noon; as earlier I had been there, I knew it would be a long walk of over two miles. The thought of it marked my walk with brisk and swiftness, after walking for a distance I saw a school, The Norcoss High School. It had a nice looking building with good open space around it and a huge parking lot. The school sported a deserted look, may be the class sessions were going on. Thinking not much about it I went on to reach the BOA, unfortunately my work didn’t happen. Started my strenuous walk back to the room, while I reached the school again this time it was the parking lot first. I saw two high school girls walking towards their car they got into it and drove away, their mannerisms made me to compare them with the rich kids in the top notch schools of India. Though my swiftness had reduced, I continued walking while I was observing and comparing the same with back home at India.

Then I saw another girl in her jogging costume running around the school, few other students playing basket ball. Looking at the school kids playing and enjoying the most precious life, I forgot about my unfortunate times for a second. A few more strides got me at the crossroads of the school and as the school traffic was more I pressed the walk button; was waiting for the walk signal to be flashed. The cars where zooming past me and most of the drivers where barely into their teens, few among the huge looking cars honed loud music with the school kids in it enjoying to the most. When I turned my face to the other side of the road I saw plenty, again huge looking trucks lined up; well no a second look at it made me realize that they are school buses, looking like a hybrid between truck and bus. The liveliness of that atmosphere and the way the school children’s are being treated and nurtured, that wonderful moment buried my other worries.

But soon when I started to compare the situations back home with this, the happiness soon faded leaving me depressed. Yes, we find the similar situations here in India too but in very few high society schools where only the rich and power of the society can set their foot into. The Norcoss high school is any other school in US to my comprehension. It’s time that we realize that we have failed to provide if not the same environment at least a similar situations for children in India. Here I stress upon situations and not the infrastructure, we might lack the infrastructure due to lack of funds, but still we can provide a lively environment to the students where in they can live the life and not run for it.

Over the years we have followed marks or result centric system, where only grades are valued skipping the other valuable assets of a student. There might be lot of reasons for this; I try to figure out few of them:

Ease of Management:
We have not been able to try out more rational methods of evaluation, or even if we did we dared not to change our conventional methods of testing a student i.e, through marks. By flashing the marks/grades on one’s score card, make things easier in differentiating between the students. Here, we have to note that this system makes things easy but it’s not a full proof righteous system. It’s our failure in inventing more appropriate means of evaluation or it’s our failure in implementing better ways. We need to remember that we have failed in this and we the failures are gauging a student’s performance with draconian medieval systems in place.

This, marks system also helps the business to churn out millions sorry billions from the innocent parents in the name of education. Creating a slab system and fixing up the fees based on these slab’s in turn based on the marks. Unfortunately if a student has not been able to secure a rank or marks there lies a business opportunity for these chain institutions.


Conventional Outlook towards performance:
In India right from our childhood we are taught to compete with the rest and competition always is seen only by the means of marks sheet. Due to this over pressure the child will start losing out his basic talent in other fields and concentrate more on gaining marks, as if he is some marks printing machine. We nurture the children based on job/market situations. Once we had a great IT boom going on, everyone was forced to take up this field even without knowing the basic nuances of it. And the result is we produce a huge number of IT professionals who know nothing other than following the directions from the boss and put in the lines of code based on his boss thinking.

The real programmers are a rare commodity who visualize, who think, who solve, who execute and who create the meaningful applications out of his own ideas. We are proud of number of IT professionals that we have been producing over the decades, but why do we still not able to make a google, an ebay, an amazon, a yahoo, a skype many to it but none from India? Why? We have huge and huge base of software personnel but almost every one doesn’t really put his thinking cap and create; most of them work for the service sector dancing to the tunes of the foreign client and desi manager. Lately we are seeing a good number of start up’s trying out new ideas and taking risks, but our IT giants the great Indian IT companies each with tremendous employee strength and huge capital reserves doesn’t really encourage new ideas or new creativity. They are very much happy generating business through maintenance and support activities and caring little about their employees and innovation.

Our culture teaches us to obey the elders and not to say or act against them. And we keep carrying this all our lives, in classrooms we say nothing when we don’t understand, we say nothing when we don’t agree, we say nothing when we have better theories, yes we say nothing in front of elders let alone opposing it. The same thing is carried forward to the work areas; we are the most loyal employees an employer can have in this world. For us Boss is always right and we take pride in doing, YES BOSS! Here the bosses too forget that this kind of employee though might be perfect for the momentous work but in long run, they are doing more harm than good to the organization.

