Guwahati,15 Feb,09
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campus criminal
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The other day, a two-member -bench of the supreme court has outlawed campus ragging, imputed criminality to student criminals and issued mandate to cut back government, UGC grants, financial to universities, colleges receiving govermnet grants.So far so good for the judgement, besides the anti-ragging laws whcih are made totally unenforceable.
Besides, institutions could record such type of criminal behaviour of some students so that their antecedents could form the basis of their rejection in appointments.
What the supreme court had missed out is the need for a monitoring mechanism and implementing machineries like the dreaded anti- dowry law in India.The ink had not dried over the anti-dowry statute when late Madhav Rao Scindia spent a million on the prohibited act for the marriage of his son or daughter and CM Jayalalitha had spent Rs. 100 crore, possibly from taxes of the poor, starving Tamils at the marriage ceremony of her adopted son[ dowry inclusive].
In similar vein, stringent anti- ragging law aside,
the dadas in north India,some street boys in the south and inveterate ' respect the senior by one year' student leaders in students hostels in the NE region would continue the dreaded RAGGING for two months literally at midnight .The crime would continue and the academic community is not ready to extricate the culture at the moment.
Some institutions in the south shaped a brave new world by converting the ragging crime into respectable methods and culture of introduction, enriched by light cultural programmes. Actually, ragging in the west is an honourable word- students collect money for charity nn groups.The hostel dadas cooperate with teacher wardens so and so forth
in making campus or hostel life more civilized.Here the senior students set brilliant examples , with a missionary zeal ,concerned teachers and the university administration whole heartedly keep the new thought moving.
Some registrars, wardens and VCs issue orders only to be pasted at an obscure space in hostels before it is torn out the next day by the student netas.Some VCs in the region are at the mercy of armed students dada and address they as ' sirs'.They are at fault and unmistakably act as accomplices in ragging crimes.
The organised students bodies - the NSUI, the SFI, the ABVP, the regional students unions and the PGSUs can make miracles if they would like to induct a humane culture in the hostels."once I had been ragged and you have the turn now, I rag you - junior" ideology could be cast aside.It is no longer a missible impossible.
In some caste ridden societies,
ragging culture had legitimized caste vengeance and students die, toture mentally and leave the course.Besides, some evil students prevent studies and diempower students properly in job market.The university administration can monitor by making surprise incognito visits and toning up the mental health of some of the decadent, psychotic senior students.The university administration could accept the new mission by disowning the casual and perfunctory ways of the normal administration.
High courts could further crystallise the supreme court judgement with efficient accountabilty and monitoring mechanisms.A good but incomplete beginning , the apex court has made the other day.
Not so long ago, dead body of a Bodo student floated somewhere near engineering college.some students left courses and many underperformed their courses.in some institutions, some students were foung hanging .The world needs more of empathy than official sympathy.The students orgs. have more responsibility to make it real and bell the cat.
Ragging is more of a cultural diseaseor, menace than being a crime in the conventional sense.The college and university administration could make a move- visible,tangible. Every long journey or odyssey starts with the first small ,humble step.We are one in resisting RAGGING- the silent campus crime- here or there.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
UNIVERSITY MISGOVERNANCE IN NE REGION
Guwahati 14 Feb.2009
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UNIVERSITIES IN SIEGE OF
It is too late to wash MU- the white has changed so much so that literally ,it looks like permanent brown or black due to chronic toxification or, permanent decolouration.How to de-toxify ?A CBI inquiry and a judicial enquiry if the MU-EC so desires can clean up 30% OF THE DIRTY linen.
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UNIVERSITIES IN SIEGE OF
INTERNAL CHAOS
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University education in the region started six decades ago ,and hence university is an imagery for many pandits even today.Kolkota,Mumbai and Tamil unversities had passed through three centuries at the minimum.a FEW MORE MILES the NE ought to go before it meets a working nirban and makes university sensible to those who matter.
Half a dozen or, even a dozen unversities- central or regional- are on the cards in the region.The oldest in the region- Gauhati University[ misspelt as Guwahati University by all stubborn,outlandish Bank managers from rest of India] is shrinking and not expanding, as predicted by the National Knowledge Commission.
