While I was in service, sometime during the beginning of the new century, there were talks that the parent bank will hold a common interview for the promotion to higher ranks in the bank pooling the vacancies in all the subsidiary banks. This was seen as an attempt by the parent bank to reduce the actual vacancies by the parent bank. A few senior officers were bullish about this idea and when it finally came into effect for all the ranks of DGMs and above, the one bank which benefited the most was the bank I was working for. There were as many as 22 persons got promoted to the rank of DGMs and in one of the later years, as many as six General Managers from the same bank were promoted as CGMs thereby virtually blocking promotion opportunities to the others in the other banks for a considerable time. Why this reminiscing of the promotion in the bank I served and left almost 5 years back now. Does it have any relevance to me as a retired person now enjoying the days in retirement? Yes it has a parallel in what happened in the country recently which left many perplexed and also agitated for different reasons.
ON the last Sunday the country went through the process of National eligibility and entrance test (NEET) for selection of students who have completed +2 for joining the government quota in all the medical colleges across the country. This test was opposed politically by the previous CM of the state and her party on the grounds that the students from the rural areas of the state are not well equipped to take this exam and their city counterparts will fare better in the exam. Can there be anything far from truth in such claims? There are rural areas and aspirants from rural areas in other states also. The disparity in standard of education between a student in city school and the one in rural school is very high almost across the country. Therefore,the argument that the student from rural setting will not be able to clear the exam falls flat.
The standard education in one of the foremost states of the country, had been regularly reduced and today you find that the school system brings out students who score 1200 marks out of 1200 scoring a 100% in all the subjects which include the languages. Gone were the days when you scored a 60 in languages and you considered yourself excellent. With such watering down of the standard of education and lenient valuation of the exam papers,what you get is millions of students every year graduating from schools looking for seats in professional colleges is increasing in geometric progression.
The Centralised exam for medical seats had been conducted even last year when the state got an exemption. This resulted in the TN students did not get the chance to study outside the state. There were malpractices and the same was looked down upon by the SC who directed the agency conducting the test to seriously look into all the chances for malpractices for clearing the exam. Backed by the SC order the CBSE which conducts the test, started issuing directives to the students and also the invigilators in the halls. This is what got the goat of many. There were allegations that even the inner wear of the girl students were checked in a state and the full sleeves were asked to be trimmed down in another state.
I feel with this centralised eligibility and entrance test there are ample opportunities for the students from the state to study in other states and excel in their studies. The total number of seats and the pooled quota for this has increased and therefore there are better chances for the bright students from the state to get a seat in the medical college in possibly a state far removed from his/her comfort zone. But still he will get a medical degree to start with. But in our short sighted wisdom,we object everything.
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