One fine morning my parents found me big and capable enough to carry a school bag. They hurriedly calculated something and told me that from that day onwards my Date of Birth is a different one and I have to remember it always because it would be important during my matriculation and if I say my original birth date I wouldn’t be allowed to sit for the exam because there is a rule that you can’t pass 10th before a certain specified age no matter how intelligent you are. That was the start of learning government rules. I believe many of my fiends’ parents had to go through this calculation. Anyways, I was admitted in a Bengali medium Primary School. Our teachers were very much aam-admi outside the school compound but don’t know what was the matter, once they were inside the classroom, they were totally a different individuals. If you couldn’t memorize something assigned, you are liable to face his curse. Students would be beaten by teachers for smallest mistakes and that’s the rule. Sometime I used to think it’s not RIGHT but at the same time I was also convinced that teachers have all the RIGHT to beat you for anything and nothing. Actually being beaten or not beaten solely depends on teachers’ mode, nothing else. Anyways, days went by and on another fine morning I sat for Metric exam and no one stopped me. I was so happy about my parents’ knowledge of rules.
During my academic career I have memorized many things and learned only a few. Because without memorizing you can’t score marks and what matters is mark not the knowledge. Government rules and regulations are most important among the few things I have learnt. Without knowing these you can’t survive in a country like ours. I have also learnt that what a child meant to be and what a child wish to be doesn’t actually determine what he becomes in real life. The fate of a child is being written by some other factors. Caste factor is obviously a dangerous one. We all know about it RIGHT from the beginning, we all know that V.P. Singh Government saw the explosion of Mondol Bomb, the motive behind which was to create a caste matrix that could make V.P. Singh’s seat unassailable for next a few decades but this Commission’s report sat the fire which is still being used by our own political parties to burn us. I have also learnt that different Educational Board, their scoring pattern and standard of education also plays havoc to students. I have learnt many such things.
Sometimes I feel lucky that at least I found schools and colleges to enhance my knowledge. There are thousands of villages in India where there is no school at all, there are thousands more where there are schools but no teachers and the height is that there is thousands of school running smoothly but only on papers. When I was in college, Government of India first launched ‘Mid-Day Meal’ and then ‘Sarva-Shiksha Aviyan’ and allotted thousands of crores for these schemes over the years. What is the exact outcome, I don’t know and believe hardly anyone knows. But I do know that some of my friends’ pocket money was increased suddenly at that time by their fathers who were teachers. At the very same time some younger brothers and sisters of my friends started complaining that their mothers who were also teachers suddenly started torturing them by feeding milk and milkmaid sweets all the time. These schemes hardly increased the range of education but have surely increased the range of corruption and has embraced those sections of hierarchy also who were still unaffected by this virus. Another benefit of these schemes was the creation of vacancies and who doesn’t know the importance of vacancy. Those posts have immediately been filled by Political Jacking. So what if some people cried foul? Some of my seniors who were always the front runner of political activities got job that time irrespective of their qualifications. I guess every one of us would be agree that this is not only the story of these schemes. Every government schemes and policies ultimately becomes a weapon of more corruption and force us, the aam-admi to pay more tax. Am I RIGHT?
During my academic career I have memorized many things and learned only a few. Because without memorizing you can’t score marks and what matters is mark not the knowledge. Government rules and regulations are most important among the few things I have learnt. Without knowing these you can’t survive in a country like ours. I have also learnt that what a child meant to be and what a child wish to be doesn’t actually determine what he becomes in real life. The fate of a child is being written by some other factors. Caste factor is obviously a dangerous one. We all know about it RIGHT from the beginning, we all know that V.P. Singh Government saw the explosion of Mondol Bomb, the motive behind which was to create a caste matrix that could make V.P. Singh’s seat unassailable for next a few decades but this Commission’s report sat the fire which is still being used by our own political parties to burn us. I have also learnt that different Educational Board, their scoring pattern and standard of education also plays havoc to students. I have learnt many such things.
Sometimes I feel lucky that at least I found schools and colleges to enhance my knowledge. There are thousands of villages in India where there is no school at all, there are thousands more where there are schools but no teachers and the height is that there is thousands of school running smoothly but only on papers. When I was in college, Government of India first launched ‘Mid-Day Meal’ and then ‘Sarva-Shiksha Aviyan’ and allotted thousands of crores for these schemes over the years. What is the exact outcome, I don’t know and believe hardly anyone knows. But I do know that some of my friends’ pocket money was increased suddenly at that time by their fathers who were teachers. At the very same time some younger brothers and sisters of my friends started complaining that their mothers who were also teachers suddenly started torturing them by feeding milk and milkmaid sweets all the time. These schemes hardly increased the range of education but have surely increased the range of corruption and has embraced those sections of hierarchy also who were still unaffected by this virus. Another benefit of these schemes was the creation of vacancies and who doesn’t know the importance of vacancy. Those posts have immediately been filled by Political Jacking. So what if some people cried foul? Some of my seniors who were always the front runner of political activities got job that time irrespective of their qualifications. I guess every one of us would be agree that this is not only the story of these schemes. Every government schemes and policies ultimately becomes a weapon of more corruption and force us, the aam-admi to pay more tax. Am I RIGHT?
2 comments:
Yes! you are right Sam!
every ambitious government scheme is a gift to corrupts and a punishment to the tax payers
Hope, we 'aam aadmi' understand this sooner than later.
expecting more such insightful readings from you
Satyajit
Yes,Sam you are right and i do aggree with you.......BUt mostly the sufferers are the poor people who even dont know the proper way through which they can avail the opportunities given by the so called Govt..And before they can find any proper channel all those goes in the hands of the corrupted officials...This is our system.
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