The national highest court, Supreme Court of India, is urged by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to order a ban on reality shows on television involving children and babies. This is urgently required in view of the stress and emotional disturbance caused by the competition in the shows. Children are not really matured to go through that type of emotional and cut-throat competition witnessed on television.
The amount of time spent away from the parents, the exploitation by the media, the pressure on the children to do their best and the glamorous environment to which the children are subjected over long periods of time are going to have severe adverse impact on the children. The sudden change in the life style is going to affect the young minds and will leave them confused socially.
The government should formulate appropriate act similar to Goa Children’s Act 2003 so that such exploitation by the media and often by the greedy parents themselves should be stopped. One should not tamper with their innocence.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
CAT – Reduce the weightage from this academic year itself
CAT is slowing losing its past glory by sheer mismanagement of the online Common Admission Test (CAT) this year. Added to this, is the news that many IIMs considering lowering the weightage given to the CAT results from 90 points to 50 points or less. This is a good move. Rightly, the IIMs are considering more weightage to class X and XII marks, work experience, the performance of the candidate in personal interview and group discussion.
Now, with regard to the retest conducted for about 2000 students: First of all, the retest should have been taken for all the candidates. Many candidates who had problems during the first test were not called for the retest. The criteria were not clear. Many who were called were not interested in giving the retest, and now it is said that the test papers were identical on some days in the subsequent two slots!
This is totally unfair situation to the candidates who appeared in the first test. The candidates who gave retests are definitely going to be benefited by this decision.
It is only fair to one and all that from this academic year itself, the weightage for the CAT marks should be brought down to 50% or less.
Now, with regard to the retest conducted for about 2000 students: First of all, the retest should have been taken for all the candidates. Many candidates who had problems during the first test were not called for the retest. The criteria were not clear. Many who were called were not interested in giving the retest, and now it is said that the test papers were identical on some days in the subsequent two slots!
This is totally unfair situation to the candidates who appeared in the first test. The candidates who gave retests are definitely going to be benefited by this decision.
It is only fair to one and all that from this academic year itself, the weightage for the CAT marks should be brought down to 50% or less.
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