INDIAN ACADEMY

I love my students very much. Students are our children, they are the backbone of the society, they are the future of our nation. Their main task is to study and remain engaged in academic activities. Libraries and reading rooms are the best places for them. Now-a-days a large number of the students, including the very promising ones, are involved in politics, and other non-student like activities including taking drugs, consuming wines, wearing ragged and improper dresses ( in the name of fashion), talking filthily in the campuses and canteens, and many other activities. The students who get admission in Presidency or Jadavpur are among the best in the country. Are their parents bringing them up with this dreams? Do they support the gharoeing of Vice-Chancellors, abusing them, smoking in front of them? If yes, I apologize to them. But it seems to me that no guardian supports this kind of behaviour of the students with their respected teachers. Students are now deman...

Like some Indian states, West Bengal Government also started a scheme for gender empowerment. "Kanyashree Prakalpo" (empowerment of girl child) is good and beneficial program for the poor and backward women in this state. Many students leave their studies for lack of money. This minimul financial assistance will help them a lot. Leaving school means engaging in household chores, tending cattle, looking after young siblings and others and leading a life of pain and anguish. Manual labor and ultimately getting married at an early age culminating in being early  mothers, and facing life-long health hazards and familial as well as societal problems. It seems that the program will enhance retention rate of girl children in the schools and making them economically self-reliant.  I wish a grand success of this program.