What the quota committee has been told

The points mentioned below has been told to Quota Committe, An article from Rediff

The terms of reference — in layman's words, the brief — of the Committee are:

• 'To identify in each of the institutions/universities, the courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level and student intake for the academic session 2007-08.
• 'To identify in each course, the total number of seats for OBCs and consequently to other categories.
• 'To identify for each course, the increase in the total number of seats so as to maintain the total availability of seats in the unreserved category.
• 'To determine the requirement of faculty and other infrastructure for the enhanced intake and to determine the additional requirement of recurring and non-recurring expenditure for the same.
• 'To suggest phasing of expenditure both recurring and non-recurring.
• 'To suggest measures, in short term, to be taken by each institute for the enhanced intake from the academic session 2007-08.

'To suggest any other preparatory or consequential steps and required to be taken in order to implement the policy of reservations.
The Committee will submit its report by August 31.

13-member quota Oversight Committee set up

An Article from Hindu shows,

committee has as its members Planning Commission member B. Mungekar, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Director-General R. Mashelkar, University Grants Commission Chairman Sukhadeo K. Thorat, former Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India (Bangalore) G. Mohan Gopal, All-India Council for Technical Education Vice-Chairman R.A. Yadav, Indian Council of Medical Research Director-General N.K. Ganguly and former Union Secretary R.V.V. Ayyar (Find the rest int he article)

Similar kind of Article in Economic Times too.

Quota Issue Stirs up

Now the students from IIT, Delhi and JNU starting a relay hunger strike, A News from Deccan Herald

Open Letter to Dr. Kalam

open Letter to Dr. Kalam by former students of IITs and BITS pilani.

Price based quotas

An article from Business Standard.

Few highlights from the article.

"The enrolment in higher education in the 18-23 age-group must be increased from 6 per cent at the start of the Tenth Plan (2002-07) to 10 per cent by the end of 2007".

"Census 2001 shows that India has more places of worship (2.4 million) than schools and colleges (1.5 million) and hospitals (0.5 million) combined."

"There will be more IITs, IIMs and medical colleges, there will be more seats. Plough in Rs 10,000 crore more and the problem will disappear. In our stupidity, we hadn't quite realised it. It is all a resources issue. Plough in Rs 25,000 crore and social security for the unorganised sector will arrive. Plough in Rs 40,000 crore and all below-the-poverty-line families will have unskilled jobs. Plough in Rs 50,000 crore and all villages will have roads, water and electricity. There is another way of looking at this and that's much more transparent. All of this expenditure works out to Rs 200,000 crore a year (including the Sixth Pay Commission)."

Higher Education, pro-rich phenomenon

Higher education, pro-rich phenomenon, report says in The Hindu article

Few quotes from the article are:

"The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development said the enrolment of the SCs in higher education ranged from 8.6 per cent in 1990-91 to 11.3 per cent in 2002-03 while that of the STs was from 2.1 per cent to 3.6 per cent."

"Most of the colleges and universities are located in urban or semi-urban areas. Whatever colleges are in rural areas, the less said the better about their quality and output. While only 16 out of every 1,000 are college graduates in rural areas, 111 out of every 1,000 belong to this category in urban areas."

MoF and RBI: Get Real

Surjit S Bhalla's article in Business Standard

WPI’s deflating inflation

"According to the WPI-based inflation provided by the economic affairs department of the government, the inflation rate has crossed 4% only this week and stands at 4.32%".

Read the article Online 

On Infrastructure

An article on Infrastructure from ET, It was actually about the infrastructure developments done in Roads & Rail ways. Delhi Metro mention can be found at the last para.

Similarly Infrastructure initiative by the government was also mentioned in the same page article.

Not to encourage MFIs

YSR asks bankers not to encourage MFIs. This was the News from 23rd May Business Standard