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* Chapter Activities! - 1 messages, 1 author
 
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/efd1d66d297937df
* Two Imp Messages from Propagation Team! - 1 messages, 1 author
 
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/28cc51348252e230
* Scientists reiterate MMR vaccine link to autism. - 1 messages, 1 author
 
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/40e960c6e397536c
* Yoga Expert Swami Ramdev travels to UK to conduct yoga camps. - 1 messages, 
1 author
 
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/2a119919302d1cbe
* National Meeting :: Information! - 1 messages, 1 author
 
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/66c4b81b69792de1
* [Fwd: Making INDIA a Knowledge Economy] - 1 messages, 1 author
 
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/6c61c9347530cdb3

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TOPIC: Chapter Activities!
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/efd1d66d297937df
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, May 28 2006 2:43 pm 
From: "Moderator BharatUdayMission"  

*JABALPUR - CHAPTER ACTIVITIES:*

*Dear Friends*,

*Sorry as we don't post any message for long time.*

*The main reason was many BM members were busy in their exam schedule.*

*But It dont mean that we dont do any thing.*

*During this time we do some work(whose detail are given below) along with
propogation.*


*ACTIVITIES IN THE MONTH OF APRIL:*


*1)**  PROPOGATION CAMPAIGN:*

*     Date: 10-April*

*     Venue: Shree Ram Institute of Technology(SRIT).*

*     We make tour of SRIT and propogate BM. We post NOTES,POSTERS at notice
boards and distribute PAMPLETS. We also talk students and teachers of SRIT
about BM and got good responce.*

*2)**  PROPOGATION CAMPAIGN:*

*     Date: 11-April*

*     Venue: Indian Institute of Information Technology(IIIT-PDPM).*

*     We make tour of IIIT and propogate BM. We post NOTES,POSTERS at notice
boards and distribute PAMPLETS. We also talk students and teachers of IIIT
about BM.*


*3)**  DENTAL CAMP:*

*     Date: 15-April*

*     Venue: Jagriti Rehabilation Center,Near Rly Station.*

*     We organise a free dental camp for children at Jagriti. A center for
poor children who are picked up from platform*.

*4)**  PROPOGATION CAMPAIGN:*

*     Date: 22-April*

*     Venue: GIAN Library (PCM College).*

*     We make tour of GIAN Library and propogate BM. We post NOTES,POSTERS
at notice boards. We also talk Library co-ordinator(Mr. Vinay Pandey) and he
ensure us that he is with us and help us in any possible way.*




*ACTIVITIES IN THE MONTH OF MAY:*


*1)**  MEETING WITH MEMBER OF BHOPAL CHAPTER:*

*     Date: 16-May*

*     Venue: Prince Palace,North Civil Lines.*

*     We manage a meeting with Siddharth, an active member of Bhopal
Chapter. We share our experiances and talk about our recent activities and
future plans. We decide to remain in contact through emails and SMS to
increase our activities.*

*2)**  CHAPTER MEETING:*

*     Date: 21-May*

*     Venue: Jagriti Center.*

*     We talk on different ways adopted by organisations and students
protesting against Reservation and decided to hold a rally againt
Reservation.*

*3)  **PROTEST AGAINST RESERVATION:*

*     Date: 21-May*

*     Venue: Malviye Chowk*

*     We make a HUMAN CHAIN at chowk in alliance with other NGOs SPANDAN,
NAVVIHAN, Junior Doctor Asso., Junior   Lawyers Asso. & other.*

*4)  **PROTEST AGAINST RESERVATION:*

*     Date: 25-May*

*     Venue: IMA Hall,Ranital*

*     We participate in Rally  by IMA(Indian Medical Association) aginst
reservation.*

*PROPOSED ACTIVITIES FOR MONTH OF JUNE:*

*CHAPTER MEETING:*

*Date:     3-June*

*Time:    9 to 10 AM*

*Venue:  Jagriti Center,Near Rly Station main gate.*

*To discuss on actions for month of June.*


-- 
"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."

www.bharatudaymission.org





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TOPIC: Two Imp Messages from Propagation Team!
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/28cc51348252e230
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, May 28 2006 2:49 pm 
From: "Moderator BharatUdayMission"  

 MESAGE - 1:

Namaste all,
                The CPT is now concentrating on few specific areas now. *We
would like to request all the members from either the far North (Himachal)
or East and Far East(Bihar, WB except Kolkata, and all the North Eastern
states) to please report to me personally. You may even call me in case you
wish to at 99808045363 *
**
*                In case anyone of you know anyone from that area then also
contact me.*
*                                                                         **
------Thanks....Rishi*

MESAGE - 2:
*

TWO IMPORTANT POINTS*

I would like to bring to the kind notice of everyone two important points.


