The Eenadu article mentions the similar statistical data as I mentioned in my previous post.
2 lakh qualified students and 3.5 lakh total available seats = 1.5 lakh empty seats..!!
click here to view the Eenadu article dated July 10, 2011.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Follow up of my preveious article in today's Eenadu daily
Here is the follow up of my previous article on the engineering education in AP in today's Eenadu daily.
The Eenadu article mentions the similar statistical data as I mentioned in my previous post.
2 lakh qualified students and 3.5 lakh total available seats = 1.5 lakh empty seats..!!
click here to view the Eenadu article dated July 10, 2011.
The Eenadu article mentions the similar statistical data as I mentioned in my previous post.
2 lakh qualified students and 3.5 lakh total available seats = 1.5 lakh empty seats..!!
click here to view the Eenadu article dated July 10, 2011.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The curious case of engineering education in AP
You know the interesting fact about the engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh?
Well, let me say it. It is the only state where the number of engg seats are far more than the number of students qualified for the engg entrance exam (EAMCET). It’s been the common trend over the past few years.
Conservative estimation shows that the number of vacant engineering seats this year will be around 1.2 to 1.5 Lakhs. Let me explain how is it possible?
If you see the statistics of this year, when the EAMCET results were announced last month there were 2.2 lakhs of students qualified. But after announcing the IPE results, the people who qualified EAMCET and didn’t get through IPE were nearly 14K. And some 3K students didn’t meet the minimum groups score which is necessary for EAMCET qualification. So finally the number of students who actually cleared EAMCET is around 2 lakhs. But everyone who qualified EAMCET won’t be joining engg.
According to recent data released our dearest deputy CM, who is also a minister of technical education Damodara Rajanarasimha, there will be nearly 25K to 30K seats will be increased this year due to some new colleges and etc reasons. So the final count of number of seats for year 2011 will be more than 3 lakhs.
So do the math, 3 lakhs are number of available seats and 2 lakhs are number of students qualified. Even if every qualified students opt for engg which is a absurd fact, there will be still 1 lakh seats will be vacant.
Now let me tell you some history behind this “interesting” fact.
7 years ago (till 2003), when Chandrababu was in power, the numbers of engg colleges were 225 which could accommodate 66K students per year. Change is inevitable and so as politics. Finally in 2004 Late YSR took over as CM. During the first three years tenure (2004 - 2007) of YSR there were 57 more new colleges with added 33K seats extra. If you think this is amazing, there is still most amazing fact yet to come. And it is here. During the next four years (2007 - 2011) the number of new colleges established was a staggering 425.
You may argue that YSR is not alive after 2009, so what makes him responsible for it?
Ok, I agree. But see this fact. Of the 425 colleges established from 2007 to 2011, 319 were established in only two years of his tenure as CM (2008 - 2009). More like getting permission for one college every two days. Are they chocolates or engg colleges..??
The one and only reason behind this exponential (or rather hockey stick curve) increment of the number of colleges (number of seats) is, reimbursement of fees for almost every students who enrols for engg. Again thanks to YSR who introduced this scheme with keeping the needy in view. But the entire programme went into whole new path after its commission.
During all these years, the job of so called politicians’/leaders’/whatever is to open an ENGINEERING college in single room/rented house/(chicken forms in some case) and register it with the help of some minister, finally do some admission stuff (fake in some cases) and sit silent. The govt used to do the rest. Govt used to refund them the amount of fee paid by the student who enrolled into their ENGINEERING College.
No need of telling you the pathetic study in those kinds of colleges.
Since 2008 till last year, the amount of budget spent on reimbursement of fees is mind blowing 8000 crores. Lion share of this chunk went into the fake/stupid/pathetic colleges.
Well, it’s not about money after all. It’s about the career of the student who comes out of those pathetic colleges. See, the person with some bigger (in number) rank can’t get a seat in so called good college. So he/she might get himself/herself enrolled into one of that pathetic institute which took birth due to the peak level greediness of some stupid politician. Those students’ life will be ruined after those 4 years of study. Meanwhile their parents must have been thinking that their kids will achieve some good positions.
Who is responsible..? No need to explain.
The number of engg students graduate every year in USA is 65K. But AP alone produces nearly 4 times (in number) to that of USA. This is not something we should be proud of. This is something to be ashamed of. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)’s survey declares that only one in four engg graduate is capable of doing job after his/her graduation. AICTE also neglected the report of U R Rao which stated that the number of engg seats per year in entire India should not be more than 75K. AP alone hosts 4 times the maximum prescribed number of seats for entire country.
Wish AICTE and government (state and central) open their eyes at least now and cancel the permission for those colleges without proper resources and save the future of the students who were getting trapped by those shitty people.
