Quo Vadis ?

Whither thou goeth ? ( In Shakespearean )

Where are you headed ?  ( In Queen’s English )

That about sums up the findings of AMCAT [ Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test ], conducted by the Mumbai University , for 5,000 final year undergraduate students of 20 colleges in Maharashtra , between Nov 2011 and Feb 2012 ( Source : DNA / 04, May 2012 )

Of these 5,000 students who appeared for the employability test , only 50 could be placed !

Mumbai’s Thakur College participated in the exercise in Dec 2011 , but none of its 930 students could be placed !

The Employability Testing project is expected to cover all 150,000 final year students , studying at 400 colleges

Now , given the several recent cases of “ leakage “ of examination papers of the University , who can guarantee that even AMCAT Test may not get “ compromised “ !

After all, jobs are at stake and companies , all over India , are cutting back on recruitment of fresh graduates

With  regards

hemen  Parekh

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A Ram – Rajya on the horizon ?

Yes , if we were to believe Bombay High Court in India

DNA ( May 09, 2012 ) reports a division bench of the Bombay High Court having observed during a divorce case hearing,

“ A wife should be like goddess Sita who followed her husband , Lord Ram , to the forest and stayed there for 14 years “

Honorable judges seem to be saying to the wife :

“ So what is the big sacrifice in following your husband to Port Blair ? “

I am not competent to comment on the merits of the case, or on the judicial activism , but it would add dignity to a judge if he refrains from dictating moral standards to Indian Women !

May be there bought to be a law that says , divorce cases can be tried by women judges only !

With regards

hemen  Parekh

PROBLEM OF PLENTY ?

By 1^st of June 2012 , stock of food grains with FCI ( Food Corporation of India ) will reach 75.7 million tons

But , no more than 50 million tons can be kept under covered storage !

Rest will be left to rot in the open under the monsoon rains

Even as 1.6 million children ( under 5 ) will die of mal-nutrition in 2012

That is 4,384 children every single day !

A panel headed by Mr. C Rangarajan [ Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister ] , recommends following way for disposing the “ Surplus “ stock :

1.  Export

  

·     2 million tons ….  thru Government Channels

·     1 million tons ….  thru Private Channels

2.  Distribute

·     8 million tons…   to families below poverty line

·     2 million tons…   to families above poverty line

Earlier , a Group of Ministers [ GoM ] headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had shot down the proposal to distribute 10 million tons of surplus food grains to poor people because of “ Fiscal Constraints “ !

For him , saving 1.6 million children at a “ Subsidy Cost “ of Rs 19,500 Crores , works out to a whooping Rs 12,187 per child saved !

Clearly unthinkable for a “ Would Be “ President of India !

With regards

HEMEN  PAREKH

WHO CAN SACK THE VOTERS ?

Apparently , no one

But voters of Europe are sacking their Prime Ministers / Politicians left & right.

Here is a brief list :

·         Italy  …………………….  Silvio Berlusconi

·         Britain  …………………  Gordon Brown

·         Greece  ………………..  George Papendreou

·         Spain  ………………….  Jose Zapatero

·         Ireland  ……………….. Brian Cowen

·         Portugal  ……………..  Jose Socrates

·         France …………………  Nicolas Sarkozy

Who are next ?

·         Germany ……………….  Angela Merkel  ?

·         India  …………………….  Manmohan Singh  ?

And what was their fault ?

They spoke bitter truth which people did not want to hear , viz:,

“ We must cut back on Government borrowing – and spending. We need to lower our standard of living, in order to avoid State bankruptcy “

On the other hand , only last week , Greek people withdrew $ 890 million of their savings from their bank accounts !

Next in queue are the European lenders

Mayans were wrong

World will not come to an end in 2012

Followed by Greece , the World – order will

With regards

HEMEN  PAREKH

BACK TO THE FUTURE -2050 AD?

Times of India [21 May, 2012 ] reports about the existence of an Indian village which you would not expect to come across till 2050

Here are the details:

• Name of village / State

Punsari (Himmatnagar/Gujarat)

  

• Recognition

Voted best Gram Panchayat ( out of 240,000 ) by Govt of India

  

• What does it have ( that is futuristic ) ?

  

• WiFi to cover village

• Optical Fibre Broadband Network

• Air conditioned Schools

• CCTV cameras in class-rooms to watch over teachers

• Schools with zero drop out rates

• 25+ CCTV at street junctions to catch litterbugs

• Mini-bus transport system

• Rs 1 lakh insurance cover for each of the 6000 villagers

• Rs 25,000 Med claim policy for each villager

• Reverse Osmosis plant to supply 20 liter clean water to each house for Rs 4 /- ( Dean Kamen, take heart ! )

• How did Panchayat ( Village Council ) manage this miracle ?

• By managing its own funds well

• By better management of funds received from State / Central Governments

• By selling part of village grazing land as plotted schemes to various communities

• Village Panchayat ( Council ) capital has gone up from Rs 25,000 five years ago to Rs 75 lakhs today

• By villagers agreeing on a co-operative approach to development

• What “ obvious “ factor did Times of India leave unstated  ?

  

• There are no corrupt people in the village panchayat

  

• My suggestions to Punsari Village Panchayat

• Invite Management Institutes to prepare case-study

• Request Peter / Steven ( Authors ) to write a sequel to their excellent book,” Abundance: Future is better than you think “

• Build a 3 star hotel in village – then invite Panchayats from all over India to send delegations on Study Tours . One more source of income . The Panchayat has a name for it :

                      “ Development  Tourism “ !

For additional info , visit : http://deshgujarat.com/2012/04/28/gujarats-punsri-village-wins-best-gram-panchayat-award-nationally/

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Hemen  Parekh 

NOTHING TO CELEBRATE THIS MOTHERS DAY

Times of India ( 9 May,2012 ) reports following findings from “ State of the World’s Mothers “ report , with reference to Indian women :

Findings  

[ 2011 Report / 2012 Report ]

• No of women running the risk of death during child-birth

[ 1 in 140  /  1 in 140  ]

• %age of women using some form of contraceptives

  

[  49 %  /  49 %  ]

  

• %age of women helped by trained health worker during child-birth

  

[  53 %  /  53  %  ]

  

• India’s rank as a “ Place to be a Mother “

  

[ 75^th out of 79 Countries / 76^th out of 80 Countries ]

 How long will Mother India continue to suffer ?

It seems a small consolation that our Speaker as well as President , are women !

With regards

HEMEN  PAREKH