In Pakistan's Rehman colony, which has neither a public school nor an empty plot, the local Hindu community offered to set up the school at their temple.
On 9 July 1991, then-PM PV Narasimha Rao addressed the nation days before the Budget presentation, admitting that the job of repairing India's sick economy won't be easy, quick, or smooth.
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Analysis is one way to get closer to the fact. The simple solution would be to dissociate Directorate appointments and teaching position appointments. Different non-crossable channels to seek these positions must be made. There must be competency exams for the teachers – that is – it is required to see if excellent teachers are continuing to teach. There must be greater incentives to continue as teachers by rewarding best teachers with different levels of teaching expertise with different increment rates/scales if necessary for instance. But such a thing would be unfair to others; for most people come to teaching as the last resort. I doubt if the vast majority of our Government School Teachers are competent teachers at all, if seen based on their subject specific knowledge and pedagogical requirements. On their bag of woes is many of them don’t seem to receive salaries in time. The adage in Telugu which says “batukaleka baDipantulu” [ the hopeless turns to teaching] is very apt for teachers. Several videos of teachers with abysmal knowledge are seen. While Whatsapp may not be a trustworthy medium at all such cases are not uncommon. And we do have excellence in teachers as seen in the case of an English teacher in a Government school teaching English to students and makingthem accent free in a remote school in TN! If either of them is even a partial truth then we have a model to build on. Teaching competency assessments shouldn’t really be based on Qualifications like B.Ed or any such mechanical training. True teachers are born like true musicians. If the pays and some living expenditure support becomes more attractive one could design a better method of finding and retaining teachers.
True. It is not entirely necessary for person to be a “specialist” in field to help good policy making in the field. IOW a sharp generalist that get selected by the toughest selection process will be able to “grasp” the “technical” part of the policy making whether it is for the IT industry or Dairy or the pharmaceutical industry for instance. Yet we have examples of some good industry-grown specialists being in a better position to take quick and right decisions for them to be effective. Why was Varghese Kurian taken into the government or for that matter V.Krishnamurthy. That did help didn’t it? But it is a fact that if the Government is looking for ideological alignment of the specialist, then that may not be as effective. It may even be counterproductive for the best aligned person may not be the kind of expert that would fit.
Yet as many suspect this may be government’s way getting “trained yes-men” but the other extreme of an expert not thinking in the direction of party in power may take the party’s route to “excellence”. For instance a left-aligned IAS Officer(he need not be really attached to a Leftist party as clearly service rules would not permit). But he could still be blocking any policy from the government that is not left-tuned. This precisely the reason why changes are seen at the pace at which they are announced.
Analysis is one way to get closer to the fact. The simple solution would be to dissociate Directorate appointments and teaching position appointments. Different non-crossable channels to seek these positions must be made. There must be competency exams for the teachers – that is – it is required to see if excellent teachers are continuing to teach. There must be greater incentives to continue as teachers by rewarding best teachers with different levels of teaching expertise with different increment rates/scales if necessary for instance. But such a thing would be unfair to others; for most people come to teaching as the last resort. I doubt if the vast majority of our Government School Teachers are competent teachers at all, if seen based on their subject specific knowledge and pedagogical requirements. On their bag of woes is many of them don’t seem to receive salaries in time. The adage in Telugu which says “batukaleka baDipantulu” [ the hopeless turns to teaching] is very apt for teachers. Several videos of teachers with abysmal knowledge are seen. While Whatsapp may not be a trustworthy medium at all such cases are not uncommon. And we do have excellence in teachers as seen in the case of an English teacher in a Government school teaching English to students and makingthem accent free in a remote school in TN! If either of them is even a partial truth then we have a model to build on. Teaching competency assessments shouldn’t really be based on Qualifications like B.Ed or any such mechanical training. True teachers are born like true musicians. If the pays and some living expenditure support becomes more attractive one could design a better method of finding and retaining teachers.
True. It is not entirely necessary for person to be a “specialist” in field to help good policy making in the field. IOW a sharp generalist that get selected by the toughest selection process will be able to “grasp” the “technical” part of the policy making whether it is for the IT industry or Dairy or the pharmaceutical industry for instance. Yet we have examples of some good industry-grown specialists being in a better position to take quick and right decisions for them to be effective. Why was Varghese Kurian taken into the government or for that matter V.Krishnamurthy. That did help didn’t it? But it is a fact that if the Government is looking for ideological alignment of the specialist, then that may not be as effective. It may even be counterproductive for the best aligned person may not be the kind of expert that would fit.
Yet as many suspect this may be government’s way getting “trained yes-men” but the other extreme of an expert not thinking in the direction of party in power may take the party’s route to “excellence”. For instance a left-aligned IAS Officer(he need not be really attached to a Leftist party as clearly service rules would not permit). But he could still be blocking any policy from the government that is not left-tuned. This precisely the reason why changes are seen at the pace at which they are announced.