University education in the region started six decades ago ,and hence university is an imagery for many pandits even today.Kolkota,Mumbai and Tamil unversities had passed through three centuries at the minimum.a FEW MORE MILES the NE ought to go before it meets a working nirban and makes university sensible to those who matter.
Half a dozen or, even a dozen unversities- central or regional- are on the cards in the region.The oldest in the region- Gauhati University[ misspelt as Guwahati University by all stubborn,outlandish Bank managers from rest of India] is shrinking and not expanding, as predicted by the National Knowledge Commission.
Harvard University, as far as law faculty is concerned has about 40 specializations and could open a few more.Once I nearly got chance to be there but funding and other matters stood on the way for middle class people .Just one example- could be for physical sciences as well.A beauty of the shrinking university with all the imaginable deficiencies lies in its resilience to cope with unimagined challenges.
Before two or three decades,one Justice Sharma committee, after one -monthlong morning- to- dusk enquiry that we had physically witnessed, had cleansed up GU and, then year before last for misappropiation of about half a crore, the CBI,on GUTA's persistent demand had intruded in GU,hauled up all files. In the past, some had been sacked and some penalised.A young man coincidentally passed away.
Before two or three decades,one Justice Sharma committee, after one -monthlong morning- to- dusk enquiry that we had physically witnessed, had cleansed up GU and, then year before last for misappropiation of about half a crore, the CBI,on GUTA's persistent demand had intruded in GU,hauled up all files. In the past, some had been sacked and some penalised.A young man coincidentally passed away.
The other day, there is reportedly a minor hiccup in Manipur University for selection of some posts and vigitante groups had their field day.Something is menacingly and maliciously wrong in that Denmark or, mini-France where revolution occurs at the drop of a hat.
NO comment on merits till an enquiry is conducted by a high court judge and another by PMO's agency like the CBI.There had never been a protest from professors or NGOs for opening only 3 faculties or schools[ a faculty can open several department] out of 4 as it has been universally done in all the multifaculty unversities in the world by permanently excluding one Faculty [ is it law, I am not sure ?] for mischievous reasons.99% of the professors who had been educated in multi-faculty universities knew that they collectively denied the existence of a faculty for 3 decades and deprived their own children and young ones for some invisible agenda or cult.
NO comment on merits till an enquiry is conducted by a high court judge and another by PMO's agency like the CBI.There had never been a protest from professors or NGOs for opening only 3 faculties or schools[ a faculty can open several department] out of 4 as it has been universally done in all the multifaculty unversities in the world by permanently excluding one Faculty [ is it law, I am not sure ?] for mischievous reasons.99% of the professors who had been educated in multi-faculty universities knew that they collectively denied the existence of a faculty for 3 decades and deprived their own children and young ones for some invisible agenda or cult.
.This is the genuine issue which petty chancellors never addressed or even ignored along with the academics in towering positions of all hues.For MU to be fair, it has missed the opportunity to be cleansed up in mid-1980s or, 1990s.We did not do much to contribute to MU save writing article in DMC magazine in 1964 or pamphlateering in 1979 for setting up MU on a war footing.We had deep restraint since 1979 till date on thte subject although we are articulate on many a regional issue whatever.
It is too late to wash MU- the white has changed so much so that literally ,it looks like permanent brown or black due to chronic toxification or, permanent decolouration.How to de-toxify ?A CBI inquiry and a judicial enquiry if the MU-EC so desires can clean up 30% OF THE DIRTY linen.
We do not think that the handful of oligarchs and feudal lords in MU would like cleaning up the MU.
Besides,at least four students'
bodies operate in addition to the official body- the MUSU.Any VC entangled in a crisis situation can work out solutions by inviting the official body of students and the other four private or non-official bodies including the tribes' body that represents 9 by 10th of Manipur's overall territory and hence their territorial strength as observers without leaving out one or two due to personal repugnance.It could be done and may not be an uphil task for EC or VC of MU or any other EC in similar situation.
