#RIP APJ ABDUL KALAM.

      He may be 83 years old. His smile is as fresh as that of a child. He may be the former president of India yet he had never misused his power or his status. He is an ever learning student who is an inspiration for all the students of the country. He is a great teacher who is an inspiration for the whole teaching community and who dedicated his life for uplift of the education system and students, even after becoming the President of India. He is the father of Nuclear Science of India. He is the inspiration for all those scientists who dedicated their research for the country. He is the one who understand the innocent thoughts of children more than their parents. He is the most loved individual of the country. We may miss him physically but we can see his innocent smile in every child, his milestones in every milestone we achieve as a country, his ideas in youngsters, his thoughts in students, his success in every missile or spaceship we send. He had done his part and we cannot expect more from a single missile. As he wished, he had his last moments with the young minds of India. He inspired us till his last breath. I do not have any words to say or may be the English doesn't have words to describe him. Letzzz take inspiration from him and work as a team keeping all our differences apart to achieve his vision 2020 for our country which can be the only homage and respect we can pay to the great legend. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.

It is not a loss. Let us interpret this as a chance to repay him in terms of service to nation and may be he wanted every Indian to get inspired and he sacrificed his life for the cause. 

     

Opportunities Vs Reservation System.

             There are innumerable discussions and debates on reservation system. Some of us support the system and some of us oppose the system but there will never be a satisfactory conclusion. It is always an endless debate. We always tend to forget the roots of these reservation system and we always argue considering only some cases in the present scenario. This is system is the effect of the illogical caste system and other differences created in our society long back. Even today there are people in our country who are abandoned. There are some so called priests who try and show their supremacy over some minorities in our community. The present reservation system is introduced for the uplift of these backward classes of the society to reduce inequalities and social barriers like caste system. Unfortunately the people’s representatives are using these inequalities for their vote bank. The point is the reservation system which is used to the uplift of one section of society should not make the other sections deprived of their opportunities. So we should create equal opportunities to each individual of the society. Suppose in educational sector we should take care that each and every child born in this country should have equal opportunity to study irrespective of their economical background. There should be regularization of school fee and better infrastructure so that everyone can be blessed by knowledge. We can also follow a system where each individual paying educational tax according to his income which is later used for the education of the younger generation. Unfortunately the government schools are in a pathetic situation and no one is willing to join or collaborate with government to improve the facilities for education of under privileged sections of society. It is very disgusting to see government which is not concerned with primary and secondary education suddenly introduces reservation system in case of higher education without a justified base. They should understand that every child born in India has equal right of education that is every child has a right to study in IIT’s and it is the responsibility of government to provide such education. More over they should improve the standards and we should go beyond the present IIT’s. We should question ourselves. Are the graduates which we produce can compete with the world? We should not satisfy with one odd case. As a nation we should produce such engineers, scientists and researchers in mass numbers at the same time they should be loyal to the country. We have seen one such great scientist ‘ Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam’ and we have many in the past. We need much so as to benefit more than hundred crore population. We need those scientists who carry out their research on various problems which are faced by our country and engineers who try and implement the solutions and most importantly representatives to finally deal with the problems. All these can only happen with value based education. I have seen many students flying abroad for their higher studies as they are unable to tackle here due to lack of opportunities and finally settle abroad which a serious loss. We have seen many Indians doing wonders abroad. Whenever we see such Indians who are doing well in abroad we all feel proud and showcase the news item but we never think why he is unable to do it here. It is because of lack of facilities. They are many unanswered questions. Is the vision of the reservation system being fulfilled?  Are all the people who gets benefited are really economically backward? Why are we not concentrating on increased discrimination in the states like Haryana? Why IIT's could not meet the standards of MIT? Is still caste based reservation system the right choice? Is this reservation system increasing discrimination? Why the student flying abroad? Is reservation needed for post graduation programmes like M-Tech, MBA; Public sector services and especially civil services after providing reservation for under graduate level? Are the students who are benefited using the opportunity given to them? Anyone who can answer the above questions and justify me that our education system is right I am ready to salute them and do whatever they wish me to do.