*POINT ONE-*
I had asked for the excel files of all nodal chapters but I did not receive
a single file.

We plan to do better database management of the members in future and for
that we need to have the list of the existing members first of all. Once
that is settled we will try out some PHP-MySQL based database management.

*Please co-operate. It will hardly take 1 hour for you to take care of it.
Send me the excel files by the end of this month.*
**
I will reproduce the earlier mail here. Please go through it again.
*Those members who are part of the main group but if their home town belongs
to a node which doesn't yet have a chapter, then directly send your details
to me with the subject "Master Database". * Please take extreme care in this
regard, think of me first before sending details, because it will be
hopelessly difficult for me.

The mail:
*Namaskar all,*
After getting green signal from the Propagation Team members I am starting
the work on the Master Database.
I mainly intend to have a well-organised, hierarchial ordering of members
which can be efficiently searched for any information.
The hierarchy should be:

                 Abroad --------> Continent --> Country --> City
              /
Members
              \  National -------> Regional Nodes --> District --> Town -->
Address


The regional 'nodes' are :
1. Jammu
2. Kolkata
3. Chandigarh
4. Delhi
5. Dehradun
6. Kanpur
7. Varanasi
8. Patna
9. Ranchi
10. Guwahati
11. Imphal
12. Bhubaneshwar
13. Raipur
14. Jabalpur
15. Bhopal
16. Indore
17. Jaipur
18. Jodhpur
19. Udaipur
20. Ahmedabad
21. Vishakhapatnam
22. Hyderabad
23. Nagpur
24. Mumbai
25. Panaji
26. Bengalooru
27. Chennai
28. Coimbatore
29. Thiruvananthapuram

I once again remind the members that this idea of nodes is to ensure that
the regional headquarters or centres(we might have them in future) are
uniformly located region-wise and not state-wise since states are just lines
on the map and nothing more.

*The various chapters of BM are :*

BM_ahmedabad
BM_allahabad
BM_aurangabad
BM_bangalore
BM_bhopal
BM_chandigarh
BM_chennai
BM_chhatishgarh
BM_coimbatore
BM_delhi
BM_gurgaon
BM_guwahati
BM_gwalior
BM_hyderabad
BM_indore
BM_jabalpur
BM_jaipur
BM_kanpur
BM_kharagpur
BM_kolkata
BM_lucknow
BM_meerut
BM_mumbai
BM_panvel
BM_patna
BM_pilani
BM_pune
BM_roorkee
BM_utkal
BM_varanasi
BM_vellore
BM_vidisha
BM_Visakhapatnam

<BM_usa>
<BM_USA_chicago>
<BM_germany>
<BM_southkorea>

*Now what you people have to do(Co-ordinators):*
1. I see the chapters that coincide with the nodes are- Ahmedabad,
Bengalooru/Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh , Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi,
Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai,
Patna, Varanasi, Vishakhapatnam.
The co-ordinators of these chapters have to get the database from the
different districts affiliated to it(and so on- recursively) based on
closest node to the concerned city/district which are:
Allahabad --> Varanasi
Aurangabad,Panvel (--> Raigarh)  --> Mumbai
Chhattisgarh --> Raipur
Gurgaon,Meerut --> Delhi
Gwalior, Lucknow --> Kanpur
Kharagpur --> West Medinipur -->Kolkata
Pilani --> Jhunjhunu --> Jaipur
Roorkee --> Haridwar --> Dehra Dun
Utkal --> Bhubaneshwar
Vellore --> Chennai
Vidisha --> Bhopal

I know the ordering might be too fine and complicated for now but we have to
consider the case in future where it would be very difficult to track
members.
*A person is considered to be a member of BM if (s)he is in the master
database irrespective or whether (s)he is in yahoo group or not.*
This definition is appropriate because soon we will have members who might
not be available online.