Talking about our conventional outlook towards the life, we think that only the highly educated with high marks are successful in life; I want to add an example here. If Bill Gate’s were to be in India, I guess he would have remained a school dropout without creating the huge Microsoft Empire. I might be wrong too, but the amount of pressure that we put on the children and our over care to secure their future in a highly paying job makes us to pressurize them. And if a brilliant student like Bill Gates drops out from ‘A’ grade school in India, his family would be the first one to start pestering him and his ideas then it would be the society eventually the challenge that he poses in his work will look miniscule when compared to these outwardly pressures.

Huge Population:
The present reforms suggested by Mr. Kapil Sibal have created uproar in certain sections of education community. They are more concerned about the glitches in implementing the reforms going by the fact of our huge population. According to them it’s not easy in execution. Excuse me but who has asked you to trade in an easy path? You are not being paid to follow an easy route in your comfort zone!

Education a mere Business:
I have no second thoughts in saying that Education in India is nothing but a business opportunity for many. Both education and health sector enjoy the status of being humane and very few think of compromising in these. This is where the real exploitation has begun in our country, realizing the importance of these fields in our life’s the businesses in these fields, running operations on the names of chain and corporate are squeezing the money from the innocents.

Right from the schooling to engineering to management no profession is untouchable to these businesses. If I have to talk about schools, the corporate and international schools are way out of reach of a common man. Here the school managements apply all kinds of business tactics which can be taught in B-Schools as case studies. To cite something the schools restrict the parents to buy the books from only one vendor and will not accept if then get it from elsewhere, in turn that vendor pays commission to the school management. 

Talking about books make me remember the most important thing which I cannot ignore. The students are made to carry books for all periods on that day and each day will have a minimum of 6 periods. And each period will again have a text, a classwork, a homework and non-detail if it’s a language. On any day the student is made to carry not less than 20 books!! During my schooling I tried to reduce this count by different permutations and combinations only to end up irking the teacher. Whenever I see a student carrying a huge bag on their back, I feel miserable. What a sorry state they are into! Is it not our failure in finding better ways of mentoring?

Next is the most unfortunate period of Indian student or should I be saying a south Indian student? The Intermediate!! Thinking of which scares the hell out of me… Everywhere, you will start hearing about EAMCET, BITS, IIT – if you come into this flavor you must have faced the hardships in school itself, our businessman are even running schools which teach IIT foundation from class 1, huh what a pity!!!

EAMCET a less dreaded term for me has created such a business for the institutes over the years that they can even compete with the likes of Mittal and Mallaya!! The government conducts this exam which tests more of a student’s memory power or their speed of calculation putting aside the main important aspects that’s need to be tested for a future engineer like his analytical power, his reasoning power, his innovativeness; though we find these sections in almost all of the competitive exams less the EAMCET but there they still test the speed and accuracy more. The reason why they have this test is that the board which conducts the basic intermediate believes that its exam system has got flaws. Instead of correcting that exam they came up with another test, the great EAMCET which has marked its own ill efficiencies.

Every year before the exam a debates start up whether to conduct EAMCET or not, but as long as the corporate institutes are making money by luring the students into the EAMCET trap this exam is going to continue with full support from the govt. The news channels makes business with those debates, the person flashing on the screen with the debates makes name and creates his brand, the institutes makes money from coaching, the govt. / The politician’s makes money from the institutes, the lecturers makes money by troubling the students; everyone associated with it directly or indirectly makes money. But the poor student ends up screwing his valuable 2 yrs of student life restricting himself to the books and ends up getting a seat in an engineering college which he would have got anyways without EAMCET as well and with much less pain. His pain is their gain!!

Now it’s time to study in an engineering college, after wasting two years over some bulky books and also wasting the parent’s hard earned money. The business doesn’t end there; they accompany you in every field that you get into. Once I happen to pass through the Ameerpet lane in Hyderabad, I was so amused with the sight of it the whole lane leaving no gap in all the commercial complexes are filled up with coaching institutes posters. I could see my entire syllabus book (computer science) on the walls of the buildings and also the banners tied over the road. If I had collected all the pamphlets that were being thrown at me, I am sure I could have given my note book a miss for few days. Everywhere I could only see the computer languages, packages, platforms and what not; man they teach a lot!!

Enough of technology let’s move on to Management education. CAT, XAT, SAT, MAT, ATMA, ICET, PGCET – these are the few tests that I remember as of now but the list is a lot more. Every state, every institute, every university comes up with their own exam. And the basic background that they test for remains the same in every exam. Then why do they have all these? When they can follow one centralized test? Why? Answer again is simple; hit the people where they cannot return your blow. Each exam generates huge revenues to the parent institute or the body which conducts it. Most of the institutes seek the applications even before the results are out, so that the student in confusion ends up applying to every institute at the end he ends up joining only one or not even that.