                          Our Prime minister proposed new ideas such as Make in India, Digital India, Swach Bharath Abhayaan etc. These activities can only be successful if we have a change in our educational system. We should not forget that the education is the base for any sector to improve. Hope our leaders will bring in fruitful changes in our system so that we can rise as a nation. It is already late and we can not delay. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.  

Commercialization of Education..

               Knowledge is divine. Education is the most efficient tool to acquire it. Is it so? Is our education system guiding towards acquiring knowledge. “We want that education by which our character is formed, increases the strength of the mind, expands the intellect and which make one to stand on one’s feet.” These are the words shared to us by ‘Symbol of Knowledge along with Wisdom’, Swami Vivekananda. Unfortunately these words are confined only to the walls of the educational institutions but not to the ‘Hearts of the educational institutions’, Students. Is Plato’s philosophy of education being really implemented? Most of us do not know who Plato is, as we might have left it in choice or it may not be important for examinations. I wanted to say that today’s educational system is focused on the end result, may be marks or finally a job than the actual intent of education. In this misconception most of us are missing the real joy in learning. I rarely saw students who enjoy learning with intent for knowledge. It all starts from our primary education, my teachers did not explain me why 3*2=6. They just asked me to memorize 3 Table. It is harsh to blame teachers but it is the system which has to be changed right from primary education. Suppose take History, The Indian Freedom struggle, we all know the sacrifices and the heroics of the freedom fighters. We should make the youngsters know those sacrifices and the reason behind them, their dreams and the way they visualized the future of India and motivate youngsters to proceed to achieve their dreams. This is how we should show the real respect to them. But today they are taught as an answer to a question but the pain experienced by our leaders is not really discussed. It is over 60 years of Independence and still we are unable to provide sufficient and quality opportunities to our students, instead we are paying huge to the foreign universities for our higher education. Today Education is money. The reservation system still persists and shows our failure in removing the inequalities in the society. Our leaders are busy in increasing the reservations rather than to suppress the inequalities. We are unable to provide quality education to the poor, child labour still exists. In Independent India, a child does not have an Independent choice of study. They are made to study as per financial status or as per market price. Surprised of the term ‘Market price’, I really mean it. If a computer science engineer have more demand in the market, study computer science. This is principle which is followed generally today. A student, who completed his 12^th, had no idea of what he is capable of doing. The fee structure is a real burden on parents which adds an additional stress on the child for the result rather than all-round development. Each and every aspect discussed above reflects the failure of the educational system which is still followed. When there will be a change? Already it is late. The schools drastically changed as per requirements of the parents. Let us compare two different scenarios, one is my schooling that is around 8 years ago and the other is now. Fee when I was in school is around Rs 2000/- or even less and now it is Rs 30,000/- for the same school except that they had built a new build in place of the play ground we had then. Timings in my time are 9:00 to 4:00 and followed by sports from 4:00 to 6:00. We used to have an extracurricular activity period every Saturday where we used to have elocution competitions etc. Now 7am to 7pm with weekly once games for an hour. I really do not know whether there is increase in difficulty of the syllabus or gaining extra knowledge by studying extra hours. There is hardly any change in syllabus but the amount of pressure is enormous. Every school advertise with the number of grades their students have achieved, number of marks their students have achieved. Is there any schools advertising with the number of athletes they had produced to the country, number of hockey players they had produced to the country or any other sport? Are there parents who consider that sports are also the part of education? Yes, there are such parents gifted to me but unfortunately I am not that good at any sport to represent the nation. I salute to my parents who respect every thought which I have. Leaving it here I hope there is a change soon in the important sector of the society, ‘ The Educational Sector’. Jai Hind. Satyamevajayate.