Million Dollar Story

I just realised that it has been three months since I have scribbled.Some how I was stuck in other things and couldn't devote time to write.However,I was constantly reminded by some Friends of my full stop on writing...

I recently completed four years in the company.It has been fast ride with lots of ups and downs with varied experiences. On 4th anniversary, I mailed to my training mates in company who joined in the same batch.More than 60% mails bounced providing the proof of mass exodus, which has become norm for Indian IT companies.

This mass mail bouncing reminded me of comments by Subroto Bagchi,Founder of Mindtree Consulting, in one of his article in which he referred oldies in an organisation to be of two types dead trees or evergreen trees.I am not sure which category I fall into. A month back,I read an interview of senior employee in Pitney Bowes where in he made a point to jump organisations early in the career.

There are lot of counter arguments to these opinions but they give you enough food for thought.

I will switch topic and talk about http://milliondollarstory.blogspot.com/
which prompted me to scribble today. Ankur Shanker,DCE graduate is writing stories everyday on his blog and bringing readers on his site to earn money from Advertisements.He is doing this to fund his education at prestigious London School of Economics.

I was amazed to see his unique idea and media coverage that he has garnered.
He hopes to raise 100,000 USD but he is sceptic of meeting the target but hopeful of getting some monetary help in form of scholarships from corporates.
This story is yet another proof of love for education among young Indians and it also attracts our attention on huge demand and supply gap in Indian education system.

I recently got chance to visit one of the Government schools here in US.The infrastructure was mind boggling.We hardly have such good infrastructure in schools and colleges in India.On side of planet we have insatiable demand for education with poor supply and on the other side, we have such good schools struggling with drop out rates as high as 30 percent.

I hope Ankur can join LSE this July and dreams of millions of Indians for good education get realised one day...

Engg colleges-Need to engineer names

Recently, I came across list of engineering colleges in MP.There close to 83 colleges now.80% of these colleges lack basic infrastructure and are far away from any kind research activities.These colleges are owned by either by politicians or Businessmen.

MP politicians learnt to make money out of educational institutions from their South Indian counterparts. While states such as Tamil Nadu have close to 250 engineering colleges,Madhya Pradesh has lot of catch up do in their comparison.

Precisely, this is the logic quoted by most politicians, for opening new colleges but the logic doesn't consider the huge employment opportunities existing in South Indian states and none in their BIMARU(Bihar,MP,Rajasthan,UP) states

This apalling situatution is true for most of North Indian states.They opened new colleges and produced engineers but they forgot to attract companies into their states to employ these engineers.

While going through that list, I came across some names which were funny and made me laugh.
So here are some names.

• Technocrat Institute of technology
• Shri Institute of Science and technology
• Rishiraj Institute of technology
• Thakral college
• All Saints college of technology
• Nagaji Institute of technology and Management
• Gyan ganga Institute of technology
• Shri Dadaji Institute of technology
• Jagatguru dattatreya college of technology

In my opinion, People who opened these colleges could have named them differently at least, they could have shown some respect to Indian scientists and technologists.