The UPA government is in a state of unprecedented crisis, with the Left playing it’s brand of anti-US politics on the nuke deal and inflation figures spiking to a 13 year high. If the recent BJP victories in the state elections are anything to go by, things don’t look bright for the UPA in the coming elections. Hence, our netas resort to the kind of filth that’s been their lifebuoy for ages. After reserving half the IIT student seats, the proposal to do the same for the teachers’ posts doesn’t surprise. But contradicting any first impression I don’t think this diktat will influence the quality of incoming faculty in any great way. The fine points of the proposal say that the requirements for a faculty position are going to remain the way they are, with or without quota, and if the reserved seats aren’t filling to capacity (which is most likely to happen seeing the way reserved student seats are being filled) the order can be done way with after a year. To summarize, it is a display of vote-bank politics obscene enough to rival a New Year rave party in Goa.
The proposal has ruffled many feathers, many of which already ruffled by the student reservation fiasco. Being a student of IIT Delhi myself, I wonder when and how did the IITs rub the HRD ministry the wrong way to deserve all this. The alumni plans to stage a peaceful protest this Saturday evening in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.
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Vikas Prajapati // August 8, 2008 at 1:34 pm |
Dude, the problem is that.. the class of people who understand the graveness of this step and its far-reaching effects…don’t generally vote…(like we ADULT IITians) under the true perception that no political party deserves their support.
Moreover, no-one wants to join politics to keep oneself away from getting entangled in the web forever, but everybody still despises law-makers for the “pathetic” condition of the country. In India, every career has a bright prospect except that of being the destiny maker of the country. Here lies the problem and the solution is still non-existent.