Incompetent teachers use Technology in classrooms

Reform started by Dr.Man Mohan Singh has been haunting and tormenting all the sectors but the education sector is worst hit by these so-called reforms. Instead of appointed meritorious teachers, the policymakers have been trying to equip the classrooms with technology, instead of appointed the good teachers. There are around six million teaching posts in the government schools nationwide, but approximately one fourth were vacant in 2918. 

The report released by ASER 2018 is also very disappointing. It reminds that education departments are not prepared to deliver quality education to children. This is the reality of all the states. Poor teaching in schools hampers children’s capability to understand even basic tasks and education. This, in turn, makes them unemployable in the competitive market and to get meaningful employment. Senseless reforms like No Detention System, internal evaluation etc have ruined the quality education and nearly spoiled the reading habit of students. Around 75% of the students’ surveyed, in the age group of 14 to 16 were incapable to explain and solve simple mathematical problems.

Reforms and development fail to enable the teacher to impart quality teaching and education. This is the very serious shortcoming in the educational system in India. There are around 6 million positions in government schools countrywide; roughly, 1.5 million posts were unfilled in 2016. Service Commissions, governments, bureaucracy, judiciary etc all are responsible for this problem. Jharkhand (40%) has the highest number of vacant post as a percentage of total approved posts, followed by Bihar (35%), and Delhi (30%), among all the states and UTs. 

Candidates and the applicants are also responsible for this shortage of qualified teachers also worsens this problem. Recently, for the 2018 Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), of the 1.7 million candidates who appeared for the 2018 Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), in the recruitment exam for would-be teachers, only 178,273 (17%) candidates passed the primary school teachers test and 126,968 (15%) candidates passed the middle school teacher tests. However, due to the provision of quotas, the authorities are forced to lower the merit of teachers. 

The National Council on Teacher Education (NCTE) and The Tata Trusts have been working together to build up a model program of study for teacher training programmes. Additionally, the Trust is developing a Centre of Excellence in teacher education, which will have the facility to study and prepare core curriculum improvement, project execution, publication and research, management of teacher data, and evaluation and monitoring. But the politics of vote banks have failed all the attempts of excellence.

Technology can definitely be an important helper for accomplishing excellence in education with the objectives of access, excellence and fairness. However, it cannot create excellent teachers or can convert a poor teacher as an excellent teacher. Therefore, technology cannot substitute teachers; rather, it should serve to empower and help them.

The term Information and Communication Technology should be used more holistically and there is a need to look beyond the literal meaning of the phrase. The government is spending substantial expenditure to made and develop the infrastructure for teacher education, and content and curriculum but the outcome is not encouraging. Most of the funds are syphoned by a corrupt bureaucracy, NGOs and teachers. Money should not be wasted on useless workshops, seminars, conferences, visits, lectures and projects. It is essential for technology to be integrated into curriculum delivery and teacher ability building honestly.

The India Consensus, in partnership between Tata Trusts and the Copenhagen Consensus Center, conducting a cost-benefit analysis came to the conclusion that with, an investment of Rs1,333 ($21) per student per year, would generate a multiplier outcome of making benefits to society and the government worth Rs 74 for every rupee spent. In another study and research in Andhra Pradesh projected that applying computer-based education would lead to a wage enhance of 5.1% and life span profits worth Rs 83,000 ($1,313). But all this exercise will deprive lakhs of people of employment. Excellent teachers will not be able to show their excellence and merit.

There has been a sharp increase in the enrollment of the students. However, most of them are non-serious students. A huge amount of education expenditure is wasted on such students as a share of the total permitted budget. The huge budget has been allocated for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the national programme for elementary education, for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, the integrated national programme for secondary school education but the standard of the students have been declining due to improper use of budget.

The implementation of the Right to Education has also failed to improve the standard of the students. There is no remarkable achievement in this act. Only enrollment has increased. Students come to grab the freebies like Mid Day Meal, or other free things.

It is now time for us to in tandem focus on growth the systems for teachers and control technology to get better of learning effects if we are to construct human assets in the country. To develop learning levels in schools, widen and facilitate quality teachers to execute their professional excellence.

My Officer with a Battered Face

My officer with a battered face,

And officer with a patriotic grace.

Fallen into the enemy base,

Ejecting after winning the race. 

They trapped him on their terrain bays,

Pounded on him in most inhuman ways,

Some sane men in uniform rescued and lays;  

Unaware of his identity and arrays.

With dignity, poise and elegance highest, 

A fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force, greatest;

Battered, wounded, but a self-righteous face, brightest;

Unbelievable for Jihadists to understand the race, bravest.

If only the slaughterers could understand tranquillity,

Appreciate an atom of the same serenity,

And grasp that their terror love noise and divisibility;

It Is an absurd, horrible blare and culpability.

