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Many
faces in remote villages in Bihar or for that
matter, in any state in India are gleaming with
hope. Bihar budget 2006 claims to be covering
all districts with rural employment guarantee
scheme- NREG. Perhaps, because of increasing
effectiveness of different media, most of the
people know about the scheme. Expectations are
running very high. Applications for the photo
identity cards are piling. Small farmers with
five bighas (about 2 acres) land want to get
into the scheme. Perhaps, the USP lies in the
scheme’s promise of 25 days unemployment
benefit, if government is unable to provide the
applicant with 100 days’ work. The scheme also
ensures works within 5 km of their village. The
brains behind the scheme must work for making
the scheme successful. Perhaps, this will be the
last chance to design and implement a foolproof
delivery system, and ensure that some middlemen,
(political) party members or the scheme
executors don’t sabotage the scheme.
Will the scheme succeed or succumb to the
corrupt practices? Will the unscrupulous ones
innovate unique ways to drain out thee allocated
fund? Why can’t the 'Bharat Nirman' be
integrated with NREG to make it more accountable
and efficient? Can some IT majors come out to
make the scheme more transparent?
A TV channel has beamed footage of respectable
gynecologists indulging in female foeticide in
violation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique
Act, 1956. One of the lady doctors is the former
head of gynaecology and obstetrics department in
Patna Medical College and Hospital, also the
former winner of DR. B C Roy award and also a
former chief of the IMA’s women wing. The
doctors charge anything between Rs.1, 000 and
1.200 just for the test. The administration came
in action only after the sting operation, though
it is expected to regularly monitor clinics that
conduct ultrasound test. They didn’t arrest, as
the PNDT act requires concrete evidence. Doctors
appearing in sting operation claim the operation
as motivated and carried out to defame them.
Naturally, some questions crop up. Doctors
constitute the highly educated citizens of the
country. Why are they resorting to illegal and
unethical operations? Is it the greed for money?
Can they do anything for the money that can
improve their status?
Students appearing for the entrance test
examinations for medical and engineering or some
other popular professional education are
confused, worried, and tensed. A number of the
tests for many of the relevant colleges,
institutions, or universities are scheduled for
the same days. Why hundreds and thousands of
students for American universities don’t face
this costly and awkward situation? Why can’t the
entrance examinations be made a single one for
all the professional courses, some thing like
GRE, TOEFL, SAT, etc.?
And our Great Presidents have made the chiefs of
judiciary think about the solution of the
problem of the huge number of pending cases in
different courts. The Supreme Court (SC) has cut
down the days for summer vacation this year.
They are holding a brainstorming session. Data
have given them some facts. Of a total of 1.84
crore (18.4 million) cases pending in lower
courts, the magisterial courts account for 1.64
crore (16.4 million). Chief Justice requires to
provide adequate facilities to the judges, and
to sort out the issue of increasing he number of
magistrates and judges in HCs (High Courts).
Can’t the basic discipline to work as hard as
executives in private sectors almost 12 hours or
more a day help the situation? Why can’t the CJs
start first by involving the judges and
magistrates in suggesting the way out and in
finding out what all they require, particularly
about computerization and setting up some goals
and time frames for different steps in various
types of cases? Firstly, all involved must
appreciate the problems, and issues, and develop
some incentives and disincentives for bringing
in the attitude to solve the problems.
And lastly, the good news about the latest case
of abduction from Patna thrills me. The boy was
found at Bhopal Railway Station. But I started
thinking a little loud. Who are the abductors?
Are they just individuals or well-organized
gangs with planners and political executives?
Can’t we find a technological solution to the
problem of abduction? Can some RFID be implanted
in things usually these kids carry, that can
keep their location transmitted to the home
computer all the time?
The problem is acute and almost universal. It is
for the product researchers-technocrats and
scientists to find a technical solution.
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As
writer explicitly mentioned that
students are worried due to
coinciding of examination dates.
Exams should be converted in line of
MBA entrance exams. As in case of
MBA there are primarily 5 tests like
CAT XAT JMAT MAT and ATMA. I hope it
should be implemented in case of
medical and engineering fields also.
In later stage it can be converted
in line of GRE GMAT etc. - Sapna
Arora - Mar. 12, 2006 |
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