The Missing Concern

The concern which this post addresses is about the admission procedure in Post Graduate Studies and to be precise in MBA program in India.
The question we pose here is not to the B-School’s or their management, it is specifically addressed to the “So called philanthropist” The MMJ types (Murli Manohar Joshi types)
The year 2004 was an incredible year for B-Schools who got unparalleled publicity and especially IIMs. All thanks to the new policy enforcement of reduced fee by MMJ followed by a thorough debate by other public writers exploring their own philanthropic roots.
This brings us to the X Factor that the real nightmare which every B-School aspirant goes through remains unaddressed till date. All B-Schools follow their own methodology and time period in dolling out Calls/Admissions. Missing centralization of this process results in students and their parents depositing Non refundable fees ranging from 10k to 130k in the college where the student gets his first call from.

Options left for the studen

• Don’t pay for the student expects to get a call from better institute later when it declares the result


• If you don’t get anything else go through grievance of writing the test again


• Pay the fees to the first college which gives a call and then wait for the other colleges to announce their results


• If the aspirant gets through a better college then


• Join it and forget his/parent’s hard earned money (But only if he can afford it. That’s actually the price you pay for hurting the ego of a B School and telling them that college ‘X’ is better.


• Forget the better college and join the college where the aspirant has already deposited the fee and settle for something less than what he actually deserved.

Afterthoughts

• Educational Institutes are there to provide education and not to earn money through gambling.


• The System and the ‘so called philanthropist’ who want the lesser privileged get better education opportunities


• Seem to be completely ignorant about this core problem.


• Or are purposely ignoring this core problem for some mutual benefit.

One of the main problem is that its not only the Post Graduate admission process rather the Graduation one also like that of the Engg. college is plagued with the same problem. And Even more worse fact is the citizens have accepted the fact that Education is a Business and this policy is part of their business. But the question is if it is so then why Educational Institutes are not in purview of Indian Penal Code…and there are no chances of suing them

Thanks to Yogendra Saraogi

The X-Man
Manish Saini

In the Name of Welfare

A survey done by the Excise Dept. in Tamil Nadu some time in the mid 1970s gave an estimate of yearly liquor consumption of 25 lac litres in the state. While the figure for Karnataka stood at 75 lac litres. A repeat survey after a decade showed an increase in consumption of around 10,000 litre in Karnataka while Tamil Nadu during this period had overtaken Kaarnatka.

The figures shocked the whole state as this was a period when prohibition act was in force. Every department took whatever measures it could and gave all kinds of explanations.

But as Levitt says – “You need to talk to the right people and look at the right data to get the right answers”.

Following is an excerpt from an interview with a laborer conducted by an organization doing field survey to unravel the causes. This one interview unraveled facts which went on to solve this whole mystery –

Q. How much do you earn in a day?
A. Rs. 12 - 13

Q. How many people are there in your family?
A. Eight. My four children, my parents, myself and my wife.

Q. How much do you spend on food daily?
A. Rs. 6

Q. Rs. 6 for a family of 8! Is it enough?
A. Sir, we belong to a "special class" of people according to the Govt.* My children are entitled for a meal in the school, my parents under Old age pensioners (OAP) scheme are entitled for free rice while my wife being pregnant now and then also falls under one or the other program of Aanganwaadi.

This was a big slap on the face of Welfare Activists.

So much in the name of welfare.


*He was trying to point out that he fell under BPL families category.

Disclaimer: This complete story is an excerpt of an interview with a director of a prominent NGO for whom I was doing consultancy on a project. In the process of capturing the theme I might have distorted a few facts. Kindly ignore them.

The X-Man
Manish Saini

The Golden Hour

In Indian medical practice doctors can fall under any of the three categories according to their qualification and experience -

• M.B.B.S: The vast majority of doctors (usually the only doctors in field)

• MD/ MS/ DNB: Specialists


• MCH / DM/ DNB: Super- Specialists

Handling of Emergencies
The best way to improve the outcome of any kind of medical emergency is to administer the required therapy within the first 30 minutes to one hour (The Golden Hour) of the onset of the condition.
The following two scenarios briefly define that in India how emergency cases are handled –

• In case of Emergencies, the people most competent to treat the patient seldom see the patient during his Golden hour. They are mobilised only after some time.


• The doctors most likely to & most required to handle emergencies (M.B.B.S), especially in the field, are given neither the adequate training nor the facilities to handle most of such cases, thus nullifying the purpose of placing them in the field and wasting six years of education.

The X-Man
Manish Saini