2. The format of the excel file should be:
Sl. No.   |    City    |   District   |    Nearest  Node   |  Full
Name  |   Current Adress   |   Education   |   Contact No.(if any)  |  Mail
id (if any)

3. Please note that we are avoiding two addresses for simplicity. My home
address may be abc but am working/studying at xyz so there will be two
addresses. On same lines we can say that we are part of two chapters.
*But please give relate yourself to only one chapter where you currently
are. *Your hometown chapter will be taken as informal activity if you take
part in it.
You may change your address in future but give only one address and
affiliation to only one chapter "formally".

4. As an example, *the Allahabad chapter will not submit the excel file
directly to me since Allahabad is not a node. *
He will submit it to Varanasi chapter who will compile all districts linked
to Varanasi in one file and then Varanasi fellow will submit it to me.

5. Similarly for abroad chapters: please submit the excel file in the
following format
Sl. No. |   District/City  |  Country   |    Continent  |   Full Name
|   Current Address  |  Education |  Contact No.(if any)
|  Email(if any)

6. Please mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see the relevant
thread on the forums in case of any queries.

7. I can expect the excel files *only from the nodal chapter
co-ordinators*(point
clarified as above) *within 1 month. *I guess one month is sufficient time.
Of course there must be many members who are not members of the chapter
groups, but I cannot ensure in any way that they submit their details.
*In case they see this mail and want to submit their details, please submit
it to the closest node co-ordinator.*
**

*vande mataram,*
*
    **----Rishi*

*POINT TWO-*
**
*All people working on translation should keep in touch with me, it would
help them.*
Also, this is an open call to everyone who is well above average in any
Indian language to volunteer for the translation work. This is the least,
substantial work, you can do sitting at home, for BM.

*Also please note that to take care of the translation of the chapters'
pages is the duty of the chapter co-ordinator. *I mean, for example
Hyderabad chapter has to take care to either translate the chapter page
themselves into Telugu or to see somebody else does it. The chapter pages
will exist only in two languages, English and the local.

The priority order of 'translation need' is :

1. Hindi(going on, not needed)
2. Bengali
3. Telugu(going on, I guess, the person concerned, please contact me)
4. Tamil
5. Marathi(Is it going on?)
6. Kannada
Gujarati, Oriya, Assamese, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu after these 6.


-------------------------------------Thanks, Vande Mataram



-- 
"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."

www.bharatudaymission.org





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TOPIC: Scientists reiterate MMR vaccine link to autism.
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/40e960c6e397536c
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, May 28 2006 7:07 am 
From: Jagannath Chatterjee  

US scientists back autism link to MMR
By Beezy Marsh and Sally Beck [article in Telegraph, UK]
(Filed: 28/05/2006)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/28/wmmr28.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/28/ixnews.html

The measles virus has been found in the guts of children with
a form of autism, renewing fears over the safety of the MMR
jab.

American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of
samples taken from autistic children with bowel disorders
contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used in
the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine.

The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because
they back theories of a causal link between the jab, autism
and painful gut disorders suffered by a number of autistic
children.

The study replicates findings made by the gastroenterologist
Dr Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and Prof John O'Leary, a
pathologist, in 2002.

Parents say their children were developing normally until
they had the MMR jab, given when a child is between 12- and
18-months-old. The children now suffer from regressive
autism.

One theory is that the virus passes through the gut, causing
damage, and into the bloodstream, from where it is able to
attack the brain.

More than 2,000 families claim that their children have
suffered damage but the Department of Health reiterated last
night that MMR is safe, a stance supported by the British
Medical Association and all the Royal Colleges. Last year
Government scientists failed to reproduce research results
by Dr Wakefield.

Research to be presented this week in Montreal, Canada,
provides fresh evidence that the measles virus is present
in the guts of autistic children. Dr Stephen Walker, of the
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina,
studied children with regressive autism and bowel disease.
"Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are
vaccine strain," he said. 





    "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the 
conquest of life by the power of the spirit." -  Aurobindo.




                
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TOPIC: Yoga Expert Swami Ramdev travels to UK to conduct yoga camps.
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/2a119919302d1cbe
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, May 28 2006 5:49 am 
From: Jagannath Chatterjee  

 
  Press release from Aaastha TV.
  ---------------------------------------------
  Dear Friends,
The day you all have been waiting for has arrived.
The details of SWAMI RAMDEV'S FIRST YOG SCIENCE CAMP
outside India and in UK are as below :
 
FIRST CAMP :
Date      : 15th. July to 22nd. July, 2006
Timings  :  Morning Session : 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. --- Could be rescheduled 
half to one hour later due to Health &Safety and/or Noise issues. Will 
be notified in due course and announced on the Aastha Channel
              : Evening Session  : 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Registrations are separate for each Session. 