My officer with a battered face but bright eye;

Stood there unyielding and high,

Beamed in the presence of his subjugators, pass by;

And taught us the greatest example of a patriotic guy.

That valour is not purchased from Amazon or online,

Cannot be discussed or understood on Prime Time.

It is not the type of secularism or tolerance wine;

For lounger aggravators,  it is not the rhyme.

My officer with a battered face, sturdy nerve;

Grateful for your commitment and verve,

Your rank and gallantry is an example tough,

It is a rare sight, rare souls deserve.

For those whose wrath takes gun today, 

They have a full understanding of what fate is on way, 

To parachute lands into foe terrain, eager to slay;

Deadly hit by the foe in an air combat fray.   

My officer with a battered face, tall;

You have given a message to us all,

You can fly an aircraft at high alacrity and call,

And hit the target, never to fail and fall.

Maintained your exuberance and energy in an era, adverse;

Of doubt, death, sacrifice and conscience fierce;

Kept your face high and took the brew, pierce;

Nation salutes your velour and sacrifice.

My officer with a battered face but savoury;

You have given a meaning to life and bravery,

We sleep soundly and you are guarding frontiers, gallantly;

Kindle fire and boil fresh brew blithely.

Make Existence Happy

We all necessitate support to move comfortably,

To formulate us strong to march with worthily, 

To accept the troubles of tempestuous life,

To hunt for assertions to shun the strife.  

The pedigree has to be tough to face storms,

Crooks, killers, jihadists, hypocrites, and worms;

To fight famine, starvation, hunger, drought sores;

With valour, vigour, dignity, self-respect pours.

Firm steps, prudence, planning and preparation;

The stars have to raise high and high distinction,

Elude and ignore the rough weather blues.

Uphold righteousness and good graph hues.

At each pace, life has obstacle and snags,

But unflinching faith in Almighty enlightens bags.

From Radiance to Gloom

The light that dawns from timeless ages,

Abundantly enlightening the ignorant cages,

Ennobling the celestial creations’ ashes,

Filling with benevolent awareness and blesses.

Present from foundation to finish stages, 

Such graciousness descends along on sphere gage,

To ensure confusion to finish and raze, 

From cruelty to kindness, unethical to chastity sage. 

From unawareness to illumination,

But the space is very tough, long station,

At every step, man is devoured in perversion,

Clearly being lost and tangled flirtation;

Civilization and humanity becoming damnation,

The era of harmony, knowledge, and array fixation;

Falling, decaying, leaving the only destruction,

Like seven wonders’ cessation.  

Ugliness fading splendour and light,

Average gulping elegance bright, 

Edict of anarchy ruling the rest might,

‘Nero fiddling and Rome is burning’ site;

‘Ego to zero’, is killing self-flight;

Mafia controlling the power height,

Pundits and learned with glory and knight;

Forced exile to an empty aisle bite.

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Quotas occupying chair and command;

To increase bewilderment and turmoil band;

Saints and pious pushed out and banned;

Kashmir and Ayodhya pogrom blood land;

Fire, food poisoning, hooch deaths fanned,

Terrorists and jihadists on slaughtering round,

Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, replaced,

By Ambedkar, quotas, freebies sound.

Sun, moons, stars all lost in smog, 

Earth dwindling, man increasing like a frog,

Humanity squeezing like pariah dog,

‘You reap what you sow’. Monologue;

Fail of civilization, clashes, wars, hog,

Sleeping on withered leaves with dog and gun agog,

Stone palters hitting stones from mosques log,

In the hot noon looking for a safe catalogue.

Farce about non-violence and brother-hood

India has created a big and false myth about non-violence.  India’s origin tale bequeaths upon it a romantic national way of life. But the nation is paying very heavily for this artificial narrative. The margin between historical truth and narrative is leakier than the cohorts of non-violence and brother-hood may claim. Indian and Indian thinkers are expert in creating self-serving or sanitised historical tales. Famous writer George Orwell has very rightly said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Veterans of the Indian National Army (INA), this year participated first time with great pride and fanfare in India’s Republic Day parade. They highlighted the armed fight for India’s independence, from British colonial rule. Four INA veterans in their 90s rode a jeep in the parade to bust the myth that India got independence through non-violence, which was ironically boasted by the 22 tableaux, about the life experiences of the disciple of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi.

Nation has long overstated or fuzzy how it won freedom and at the odd contrast of the INA and Gandhi at the parade unintentionally decorated those opposite views. The participation, of the INA veterans’ in fact, busted or underlined the Indian republic’s origin myth – that it won liberty through non-violence. This myth has been intensely inserted by the thinkers in the minds of Indians since their kindergarten days.