Well, let me say it. It is the only state where the number of engg seats are far more than the number of students qualified for the engg entrance exam (EAMCET). It’s been the common trend over the past few years.
Conservative estimation shows that the number of vacant engineering seats this year will be around 1.2 to 1.5 Lakhs. Let me explain how is it possible?
If you see the statistics of this year, when the EAMCET results were announced last month there were 2.2 lakhs of students qualified. But after announcing the IPE results, the people who qualified EAMCET and didn’t get through IPE were nearly 14K. And some 3K students didn’t meet the minimum groups score which is necessary for EAMCET qualification. So finally the number of students who actually cleared EAMCET is around 2 lakhs. But everyone who qualified EAMCET won’t be joining engg.
According to recent data released our dearest deputy CM, who is also a minister of technical education Damodara Rajanarasimha, there will be nearly 25K to 30K seats will be increased this year due to some new colleges and etc reasons. So the final count of number of seats for year 2011 will be more than 3 lakhs.
So do the math, 3 lakhs are number of available seats and 2 lakhs are number of students qualified. Even if every qualified students opt for engg which is a absurd fact, there will be still 1 lakh seats will be vacant.
Now let me tell you some history behind this “interesting” fact.
7 years ago (till 2003), when Chandrababu was in power, the numbers of engg colleges were 225 which could accommodate 66K students per year. Change is inevitable and so as politics. Finally in 2004 Late YSR took over as CM. During the first three years tenure (2004 - 2007) of YSR there were 57 more new colleges with added 33K seats extra. If you think this is amazing, there is still most amazing fact yet to come. And it is here. During the next four years (2007 - 2011) the number of new colleges established was a staggering 425.
You may argue that YSR is not alive after 2009, so what makes him responsible for it?
Ok, I agree. But see this fact. Of the 425 colleges established from 2007 to 2011, 319 were established in only two years of his tenure as CM (2008 - 2009). More like getting permission for one college every two days. Are they chocolates or engg colleges..??
The one and only reason behind this exponential (or rather hockey stick curve) increment of the number of colleges (number of seats) is, reimbursement of fees for almost every students who enrols for engg. Again thanks to YSR who introduced this scheme with keeping the needy in view. But the entire programme went into whole new path after its commission.
During all these years, the job of so called politicians’/leaders’/whatever is to open an ENGINEERING college in single room/rented house/(chicken forms in some case) and register it with the help of some minister, finally do some admission stuff (fake in some cases) and sit silent. The govt used to do the rest. Govt used to refund them the amount of fee paid by the student who enrolled into their ENGINEERING College.
No need of telling you the pathetic study in those kinds of colleges.
Since 2008 till last year, the amount of budget spent on reimbursement of fees is mind blowing 8000 crores. Lion share of this chunk went into the fake/stupid/pathetic colleges.
Well, it’s not about money after all. It’s about the career of the student who comes out of those pathetic colleges. See, the person with some bigger (in number) rank can’t get a seat in so called good college. So he/she might get himself/herself enrolled into one of that pathetic institute which took birth due to the peak level greediness of some stupid politician. Those students’ life will be ruined after those 4 years of study. Meanwhile their parents must have been thinking that their kids will achieve some good positions.
Who is responsible..? No need to explain.
The number of engg students graduate every year in USA is 65K. But AP alone produces nearly 4 times (in number) to that of USA. This is not something we should be proud of. This is something to be ashamed of. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM)’s survey declares that only one in four engg graduate is capable of doing job after his/her graduation. AICTE also neglected the report of U R Rao which stated that the number of engg seats per year in entire India should not be more than 75K. AP alone hosts 4 times the maximum prescribed number of seats for entire country.
Wish AICTE and government (state and central) open their eyes at least now and cancel the permission for those colleges without proper resources and save the future of the students who were getting trapped by those shitty people.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Is it Intern or Bonded labor..??
Well it’s been more than one month since I joined Selco Labs as an intern. Now let me tell you what all the things I am doing here.
My project is on dryer. Well it’s not hair dryer of course. Its fruit and/or vegetable dryer. Don’t ask me if it’s really necessary to have a dryer to dry those silly veggies of fruits. I don’t know. I never asked that question to myself. Don’t confuse me now; I am supposed to finish my intern in next few weeks. I am just going with the flow like a conventional IITian.
The designing part was really simple. Sitting peacefully in front of lap with free wireless net connection (with decent speed) and of course wasting time in every possible way. Whenever my guide was coming near to me, I used to open up new “Google Sketch Up” window and started drawing some stupid lines. But my guide never bothered about those stupid lines. Even he knew that I was pretending to be workaholic. But he didn’t say me a thing, because even he is an IIT(M)ian. IITian really rocks. :P
Unfortunately I have finished designing and somehow fabricated it. I felt as if I conquered the entire world. But my guide didn’t think the same though he was an IITian. He asked me to “test and analyse” the dryer which really pissed me off.