Participants desiring attending both Sessions may do so by registering 
themselves for both sessions separately and procuring respective Donor 
Passes

Venue:Elmbridge Club,
   Forest Road,

   Hainault,

   Fairlop, 

   ILFORD, Essex

   IG6 3HJ

   Tel.:  020 8500 5375

   Fax:  020 8559 8616

   Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RULES FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE CAMPS 

1)Men, women and children who have obtained consent of their qualified 
health care professional to be suitable to participate in an 
exercise/health/fitness program can participate 

     2)      Women are requested to wear white/yellow/pink salwar 
kameez or gym wear and Men are requested to wear kurta pajamas or loose gym 
wear/jogging wear.

     3)      Passes should be displayed for enrty to the camp.

    4)      We suggest that participants undergo medical 
checkup(basically weight, sugar levels, blood pressure, lipid profile etc.) 
before 
and after attending the camp whereby they can analyse the difference and 
benefits of attending the camp.

     5) Children under the age of 10 are not encouraged for health and 
Safety issues and will be allowed only if under strict parental 
guidance and supervision and at the parents own risk and responsibility.

     6) Participants are required to come in the morning after 
completing the morning ablutions and on an empty stomach for maximum results.

     7) Participants in the evening session must not eat/drink anything 
for around 3/4 hours before attanding the Camp. 

For each session donor passes of following categories will be made 
available :

VIP           : Suggested Donation Value    GBPounds 500 only.

Diamond  : Suggested Donation Value    GBPounds 300 only.

Gold         : Suggested Donation Value    GBPounds 140 only.

Silver        : Suggested Donation Value    GBPounds   70 only.

In Aid of Patanjali Yog Peeth UK(Applied for Charity Regitration) and 
Patanjali Yog Peeth Trust - India

There are no seperate/different/discounted suggestions for senior 
citizens, children, group registrations.

Special arrangements for receiving instructions in English language by 
use of earphones are planned.
 
Further details about telephone numbers for enquiries, where the Donor 
passes will be available, how to register and pay your donations, how 
to apply for the different types of Memberships, and the Gift Aid Form 
from Tax Payers only will be notified and announced on the channel, as 
well as emailed/posted/notified to you.
 
Please arrange to apply for your leaves/holidays, make arrangements 
with family, friends, relatives and neighbors, for the daily coaches if 
necessary where groups can participate who cannot drive/or are 
aged/dependent upon others to daily drive them to and from the venue.
Please note that there are no arrangements for food or drinks or any 
refreshments to be served at the venue.
The venues, dates and details of the next Camps will soon be announced 
and notified, but you are requested to register immediately to avoid 
disappointment, as participation will be on first come first served basis 
only.




    "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the 
conquest of life by the power of the spirit." -  Aurobindo.




                
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TOPIC: National Meeting :: Information!
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/66c4b81b69792de1
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, May 28 2006 8:27 am 
From: "Moderator BharatUdayMission"  

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Please find details of our National meeting as following:

1 TIME : JUNE 24 and 25, 2006.

2. VENUE : JAIPUR

3. *Name, Email, phone number and background of all representatives must be
mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* as soon as
possible*. We invite 2 members from every chapter to attend the meeting.
Preferably these members should be chapter coordinator and constituent
assembly member from that chapter. These members must be chosen by consensus
as all discussions and decisions taken during the national meeting will be
binding to all the chapters.

4. Registration Fee :
       For Professionals : 1k INR
       For Students       : 500 INR

5. Agenda : We will mail later.

6. Management committee : It will be formed soon and we will inform
everybody. It will help everybody to make visit more joyful and comfortable.

Regards
Moderators.