We in the GU welcome all the cleaning up steps unlike the new czars or, elsewhere.A couple of years back, when we were in the GU court and EC we actively supported CBI inquiry in GU.Hence, some petty unmanagable clerks- one or, two- obstruct all my retirement dues for years and tried their best to club me with some of the scandalised individuals- their own clansmen.
We handle the issues largely of personal nature, without further sharpening the apparent national contradictions on the wrong note of history and facilitating unintended consequences to fill in the vacuum created by the conspiratorsor motivated trouble makers.
If MUTA,MU-EC are honest[ really,unlike Pamheiba's massacre of all Burmese of groom party disguised as petty Meetei princess] and all the stakeholders care a bit for MU, all of them unanimously could ask for immediate CBI inquiry on bigger issues as references since 1980 till date- to start with.We hope they can do it if they desire to clean up the university.
If MUTA,MU-EC are honest[ really,unlike Pamheiba's massacre of all Burmese of groom party disguised as petty Meetei princess] and all the stakeholders care a bit for MU, all of them unanimously could ask for immediate CBI inquiry on bigger issues as references since 1980 till date- to start with.We hope they can do it if they desire to clean up the university.
There is a bubble of honesty in the vast ocean of inscrutable and insatiable sharks in civil society and higher institutions and its hyperlinks.If GU can invite CBI via PMO and state government for misappropriation of 50 lakhs, why MU should shy away from CBI for the suspected misappropriation of crores, largely on purchases for which Manipur as harbinger is widely known outside.
NE universities - all of them -need periodic clean up,once a decade to start with.Let us clean up ourselves once in every decade.One selection as reported by dailies yesterday is not at all a national issue but making MU dirty for 3 decades is a common concern for every citizen or civil society whose tax run the universities- be it for GU or MU or, Nagaland University whatever.
NE universities - all of them -need periodic clean up,once a decade to start with.Let us clean up ourselves once in every decade.One selection as reported by dailies yesterday is not at all a national issue but making MU dirty for 3 decades is a common concern for every citizen or civil society whose tax run the universities- be it for GU or MU or, Nagaland University whatever.
Time to open up the missing word- honesty in our proud heritage dictionary.This word had been found missing for decades in India and, particularly in the region- Manipur University ,or one of its rare breed as the macot on this count. University academics and CSO have a definite role to advance the agenda in a sustained way .Regional universities as a whole need a periodic clean up and revitalisation,let alone the loud slogan of world class university.Univerisity belongs nor merely to the mafia- like spoilers but also to all stakeholders - tax payers,consumers of knowledge, mediamen and above all- 'we the people', the total sovereign, neither a despot nor oligarch.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
ASSAM'S KNOWLEDGE CITY- CAMELLIA PRIVATE UNIVERSITY FROM 2010
Guwahati,Asom 10 February,2009
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KNOWLEDGE CITY AND THE
OLDEST VILLAGE
AT GUWAHATI
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Assam's first ever knowledge city proposed to be set up at a cost of Rs. 300 crores would come to exist in 2010 at Chirang district in Bodoland TC area in order to impart education in Law, Engineering,Biotechnology and Management.The oldest knowledge village at Guwahati city is not so far off and city-village symbiosis has become a hard reality.
A law university and a medical university had been a regional need for a long time.The rationale need not be reiterated time and again.
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A time to introspect the oldest and nearly fading or even shrinking premier university at Guwahati.Even the SBI and Post office become so disturbingly menacing that they have changed the name of GU to Guwahati University despite written protests from us in last couple of years.This is a minimal indication of how GU has been badly treated .
