Showing posts with label AICTE. Show all posts
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Monday, October 08, 2012

Arjun’s back with a vengeance

For most of his term, he had his hands tied left, right and centre; Arjun’s back with a vengeance

Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, transformation got replaced by ‘regulation’, a factor that now seems to be stifling higher education to a point of death. Analysts comment that it is only when this quasi license permit raj in education is dismantled by the UGC and AICTE, will the education sector take off and become world class. And both the UGC and AICTE have a credible supporter for reforms; Arjun Singh himself. “The new law will help us regulate foreign education providers while keeping out fly-by-night operators. We hope to introduce the bill in the coming session of Parliament,” Arjun confidently shared this viewpoint with the media once his meeting with the state education ministers got over. One doesn’t need ESP to understand that this time, Arjun is hitting Left, Right and Centre to ensure the Bill gets passed! And he just might succeed!

Just as the entry of foreign players in various sectors has vastly improved the quality of Indian companies, the entry of foreign players in education will lead to a dramatic improvements in the quality of education in the country. Way back in the 1980s, a man whom Arjun Singh admires a lot, Rajiv Gandhi, had strategically used a man called Sam Pitroda to kick-start the telecom revolution in India. The same man now heads the Knowledge Commission, a body mandated to transform the education sector in India. All Arjun Singh needs to do is emulate Rajiv Gandhi and back Sam Pitroda to the hilt.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Accept or Reject without a Reason

The Term “Accept or Reject without a Reason” Is The most Misused term across Government contracts – and for Shamefully Corrupt Purposes

Without even one iota of doubt, there is an urgent need for the government or the judiciary to pass strictures against this clause and ensure that the power to accept or reject contracts is via transparent means and not through unilaterally decided arbitrary decisions that cannot even be questioned at a later date. Just look at the putrefied list of our gloriously corrupt government representatives and you start understanding why this clause has become a debauched, unethical entity.

AICTE’s Chairman R. A. Yadav was suspended in 2009 under a corruption case, while AICTE member secretary K. Naryan Rao was even arrested. In the same year, former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda was arrested in a case of disproportionate assets. Ramachandran Nair, CEO, LIC Housing Finance was arrested in 2010, again on charges of bribery charges. A. K. Srivastava, CMD, Nalco was arrested in February 2011, of course, on bribery charges. Secretary General of CWG organising committee Lalit Bhanot, former telecom minister A. Raja, and more, the list simply does not seem to stop.

Our proposed solution to resolve corruption by getting rid of the clause, obviously sounds too simplistic by itself. But wonderfully, the most complicated problems in the world have had quite simple solutions. With the government running away from owning up to the issue, it’s obviously the judiciary that has to get working. Well, we guess even the judiciary has to clean up its house first of all. The Tis Hazari Courts, in their tender for purchasing aerosol insecticide, writes, “The Purchase Committee reserves the right to accept or reject any tender without assigning any reason whatsoever.” Way to go judiciary, way to go!


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