C’mon man...Don’t expect interns to do work..They hardly stay for 6 weeks, then how could you expect them to solve a problem of your company?? Get practical man. Now don’t force much work on them..I felt like shouting. “Fuck..What did you do when you were doing intern..?? Interns need a certi..not knowledge”. But as usually I could not yell on his face. So I decided to test it for time being.
So I started working physically this time, unlike the designing part.
Fuck, I just hate this work.
This is the point where my life changed drastically.
This is the point where I’ve become engineer to daily labour.
Exactly, I have become a daily labour. I started (rather asked) doing every stupid work which wasn’t supposed to be done by an Intern (especially those who are from IIT). Now the only difference between daily labour and me is, I wear shaastra/saarang T shirt to work and the daily labour wear some other shirt.
Here is the list of few things I’ve done so far in order to finish my intern.
Cleaned the lab for experiment. Fuck, I never cleaned my room. But I’d to do that here. I just hated it.
Bought and cut the 10Kg jack fruit to test with my dryer. C’mon, don’t think cutting jack fruit is simple task. Once you start cutting, you will know how tough it is. You will shit in your pants.
Cleaned the dishes to preserve the sample product.
Chopped the wood to fuel the dryer. God I just hated it. Understood how painful the life of a wood cutter.
Drilled nails into 2 inch aluminum plate and dryer for proper design.
Cut n pieces of metal with hack saw. Remembered the days of fitting workshop.
Charged the combustion chamber with wood 6 hours a day and for 10 days. After this work, my lungs has become like that of a chain smoker, fuck the smoke coming out of combustion chamber.
If I had done all these works outside, I would have earned nearly 20k per month. But here I am doing all these shit just to get one fucking certi to get intern credited.
P.S. Anand sir, please don't mind if this looks uncomfortable for you. This post is just mix of few facts and some illusion followed by delusion combined with hallucination. :)
My project is on dryer. Well it’s not hair dryer of course. Its fruit and/or vegetable dryer. Don’t ask me if it’s really necessary to have a dryer to dry those silly veggies of fruits. I don’t know. I never asked that question to myself. Don’t confuse me now; I am supposed to finish my intern in next few weeks. I am just going with the flow like a conventional IITian.
The designing part was really simple. Sitting peacefully in front of lap with free wireless net connection (with decent speed) and of course wasting time in every possible way. Whenever my guide was coming near to me, I used to open up new “Google Sketch Up” window and started drawing some stupid lines. But my guide never bothered about those stupid lines. Even he knew that I was pretending to be workaholic. But he didn’t say me a thing, because even he is an IIT(M)ian. IITian really rocks. :P
Unfortunately I have finished designing and somehow fabricated it. I felt as if I conquered the entire world. But my guide didn’t think the same though he was an IITian. He asked me to “test and analyse” the dryer which really pissed me off.
C’mon man...Don’t expect interns to do work..They hardly stay for 6 weeks, then how could you expect them to solve a problem of your company?? Get practical man. Now don’t force much work on them..I felt like shouting. “Fuck..What did you do when you were doing intern..?? Interns need a certi..not knowledge”. But as usually I could not yell on his face. So I decided to test it for time being.
So I started working physically this time, unlike the designing part.
Fuck, I just hate this work.
This is the point where my life changed drastically.
This is the point where I’ve become engineer to daily labour.
Exactly, I have become a daily labour. I started (rather asked) doing every stupid work which wasn’t supposed to be done by an Intern (especially those who are from IIT). Now the only difference between daily labour and me is, I wear shaastra/saarang T shirt to work and the daily labour wear some other shirt.
Here is the list of few things I’ve done so far in order to finish my intern.
Cleaned the lab for experiment. Fuck, I never cleaned my room. But I’d to do that here. I just hated it.
Bought and cut the 10Kg jack fruit to test with my dryer. C’mon, don’t think cutting jack fruit is simple task. Once you start cutting, you will know how tough it is. You will shit in your pants.
Cleaned the dishes to preserve the sample product.
Chopped the wood to fuel the dryer. God I just hated it. Understood how painful the life of a wood cutter.
Drilled nails into 2 inch aluminum plate and dryer for proper design.
Cut n pieces of metal with hack saw. Remembered the days of fitting workshop.
Charged the combustion chamber with wood 6 hours a day and for 10 days. After this work, my lungs has become like that of a chain smoker, fuck the smoke coming out of combustion chamber.
If I had done all these works outside, I would have earned nearly 20k per month. But here I am doing all these shit just to get one fucking certi to get intern credited.
P.S. Anand sir, please don't mind if this looks uncomfortable for you. This post is just mix of few facts and some illusion followed by delusion combined with hallucination. :)
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