-- 
"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."

www.bharatudaymission.org





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TOPIC: [Fwd: Making INDIA a Knowledge Economy]
http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/6c61c9347530cdb3
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, May 28 2006 2:37 pm 
From: "Gopal Krishna"  

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Making INDIA a Knowledge Economy
From:    "Ajay Singh Niranjan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:    Thu, May 25, 2006 1:02 pm
To:      "Gopal IITK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Gopal ,
  Please circulate this message to bharat uday mission network.
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
  Making INDIA a Knowledge Economy
  It is necessary to first understand the entire "Matrix" in education. Even
after 59 years of Independence, the following situation remains as far as
the Human Capital Development of our country is concerned:-

   Drop-out rate in schools from KG to 10+2 is (including those who never
attended school) 90% to 94%.
   China has about 1.80 million schools, while we have in India about
0.95million schools!
   The "Governance" in Government run schools is very low. In many cases
teachers are absent (15% to 40% absenteeism) from schools in rural and urban
schools of India and are paid full wages and perks in spite of this! Studies
have shown that even the poorest of the poor rather send their children to
un-aided schools where fees have to be paid and not to government run free
schools. The quality of schooling of such unaided schools is higher than
Government schools although the salary of Government teachers is two to
three times higher than the teachers of the un-aided schools.
   The existing Indian definition of Literacy (if you can write your name
you are literate) needs to be amended to International Standards.
   As per the Ministry of HRD the present illiteracy is ONLY 37% or 430
million people, while as per UNICEF and UNDP it is nearly 60% or 650 million
people. China has a Literacy rate of about 93% literacy.
   The first step of making India a knowledge economy is literacy and needs
to be given A1 priority.
   The total amount spent on education is about Rs. 81,000 crores per year.
10% by the Central Govt. and 90% by the State Governments The Education Cess
will collect another Rs. 7000 crores per year. This is about 3.3% of GDP.
The MHRD has calculated that another Rs. 40,000 crores per year would be
required only for additional requirements for Primary Education!
   We estimate that another Rs. 100,000 crores are required per year just to
have reasonable quality of Primary and Secondary education, up to Class
10th., which is where the Central and State Governments should concentrate
for the next 10 to 20 years, or till we have at least 95% Literacy and at
least 80% of the population who are completing the High School stage or
Class 10th.
   As per our estimates the total expenditure for education is nearly 8% of
GDP, about 3.3% from Government and about 4.7% from private participation.
This includes funding of unaided schools and colleges+ bribes and capitation
fees + payment for students studying abroad + tuition classes +coaching
classes +private I.T. & Software training institutes. Most of this private
funding is confined to urban areas where only 30% stay.
   About 7% to 8% of the youth who finish the 10+2 stage (pre-university)
enter the17, 600 colleges of India. 70% of all graduates are B.A. or Arts
graduates. Is this relevant today? Most of these so called graduates are
not-employable.
   Of all new employment taking place nearly 60% are self employed. About
New Employment - 1% is with government, 2% with the private 'organized
sector' and 97% with the 'unorganized sector'.
   Presently there is little connect between education and employment
generation & quality of Life
   The employers associations, chambers of commerce and other business
organizations are fragmented. There is no "National Common Minimum Program"
for "education and training of manpower" in India. In most developed and
developing countries the Chambers of Commerce (who represent the employers
and business) Lead from the front.
   About 29 million people are added every year to the existing education
system, which is like adding another Australia + Hong Kong + Singapore & UAE
per year!
   Presently both the Central Government as well as the State Governments
are running in Financial Deficits, of about 9% to 11% of GDP, so the
question of additional financing for education will strain not only the
existing budgets but also put pressure on other sectors, where funds are
being presently allocated.
   "Licence Raj" runs all Higher & Technical Education in India. Let us
Bench-Mark with USA, Germany and Japan, the three largest economies of the
World account for nearly 50% of the world's GDP.  Do their governments exert
similar controls as we have in India? Can we learn from them? There is
fierce competition between the institutions in these countries for
excellence!
   China has about 900 Universities, while we in India have 372
Universities. Japan has 4000!
   In India, the fees of the courses, pay-scales to the teachers,
appointment of the head of the Institution and the syllabus, are decided by
the 58 or more Central and State-Government Boards of Education. Will this
create innovation, excellence and world class students?
   The Coaching Business is getting bigger than the Education Business,
entrance examinations for the IIT's, IIM's and a few prestigious  management
schools attract about 600,000 applications (who spend nearly Rs.2.00 lac
each for pre-coaching, amounting to Rs.12,000 crores per year, for 6000
seats. These institutions spend hardly Rs.800 to Rs.1,100 crores per year,
as their teaching budgets!
   While 75% to 85% the youth of the developed and developing world learn a
skill or competence or trade between the ages of 14 to 35, by Vocational
Education & training, in India it is hardly covers 3% to 5% of the
population!
   India has about 5000 ITI's (Ministry of Labour) and about 7000 Vocational
schools (Ministry of HRD), while China has about 500,000 senior secondary
vocational schools!
   India has 300 million able bodied between the ages of 18 to 50, but they
have no skill sets and therefore not employable! Employers in India are
facing a huge shortage of skilled manpower. Wages and salaries in India, of
skilled manpower are going up too fast. India will not be able to take
advantage of the demographic profile of its population, if the youth do not
receive relevant and quality Education & Training.
   We have not seen any co-ordination between the Ministry of Labour and the
Ministry of HRD as far as VET planning on a National level, is concerned
   We in India have NOT still appreciated the fact that, world wide,
Education is 5 times or 500% bigger than I.T. or software!
   India can become an Educational Hub for the world and earn US$ 100
billion per year, after 10 to 20 years! We need to start now, but remove
"Licence Raj" first, as was done for business in 1991! India has 7,700
foreign students while Australia has 513,000 foreign students!
   Because of the "Licence Raj" in Higher and Technical Education, it is
estimated that nearly 70,000 to 90,000 students leave India every year for
studying abroad. At any given time these 320,000 students cost the country a
foreign exchange out flow of nearly US$9 billion per year or nearly Rs.
40,000 crores per year, enough to build 40 IIM's or 20 IIT's per year.
   The present problem of reservation will not solve the needs and
aspirations of the youth. India needs a larger number of educational
Institutions, seats and higher quality in the area of Higher & Technical
education. Rationing, quotas and reservation can never address the actual
situation. The Central and State governments are strapped for funds even for
Primary and Secondary education. The solution lies in complete decontrol of
all forms of Higher & Technical education; the same way as business was
delicensed in1991!
  If INDIA has to become a Knowledge Economy we need to do the following:

