What I would like to see the Government of India do in 2017 - 1

What I would like to see the Government of India do in 2017......................

1. Isolate Pakistan totally. Why are we still giv
   ing Most Favoured Nation status to the rogue country? Enforce a total economic blockade and withdraw our Ambassador, while kicking out the Pakistan Ambassador. Continue the good work on expediting the projects on the Indus, and starve Pakistan of water, and the treaty be damned.
2. Have a rigorous follow up on the demonetization to eliminate black money. The honest citizens have stood by the Prime Minister surviving great hardship, but are a bit upset many black money hoarders managed to beat the system, though they are all worried. Recruit a team of one lakh youngsters and let them loose to check all the bank accounts. ED and IT should work overtime to put the fear of god into anyone who had even remotely laundered the money. And this should be done during the first half of 2017 itself, while the iron is still hot.
3. For god's sake let us have a super efficient Education Minister with a mandate to overhaul our archaic education system in one year. The draft education policy is a joke, and a rehash of things that have failed in the past. Like demonetization, we need a shock and awe treatment in the Education sector.
4. Reduce the income tax and broad base the tax structure. Everyone who earn should pay tax, and those who don't should be penalized heavily
5. Do something about our rotten judicial system. Appoint 100 or 1000 or a million judges, give them infrastructure and let us ensure pending cases are disposed off, and new cases are judged within a year maximum. Stop this ridiculous situation of every petitioner who has a case being heard in district courts, going to High Court and Supreme Court for stay at the drop of a hat. Appeals should be allowed only after there is a verdict in the lower court, and not before.
6. Let the judiciary have a proper set up for scrutinizing Public Interest Litigation. There are far too many frivolous PILs which is wasting the time of the SC. In fact there are professional PIL litigators. Throw the book on them, and encourage only genuine PILs
7. Dismantle all State Road Transport Corporations. The Private Sector is doing a much better job and Government has no business running buses, and subsidizing them..............................................to be continued

Why don't they make teachers and students like them anymore?

Teaching is a passion for me. I have a special feeling for some of my students, and the sentiment is mutual. But good teachers are slowly becoming an extinct species. That is why this particular school teacher's act brought tears to my eyes. This is a rare but true life story

 

This Language Teacher in Semi Urban India retired just recently after more than three decades of teaching. She was invited for a function by one of her old students, whom she taught in early 1990s but was in touch only off and on.

 

She came to the function, opened her bag and carefully took out a bunch of papers which has aged visibly over the years.

 

It was the essay written by the student nearly 25 years ago as part of the Examination, for which the teacher had given 7 1/2 out of 10 (which is a top mark those days, when language teachers give only 60% to the class topper alone). She did it in the presence of all the other guests telling them that this was the best essay she has ever come across in her three decades of teaching, she preserved it all these years and made it a point to show to the students of new batches every year as to how an essay should be written.

 

The student and the guests at the function were astonished that someone took pains to preserve an exam answersheet all these years. The papers were in excellent shape, but for the colour change due to ageing.

 

The student asked the teacher to keep it with her, but the teacher insisted that it is the only gift she can give to the finest student she ever taught, and forced the student to accept it, which was duly done with moist eyes and a lump in the throat.

 

Why don't they make teachers and students like them anymore?