Dear Prem Chandavarkar

1. No Regulatory Regime in itself is prescriptive. At best it is preventive.
2. Enforcement patterns need to be flexible.
3. Diversity in situations is known but conveniently ignored.
4. Ideas of the "survival of the fittest" are untenable in a welfare State.
5. The 1983 Regulations are quite flexible in spirit. Flexibility however, reduces the power of governance. These regulations clearly relate to basic infrasructure. Due to intellectual bankruptcy these are taken to regulate academic quality.
6. The Inspector "Raj' was deemed to have ended. So the new role of Inspectors is akeen to dumb policing. Some inspectors are seen to be usurping the power to inspect as a duty pass a judgement; like a policeman behaving like a magistrate.
7. Visionaries are not born. Visions are a result of pragmatism - and require a gestation period. To expect"vision statements" from institutions in their early stages of survival is not only ridiculous but disastrous as well.
8. Teachers as the transmiters of knowledge are a pathetic lot. [self included] Most of them are unaware as to who and where are the receiving sets. Learning to Teach is totally absent.
9. Thus, the academic product is ignorant if not illiterate. The honour bestowed upon my fraternity has received severe beating by wanton statements like " If you can - do it; If you can't - Teach!".
10. If a magnanimous view is allowed, the end product is only half-finished as he leaves the academy; the other being the responsibility of the profession. Whatever be the blame, the share is only one-half !

I SHALL ONLY BE TOO HAPPY TO RECEIVE A REACTION.

Shireesh Deshpande
88 West Park Road, Dhantoli, Nagpur 440 012
July 4, 2004