Posted 11:05 PM by The Consultant
Free Education!!!???

On 17th of June, 2002, I came to IIM Lucknow. Yesterday, I attended my last lecture at IIM Lucknow. As I left the class, I felt really sad. My days at IIM Lucknow were the best days of my life so far. I had the privilege of associating with some of the most intelligent people of my generation. It was a really wonderful experience. I learnt a lot of things from a lot of people.

I am not sad because I am leaving this place. I am sad because this is perhaps the last batch that will go out of IIM Lucknow , the real IIM Lucknow as we know it. From the next year, it will be the IIM Lucknow as Mr. Murli Manohar Joshi wants it to be. The fee reduction is not the real headache. The real problem is that this maniac has an insane desire to control a wonderful institution when even an idiot could see that he doesn’t have the brains to do it.

In 1991, we started an initiative called liberalization. After 2004, Mr. Joshi wants to take us back to 1991 and maybe 1901 if possible. The recent education bill that he has come up with will sound the death knell of quality education in India. For last 57 years, we have observed one trend. The moment the government enters any sector; it kills any initiatives towards quality and competition in that sector. And the moment the Government stops interfering, it starts booming. We can thank our lucky stars that the Government didn’t try its hand at the software sector.

But it is not as if all the policy initiatives that this Government has taken are bad. The recent liberalization of insurance sector, the coming liberalization of the banking sector is good news for India. Slowly but surely we were moving towards capitalism. But we cannot hope to compete against the coming hordes of MNCs, if we do not have the right resources. That is where these initiatives of Mr. MMJ hit us hard. In the absence of a competitive education sector, we won’t have the right people to compete. I am afraid that learning astrology doesn’t exactly equip you to handle the competition.

You guys might be feeling that I am being too panicky. But don’t think that these plans of Mr MMJ wont succeed. They will succeed unless and until we all oppose them and make ourselves heard. You cannot expect the masses in villages to understand the implications of these measures. They are ignorant and may be easily hoodwinked by Mr. Joshi. The idea of controlling private schools is too good for any politician to oppose publicly. It has that ancient “beat the greedy rich pigs and help the poor” ring to it. Anyone who shows the guts to oppose that will be putting an end to his/her political career. And I do not believe that the politicians should sacrifice their careers for our sake. If we want nice things to happen to us, I guess we have to do something for it.

http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/writetopresident.jsp

http://pmindia.nic.in/guestbook..htm

Try these two links.

And let’s hope that someone stops this maniac before he destroys the real competitive advantage of India i.e. Our intelligence.