Soon, our campus will see a addition of a huge number of students.
And, to accomodate them, the previous mess halls of Narmada, Saraswati and Alakananda hostels will be demolished and 64 rooms will be built in its place. Also, an extra third floor will be added with an additional 64 rooms. Which means that soon these hostels will be able to accomodate 360 students from the previous 232 students. A increase of over 50% is not insignificant.
The same small quadrangle and other sporting facilities in the hostel will now be shared by so many people. The mess hall cannot be converted into an Indoor Sports Complex now. The FoosBall table (or/and the Table Tennis Table) will now be crammed into the music room. The thought of living in a densely populated hostel and having to share resources seems awkward and very discomforting.
The only benefit I see right now is that we will gain in various inter-hostel Lit-Soc, Tech-Soc and Schroeter events. Stronger teams and better participation. Although it will take another year for the new rooms to be built and then occupied, our mess roof top is gone which is pretty sad for our wing.
Reservations. Creation of new IITs. I had thought I would be largely unaffected by these insensible Governmental measures before I've passed out of this college. I know it's a bit ego-centric and selfish but today I feel really infuriated.
If the creation of so many new IITs was not enough, the government is now increasing the number of seats in the IITs. If the government has to reform our country's educational system, it should work on basic problems like improving primary education by creating better schooling infastructure, training teachers, making teaching a lucrative job, reducing the dropout rate from schools and revising the curriculum regularly. It should encourage private-public partnership in education. These are just some of the measures that one can think of in a hurry. Its easier to take decisions without enough consulations or groundwork and form committees than to actually work with dedication on ground towards improving the education system. Creating new IITs or increasing the number of seats drastically is only going to reduce their standards. If you increase the number of students, you've got to increase the number of well trained faculty and improve the infrastructure as well. It's neither rocket science, nor complex mathematics. It's common sense, which our government seems to be lacking.
27 comments:
Hear Hear!!
But still, I am sad at leaving this place!
Doesnot matter. Be optimistic. Make Narmad win Schroeter next yr.
WTF... The bring down the rooftop the day I leave...
@ kaapiwrite
yeah yeah! i know!
@ jimmy
yeah! but the mess top :(
@ jaanwar
waapis aa ja!
Erm... so where are the students living in these 3 hostels gonna eat? I see some crammed canteens as well.
Write to Sibal, he might have a few hundred crores lying with his ministry to create another IIT, rather than be a miser and discomfort you with more people around.
What stupid people fill the ranks of policy makers in our country!
@ankit Well in the past, great thinkers of the likes of Murli Manohar Joshi, Arjun Singh, et al.
Do note these ministers were the policy makers as well, and not the yashpals during their ministerial terms
@ naman
no, we have a separate mess! and yeah that and the other food outlets will get crowded.
and, Sibal already has so many IITs to fund.
@ ankit ashok
yeah! and i've no expectations from Sibal either now after his recent proposals
@ crazy photon
uh! don't remind me of them. so many highly politically motivated moves. whatever good our education system has achieved is inspite of these ministers/policy makers
I was being sarcy on sibal, in case you didnt catch that.
Also, wot seems to be wrong with his proposals?
@ crazy photon
making class X boards optional, for instance. i don't think there is any need to do that. there are more important problems to be tackled urgently.
The root of many of those probs lies in the schooling system. Sibal I believe is starting by focusing on the basics. The edu sys needs an urgent rehaul. But that said, it doesn't justify a quick knee-jerk quick-fix solution to the 'urgent probs'. We may not have all the time on our hands, but what's at stake is the future generation of this country. We have to take a steady & calculated approach.
Yes, there IS a 'need' to do this. And don't tell me it worked for us, and we all turned out just fine. We are far from 'fine', and you'd realise it if & when you're exposed to people coming from different education systems.
What Sibal is doing is a very bold & ambitious move, given than primary/secondary education is controlled by the states and centre makes policies only on higher education.
Kudos to him, I'd say!