We are at slight disadvantage when compared to the English speaking nations:
If you have imagined that I want to highlight the point that as we are not English speakers we are at disadvantage globally then you are wrong. Infact we are much better speakers of English than the others as our accent and diction is much clearer than theirs. It is very unfortunate to see few of our Indians faking their accents to sound like a foreign national, mostly seen in US. The point I want to highlight here is that from schooling we have to learn more than two languages like if our native language is Telugu, we will have to learn Telugu, again learn the Indian official language Hindi (it is not our national language as most of us think, Hindi is our official language and not national) then we have to learn the universal English language. Whole of our schooling we spend half of our time on these languages, leaving with only half of the time for the other important sciences. Over and upon this in intermediate we are made to take Sanskrit or French as we get higher marks in them. Sanskrit is no doubt a beautiful language and we will love to learn it but the purpose being solved is miniscule.

My Suggestions for better Education system in place:
We should stop glorifying the tried and tested paths. Stop glorifying the IIT’s, IIM’s and other premier institutes, they are also like any other institute with some better facilities and better process. But they cannot make you onto something which you are not, if you don’t have the real talent and a strong intent to achieve even an IIT or IIM cannot help you out. Believe me once you are done with your education and out into the real world, the students of great institutes and not so great institutes all end in similar companies may be with different pay packages. And from there it’s the performance that’s matters and not the institute background. Even a student from just an ordinary college will have a complete chance to prove his mettle and prove that he can do better than an IITian or IIM graduate. There is a need to also increase the present institutes or upgrade the prevalent ones into better institutes, till then the institutes will not stop their exploitation in the name of management quota. It is startling to know that people are more than willing to shell out 40, 50 lacs even up to a crore for a medical seat!!!

We also should stop glorifying few of the professions over the others. No profession is better over the other. It only matters how good you are in that profession and how you perform and you can only perform when you are really interested in it. To take an example from past few years we have glorified the IT profession a lot over the others, only to realize that it is the most vulnerable and now the sheen that it had of high pay packages and fast growth is quickly fading. What about the scores and scores of IT professionals now? They are left at the crossroads with closed routes!! When you stop glorifying certain fields the child will not be influenced by your thoughts and will choose his own path out of his own interest.

The advantages it will have:

- It will be less stressful as the child will not be under pressure to enter a path against his interest.

- He will enjoy both while learning, while implementing his ideas and also while working.

- India will have experts and the best people in every field and not just engineering, IT, medicine.

- As the people will choose various paths, the competition for certain sectors will reduce like for engineering or management making the present exams a misfit.

- The businesses will be left with no other option than withdrawing from the Educational field.

Coming to the exam pattern and the system, my mantra is straight and simple; TEST THEM NOT!!!
When, the situation becomes imperative to conduct the test, so as to allot few available seats. Even then the gradual evaluations that was done can be utilized, when it is felt it doesn’t help then there should be only one exam throughout India which is rational and proper with thorough research put into before conducting the exam. This way we will be reducing the trauma that a student goes through to attempt each and every exam that keeps evolving every day.

Talking about our examination based system; none of us can have a doubt over the supremacy of civil services in India over the other exams. The IAS, IPS and others are believed to be the brilliant sections of the society as they have cleared the toughest exams. But the recent survey by an independent agency has placed our bureaucrats at 8th position among the other asian countries and point here is they have taken in the data from only 8 nations and placed India at the last. If our believed to be best persons are rated the last in asia itself it’s a guess for any, where they will be standing over the globe. If the land of billion is not been able to produce the best, then certainly the fault lies with the selection system and for such top posts of India the system should have a process in place to gauge the candidates sincerity and honesty towards the nation along with other process to test the intelligence etc.

Stop testing a student based merely on an exam on a day. Start observing and analyzing as he evolves, as he studies, as he behaves, as he performs throughout the year of study. This system will give a comprehensive understanding about a student in not just the studies but also about his all round personality.

And this system should not be again based on marks/grades. It has to be a conclusive study which identifies his strengths and weaknesses, which identifies his talents and passions. Bases on this study the child needs to be encouraged in whatever he is interested in or whatever he does the best. This way the child grows up with immense satisfaction, grows up in confidence and lives his life to the fullest and not run for it. This will also helps him in making a sound decision about his future career and he will never be in confusion while taking up his path, unlike us the present generation!!

This way a nation of billion will also have diverse profiles, diverse professionals, diverse interests and millions to represent the country in various fields and domains. The day this happens INDIA will be second to none. But for this to happen we need an honest, truthful govt. which will work towards it; with sincere interest. This can change the people’s outlook towards the performance and success. I earnestly hope that I see this happening. The govt. needs to work on this with sincere efforts and think about the reforms in education but I guess they would do so only when the children get a right to vote!!!
Lastly only thing I want to say is
THEY ARE YOUR FUTURE,
TEST THEM NOT!!!