Thanks Sudhanwa, I have already contacted him and discussed with him
about this issue.
I have also given copy of PIL to him.
I accept your suggestion to raise the issue in HT and other media. I
Will write to them.
regards,
Milind
On 17/01/16 13:27, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
Please raise your concerns to Hindustan Times who are giving the
awards. Followup with MHRD is necessary for any kind of reply and/or
action.
I can help in contacting Mr. P. A. Inamdar (of Poona college and other
associate institutes). He is pro FOSS.
Regards,
-Sudhanwa
On Jan 17, 2016 12:02 PM, "Milind Oka" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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
====================================
(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
==================================================
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).
=========================================
Taken from RTI reply received to me from MHRD dated 21 Sept 15:
..........
..........
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.
================================================
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)
=================================================
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.
==================================================
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]
<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[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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