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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

INDIA'S PRIDE CWG 2010

Few hours back as per the news on timesofindia.com Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi said "I, as chairman of the Organising Committee, am prepared to face any scrutiny by (Comptroller and Auditor General) CAG or even a judicial probe for all financial transactions being reported by the media. All the people found guilty will be punished and brought to book,".



The question is not that whether he is ready to face any judicial probe or inquiry but the question

IS INDIA READY TO FACE COMMONWEALTH GAMES?

ARE WE ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY HOST THE GAMES WHEN OUR STADIUMS, INFRASTRUCTURES, VILLAGE GAMES IS STILL NOT READY ?

WHAT IMPRESSION WILL WE LEAVE ON MINDS OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ABOUT INDIA?

IS ANY OTHER WAY OUT?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Vodafone unveils Solar Powered phone VF 247 in India

Few minutes back on breakingnewsonline.net i read the news that vodafone is launching solar powered phone in India keeping in view the rural sector where shortage of electricity and power cut is a normal activity. It is also reported that the phone is expected to hit Indian market in next month and will be available at the price of Rs.1500.

Phone will charge automatically charge as soon as it comes into contact with sunlight and it will also charge in room under normal daylight with special support of hardware & software.

Breakingnewsonline.net also mentioned that phone will have FM radio, color screen and a powerful torch.

The above phone will definitely helpful for many peoples and if it have facility to charge it through electricity also that double benefit for the users. The cost is also very nominal and environment friendly.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Commercialization of Education

In last 10 years the scenario of education in NCR has revolutionized and the new policy of government is making the foundation of another big round of changes and during this phase a large number of private players have created a big amount of wealth because as all the private players who are previously has some small institutes now a days have opened polytechnic, engineering and management institution and currently these players are in process of upgrading themselves to university level and some of them have already done it.

These private players created big wealth as the educational institutes get big concessions/grant/tax free benefits from government but does the private players passed on these subsidy/benefits/concession to common citizen and did not stored money in their own pockets by exploiting various loopholes in the system.

Now the government has introduced the foreign universities and in view of that private players are trying for foreign collaborations/tie-ups with various foreign universities but the question is are we creating a ill-trained army of professionals of various sectors means the students who will study in these institutes are international level professionals and not just a degree holder. It may seem that in near future degrees will be sold by private players by just completing the formalities and not by giving actual knowledge and education to our young generation.

How many peoples from poor family are able to get higher education from private institutions and how many number of poor family professional have been generated by these private players.

CAN YOU SUGGEST SOME WAYS TO PLUG THE LOOPHOLES IN THE SYSTEM.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Laptop @ Rs.1500

Yesterday HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal launched a $35 laptop means Rs.1500/- laptop designed by experts of IIT, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Mr. Sibal also announced that at the current price point of $35, there would be 50% subsidy to educational institutions, which will effectively bring down the cost to only Rs750. Govt. is planning to give the above laptop under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan which is covering crores of students. This laptop will be charged by an sleeker solar panel and Rs.1500 cost does not include solar panel cost. This laptop do not have a hard drive and support only video-web conferencing facility. It also have several latest features like multimedia content viewer (pdf, docx, ods, adp, xls, jpeg, gif,png, bmp, odt, zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3), searchable Pdf reader, unzip for unzipping files, computing capabilities such as Open Office, SciLab for printing support, media player capable of playing streamed along with stored media files, USB port etc. Initially it will be manufactured in Taiwan and later on in India.

It seems that in coming years laptop will be sold on every street corner by street hawkers because it is available at very nominal price and every child will become a technocrat using this laptop.

This invention will bring a major change not only in technical market but in education sector and reduce the pollution because we are able to save thousand of trees and in turn our forests and animals leaving in these forests.

GOOD INITIATIVES AND BEST OF LUCK TO MR. SIBAL AND IIT, IISC EXPERTS.