BMTC - Troubling Passengers.

After My complaint over the girl getting punished for the conductors incapabity to give ticket, here is the full video of BMTC ticket checking squad harassing yet another passenger in the Volvo.
BMTC harassing passenger in Volvo

BMTC - Public service

Namma BMTC!

8:45AM of 11th Dec'2013

I am on a bus enroute HAL from Kadugodi direction. Bus N0. KA01F1497. 

BMTC complaint # 5818 against Fine receipt # 27685 ->via BMTC Line: 1800 4251663

This the 3rd incident on a BMTC and this time I could not stand quite. The incidence is as follows.

This Lady conductor is slow in issuing tickets to passengers, But driver as usual was very fast to reach his destination or destiny.

Ticket checking inspectors from #BMTC enter the bus @Whitefield .

One of them in the front door and another in the rear end. As usual, to show his authority he shouts at the conductor lady to get her daily note of issued tickets which she has not yet updated, as she is still issuing tickets.

She runs from the rear end to the front side to reach this abusive inspector of BMTC and submit her note. In reality she was shivering and she could not gather her voice to respond to this guy. Can't believe what culture they have in BMTC other than abusive behavior.

The checkers starts checking the tickets from both sides and finally reaches a female passenger who was still holding money to buy the daily pass in her hand to commute. Unfortunately she was too decent and non-kannada speaking girl.

Then starts the abuse from one of the inspectors, asks the conductor why the ticket is not issued. Conductor lady said she has not yet finished issuing tickets yet.

Then he start at the passenger asking her to pay up a fine of Rs.120/- as she is not having the ticket. She was very polite and told him that she is still waiting for the pass to be issued as the conductor only issued the tickets and not the passes. Conductor lady might have thought people buying passes can be attended later as is the case generally in BMTC buses, as they want to make every short distance travelers pay first not even missing a single living being from leaving the bus without paying.

Then since she started asking for pass and not fine, the abusive guy started abusing. He took away the Rs.100/- she was holding for pass and held her at ransom without returning it to her. forcing her to pay up another Rs.20/- as the fine amount. Lot went in the next 20mins from Whitefield to Kundalahalli signal.

Then I interfered and asked who gave the right to you guys(Ticker checkers) to be abusive and force someone to pay on the spot. Even traffic cops give 15 days and to pay in court and also give a chance to explain ones side of argument. Also they are not allowed to take law in their hands when it’s a female they are charging unless there is a lady officer. Also if documents missed you can always produce in the court and get the fine waived off within 15 days of charging.

So now what are the so called powers of a BMTC inspector? 

Can he drag a female into police station without presence of a lady officer? 

At least this applies to Police force. So what laws govern BMTC officials? Anyone knowing can throw some light on this since BMTC has not made any attempt to make this sink into the passengers brains.

Can he threaten the passenger to drag her to police station if they don’t get their way?

Can he abuse a female passenger in kannada once he knows that the lady wont understand what he says? 

Has the state govt given them this much power already? Without training and proper implementation these kinds of dictatorial powers in lower grade public servants becomes destructive. Both for BMTC as an organization as well as the society.

I step in and asked him to issue the fine and walk away. Conductor lady said just issue the pass and he threatened her that he will collect the fine from her if this passenger wont pay up. The conductor also changed the tone and said she either didn’t hear the passenger if she asked for pass or she didn’t ask at all. So case being so, the BMTC ticket checking guy started again and I argued with him and another colleague of his about their jurisdiction and procedure. He was reluctant to speak about that. Then I told the lady passenger to not to pay and stand her ground. But then when the other guy threatened her to dragging to police station, she succumbed and paid the find and took the receipt. I took a copy of the same too for my filing. Guess this guy has a MBBS degree where he learnt this handwriting though he was not interested in writing the passengers information on the receipt.

Picture below.

So then I called the BMTC customer service line and inquired about the procedure. The lady on the other side said they cannot force but have to collect fine. I also checked if they can abuse and threaten in collecting fines.  I also asked her what powers form the state govt..,  gives them the right to abuse and threaten? Are they here for public service or publice abuse? They are a non-profit organization solely created for public service and not to abuse citizens and passenger the user and non-users alike of the services of BMTC. The customer care person promised that the said depot manager will be informed and action will be taken against the inspectors. Since so far they have not got a single record of trust from me, I am on social media. Reporting the issue.

