WHAT HAS GONE WRONG WITH THE COUNTRY

Starting from the east to west and from north to south across the Indian Sub continent a peculiar situation is existing. Public funds are being misused.Look upon Bihar and U.P. Who are doing so? These are the persons who have sought our trust. Trust is belied. The belied trust is leading to fighting,infighting and scuffles in parliament,in assemblies in every place. It needs to be examined as to what has gone wrong with the country? It is also to be seen that there is a spate of construction. Mostly road construction. Start from Delhi to a small town ,everywhere,you find construction companies at work. I have tried to question as to who is the person who gave the idea or proposal and how the justification came for the construction,there is no reply,there is no answer. It is difficult to trace the person who mooted the idea of construction. But the construction is in spate. Huge sums of money being spent. On the other hand,water level going down, states are fighting with each other on the issue of sharing of water. States are fighting with each other on the issue of mining. The problem of pollution is increasing day by day. Huge sums are being invested in waste management. But no where waste management is to be seen. Delhi is in deluge because it wanted to beautify Delhi. Could the games be not played without a new looking Delhi. If at all there was a need to give new look to Delhi the first thing should have been the removal of all the old faces that howl and cry in Delhi. Those who have miserably failed in controlling the growth of the country. This is a country which is selling and exporting its ores. This is a country which boasts of high technology and technological capability yet it never bothered to put in steel plants, smelters and develop metallurgical units. Instead we have chosen to sell our natural resource for pittance. This is a country which has chosen to make the public property like mining power etc PRIVATE PROPERTY.

Likewise in the field of education new Universities,deemed universities,central universities, state universities and a lot many educational machines and devices are being opened. On the other hand advertisements have started appearing with bold head lines "PEOPLE WITH DISTANCE EDUCATION DEGREES NEED NOT APPLY". Colleges are being given the status of autonomous colleges and yet there appears a need of foreign universities. The craze to visit foreign country and admission to foreign universities is so great that students are dying,maltreated and behaved like dogs ,yet they are not stopping . They have lost the pride. Person without pride has no life.

What about the standard of education? One gets surprised when Vice Chancellors,Directors and Principals of these institutions falter. They are unable to deliver a five minute fluent and meaningful speech. Only buildings by courtesy of Banks and donations from the students are coming up and they are hallmark of education. Poorly paid teachers, ill equipped laboratories, libraries without books and journals are the salient features. Students are being assured at the time of admission itself that only pay the fee and now you will get the required degree because the paper setting and examination etc every thing is to be done at the level of the Universities. No external evaluation. If at all there is some external evaluation,examiners are chosen only after they agree to the terms and conditions of the controller of examinations to pass every one . This is the status of education presently.

Yet AICTE and UGC do not fail to recognize. NAAC accreditation is the next step. No checks.No bars. All free. This is the vision of this country for education. Difficult for any sane person to comprehend. Yet there are takers to the idea of new introductions in education.Perhaps we need to stand, pause and think and then move. Too fast a motion is devastating. It is only a caution. Otherwise like train accident in west Bengal Sainthia where the speed of the train is said to be uncontrollable, the rail of the country will similarly collapse.

None talks about these aberrations which the government has. There is never a talk or debate to set right the myopic vision.Parliament never dares to take up such issues that are going to ruin the future. It may not be a long time before the states are at war for water, mining resources and sharing of natural resources. The center and the states are at logger heads and this does not auger well. Growing unemployment is no body's concern. Shameful plans of enhancing retirement age from 60 to 62 to 65 and now extending to 70 years of age are afoot while young men are roaming in streets and subject to exploitation . Let us pray to the almighty to save the country and bring peace at the earliest.