- हॉटलाइन
- 12 years ago
- 2109 दर्शनों की संख्या
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The Clear Waters of Education Turns Murky Education is supposed to light up one’s life but what happens when the place where people training to become teachers is filled with corruption. A similar case has been taking place at S.R.K.B.T. College, Darjeeling from the very time Dr. *.*. *********** has taken charge. The college rather than being a public property, has turned into a personal property of the Dr. *. *. *********** which he runs according to his whims and fancies. The other name of this ********** is CORRUPTION and the people of Darjeeling wonder how such a person can get away with the all corruption he engages in. First of all, he takes exorbitant amounts of money from undeserving candidates so that they can get admitted to the college. This case has also come to the notice of the University of North Bengal and from this academic year onwards (2010 -2011), the procedure of admission has been made more stringent. However, Dr. *********** does get the opportunity to fill in a few seats since old habits die hard. Once admitted to the college, the trainees have to fish out atleast Rs. 5000 for almost every institutional activity that has been cited in the syllabus. So if one comes from an economically backward family, the dreams of completing the B.Ed course are shattered at these junctures. The required amount of money is spent and the money that is leftover goes to the college fund, in other words, the Principal’s pocket. One would be surprised to hear that the Principal went so far as to collect Rs. 5000 each to ********** the expenses for his daughter’s wedding. He told the trainees that the wedding would be counted as one among the institutional activities and that they would be marked accordingly. For this, the trainees were divided into groups and each group was assigned a responsibility. Moreover, while attending the wedding, it was compulsory for the female trainees to wear silk sarees! Furthermore, sometimes the money is collected but the institutional activity does not take place at all like the picnic that was to take place in the academic year 2006-2007. The out-of-station students also bribe Dr. *.*. *********** to manage their attendance since these students hardly attend classes. They attend the college only when an institutional activity is to take place The Principal also demands the gifts that are to be given by the trainees to him on Teacher’s Day. The gifts range from refrigerators to expensive carpets to gold rings. If he does not like the gifts, then he refuses to accept them. However, the Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morch (the student wing of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, a local political party) got wind of this and exposed the Teacher’s Day issue. At this, the Principal refused to celebrate Teacher’s Day and finally celebrated Teacher’s Day on the 29th of October, 2010! Despite the change in the date, he refused the gifts which were given to him because he was finally ashamed of all the unnecessary exposure. He was gifted two gold rings and a 32” LCD television. Then comes exam time…. This is the time when the Principal once more gets an opportunity to mint money from his poor trainees. The trainees pay a certain amount of money to the Principal starting at Rs. 500 per trainee in return of which the Principal agrees to leak the question papers of the University Examination. The trainees get all the questions that are to be answered a day ahead of the examination. Sometimes they get the questions a few days ahead of the day of the examination as well. However, the icing on the cake is the day of the examination when all the trainees are allowed to cheat freely while the invigilators turn a blind eye to all that is going on in the examination hall. Certain people of the college are posted at the gate of the college so that they can alert the trainees in the examination hall if the external invigilator decided to visit the college. This has also come to the notice of the University of North Bengal and in the academic year 2009-2010, the University changed the centre of the examination from the home centre to the Government College, Darjeeling. So when would-be teachers cheat on their final examination, do they have a right to stop their students when they do the same? When teacher education is in such a state, what can be said about the rest of education? Shouldn’t the people who have started and propagated this trend be punished?