I cannot be a spectator when my Bangalore City is going so pathetic on the peoples behavior. I believe in Social media and here is my post against the abusive nature of Public service personnel.

 Peoples stand: (After the entire issue got over, fine paid and checkrs getting down)

Male #1: The cant speak kannada and come here without buying tickets and argue with officers. I know also know the law.

Female #2: She didnt ask, conductor didnt issue. fault is on both sides.

Male #3: I am sitting here all this while and i know she didn't deliberately buy tickets.

Male #4: She must've bought her tickets before checkers came in. its her fault.

Female #5: They cant speak kannada. why is she even arguing with the officer?

What BMTC says?
 http://www.mybmtc.com/sites/default/files/Citizen%20charter-2013.pdf 

2. BMTC’s DECLARATION OF COMMITMENTS TO ITS PATRONS
AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC :

 To provide affordable, reliable, safe, punctual and efficient public transport
to all sections of society in Bangalore Metropolis.
 To offer a commuter friendly, responsive and courteous service to all its
patrons.
 To keep the interest of the commuters as paramount in the corporation’s
scheme of things.
 Ensure full implementation of special measures like seat reservations to
physically challenged, senior citizens and ladies in its buses.
 To provide latest information regarding its services to the general public
through an efficient passenger information system. 
To ensure clean and hygienic conditions of the buses.
 To ensure exhibiting of simple and clear destination boards on all buses.
 To continue with passenger friendly initiatives like subsidized student passes,
senior citizen passes, modestly priced Day and Monthly passes.
 To contribute its might in furthering social causes like eradication of polio,
AIDS, Cencer etc.,
 Reviewing and realigning of its services to suit the changing demand for
public transport.
 Keep striving for constant improvement of services and work towards
achieving maximum public fulfillment.

Times or the Ugly Portal

I am a reader of ToI since the beginning of time.. Ever since i started reading news papers in general. I have been noticing the changes to as I read almost every column in the news paper which was real and more touching. Even though the online news media has more fast updates to it and much more interactive format, I choose to use the news paper as much as possible. There is nothing that gives a good feeling of rattling paper and messing it up while reading and arranging it back to good form, that I enjoy.. :) 
Times have changed and my reach to get the hard news paper form India is very less as I travel outside India. This has also changed the way i look for updates in media and news sites, especially ToI, The Hindhu, CNN IBN...etc.. I do check the news almost every hour some days as I expect there is something happening in India every minute. As I sift through the news sites, I do see a considerable shift of the ToI towards more sexist and more motivated to the wrong side of the reader than to the knowledgeable side. This said, I am not portraying the biased view, but what I feel from years or reading the same media.
Of late ToI's readership has increased stunningly and more so due to the fact that its more glamour than news. Most of the people reading ToI as disappointed that it reports highly irrelevant news and updates, but can't help reading them. 
So today I think I can post some pictures of the Times media sites as I see it.

The picutres are the screen shots form the Times sites from India. The point here is whether the news media need to be discrete about its adverts than the news itself? Yes, I agree if someone  interested in LIFE & STYLE column can make sense of the adverts in the said sense, but for a media like ToI, read by school kids, too teens to middle aged to Old aged, does it need some discretion in providing online ads?

Sex seels and its  multi billion dollar industry since the age of internet. Accept it or not, that is the very reason that countries like India and others, who shout free trade support this business even though they do not encourage it. The only trade that goes on forever without any advert or push from the governments. 

My only opinion is, do the news media have to control thier marketing strategy to push their sales in a manner to just being awkward on the opening page itself? Can they be discrete like the New York times or our own The Hindhu? Can they be more people friendly and less graphical and still attract readers? 

I suggest ToI should pay heed to the viewers comments too and act responsible to the comments. More often than not, ToI censors the comments but no the adverts on their own site. What a pity.
Essentially, ToI is good at controlling the readers views and comments and not their own way of portraying themselves as a free media for people to express themselves.