There was a time when GU was towering in the region and by now, other skyscrappers are also coming up.GU is shrinking inspite of expanding.People who have vision lack patience and people with patience also lack vision.That is the fate of GU.Unless GU is revamped, rechristened and revolutionalised very soon in terms of a] major structurtal change that would cast out spiritualists, tomb raiders and day dreamers, b] total restructuring of syllabi and method of teaching by way of accelerated expansion of every discipline,c] central take- over or heaviest commitment of the state government in terms of funding and infrastructure innovation,d] major international collaboration and, e] re-defining the philosophy of GU., the one time tower would have to play second fiddle to Hinglicised ,our northern Indian ruled NEHU or, other so called world class
universities.One has to abandon the hackneyed misnomer that world class universities are born ,not made.They are made, not born- could be Princeton,Oxbridge or,Harvard.They had been made out to be.
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The central and state universities in the NE region are essential,yet they have to be shaped.The misnomer ? First, we shape the building and then, the building shapes us.Why can't we re-shape even the buildings we live in.
Leaders in Mizoram feel that only Mizos have to top the list in university exams.This is a misnomer.VCs are rolling stones at Nagaland University.Another misnomer.
There is a fullfledged university in Manipur; politics and personal equations supersede other super-eminent values.Till I retire from professorship of Law in 2006, I remained silent on legal education in MU.Even after three decades of existence ,no EC nor VC of Manipur university had recognised that every university in this planet could not be set up without setting up faculty of law along with Arts, Science and Commerce faculties.Even today,no one can register for a Ph.D. in law in MU since 1980.This one simple test cae of how universities are made out to be by nefarious elements .
Civilization had been forced to pay a heavy price for the ignorance or motives of some one clever or otherwise- even notorious.Tribes and tiny ethnoses have to find fiar representation in teaching and other wings of the regional universities.
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GU could have become a central university if the pressure of the federal government had not been ignored and a mega institute of languages- Asomese or Boro whatever could have existed alongside in order to protect the natives from external intrusions.That happens to be a missed opportunity.Opportunity knocks the door only once.
Damage control in time could be done at the knowledge village at Jhallukbari if the course of history could be re-shaped and re-defined.Even today teacher leaders and officials deny the 10% arrear par which was due by 1996- 12 years back.
Question is if our human resources or university products could be resourceful or resourceless.We can make them resourceful.The Camellia private university would be one the leading private universities in the region.The footprints Camellia would leave on the sands of time would provoke knowledge workers to summon up new courage and set up new chapters in history. Rome was not built in one night, so is world class university or research institute.We have to prove to the world that our scientists make inventions, discoveries and our academics create new forms of knowledge .It has just begun.
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KNOWLEDGE CITY AND THE
OLDEST VILLAGE
AT GUWAHATI
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Assam's first ever knowledge city proposed to be set up at a cost of Rs. 300 crores would come to exist in 2010 at Chirang district in Bodoland TC area in order to impart education in Law, Engineering,Biotechnology and Management.The oldest knowledge village at Guwahati city is not so far off and city-village symbiosis has become a hard reality.
A law university and a medical university had been a regional need for a long time.The rationale need not be reiterated time and again.
__________
A time to introspect the oldest and nearly fading or even shrinking premier university at Guwahati.Even the SBI and Post office become so disturbingly menacing that they have changed the name of GU to Guwahati University despite written protests from us in last couple of years.This is a minimal indication of how GU has been badly treated .
There was a time when GU was towering in the region and by now, other skyscrappers are also coming up.GU is shrinking inspite of expanding.People who have vision lack patience and people with patience also lack vision.That is the fate of GU.Unless GU is revamped, rechristened and revolutionalised very soon in terms of a] major structurtal change that would cast out spiritualists, tomb raiders and day dreamers, b] total restructuring of syllabi and method of teaching by way of accelerated expansion of every discipline,c] central take- over or heaviest commitment of the state government in terms of funding and infrastructure innovation,d] major international collaboration and, e] re-defining the philosophy of GU., the one time tower would have to play second fiddle to Hinglicised ,our northern Indian ruled NEHU or, other so called world class
universities.One has to abandon the hackneyed misnomer that world class universities are born ,not made.They are made, not born- could be Princeton,Oxbridge or,Harvard.They had been made out to be.
___________
The central and state universities in the NE region are essential,yet they have to be shaped.The misnomer ? First, we shape the building and then, the building shapes us.Why can't we re-shape even the buildings we live in.
