Back to blogging after a long time. Unfortunatley the events that have compelled me to write this blog were actually really avoidable.
Some of the faculty members in the institute are the finest academicians around. But when it comes to administration i find a lot of things hard to digest. IIIT has lots of vague rules(attendence, PT, Jeevan vidya....) Most of these rules were implemented without giving any importance to student opinion. But somehow the students accepted all this. But there are some things that i find hard to understand.....things that show a lack of transparency on the part of the faculty....
1. The first "instance" of this high handedness were the last elections held in the campus. The election reuslts were nullified without any valid explanation. Effectively the faculty disregarded our votes.
2.Allotment of computers is a touchy issue right now. Institute claims that there is a 2:1 student computer ratio. I can count and that ratio is wrong. We pay about 3~3.5 lakhs as fee for the b.Tech course. A resonable PC would cost u about 25K. That is not even 10% of our fees. And our labcom was informed by the server room people that even though there is a shortage of infrastructure there would be no new purchases. No wonder all surveys by magazines say the college has poor infrastructure.
3. The sysadmins...... I have absolutely no frigging idea about why,when and who came up with the brilliant idea of getting rid of student admins. The new guys suck and end up asking nirnimesh to do their trouble shoting. This is more then anything shameful for a place like IIIT which has a decent number of people capable of doing he job.
4.FSIS... I have been to a reasonable number of FSIS/SFIS sessions and i swear i have never seen a greater wastage of time. I dont remember a single FSIS where any Popular descision has been announced. it's more of a press confrence by the faculty to announce the new ideas they are going to implement. And to anybody who says "nobody turns up for FSIS".... nobody is interested to attend a session where descisions are announced and the discussions are merely a formality.
5.Ragging.....Some people from UG2 and UG3 were implicated by a DIS-committee. I think each and every word of the discussions that went on behind those closed doors should be made public. And i mean everything right from the students statements to the questions asked by the faculty. If the DIS-CO investigated everything in a Impartial and dignified manner i see no reason why things should not be made public....unless the faculty has something to hide.
The thing is i'm not saying the faculty is right/wrong. The point I am trying to make is that when descisions that affect the entire student community are taken things should be transparent so that we know why the descision is being taken. I'm sure by working in the open the faculty can form a much better relationship with the students.
PS 1. No wonder the govt tried to ban blogs. People like us use them to flame everybody .... :D
PS2. I hope I get a new room I'm still stuk on the 3rd floor :((
PS3.New mess OBH gf is reasonably good. hope it continues that way.