Statistics and Further Analysis

Since i started this subject, i though to provide more light on this through different statistics from different sites which will actually put more light into the problem.

Here i have copied more statistics of such insane and probably a fake profile from 2 more of India's popular Matrimony sites. Considering these numbers are a true depiction of the existing social issue, why are more and more people trying their luck of life on these portals? Is it ease of use or just another pass time or is it really that we depend on technology so much so that we are unable to make our decisions about life on our own?

Some time back i happened to visit a local festival in the southern part of India. My attention was caught on not the usual fun things the locals did but a robot telling the future of people who pay Rs.10/- per trial.

It kept me thinking, why instead of paying the same Rs.10/- to a local astrologer might have given much fairer and also the solution for the existing problem to that person, rather than paying that lifeless, emotionless item that had more LEDs than its own memory?

This is where my thought towards our dependency on technology rather than astrology or any ancient science took me. I did some digging towards the same kind of behavior in urban population and what best to check than the dating sites or matrimony sites, what ever you call them.

Now i have given the background of my information gathering and so asked one of my known associates to give his statistics for my report and i got the real deal. Got what i wanted as he was trying to find his match online through various means and still not able to decide. Pity him though, but he really helped me with my blog, i can say.

Some of the numbers that really need to put some thought in those statistics are the ones that was initiated from the person. These are like, interests expressed, request sent and so on. These numbers really tells the persons attitude towards choosing the right person for his life partner.

One thought says, this person is a bad decision maker and accepts that he/she has an issue with life and the decisions.

Some of the serious matters need to be addressed by the person acceptance, insight and work out personal issues or ask for help.

Another way of seeing the same is that the guy is extremely over confident and so each time his request is accepted, he tends to rise his bar for a higher criteria to find a better partner. This generally happens with guys as they start thinking that they can find any girl of their choice, may be because of their power politically, economically or intellectually.

But are these the conditions for finding a better partner? Does he ever think that the choice should also work form the other side?

Worse yet, if the guy finds a girl who is extremely over confident and constantly rise the bar of her requirement higher and higher each time he meets similar guy?

Another possible problem with this kind of approach would be the compatability quotient between the partenrs found in this manner?

Did each of them think that they are better at what they do because of the other person? I guess the answer is NO here.

This is based on the fact that both have kept on raising their possible acceptance criteria based on the other persons status and so think that they are themselves capable of setting a higher criteria for the other person. This leads to a massive psychological pattern where the spiral of doom never stops.

The Spiraling effect can sustain only until the very building block of this spiral is stable which in most case is the self esteem or the over confidence in ones self.

Will this spiral ever stop in their life?

Will they ever realize that the spiral has already inverted its direction and they are still lost in their confinement of deep rooted psychosis?

Will they allow themselves to reach the doom up to the bottom or will they improve their lives based on the wrongs they did and try to make things right at some point?

I think there is a lot to think in this pattern and study on the lives of people who have had success after creating such statistics in their personal profile.

I bet, each one with such statistics will end up in a good old arranged marriage way rather than finding their own partner. Ultimately realizing life is not worth the search and accept the very opposite person whom he/she wanted to avoid the whole time.

Probably the success/failure cases should be measured by considering this kind of statistics. Anyone with a lesser numbers in these statistics is 80%-90% times probable to have a successful relationship than the one with this kind large of statistics. Probably who ever want to find their partner on these portals should also concentrate on these numbers. Thats the underlying statement of my effort to bring these numbers into public.

Statistics and your Partners

What do you think about this statistic? This is one of the many statistics you can gather on a prospective bride/groom from any of the matrimony portals.

• Is this person really in need of a spouse?
• Is this person really intending to marry and stay faithful to his partner?
• Is the reason that he/she didn't find the right match acceptable in this case?

How good will it do if these statistics are available for viewing if you are searching the web for your prospective life partner?

Does the profile as is give the real person in real life?

Does chatting or talking on the phone or some messenger will show the real nature of a person?

Since the real person is hiding behind the technology which can show you laugh when u are not by just a smiley (:)) and funny when you are not with just some key combinations?

So coming to the statistic, how long have this person been prowling on this site in search for a prospective bride?

