Indian Family budget and education

Indian Family budget and education

Just consider the most promising and progressive world economies surely you will end with India, emerging as the world leader in this arena. With the speedy progress on economic fronts country is not legging for behind on the fronts of price hike of day to day commodities and life supporting products.

Have a look on following description: A computer lab with high speed internet connectivity & equipped with most modern computer systems, Air conditioned meeting hall, Long, spacious, green tree loaded and shadowed premises, state-of-art indoor game hall, finely architected and well decorate receptionist desk, Olympic sized shaded swimming pool and well dressed staff. Surely you had started thinking about the corporate office and work place of a multinational company. Will you please allow me correcting you, all the above description has nothing to do with a business setup or commercial enterprise. This is all about the modern and high classed boarding school in India. In fact education of children is the most worrying factor for most of Indian parents.

In the Indian economy, middle class, to whom even the American President blamed for the recent price hike in world markets, is working as the back bone of the system. These regular price hikes often disturb the domestic budget of this class but the most destroying thing for the budget of middle class Indian families is the unbelievable increase in expenses related with the education of children. Look at expenses under this head they are showing a huge growth of over 100% during last five years.

In the year 2002 most of recognizing schools in most of metro cities of the country were charging a monthly fee between Rs. 100 and Rs. 300 only but today this monthly fess is raised to minimum of around Rs. 300. Now think of other important expenses head of education of Indian children and this is private tuition, for which parents have to pay almost equal amount of school fee. On the one hand government expenses on primary education are increasing and on the other hand numbers of government schools are showing a constant decline with simultaneously number growth of private school is keeping on increasing and as the natural result of all these is visible in the form of high priced schooling.

Before I conclude this, I would like to ask a very simple question to huge Indian middle class families. I was a secondary school teacher for more than 25 years and still wondering on wisdom of teaching computers to kids who are not still perfect in their mother tongue? Before blaming government just think of our attitude of measuring standard of education only basis of amount paid by us for importing this to our children. Don’t you think until and unless we are not going to change our this attitude we will remain not only deprived of benefits of national economic boost but also will have to face the problem of disturbed domestic budgets due to these increased educational expenses.

India: 60 Years: 60 Words: [1] Assam Unrest

India: 60 Years: 60 Words: [1] Assam Unrest

[India has competed 60 years of independence and to mark this, I am presenting this series of Articles, about the words, that are meaning a lot for the progress of the country. If you feel I missed some thing [For listing of words see the first article “India: 60 Years: 60 Words”] do inform me at premputar@gmail.com I will try to include that at the end of series]

Regional and geographical situation of Indian state Assam is making it easy entrance gate into India for the people from the neighboring nation Bangladesh. Over the years this migration is proving a thorn in the flesh and there are huge complains about the rights of native citizens being over shadowed by the presence of these Bangladeshi people there in the state. It is the beauty and deed to be appreciated that in our democratic set up, our social institutions always succeeded in converting various social problems linked with the political situations and consciousness of the area and the country. Assam unrest was illustration of this, which was merged into politics of Assam during the years from 1979 to 1985. All these years the situation was taken and identified as the success of democratic set up allowing people to raise their voice for the violation of their rights.

All Assam Student Union and All Assam Gan Sangram Parshid who were leading the protest against the migration of Bangladeshi citizens and agitating for making the rights of native citizens safe guarded by introduction of law preventing the migration, reached to consent with central government of India and fresh Assembly Elections were held in the state in the year 1985. Assam Gan Parshid came into power under the leadership of Shri Priffulkumar Mahant but the problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh remained unsolved. In fact by that time the problem turn into identification of migrated Bangladeshi, as many of them were listed in the electoral list of the state, though a considerable break was seen in number of new migrants. Central government has passed a bill [IMDT] in the year 1983 to tackle the problem of illegal migration and identification of these migrants. The implementation of the law was under the shadows of irregularities and provided space for criticism and adverse remarks by the Supreme Court of India in the July 2005.

Communal harmony in the Assam is under the constant threat ever since the emergence of problem and social relations of Hindu Muslims are going through tense phase and at the worst situation. According to United Liberation Front of Assam [ULFA], which is in the existence there since 1979 and presently leading the agitation and protest activities, Assam Pact failed because governments in all these years failed to take care about the rights of native citizens.

Assam Unrest was not a 100% violence free agitation since the start, unfortunately the situations there are now turning into Assamees and rest of Indians, and this is being reflected from the killing of 33 labors from the Bihar by ULFA fundamentalist in the January 2007. This is the right time that citizen of the state should realize that violence was never part of Indian life style and the problem of migration is not just of the state but also of the nation. We the Indians are people progressing by making our diversity as our strength and believe in the “Unity in diversity”. We have to remember no plant grow without watering and situation in the state is not different from the Jammu & Kashmir, where militants are getting support from the native citizen, here also the migrants are being supported by at least a fraction of native population and that is proving the main hurdle for the solution of problem.

Teacher: The Best Educator

It might a co-incident that yesterday night I was watching or more correctly listening,because it is my habit when I am working I always keep my TV set on, hindi movie "Good Boys Bad Boys" and read a new about the misconduct by some girl students at a Private school at Sydney. It only tempted me to write this but recalled the days of my life as the teacher when I used to say " We are here at school not just for completing syllabus of the subject thought by us, but it is our moral duty to see that our student must go into their future social life as a good responsible citizen." and try my Laval best to achieve it. I recall my chemistry teacher V B Nagar Sir's words , when I was about to start my teaching career " See if you can make even a single student value respecting person in the whole year, count that year in successful years of your life".

coming back to Sydney news some girl students started to leave marks of their lipstick loaded lips on the mirrors in the bathrooms, it was troublesome for the staff to clean the mirror in the night before the next day break, when it went on for several days and even the expel warning prove ineffective than Principal thought to give a practical lesson to these few girl students, she called all the students to bathroom and the maintenance staff and told " See, since last few days we are facing a problem regarding the cleanness of the school even our expel warning proved insufficient to prevent some of you from leaving marks of lipstick loaded lips on the mirrors. After all school is not my personal property we all are using this premises and it is our moral duty to keep it clean, so I decided to give you all a demo at how your this silly action is making difficult the job of maintenance staff, now Mr. Chapel will give the way that they have adopted to clean the lip marks left by you on the mirror." Mr.Chapel came forward, took a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.

Yes dear your guss is correct from that day onwards no marks of lips are found on the mirrors of the bath room.