Would you Send your Child to a Government School?

From Infrastructure to Accountability, Government Schools seem to be Perennially lagging behind. It’s high time The Government wakes up to the newer methods to force The Government-run schools to perform and deliver the best to Educate the future Citizens of this Country.

Mrs. and Mr. Khanna (Vasant Vihar, New Delhi) have been extremely worried since the last few months – the reason being their four-year-old daughter’s education. The major tussle was regarding the selection of a private school over a government one. “We just couldn’t risk a government school for our daughter,” is what they have to say. Unfortunately, they are not the only ones who have to go through this turmoil of parenting (deciding on the right school).

Even worse, this problem is not a recent development in the Indian education scenario in spite of the fact that the present government spend per child per month is more than the fees in 80% of the private schools. But still, the government schools in rural India are a pitiable sight. The scenario certainly differs a lot in the semi-urban and urban areas in terms of proper infrastructure, but the peril right now is that as much as 80% of the funds allotted to government schools is spent only on infrastructure and teacher’s pay and not on enriching the way education is imparted. Using it as an advantage, the private schools have managed to gain popularity among the parents.

Cut to the metros and there is a sea change in the way parents look at the type of schooling they want for their children. Most, if not all, believe that they should rather spend more and send their children to the nearest DPS (Delhi Public School) instead of a government-run school. As one of the parents points out, “I want my son to get educated in the new westernised method where there is much more than mere classes of English, History and Maths. Public schools have classes like mental maths, playing with ceramics, fashion and textile, and teachers are readily available for counselling to help build up the personality of a child.” In fact, these parents believe that the teachers in such schools are helpful and are willing to extend help even beyond class hours. But this is possible only for those who can afford such form of education. Thus, the question remains: What about the major part of the population that still can’t afford to send their children to these plush private schools?

Speaking from the point of view of the government schools, the Principal of a renowned government school in Salt Lake, Kolkata (name withheld on request) argues, “What people fail to realise is that government schools have a wider horizon to cater to. We might be lagging behind in updating our syllabus (which the government has started looking into), but apart from that in terms of other parameters, it’s because of the mass that we cater to, we cannot provide a different world to the students where they are kept inside plush centrally air-conditioned classrooms, served breakfast and transported in air-conditioned school buses.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

 

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She came and she saw

Hillary Clinton visits India and tells Delhi that Barack Obama too is good for business

For a US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a substantial five days on her official tour to India. Her association with this country goes back to the presidential years when she came as First Lady and then returned later on private visits. In addition, Hillary has had close interactions with elite Indo-Americans organisations and individuals, some of whom have been her very prominent backers. Not surprisingly, this trip to India was her fourth.

The trip was designed to highlight the depth of ties and understanding between the US and India and had all the photo-ops that Americans know Indians love: a meeting with Bollywood icon Amir Khan, a picture of political correctness; and get together with tycoons and the impoverished in equal measure, all of which was great news as far as Indian TV channels were concerned.

In an address in New Delhi, she said that it was time for more people-to-people contacts between the two countries! Hardly. Such contacts that exist between the people of these two countries would scarcely have a parallel in the modern world: for example the US remains the most favoured destination for Indian students. In the last seven months, there has been a whopping 38% increase in the number of Indian candidates going to the US. The connection between the two civil societies is chronicled virtually every day in the media.

Says journalist Jeremy Kahn, reporting Hillary’s India trip, “ this hardly seems to be an earth-shattering policy announcement. In fact, it seems to be an extremely trite pronouncement. Her own schedule demonstrates that the US-India relationship long ago moved beyond formal diplomacy. So this should hardly have been billed as “a major address.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Why Hasn’t The DGCA head been Suspended yet?

The DGCA head should be Immediately Suspended & Questioned on numerous loopholes in our Aviation Infrastructure Endangering Thousands

“Whoever willfully flies any aircraft in such a manner as to cause danger to any person or to any property on land or water or in the air shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees, or with both.” These are the glorious words from the Aircraft (Amendment) Act, 2007 that adorns the website of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Whoever from DGCA was consulted for making this Act must have been either extremely shrewd or farsighted... or both. The onus of any ‘flight’ crime endangering lives or property, as per the Act, only lies with the pilots and not with anybody else. Given the latest rot exposed in the fudging of pilots’ marks, one questions why this Act should not be expanded to include in its ambit even on-ground officials like the head of DGCA who, either through deliberate commission or omission, have been as much party to the issue of endangering lives of flyers as the criminal pilots themselves. While pilots have been arrested, and so have been some low-key DGCA officials, the huge question is, why hasn’t the DGCA head, an IAS officer called SNA Zaidi, been suspended till now?

Charge 1 - Criminal negligence: The latest series of scams shows how pilots used forged mark sheets to secure their ‘Airline Transport Pilot Licences’. These licenses are required by co-pilots to graduate to become a ‘commander’. 4,000 such licences are under scrutiny. The police have arrested Parminder Kaur Gulati of Indigo and Jitender Kishen Verma of Air India in this scam. These pilots forged mark-sheets in order to obtain their respective licences. Even a veteran pilot – Air India captain J. K. Verma (flying for Air India since 1989) – forged his testimonials to get his licence. Arjun Giare, who obtained his license through a faked mark-sheet (forged Class 10 certificate to meet the minimum age criteria) was even suspended in the year 2000 by the US Federal Aviation Authority. In another case, Garima Passi, daughter of Director of Air Safety in DGCA, was suspended recently as even her licence was based on forged documents.

Crime branch officers (who are investigating this case) have commented that “such a scam could not have taken place without some DGCA officials being in the know.” Mark-sheets are issued to pilots from the DGCA’s central examination office in R. K. Puram in New Delhi, which are to be submitted to DGCA’s head office for further processing. The issue here is not that pilots have fake licenses – pilots have original and authentic licenses. But these licences are based on fake mark sheets – which possibly could not have been approved at the license issuing end, unless DGCA officials throughout the organisation were complicit to the act.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri 
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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