How many did he meet and probably broke their heart?

What is this person in real?

How many matrimonial sites has he got membership with?

Does any can know? Does any care?

From my experiences with people and friends, i think if a guy is not able to decide on his bride within meeting some 10-20 prospective girls, then he is considered to be a guy who is not sure of what he wants?

If the guy is not able to reach to a decision after meeting some 50-100 girls, then he should take a break and do some retrospection into his life about his needs and his future plans and then start over again. also might need to consider help from his friends and relatives who can make him understand what he should look for or what he should be looking for in himself.

So form all the points i can think of, the very first question to be asked while contacting a prospective bride/groom is to ask how logs he is into this business. If in less than 6 months he is not able to find a prospective match from an online portal, then definitely he should quit the portal and look with local agents.

Since all these statistics are hidden in a cloud, there will be more break ups, and raise in divorce cases and cheating cases. More often than not, this can be a social problem than being just statistics. Of all the offenses that the politics raise and try to pinch the life out of a common man with their culture and religious slogans, they might also consider this route to get fame.

So basically, with a premium rate to its customers, all matrimonial sites can generate a statistics for each member and give it to the prospective members with an additional fee. This will help future of both the matrimonial portal as well as the members of the site, which can also earn much reliable site for finding mates in the long run.

Road Sense, Non Sense

To all... Here is a quick look at the traffic caos on the hyderabad roads. First there are people who dont care about traffic sense, then there are cops who dont even care about their respect in public. Added to that there are designed number plates all over the roads. Sometimes I even got confused whether My car has the right one or not. But then checked the rules and seems like atleast me and my friends are fine and strictly follow atleast this aspect of the traffic sense. Thanks to cops though who dont really care about how the number plates look like. if its a big car, then they have no right to challan it, and if its a small car anyway they dont care.. :) Some of the number plate types in my collection are below. No offence though to any.


This one is one of the first when i started my collection. Then there were many. Kind of readable but still against the rules.














One of the good ones collected is below.

This ine already had a devil's evil digits on it. but stylish and unattractive.
Have more on the go. Similar ones are seen all over the
and you cant miss more than some i have below.













The colectors edition number plate is the one below. Really amazing and you really need skill to read it.. :)






Anyway.... there are other silly, stupid but funny things you can capture on hyderabad roads. Check some below.

I dont understand the very idea of this. But really interesting to take a better look at yourself before someone crashes on you from behind.. :)
















The second bike is not even registered yet. already the mirrors are showing their use. Not only guy, but even girls have their honda Activa or any scooty mirrors turned like this. I hope they have some idea about what they have done.

Its a punishable offense to drive without a mirror. But this doesn't come under the law...haha... :)

Another fun time is in the heavy traffic times. if traffic is low, everyone is a good driver. ones the traffic is heavy, people start to show their true colors. Here is one such situation.
Its a four lane road, and a'T' junction. The traffic was blocked on the left approach lane to the junction. The vehicles coming form behind just took the oncoming lane fomr the junction to enter the junction on to mumbai road. Now these are the people who have really nice cars and well educated as most of them are going to HiTech city, software hub for work. Either they are morons or software engineers.















So Driving in Hyderabad is FUN...!!!!

War of the Worlds...!!!