@ crazy photon
i was only talking about the proposal regarding making the class X boards optional. it will by no means reduce the pressure on the students. a host of other measures such increasing the weightage of co-curricular activities and extra-curricular activities in examinations or improving the labaratories' equipments in schools are required. the primary education needs a urgent overhaul, and we don't have enough time on our hands. i've mentioned some measures in the post.
i'm not impressed with Sibal because he doesn't seem to be focussing on these problems.
apparently, he wants to make a slew of announcements to show that the UPA has lived up to its promise of having done a lot of work in the first 100 days
Fk these people!
I look forward to a noisy and painful stay in the coming year in our hostel. :(
hold on, one by one. these things require more time. and experts to sit on them and deliberate afresh. i know it sounds clichéd. but sibal seems to have the will. when he came in the yashpal committee report was ready and decided to implement most of the proposals given by the experts.
effectively changing the entire schooling system needs wider consultation with the states, as most students study with the state boards.
i think the seed has been sown, and i think i am an eternally positive person when it comes to certain things :)
Cheers!
@ apurv
i know! mug bhi nahi payenge :(
@ naman
lets wait and watch then
the problem with our political system is that the politicians acquiring office like to play demigods. Like mayawati spending crores on her statues which will be demolished as soon as the government changes. We have seen that with Arjun Singh (not me) trying to gather lower caste votes for his party increasing reservations while the progressive step would be to slowly decrease it. But that never happens. 15 IIT's now. People think we IITians are egoistic about our college. Well i say the college deserves that much if not the students. But even these IIT's are lacking faculty. And now getting trained good faculty for as much as 15 IIT's would be next to impossible. Most people are looking for money and after PhD's they would join some company at high posts. Even if you say that ppl want to go for research then the research facilities at IIT's isn't upto the mark leave out other colleges. So why would someone interested in research come back to India to literally waste his/her expertise. The primary education system needs to be revived and it can't be done with a single step of removing exams. My cousin gave a three hour exam to get into kindergarten with questions like when do we use 'a' and 'an'. Who the hell learns that in nursery. I am sure even many of our country runners sitting in the parliament would fail that test.
@ arjun_tornado
totally agree! our education system has gone to the dogs.
i think making teaching a lucrative jog should be an urgent concern. the salary of the faculty must be doubled and more perks added. only then, can we get more and quality faculty.
Khatarnak discussion ho raha hai idhar yaar! :O
Gazab.
@ Apurv
yeah! :)
but i had expected the discussion to be more hostel related..
The faculty salaries could see a hike in this govt's term. Let's see. I am willing to give Sibal a fair chance.
@Arjun Singh loved your ending note!
@KG: Tune logon ki dukhti rag par haath rakh diya hai bhai!
You cannot expect them to be silent. :)
Although I agree that this could work in the favor of the hostel.
@ crazy photon
lets see! but i've lowered my expectations of him
@ apurv
i hope they're not silent :)
BJ aka Karan : well wt u wrote is true...but i dont think it was gonno happend ths summwr thanks to engg unit :D i hv been away..bt las decided thy were goin to cramp 3 in a double!
and as far as i rem...we had a talk abt nt demolishng mess halls..u nvr knw wen duz anthr himalya gets build..sso mess halls will remain intact cuz there is a small possibility of opening a few mess halls again! yes on top of mess halls there will b xtra floors.
Sharav will be getting anthr floor...wth a lift that is :P
well we indeed are constrained 4 resources...IIT-H...ITDM , all are using are campus nw and god knws 4 hw long ..sso all the crap..!
@ BJ
hmm, well, for the past couple of days the hostel office people have been asking me to clear the mess hall of all the sports items because its going to be demolished soon, and 64 rooms are going to be built in its place.
thanks for the rest of the news though ;)
@kg: BJ wasnt providing info... he was putting pseud.. n oh... i read somewhere that reserved eats are going unfilled, that too to a tune of 1000
here's the link
http://teredamana.blogspot.com/2009/06/quota-effect.html
@ ashtung
hey, that happens every year.. those seats get shifted to PC quota i think
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