Who cares ?

I took my engineering exams in 2000, if I am correct I gave 10 engineering entrance examinations. JEE, Rorkee, TNPCEE, IIIT’s (each one had a separate entrance exam), CECRI, BIT-Ranchi and so on. I gave like 10 exams in a span of 3-4 weeks. It was the worst periods of my life. I am so great full that AIEEE has consolidated all the admission exams into one exam.

AIEEE is the brain child of the previous government (NDA). It was something that has been due for ages now. How can our society demand a 17 year old kid to give 10 competitive entrance exams in a span of one –two months? Do our politicians ever care about our day to day lives? We must seriously ask this question to our inner self, or probably we all know that our politician’s do nothing at all and we have accepted it.

Looking at the medical entrance examination scenario in the country, it’s still in the prehistoric ages. CBSE conducts the all India medical entrance examination for only 15% of the seats in most of the colleges in India, with the exception of A P. The Rest 85% of the seats is through state examinations. JIPMER AIMS and CMC have their own separate entrance examinations.

Irrespective of the field of study, the caste based reservation pattern in center run examinations are 15% for schedule caste and 7.5% for Schedule tribes, leaving the remaining 77.5 % for open competition. This is a very reasonable percentage of reservation. But the state admission systems have their own modus operandi. Some of the states have a system, some don’t, and some keep changing the systems at their whims and fancies. After all why the political system should be bothered about us?

I am not against the caste based quota system, but it is over done just for the heck of getting “caste” votes.Even the above is Ok…acceptable… because even with reservation , a student at needs 90% aggregate to get into the top state run engineering colleges.. But what I really can’t digest is the chief minister’s quota for seats in govt. colleges. :@#@%@ In simple plain English , chief minister’s quota implies , the govt. can give a percentage of seats to whom ever they want too.

So who gets these seats, I am sure you all will guess (what is there to guess. its obvious) the answer correct.. It’s the politicians and beaurcrats kin and kith!!!

The educational admission system has been framed with just electoral votes in mind and not whats best for the society as a whole.This way I get the feeling how different are we ruling ourselves when compared to the british raj ?? They where a great architects of “divide and rule” policy so are we. They did it to make their position stable in India. Our super hero’s are doing it make sure they get votes... The means have changed but the purpose is still the same.

As an Indian the only thing I can do is to make noise and express my views. I hope some one out there is watching all this.