Moral policing has become a rage in today's world by the politically motivated chauvinists. Call them the moral police or the Saffron brigade or Kannada Rakshana vedike or Sri Ram sena or Bajrang dal etc etc... names are many... but the motivation and the action are same.. though the results are not.
Every social structure has this anti-social elements in them. Like the social structure of any state in India for that mater. Does Hinduism or any religion in India support violence against women?. If it does, then what is their commitment in today's world?
If they have the right to be violent, because they are against the youth culture of the modern times, then my advice to them, - "Grow up!!!"
Law as its written our country says any common man cannot take law into his hands even if he is witness to any unlawful acts. His duty is to inform the police or the authorities who can take action against the unlawful. Now the question is, is the law and order of the state so blunt and lost its once manly men on duty for the moral policing. Who ever attacked the pubs, and dance bars in Mangalore and Bangalore, why are they still free in the society. Why do comman man allow such things to happen? Is people of Karnataka so lethargic and lack the attitude to stand up against all these happenings thresting their very own lives? Are the parents sure of getting their children back one day when thigs will go wrong in a public place?. Will some hero from the common raise up to do somethings unlawful according to books, but take these saffron brigade into task.??
Police and law have lost their manliness, and no real men exist in these forces now. So its the common men and women who can stand against this now.. Its terrorism in the Hindu sense. even though they say its for the societies good, that's what the Taliban, mujaheddin doing.. good for their society...!!.. killing other societies for the good of their own.
Now its the chance of people to decide what they really want from the law makers. I suggest, if a violence happens, the right thing to do is to remove all top officials from that locality, including politicians and commissioners and police and replace them to already violent areas. Let them live their life the way they want.
Its time for the people to stand for what they want. Oppose all wrong things they are forced into their lives. Ignore all ill facted news and get their new lives form their homes. Accept every society without racist outlook and respect every society and religions they respect and love theirs. I hope some day people start thinking with their brains and not with others who claim to be the leaders. Ya.. the leaders to the disaster in a society though...
Its just one question that every one need to ask themselves before doing anything in life.
"Is it worth it?..!!"
I hope for a better Bangalore, a better Mangalore, better Mysore, Mandya, and for all a better Karnataka, Kerala, Andra, Bihar, Maharastra, Delhi..etc etc...
This is a new clip of the assaulting SriRam Sena members. They beat up girls and boys who were in the lounge bar on Saturday on that unfortunate weekend.


Video: Times of India

Also a clip to show the Sri Ram sena chief Pramod Mutalik justifying his actions on the attack.


Video: Time of India

He says that the parents are worried about their girls going outside.. they don't know where they are and what they are doing when they go out. He claims there were drug abuse and indecent behavior of girls and boys in the lounge.
Now let the parents decide whether they want their children be moral policed by this saffron brigadiers or by themselves. If any parents come out and say that they are happy with this action, then i bow to them and their wisdom they have gained over the years. But if they don't support why not come out and show their anger on this so called self proclaimed dictator of the morality of people in this area?
He says the action should not be called as Talibanization and its a small incident. If he calls this a small incident and worried about other parents girls, i suggest he look into his own family and clean it up. where his son is going or his daughter is going over the weekends and what they are doing?
protesting against this is his right and there is no question of mom's sisters or daughters coming in here he says...
Here is the clip iof one of the girls who was targetted on that fateful evening. Pramod Mutalik says he was protecting the culture and the parents anxiety about their children. And here is the first hand recount of the incident by one of the victims.


Video: Time of India

Pramod Mutalik says the good guys had to take the bad guys to task by punishing them by beating and molesting them. But if this is what the good guys do, then "Hail" our country for this. Our country has come so far. Hail Sri Ram for this who is told to have some respect toward his women and towards his pupils. Now I doubt all the tales of ramayan and all mytholigy of india as a whole. Hystory and the prest will talk louder than the mythologies now.
Shame Sri Ram, Shame India!!!!

So republic India.. is it still republic and independent??
I doubt.

Take care all Parents and children. Theres more to see if none wants to react to this incident.

The Terror Trail…

Recently we were awakened by the rude shock of terrorism and how vulnerable the common man is to the anti social groups in our country. This also was proof enough for everyone to understand how proactive and careless our security measures are. How helpless our police or security personals are and so on. But then as more and more came out of the blasts and bombs scare still going on in Surat, I have started to ignore the fact that it is any anti terrorist groups work to do so.

In Bangalore, it was a low intensity explosions because the explosives were probably those that were used in the stone mining in the nearby areas, used for blasting in quarries. In Ahemadabad probably it was serious and in surat it’s a joke. They have uncovered some 20 un-exploded explosives and defused them in a span of probably 2 days I guess.

But if someone want to cause the damage, why would he just plant an explosive and stay watching the news about how they were defused? He could just explode it anytime he wants, once he knows that his explosives are being found.?

Why would he wait for it to be on news?

Why would he give a message by now exploding the unit and why would he plant some 20 non explosives to send a message?

Why would he plant a bomb on top of a tree?