   Aim for 95% to 100% Literacy in the next 10 years
   Decontrol and involve the management of all primary schools to the local
bodies such as Panchayats, Village Groups, Municipalities and local Citizen
Groups. Allow the community to manage.
   Consider the use and issue of "Education Coupons" for school children, so
that they can choose the schools of their choice and funding from the
government, which would have been dispersed for the funding of Government
run schools in rural and urban India, should be paid out. See
www.ccsindia.org
   Scrap "Licence Raj" in Higher & Technical Education, after and including
class 11th, to allow innovation, creativity and excellence in Education. See
www.epsfi.org
   Ensure that 80% to 90% of the population in the age group of 14 years to
50 years goes in for some sort of relevant Vocational Education & Training.
See www.wakeupcall.org
   Allow starting of Enterprise Skills Education, ESD, from Class 5th to the
12th. This will teach the youth about how the real world works. Only 100
hours per year required. Nearly 60% of the workforce in India is
self-employed.
   Start Prevocational classes from Class 8th. Have Vocational Counsellors
in all Higher Seconadary Schools. Upgrade all Higher Seconadry Schools for
Vocational Education & Training.

   Have a dynamic interaction between all stake holders,
Academia-Industry-Business-R&D-Chambers of Commerce-Student bodies-Parents
organizations-Civil society and NGO's. Chambers of Commerce, who represents
the employers and business, must lead from the front.
   Allow private finance and participation in all sectors of education, till
we reach the goals as mentioned under item 8 in section one above.
   Allow tax breaks and incentives for private and NRI funding, for the next
20 years or till we achieve bench marks as mentioned under item 8 in section
one above.
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  Edited, Published and Printed for i Watch by Krishan Khanna. He is from
IIT, Kharagpur. Between 1961 to 1992, he was responsible for 14 joint
ventures and business partnerships with 14 different countries around the
world. In 1993 he took 'Sanyas' from business for Nation Building and
Transforming INDIA.

Krishan Khanna is Chairman - Vocational Education & Training Committee –
EPSI, Educational Promotion Society of India, New Delhi. Co-Chairman -
Committee on Education & Industry Co-operation, - PHDCC&I, New Delhi, Member
- CII National Committee on Higher & Technical Education, New Delhi,
Director - Vocational Services, Rotary International, Rotary District 3140,
Bombay Mid Town, Bombay and Advisor - Vocational Education & Training, Times
Foundation, New Delhi. The views and opinions expressed are Krishan Khanna's
personal views and some points may not be accepted by the Times Foundation,
CII, EPSI, PHDCC&I and the Rotary International.

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