IIMs in India. Any new Bill needed to improve its working?

Who will decide this question? IIMs themselves, other educationalists, politicians and babus?

Beheruz Nariman Sethna, a distinguished alumnus of IIT-Bombay and IIM-Ahmedabad and the first person of Indian origin to become President of a University in the US - a position held for 19 years, opines that "world class institutions are not built by politicians, but by those working within them and the proposed IIM Bill not only curbs the freedom of the 13 IIMs , but also dilutes their quality".(The Hindu, June 26,2015)

We better leave it to those who know better than us and hoard them to develop those  centres of excellence and get places in the first twenty of world ranking!

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H.C to rescue of nurse sacked before retirement.

Sadistic Pleasure of Officials in Government.

The devils are at work always deriving pleasure out of one's suffering and effecting discrimination on the eve of retirement.

M.C Gomathi Nayagi was appointed village health nurse on September 24,1986 and was to retire on June 30 last year after putting in 28 years of service. The Deputy Director of Health Services of Vellore district terminated her service on June 12 last, as she failed to pass SSLC - a necessary qualification for village health nurse and hence the petition before the High Court. Justice Hariparanthaman directed the state Health Secretary to invoke his power under Rule 48 of Tamil Nadu State and Subordinate Rules and relax the qualification rule within eight weeks as usually done in other cases.

As an administrator I don't understand the logic behind the need for a direction from the high court without which our state administration won't act on its own without wasting the time and money of the aggrieved subordinate official and the time of the hon. Judge of high court. If passing of SSLC was so important, who had allowed the person to continue in service for so long and why can't recover the sums paid as salaries from the officials concerned so that such mistakes don't occur in future. Such a thought and action is never a possibility in our set up unfortunately.

When are we going to get  a fair and impartial administration in this country?

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Human population Up, Tree population Down!

Infrastructure development consumes and destroys tree population in hours whereas they grew in years and decades to maintain balance of environment and ensure controlled temperature and drinking water for human population.

Mindless annihilation of trees and forests takes place in the name of development but the replacement of such life-giving trees and forests is not guaranteed by the developers for years and decades. God give them sane advice!

A mundane example( The Hindu, June 22,2015) : Several old and massive Trees ( 50 to 80 years old ) were sacrificed for road widening on Dindigul-karur Main Road in Tamil Nadu State of Indian Union while environmentalists keep crying with no solutions!

Practical solution?

Take up widening by making one row of trees as the median without cutting them as far as possible!

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Dalit families at the receiving end again.

Facing a social boycott from upper castes and fearing possible violence all 13 Dalit families of Ansurda village in Osmanabad  in Maharashtra have written to district collector Prashant Narnavre seeking rehabilitation near an urban area.

Upper caste youths have no patience or tolerance when Dalits celebrate the birth anniversary of their icon Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar. Hence the clash and social boycott resulting in fear of attack. This is happening after 68 years of India's independence on the soil of Ambedkar!

One should pity such a situation happening in some parts of the country once in a while in spite of great leaders advocating harmony and comity among different communities and religious groups. Political leaders and state officials should strive for peaceful living of Dalits in their localities and habitations. Freedom of India has no meaning unless we learn to live together.

As a district collector in Sagar ( a predominantly Scheduled Caste Community people subject to untouchability) in Madhya Pradesh during 1979-82 I made it a point to visit interior areas, make night halts in pitched tents as a part of innovative approach in district  administration, stay for an hour or two in Dalit mohalla (colony), take a cup of tea in their hutment along with officials and non officials from higher castes like Sub Divisional Magistrate, Superintendent of Police, village Patel, Block Development Officer. This was to indicate to the villagers that district administration condemned untouchability and the Dalits    were a protected lot in the interior pockets of the district. 

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Change of guard in Nalanda Varsity

Thanks to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalaam, the former President of India who initiated the move in 2005 for re-establishment of Nalanda University near the ruins of erstwhile and ancient Nalanda University. The Central Government has announced the appointment of former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo, a recipient of Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of public affairs and currently a member of the governing body since its inception, as the new Chancellor of Nalanda University to succeed Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. It is a right decision of the Government of India.

Located at Rajgir in Bihar the university started the first academic session on September 1, 2014.

Let us see how it would develop as a centre of learning and earn a significant place at the global level befitting its original status.  

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One Rank One Pension

The implementation of this slogan for the retired military personnel, pending as a demand for three decades, by any government including the ruling BJP is not an easy task although it was one of the many promises strongly made by the party on the eve of polls.

It seems the political parties are in the habit of making all sorts of promises left and right without any home work whatsoever during the polls but twisting the palms soon after the victory for halfhearted  implementation.

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