Why on a ad hoarding which is atleast 20 feet above the gournd? Is the so called terrorist a moron? Is he trying to kill the birds?

Has the act of terrorism come down to this level?

Or the very question that whether the packets unearthed were really explosives?

I doubt it. It’s just the administration getting the people to panic mode and to get diversions I believe. Theoretically those packets were not planted by smoothly placing it in those places. They were thrown in to those places by some one standing below. And that’s what I believe. If this is not true, get one unit of the same contents and show it exploding so that I can believe that those were real explosives.

But still the real question remains?

Who would benefit from all this drama and panic?

Time is a luxuary…

Hyderabad or Bangalore… or any other city in India for that matter… traffic sense is kind of not easily found among any one living there. Personally I have experience in these 2 cities and I can comment on these only. But as such its almost the same situations in all the IT hubs for sure. At least I guess so.

Recently I was in B’lore for a weekend and so decided to meet some friends of mine on Sunday evening. All was fine as long as I kept myself away from the heart of the city. But evening I ended up in residency road corner house. Now that’s where all things began. As usual it rained for about 15 mins a li’l heavily though but then I had to face the reality of B’lore. My car was stuck in a traffic jam that took some 30 mins to clear.

Question here is:

Why the traffic is a chaos when it rains?

What happens to the people and their senses when it rains there?

Can’t they just stay home or in office when it rains?

And a lot more…….

So then I started driving back to the majestic area by making a huge circle from Residency to Richmond and then towards corporation and then via KG road to majestic. At least this was my plan initially. Then when I reached corporation I realized its not a easy drive to go through majestic. Took a immediate turn towards Lalbagh and to Chamrajpet. This was quite easy compared to the other roads till then. So in Chamrajpet, I was stuck in between a bunch of stupid drivers. This included autos, two wheelers and private cars. They don’t understand the fact that if vehicles from other side is not allowed to go then there is no way out of the road as its not divided by a median. And I think this understanding still lacks. So I was stuck again for more than 45mins there. Felt myself to be an idiot then. But that’s the reality anyway. Nobody cares and no easy solution for this.

But realized one thing. Its no the number of vehicles or the infrastructure that is lacking in the city. It’s the peoples common sense that is missing in the city which ones had boasted of some of the best known intellectuals in the country. Anyway past is past and future is bleak.

Now its not far from this experience in Hyderabad. I prefer to walk to office and so I have not yet bought a vehicle for myself. But will be son as I realized, walking can kill. Literally…. At least in this city.

One thing I have to face in this city is the fact that the city administration is not friendly to those who want to walk. So if you want to walk be ready for the consequences. I have seen very less roads with pavements and pedestrian ways here. And the shops doors open to the road here. And if some sick driver loses control, he will definitely be inside the shop, hotel or even your home if you are lucky. The foot paths I have seens are on the roads inside the jubilee hills area and other residential areas where people hardly walk and where people walk has none of the so called foot paths. Example the Madhapur road, Hi-tech city road, you name it. And these are the roads where thousands of people walk and most of them engineers who are feeding these cities with their fortune and pride.

Just have to understand that if you are an engineer, if you are gone, there is someone to replace you immediately on the road, in the office or anywhere else. But what about home?

So now I have a question. As a software engineer, I guess we spend most of our hard earned money and time on these cities. I am no John F. Kennady who once said “ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. “

I do expect something in return. And this is not in terms of money or any other unethical means. I am just asking our ‘reformers ‘(so called) to give me some time to spend for myself and my family. Most of the engineers in Bangalore I believe leave for work in the morning like at 7.00AM or 7.30AM and there are some who leave at 6.00AM to catch the company bus to the office. They start their work at 8.00AM or latest by 9.00AM and try to leave by 4.30PM to 6.00PM time frame. But as the situation is, they reach their home by 6.30PM ideally and have most of the times seen sitting in the office buses even after 8.30PM.

Now every day a engineer is wasting say 4-5hrs on travel from office to home and back. So in a week the poor fellow is wasting a full day doing nothing but dreaming about being at home and spend sometime with his kids, wife, parents..etc.., but unfortunately he is on the road still dreaming. In a month he has already wasted a week travelling for no reason and in a year he has wasted more than a quarter of a year travelling within the city. Atleast he could afford a foreign vacation of a week if he had worked for this time and took a weeks off for vacation. That’s extreme but it’s real. Most of them will earn a lakh easily in 3 months and it doesn’t take much to visit places like Singapore or Malaysia these days. Think about it.!!!