Nobody can deny the decisive role played by the non-violent independence movement, led by Gandhi and in mobilizing the mass struggle against the British rule and claiming independence. However, the destruction caused by the prolonged World War II, in entire Europe and Asia weakened the British Empire. In the war, around 80 million people were killed which was 4% of the world population.

Despite the victory of Allied forces, a ruined Britain was in no point to control its colonies, including “Golden Bird” India. A number of colonies, without any mass struggle, got independence in the post-World War II era. The British have ruled India through a Machiavellian tactic. They purchase some Indians and by their help, they ruled over India. They left India only after nothing was left to loot and India became one of the poorest colonies of the world.

Had the Indian leaders were active and intelligent enough in safeguarding the nation, they could have averted the Kashmir, Tibet and border conflict with China and Pakistan. Pakistan and China were in deep chaos till 1950, and Indian leaders have enough opportunities to affirm their control over Kashmir, Tibet and other disputed territories on the China and Pakistan border. But the romantic myth of non-violence and brotherhood blinded the Indian leadership.

But India’s senseless and destructive origin myth about non-violence, brotherhood and socialism made her fake peace lover country that thought it could get peace and everything merely by parroting peace, instead of building a strong nation to force peace.

Here’s the absurdity: Countless numbers of Indians citizens have been killed by the Pakistan sponsored terrorists in Kashmir and elsewhere in terror acts and communal riots by such elements. Just in the Kashmir alone, more than fifty thousand people and security personnel have been killed. Pakistan sends terrorists in large numbers to kill Indian citizens and fights its dirty wars. In at least four wars a large number of soldiers died while serving for a peace nick nation, as cannon fodder.

Without a doubt, the present Indian republic was born in blood: As many as two million civilians (Hindus and Sikhs) died by Pakistanis in senseless violence and riots. Lakhs of Hindu and Sikh women were raped and millions more were uprooted in the British-Jinnah conspired partition.

The Khalistan-Sikh terrorists also busted the myth of India, uniquely charting the non-violence and brother-hood. It also defeated all the discourses on non-violence, brother-hood and peace. In that violence of two decades, more than sixty thousands people became a victim of that terrorism and violence. There are post-1947 multiple factors – internal and external – those made us believe that non-violence is only a concept cannot be followed if one wants the safety and peace of its citizens. .

Naxal and Maowadi terrorists also shattered the hope of peace in independent India. First time in the history of democracy, communist governments were elected in India in Kerela, Bengal and Tripura. But the left cader inflicted most brutal kind of violence in all these three states. Encouraged by the victory of left parties, deadly left terrorism gripped the nation, killing thousands of people. The first time, the left parties comprehensively defeating the rival parties, proved to be a Himalayan blunder by the voters.

Similarly, in the North-East states, China trained and armed terrorists’ unleashed terror and bloodbath with the active support from China and the Church. Tribals and Christian converts, undertaking terror activity in the name of freeing these states from Indian rule, resulting in thousands of killings. Emboldened tribal and Christians served a “Quit” notice on the citizens of India.

While the democratically elected Delhi governments could not mount a formidable threat to these terror groups because the nation is still overflowing with recruits, who are getting a fat purse for marketing the idea of non-violence and brotherhood.

Dalits, Gurjars, Jats, and Muslims protest for caste and communal quotas and freebies begin with the burning of national property, riots and killings. Recently, during Bharat Bandh, called by the so-called weaker sections and Dalit groups, brought the nation on the knees. Dozens of people were killed in the riots and the huge property was damaged in arson.

All these incidents and other riots and killings undermine the claim that India is a non-violent nation. However, law-abiding and honest citizens are treated shabbily, with many preferring to go abroad. Against this background, the human right groups and activists also come in support of criminals and wrongdoers. Nobody has initiated a right and proper initiative and process. Such people are always lying low and it needs to give their due. These law-abiding citizens are the unsung heroes are an essential step towards rebalancing the social and political narrative.

A rules-based national order premised on non-violence and brother-hood remains a creditable aspirational goal. But Indian romancing of non-violence and brotherhood as a useful political tool played havoc and crimped national security policy since independence and terror groups and terrorists got a supportive environment to flourish.

The nation cut to pacifism and corruption. The first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru openly grieving in 1962 that China had “returned evil for good” and scowled on non-violence, brother-hood, and materialism. A load of this romantic national belief has forced permanent costs, including the absence of a planned and defence policy. American analyst late George Tanham also criticized this senselessness of non-violence and brother-hood. This has erased the vision and policy of the nation to be a superpower. The inheritors of the Raj, the British-trained “brown sahibs”, have propagated this visionless romanticism.