Dear and respectable faculties,
Yes, I completely agree with Varun Arya on the new HRD Minister's qualification (unwanted) controversy.
Historically, there are three Emperors globally renowned and had the respectful adage "The Great". They are "The Great Ashoka", "The Great Alexander" and "The Great Akbar". Of the three, Akbar never went to school and lived his entire life without knowing to read or write, as historians claim.
Tamil Nadu State had a memorable Chief Minister. A close friend of him approached for a postgraduate (M.Sc, Physics or chemistry) seat in Presidency College Chennai and the candidate was qualified to seek admission. Unfortunately, all admissions got over and this deserving candidate could not be accommodated. The chief minister refused to use his influence, which he was known for. However, he became inquisitive as to why just one more person could not be accommodated. The Education Secretary (presumably IAS) was called in. He lamented over his plight of having to work under an uneducated Chief Minister. When the Secretary highlighted the need for Lab facilities for PG students which had limited number matching with just number of students, the CM did not relent. He asked the Secretary, if he had vessels at home for cooking and at a time for how many people (guests) he could cook. The Secretary said, he could cook for 10 guests. The CM asked, what he would do, if he had all of a sudden 20 guests. The Secretary responded that he would cook twice with the same capacity vessels. Then the CM said, why don't you do the same at the college by making two sets of students use the same facility since the college/classes are hardly for 6 hours a day! It gave birth to SHIFT system in colleges.
In the lower level education, school drop outs were at upwards of 60% and this uneducated CM did the route cause analysis and introduced noon-meal scheme to prevent drop outs.
Today for Tamil Nadu to boast of having hundreds of Engineering, Medical and professional colleges, this CM was singularly responsible. He was KAMARAJ who did not cross elementary school.
I see "integrity" and "values" in education have eroded and have touched an all time low. We need people with right attitude and the wherewithal to cleanse the cancer-struck system.
Let us hope under the new leadership things change for good. Let us not intimidate them with our skepticism, right at the start itself.
Kind regards,
S Venkatesh
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Varun Arya <aryav@sancharnet.in> wrote:
For the last couple of days, I am finding mails about Mrs. Smriti Irani, new Union HRD Minister about her qualifications vis-a-vis the position she has been given in the Union Cabinet.--
Though I am a proud alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, based on my extensive experience and interactions with people in India and abroad, I would like to say that there is no correlation between qualification and competence. Qualification is neither necessary nor sufficient for competence. Qualification may possibly help in competence, but only if the concerned person has the right aptitude and attitude.
Without taking any names, we all know the extensive sabotage and subversion done to the education in India during the last many years, despite the successive Union HRD Ministers having been "highly" qualified. Even the governance of our nation suffered significantly despite the Prime Minister having been the most qualified in its history. All the regulatory agencies like AICTE, NCTE, MCI, etc. were made rent-seeking bodies which were least bothered about the merit of the institutions or the development of our nation. Ishwar Dayal Committee, U. R. Rao Committee and various surveys done by business magazines have been repeatedly saying that overwhelming 85% of AICTE approved institutions were sub-standard and almost 85% of the pass outs from AICTE approved institutions were not employable. I have had six meetings with AICTE team members including two with its Chairman during the last few months but not even in one meeting they wanted to talk about the merit of institutions. No one knows where thousands of crores of rupees collected over the years in the name of education cess were spent. Right to Education has become a massive scam. I can go on and on. The less said the better!
Let us all sincerely pray and wish that Mrs. Smriti Irani, new Union HRD Minister, provides the much needed paradigm shift to overhaul the education, since it is the foundation of any society and the nation. If India is to really become a developed country then we have no choice but to bring education out of the mess it got into over the last many years, specially the last decade.
Thanks and best regards
Varun Arya
http://www.thebetterindia.com/8030/aravali-institute-of-management-the-story-of-breathing-life-into-a-barren-land/
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