Added to that is the fuel costs of driving the bike, car or a bus for more than the time it was required to. Say a 30kms distance can be covered in 1hr 30mins in normal conditions through the city and if it takes more than this, then its waste of time, fuel and a sign of the economy reaching the dooms day by wasting the resources. But none cares. Only thing the administration cares is about their privileges of free fuel, free medical aid, free living, ultimately being a burden on the common tax payer who just finished filing all his taxes for the reason that he was threatened by these blood sucking, useful for nothing slugs. Every time we see the telephone bills in lakhs, electricity bills in thousands, fuel charges in lakhs of these administrators, who are supposedly elected to make some reforms and save all these costs. Anyway, everything that is said about change and handling the change is so far not true. Democracy is a huge failure in this sense, in all sense. Its non sense in India for sure.

But anyway, Hail democracy….

Talking of Percentages

Percentage – the most amazing comparison tool we have. Of late this has been seen in use in every representation of numbers.

Recently everybody not so inclined to percentage calculations were forced to understand this thru the economic slow down all over the world or simply put inflation. Every other country whether developed or not so developed, are gripped by the fact called inflation. This is the truth of global economy. You cannot ignore it even if u want to. Result of this is obviously public unrest and may end up in war. Example of this extreme is Zimbabwe, where the inflation figures are over 150,000%.

Any way, the subject I wanted to talk about percentages here are the ones which our so called leaders are bother about. The reservations , or the so called Quota. Recently the politics won over the judiciary and management of the institutions by making sure that 26% of the seats are reserved to the OBCs. I am not against it and not in favor of it either. I do not want to talk about the origin of this so called OBCs and the reservations they are enjoying under the constitution of india.

The constitution of india by itself is a brain child of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, who gave independent india an extended set of steps and goals to achieve the true status of an independent nation. But our leaders were always exploiting as they were form before independence to the date and the fact is that the very basic constitution was amended by the powers of the people with vested interests in such a way that there is no more looking back. It cannot be set right any more, but to be rewritten.

Our constitution was in fact written to eliminate the caste system, more relevantly to bring the scheduled castes to a socially equal stance. A nice article can be found in the link (http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070815/independence/main9.htm)

But then instead of reducing the number belonging to this divide, the system kept on increasing the boundaries of this constitutional fact and was exploited to an extent that it can never be corrected.

SC(15%as per GOI) **

ST(7.5%as per GOI)**

OBC(27%as per GOI**

Now coming to the percentages, we all now know that the OBCs were not really included in the reservations provided by the constitution of India in its purest form. Rather there was no definition of OBCs as such. Reservations for OBCs is definitely not. This was included as an amendment to the constitution by so called caste politicians. So amendment of the very constitution in this case is an offence and disrespect done to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar whose dream of unified India will for ever be a dream.

Anyway, coming to the percentage math of this so called reservations, 27% is reserved for the OBCs as per the recent decisions by the Govt and the judiciary in acceptance with the caste politicians of our country. But will this percentage method be applied in every sense of the math is what is interesting.

Coming to the involved percentages, 27% is the reserved pie to the OBCs in educational institutions of India. Now if 100% is the maximum anybody can achieve in his performance, how will the criteria for deciding the minimum percentage for the reservations be decided?

Now as we know the cut off for these categories to be eligible for the competitive institutions are less than that required by a general category candidate. So if we can relate the reservation percentage to the eligibility criterion, then the person belonging to the reserver category should have a minimum percentage of x%, which is the Max scorred percentage – 50% mark. (Assuming 50% of the MAX is the reservation eligibility cut off).

Again, the best part of the reservations as in the current political stand point if a general category person has scorred 90% in a competitive exam, then the person in reservations category needs to score only 50% in the same exam to be eligible for whatever the general category person is eligible for. The fun part is what is the general category people all score only 50% or less..??? Reservations is obsolete…!!!!