Leaders in Mizoram feel that only Mizos have to top the list in university exams.This is a misnomer.VCs are rolling stones at Nagaland University.Another misnomer.
There is a fullfledged university in Manipur; politics and personal equations supersede other super-eminent values.Till I retire from professorship of Law in 2006, I remained silent on legal education in MU.Even after three decades of existence ,no EC nor VC of Manipur university had recognised that every university in this planet could not be set up without setting up faculty of law along with Arts, Science and Commerce faculties.Even today,no one can register for a Ph.D. in law in MU since 1980.This one simple test cae of how universities are made out to be by nefarious elements .
Civilization had been forced to pay a heavy price for the ignorance or motives of some one clever or otherwise- even notorious.Tribes and tiny ethnoses have to find fiar representation in teaching and other wings of the regional universities.
_________
GU could have become a central university if the pressure of the federal government had not been ignored and a mega institute of languages- Asomese or Boro whatever could have existed alongside in order to protect the natives from external intrusions.That happens to be a missed opportunity.Opportunity knocks the door only once.
Damage control in time could be done at the knowledge village at Jhallukbari if the course of history could be re-shaped and re-defined.Even today teacher leaders and officials deny the 10% arrear par which was due by 1996- 12 years back.
Question is if our human resources or university products could be resourceful or resourceless.We can make them resourceful.The Camellia private university would be one the leading private universities in the region.The footprints Camellia would leave on the sands of time would provoke knowledge workers to summon up new courage and set up new chapters in history. Rome was not built in one night, so is world class university or research institute.We have to prove to the world that our scientists make inventions, discoveries and our academics create new forms of knowledge .It has just begun.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
International tribunals in action; 2009
LUBANGA DYILO - ICC'S FIRST TRIAL 2009
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Rebel chiefs, PMs ,Presidents prosecuted
Some indicted, some punished in new world
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ICC on january 29 last has started its first trial since its establishment in 2009.The Congolese rebel leader had been arrested and prosecuted by theOTP of theICC.Till date half a dozen leaders including Sudanese President MD. Basher are on the ICC's arrest warrant.The world will be different after the ICC. The Palestine Authority which is not yet a sovereign state has the other day complained to the OTP of theICC for indicting Israeol leaders for committing war crimes in Gaza recently and the OTP is examining the case.
The ICTY and ICTR had prosecuted and awarded punishment to a large number of civil and military leaders of former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for committing heinous crimes.President Milosevic of Yugoslavia had been arrested by ICTY,kept detained for 5 years and during the process his excellency died during detention.Rwandan prime minister das been awarded maximum punishment yb the ICTY.
International trials are on the move in Cambodia,Sierra Leone etc.Several excellecies and rebel chiefs are undergoing trial.The world had changed under our feet without our noticing the change.It is time to feel the change and accept the golabl rule of law and justice.
Guwahati,Asom, 4 Feb.2009 4pm
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Rebel chiefs, PMs ,Presidents prosecuted
Some indicted, some punished in new world
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ICC on january 29 last has started its first trial since its establishment in 2009.The Congolese rebel leader had been arrested and prosecuted by theOTP of theICC.Till date half a dozen leaders including Sudanese President MD. Basher are on the ICC's arrest warrant.The world will be different after the ICC. The Palestine Authority which is not yet a sovereign state has the other day complained to the OTP of theICC for indicting Israeol leaders for committing war crimes in Gaza recently and the OTP is examining the case.
The ICTY and ICTR had prosecuted and awarded punishment to a large number of civil and military leaders of former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for committing heinous crimes.President Milosevic of Yugoslavia had been arrested by ICTY,kept detained for 5 years and during the process his excellency died during detention.Rwandan prime minister das been awarded maximum punishment yb the ICTY.
International trials are on the move in Cambodia,Sierra Leone etc.Several excellecies and rebel chiefs are undergoing trial.The world had changed under our feet without our noticing the change.It is time to feel the change and accept the golabl rule of law and justice.
Guwahati,Asom, 4 Feb.2009 4pm
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