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MOVING WITH THE LEVELS NIFTY HITS INTRA DAY HIGH OF 5269.95 FINALLY CLOSED AT 5262.80 REGARDS, Manish Bothra, Money_Mystery, Kolkata...

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Jassi Khangura Fri, Mar 19 05:38 AM The controversial passage by the Upper House of the Women`s Reservation Bill providing one-third reservation for women in Parliament and state assemblies has exercised many minds. On the eve of the Rajya Sabha ruckus on this issue, I happened to hear numerous critical voices in the Central Hall — but none prepared to either go on record or convey their views to their own leadership! So much for testosterone. As a man, I wonder what choice India really had. As a father of a son and a daughter, I feel the same: for I am all too aware that the path for my daughter to enter politics would be much rockier than that my son would walk — assuming, that is, that either would wish to! And as an MLA, I wonder how we could have accepted for so long a system that delivers today in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha of 117 members just seven women — three in the ruling alliance, four in the opposition Congress. I also know that when my mother contested and narrowly lost the 2002 Punjab assembly election she was not the first choice; she only contested because, at the time, both my father and I were British citizens. But I also know that as a woman she was disadvantaged, treated as an underdog because her principal opponent was male. Of course, many female candidates have defeated men, but far more have lost. Hence, the real need for women-only contests. One argument against the quota is that it is "anti-meritocracy". But India`s political arena is hardly a fully fledged meritocracy. Criminals, members of "favoured families" and film stars gain tickets to stand, rather than those who have proven themselves in their respective parties over time. But why I really support the new bill is that in spite of 63-odd years of independence, India still remains an extremely male-dominated society. We have just not been able to ensure sufficient female participation in the institutions of state; and sex discrimination is as bad today as it was in 1947. Women are still expected to be good mothers, wives, teachers and nurses, but not to climb the ladders of governance. None of the remarkable women we think of first today might have achieved their position because of quotas; but we have to think how many women are simply excluded without those quotas. Excluded due to favouritism, nepotism or capitalism. The quota system may not mean that just any woman will be shovelled into a position as an MP or an MLA. But it does mean that those women who are already long-standing party members, or who wish to transit into politics from another field, can stake a claim to do so more easily. This bill may yet be undermined if the new female legislators commonly turn out to be wives of legislators, pushed by their husbands into a position where they will be "caretakers" of the seat until it is once again available to men. This bill must open the door to legislative participation to those families that have not been involved before. In any case, with fewer seats for men both main parties must ensure that those selected are from the better of the available options. As in India, internationally, politics and corporate life have a structure overwhelmingly biased towards men. India can lead the world with the passing of this bill, achieving an elected representative ratio that even the UK and the US do not have. It is indeed a bold and brave move, but it`s the kind of move that only a country like India would take. We don`t go by the "norms" here. We never have. And when it results in a bill like this being passed, I`m especially glad for our independent ways. Young women, in particular, should be inspired by this bill. Politics has suddenly become a genuine option for them. Half our population may now start to think differently about how this country is run. That`s a 100 per cent increase in brain power applied to our national issues. Let no one say that will only benefit the women who form 33 per cent of the House. The real test for the main political parties is whether they will now abolish their mahila wings and introduce a similar quota within their own party organisations. For good governance starts at home and the "tokenism" of the past has to be well and truly confined to the dustbin. If grown men cry as a result, they will have to wipe their own cowardly tears. The writer represents Qila Raipur in the Punjab assembly express@expressindia. com ...

Thu, Mar 18 03:04 PM For foreign universities, which haven`t yet recovered fully from the aftershocks of the worldwide recession, India presents, to quote a word re-introduced into the English vocabulary by Tim Burton`s Alice in Wonderland , a `frabjous` opportunity. More than 100,000 students leave Indian shores annually to study at universities abroad. Their presence has made foreign universities wake up to the incontrovertible fact that there`s another `creamy layer` below these students abroad whose families are prepared to pay upwards of Rs 2.5 lakh a year for quality education. Profs debate Foreign Univ Bill What foreign universities Bill can`t do International students are the economic mainstay of foreign universities, but these institutions are not in a position to meet the demand for the education they provide on their own campuses back home. This untapped market makes the business of overseas campuses that much more lucrative. For over a decade, foreign universities have been lobbying hard for the passage of the Foreign Education Providers Bill, which has been a pet project of HRD minister Kapil Sibal. The most recent of these exploratory visits was that of Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University, who was in the Capital in January to plan collaborations with leading universities here. He said there was an insatiable appetite for quality education in India and collaborations would mutually benefit both countries. US`s Georgia Institute of Technology announced its plan to set up campuses in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam as soon as the Bill gets Parliament nod. Central Michigan University, meanwhile, has taken another route to plant its flag in India. It has been offering a collaborative MBA programme with the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, for the past five years. Experts associated with these universities explain the economic logic of their plans for India: the proliferation of private institutions in the country-especially in engineering, medicine, management and law - that charged fees upwards of Rs 2.5 lakh a year was evidence of the vast market waiting to be tapped. These institutions attract the second layer of the country`s higher education market. These are students whose families can`t afford foreign education (upwards of Rs 15 lakh a year), but want to be in the top four favourite streams. India, according the now-defunct National Knowledge Commission, needs 1,500 universities, compared with about 350 now, to raise the enrollment numbers from 7 per cent of the population aged 18-25 to developed country averages. But even before the Bill got the cabinet`s nod, Indian universities had initiated the process of collaborating with their international peers to offer degrees or diplomas. A National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NEPA) report in 2008 pegged the number of these institutions at more than 130. For Bangalore University vice- chancellor A. N. Prabhu Deva, collaboration is the way forward. "It will help a higher education institution rise to the standards of its foreign partner," he says. But for this collaboration to become meaningful, says R. Govinda, NEPA V-C, teaching must go hand in hand with research. "Only then will quality education and foreign collaborations be meaningful," he says. Either way, for foreign universities, this is a winwin situation. Narayanan Ramaswamy, executive director of the management consultancy KPMG, points to the "massive demand supply gap" driving the international higher education market. Reproduced From Mail Today. Copyright 2010. MTNPL. All rights reserved ...

Dear All, Its ShoCkInG!!!! Today my Stock Idea message on Century Ply got vanished/deleted from the message board.....its Disgusting....Why so happened?????? Today morning I posted a Stock Idea call on Century Ply and the message was@ STOCK IDEA@ CENTURY PLY LOOKS GOOD ONLY ABOVE 55 FOR A TARGET OF UPTO 59-61. AVOID ANY LONG BELOW 55. After an hour or so the Target got HIT where it hits a high of 59.40 from the odd 55 levels. How can they remove my message from the message board?? Its SHAMEFUL on the part of message board management!!! Its an UGLY act afterall!!! Kind Regards, Manish Bothra, Kolkata. ...

Dear All, My Stock Idea message on Century Ply got vanished/deleted from the message board.....its Disgusting....Why so happened?????? Today morning I posted a stock idea call on Century ply and the message was@ STOCK IDEA@ CENTURY PLY LOOKS GOOD ONLY ABOVE 55 FOR A TARGET OF UPTO 59-61. AVOID ANY LONG BELOW 55. After an hour or so the Target got HIT where it hits a high of 59.40 from the odd 55 levels. How can they remove my message from the message board?? Its SHAMEFUL on the part of message board management!!! Its an UGLY act afterall!!! Kind Regards, Manish Bothra, Money_Mystery, Kolkata. ...

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