THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS BURNING & YOU ARE DREAMING ABOUT AWARD FOR SOPKEN
TUTORIAL !
OPEN LETTER TO PROF KANNAN (IIT , MUMBAI)
Dear Prof Kannan
Sir,
I am really very happy if you get award but ....
Please read it carefully
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(True Copy)
Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
(School-5 Section)
New Delhi, Shastri Bhavan
Dated : 17.06.2014
Subject: National Policy on Information and Communication Technology in
School Education to adopt free and open source software (FOSS) Regarding.
Sir/Madam,
1. The undersigned is directed to refer herewith to a letter received in
the Ministry of Human Resource Development on the subject mentioned
above and to say that attention of MHRD has been called to the National
Education Policy on Information Communication Technology (NPICT) in
School Education, All Central/State SSC/HSC boards have ICT subject in
their curriculum and conduct the Examination on ICT papers. Softwares
like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, M.S. Window, M.S. Office
software has been made mandatory for framing and answering in the
examination by Boards and a huge amount is spent for acquiring
proprietary software by the affiliated schools. This decision of the
Boards etc. is not in line with NPICT in school education. There is a
concern that the amount spent on acquiring proprietary licensed software
is recovered from the students, which brings serious implication on poor
and needy students.
2. As you are aware that national ICT policy in School Education
underlines a preference to adopt free and open source software-operating
system and software applications in order to expand the range of
learning creation and sharing. The ICT curriculum developed by the NCERT
for the ICT@schools scheme of the MHRD is based on a Free and Open
Source Platform and includes an operating system with pre-installed
software for all application. State Government is advised to adopt the
ICT curriculum and model your syllabi around this curriculum.
3. In the light of above you may consider an advisory to be issued to
all educational bodies in the State/UT, to guide and suggest multiple
and generic alternatives for the ICT content and to prefer free and open
source alternatives, making ICT education cost effective and ethical.
4. The action taken report may be furnished to the Ministry at the earliest.
(Subhendu Das)
Under Secretary (RMSA-1)
To
Education Secretary (All States/Uts)
Copy To :
1. RMSA State Project Director of all States/Uts
2. P. A. Inamdar, Member CABE
3. Joint Director, CIET/NCERT
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It is clear that MHRD has violated its own policy deliberately in favor
of Microsoft right from 2012 or perhaps before that.
Even after their Notification/Memo to all states, go to any school,
college, university and government office and see with open eyes how
Microsoft is worshiped, spending trillions of dollars of foreign
currency and pushing our country in to a danger zone !
Following is a written documented evidence of unfortunate (and
deliberate) negligence of Maharashtra State (and most of the other states).
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Taken from RTI reply received to me from MHRD dated 21 Sept 15:
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With regard to the item no. 3 of the RTI application the CPIO concerned
has informed that no action taken report has been received from the
State of Maharashtra in respect of the Ministry of Human Resource
Development letter dated 17.06.2014. Therefore no copy of action taken
report from State of Maharashtra can be provided.
The appeal has been accordingly disposed off.
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Do you really think that spoken tutorial is doing something great in
FOSS ????
Far more serious thing is that MHRD is funding spoken tutorials clearly
knowing that thousand such spoken tutorials cannot do any harm to
proprietary giants like Microsoft and others unless MHRD removes
proprietary software from school. (Have you forgot Richard Stallman ?)
Why don't you ask MHRD about NOT following their own policy before
accepting funds from them as your mission is FOSS ??!!
I have done the following instead of spoken tutorials ( since I am not
IIT Professor but a school teacher)
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Sir/Madam, Your case is filed in Bombay High Court on 2015-08-06 11:28:58,
Case Stamp Number is PIL/21299/2015 And CIN No is 01006212992015
CASE NUMBER PIL/21299/2015
PETITIONER MILIND S. OKA
V/S
RESPONDENT THE UNION OF INDIA THROUGH THE SECRETARY AND ANR
Prayer Sought : Remove Microsoft and other proprietary softwares from
school curriculum as per the education policy. Government is violating
its own policies and using schools as instruments to promote Proprietary
Software.
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Sir, I hope you will do the needful for our country. You have far more
knowledge, potential and intelligence than me. Why are you not
protesting OPENLY about this violation ?
जरी उद्धरणी, व्यय न तिच्या हो साचा
हा व्यर्थ भार विद्येचा.
(What good is this futile burden of education, if it is not used for the
betterment of my motherland.)
-- Freedom Fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Waiting eagerly for your reply...
Regards,
Milind Oka
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: "HT for Mumbai" Award: Please vote for Prof. Kannan Moudgalya.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 04:37:03 -0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Greetings from the Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
Prof Kannan Moudgalya, who leads the efforts of the Spoken Tutorial
Project, has been nominated for the Hindustan Times "HT for Mumbai
awards" 2015.
>From his profile that appeared in Hindustan Times
(http://spoken-tutorial.org/media/news/772/772.pdf
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fspoken-tutorial.org%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2F772%2F772.pdf&h=aAQHMhylDAQH89-pawAVygHgaA6MHu2rclq4NKLlOzGlHJg&enc=AZMY_ZQZX-BkQF_7FVWBZYjBkUISK_GOX2HlYVV0zvvQyeDZDI1i21JYl7WnizzQk1H8qClVJywtd7y5K6dg0B8y3NZ3AycdJW82VAQfGYReaDuRw2ywP43P2dY0p_J2y_hpghB8Km2ZvJqweona680y8KoX_9kKeAiUK8aV0lRFQrwnE-c4ZNCOCxH-SV8Uev7v-AfZJbYSucRWn8X7aXzk&s=1>),
you will see that this is a recognition of our IT literacy campaign
through Spoken Tutorials.
Pls visit this link and vote for him under the individual nominees
category. His victory is the Project's victory.
http://spoken-tutorial.org/ht-for-mumbai-nomination/
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fspoken-tutorial.org%2Fht-for-mumbai-nomination%2F&h=_AQHQyGeUAQEQLKwXmU3l1d0v803XrEiQtOtNo4M6_JSfdA&enc=AZMJszDXcE2J6_GOqFct2UNCvdksWx1QEOensIIBuF0lsT5i-X2h4IKb08-POoyud-uAndmCoqta3GGGHIxtFsnmXzTlDSAzsw7aLj46jbK6Khp7KGTXVwIB8EuGyvLZJNJrpx8mV6B2AeH7RtlssMYn8Sm4TZb3kExnGg4COjouFPLKgi4S3vk_5_OP4Z_gfnAJD_P4vsHXlO_2TyUhh-6D&s=1>
Spread the word and help him and our Project win!
Last date for voting is 9 Jan 2016.
Thank you in advance.
--
Regards,
Spoken Tutorial Team,
IIT Bombay.
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