Q:
Should there be a Govt. cell to monitor the fee structure of pvt. schools ?
Yes, that’ll do a whole lot of good to bridge the “monetary divide” in the education system. We propagate the “right to education”, while at the same time there are schools making sure this right be limited to those with tones of money to spare for educating the child.
Education, in India today, has become a lucrative business. Government should intervene to make education in good schools affordable. Certain norms and regulations are a need of the hour to promote education only on the basis of ‘intellectual capacity’ of the student and not on the ‘monetary capacity’ of the parent!
Manisha Gupta
(published in "The Central Chronicle" on May 17, 2008)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Reduce qualifying age of motor driving license to 16 ....????/
another one from the past !!!
this was published in the Indian Daily News Paper - "The Central Chronicle" - of 12th July,2008, in their OPEN FORUM column.
In fact this opinion of mine was even ANNOUNCED to be in the list of prize winners with this being adjudged for a SECOND PRIZE.
Only, that as usual "The Central Chronicle" HASN'T TILL DATE (ie: even 3 years and 3 months later....) paid me my prize money !!!!
I feel, people/publications think it their birth"RIGHT" to do WRONG to writers. //mg
Views on the question
“Bring down qualifying age of motor driving license to 16?”
Definitely not! You don’t want to compound the already existing problems on the road? Do you? As it is we have enough variety of everything, right from rash driving to drunken driving to violent driving to wrong driving to callous driving. What more do you want? When the so called mature people, older than 18 years, of this country, can’t drive properly, lowering the qualifying age of motor driving license to 16 will only add to the woes. You wouldn’t want to add to the innumerable hit & run cases that flood our already unsafe roads.
Just read in the papers yesterday about a 27 year old in Noida, driving with such callousness, over-speeding, overtaking vehicles wrongly, finally hitting a youth on a motorbike from behind and as if that was not enough, dragging the victim for more than 300 metres, killing him. And the driver doesn’t even seem to have realized his folly. Two more cases reported next to this news have a truck driver hitting from behind and killing a man while an overspeeding crane killed a man crossing the road in the Delhi-Noida region. Utter negligent driving.
Neither would you want to add to the cases of boys and girls getting themselves killed in the prime of their youth just because of lack of maturity and sobriety needed to control a vehicle. Driving license is not a license to be brash. It is to empower for ease in commuting. But one should have the maturity. And maturity does come with age. In fact instead of thinking of reducing the age to 16, how about hiking it up to 20? Probably that will save many lives from their tragic premature end!
Manisha Gupta
this was published in the Indian Daily News Paper - "The Central Chronicle" - of 12th July,2008, in their OPEN FORUM column.
In fact this opinion of mine was even ANNOUNCED to be in the list of prize winners with this being adjudged for a SECOND PRIZE.
Only, that as usual "The Central Chronicle" HASN'T TILL DATE (ie: even 3 years and 3 months later....) paid me my prize money !!!!
I feel, people/publications think it their birth"RIGHT" to do WRONG to writers. //mg
Views on the question
“Bring down qualifying age of motor driving license to 16?”
Definitely not! You don’t want to compound the already existing problems on the road? Do you? As it is we have enough variety of everything, right from rash driving to drunken driving to violent driving to wrong driving to callous driving. What more do you want? When the so called mature people, older than 18 years, of this country, can’t drive properly, lowering the qualifying age of motor driving license to 16 will only add to the woes. You wouldn’t want to add to the innumerable hit & run cases that flood our already unsafe roads.
Just read in the papers yesterday about a 27 year old in Noida, driving with such callousness, over-speeding, overtaking vehicles wrongly, finally hitting a youth on a motorbike from behind and as if that was not enough, dragging the victim for more than 300 metres, killing him. And the driver doesn’t even seem to have realized his folly. Two more cases reported next to this news have a truck driver hitting from behind and killing a man while an overspeeding crane killed a man crossing the road in the Delhi-Noida region. Utter negligent driving.
Neither would you want to add to the cases of boys and girls getting themselves killed in the prime of their youth just because of lack of maturity and sobriety needed to control a vehicle. Driving license is not a license to be brash. It is to empower for ease in commuting. But one should have the maturity. And maturity does come with age. In fact instead of thinking of reducing the age to 16, how about hiking it up to 20? Probably that will save many lives from their tragic premature end!
Manisha Gupta
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