Pickle Management In Technical Education : Poem

 About Discrepancies In Education / Administrative Systems ....

PICKLE MANAGEMENT IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION

A clever employer

Once got

The brilliant idea

Of preparing

Pickle out of

The original documents

Of his employees.

Wow !!

What a variety

Of ingredients !!

And what prospects

Of domination !!

He planned

And implemented

“Collection” of

The ingredients

For verification

By affiliated organization,

And among confusions

And whispering apprehensions,

The piles of ingredients

Got stocked and stacked

For processing ….

And on goes

The making of

Continuously yielding

Delicious preparation –

Sorting, cutting, chopping ….

Of enthusiasm and motivation,

Of futures and careers ….

Adding suspense

For “discipline”,

Collecting helplessness

For performance ….

Such efforts !!

To serve

Intelligently groomed

Engineers and future technocrats

Fed with such

Deliciously prepared

Indigenous Pickle

To the progress of

A swiftly developing

Smart society.

- Vanita Thakkar (in August, 2015)

• Based on real incident that took place in a Self-Financed / Private Engineering College. Retaining original documents of employees is a criminal offense by law. Such matters call for serious legal scrutiny.
• It is difficult to fight the widespread nexus of malpractices. Unfortunately, in India, legal procedures take too long a time. 
• Some attempts were definitely made, which were stalled by manipulative practices usual to delaying and defying justice in the legal ecosystem, and the sick, greedy and insecure mindset of many a professionals / officials …. 
• As those legal struggles were on, about four or five years down the lane, an incident of the suicide of a victim of such malpractices surfaced in North India, which led the central governing body of technical education to issue a notification stating that the approval / affiliation of all the institutions resorting to the practice of retaining original documents of employees will be terminated. And that brought an end to the plight of a huge number of employees in private technical education institutions, whose documents were in the custody of their employers …. 
• The tragedy is that only after the life of an aspiring young professional in the field of education was sacrificed, the desired - legally, professionally and ethically correct change was effected. 
• Not much is known about any actions having been taken against the owners of such institutions …. 
• Many of those who chose to give up the job, not accepting such conditions, suffered financial and professional losses and problems, along with the emotional trauma they themselves and their families have to go through while not accepting the undue dominance of employers …. These are such traps which trouble either way - accepting the prison-like suffocating work atmosphere is frustrating, so one is forced into either a change of job or diversifying professional activities, which can be very challenging in a world of crazy competitions, amidst regular social and domestic responsibilities ….

From HubPages .... Published on 01st August, 2020.