My Best Wishes to Indian Science Congrees for 2007

I should congratulate the Indian Science Congress for the choice of their venue for 2007 event.

They will learn a lot from their hosts. First and foremost they can learn how to mark a student absent in an exam when he was present and drive him to suicide! You think I am making this up? Do you think The Hindu is making it up:

NEW DELHI: Apparently depressed at being marked absent in an examination in which he had appeared and scored good marks, a 21-year-old student of Amity School of Technology and Management in Gurgaon allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his house at Farsh Bazar in East Delhi on Thursday.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/07/stories/2005100721270300.htm

They can learn how to loose their AICTE affiliation for their MBA programs:

The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to withdraw approval for conduct of PGDM (full time) and PGDM (part time) courses to Amity Business School Noida, from the academic year 2005-06. Consequent upon withdrawal of AICTE approval, the Council decided to transfer and distribute the students already admitted in the Amity Business School, among other approved institutions in the nearby locality.

http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=12056

Then the delegates of the Indian National Congress can learn how not to refund the fees to those students who wanted to leave after AICTE's decision:

A case against Amity Business School was filed in the District Consumer Redressal Forum New Delhi, Mehrauli, New Delhi which hears matters between Rs 1-5 lakhs on 29th November, 2005. The complaint states: "That the applicant/ cancellation has no fault in the withdrawal of approval by AICTE to the respondent no 1"

"That the applicant/ complainant suffered the loss of a year of his career and valuable time, as well as mental and physical harassment by the respondents."In addition to refund of fees advocate Naveen Kumar is seeking compensation of Rs 100,000 for loss of a year, financial, educational, mental and physical harassment by the respondents (Amity Business School).

The six former Amity students listed as complainants are: Deepak Soni, Jitesh Marwaha, Amit Bharadwaj, Anshul Pant, Diptanshu Gupta, and Deepak Bansal. A summons was issued to Amity Business School, Ashok Chauhan and Sunita Singh (Director, Admissions, ABS). Amity has not yet responded but a date of January 6 2006 has been set for the next court hearing.

Former student Jitesh Marwaha adds, "A number of students in PGDM have not submitted their next installment of fees as they wish to know what is the current status and validity of the course after withdrawal of AICTE approval." And the wait continues.

http://www.jammag.com/careers/articles/mbacorner/caramity/index2.php?id=1

And last but not the least, the delegates from Indian National Congress can learn how to get an intepol arrest warrant in their names:

Q. 5308 Red Alert Notice by Interpol

12/05/2005

RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 5308 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12-5-2005 5308 SHRI R.K. ANAND: Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that Red Alert Notice by Interpol and International Warrants have been issued by German authorities against Indians for alleged fraud committed by Indians in Germany; (b) whether Government has received any request/warrants from German Authorities for extradition of many businessmen in India; and (c) what steps are being taken by Government to execute such warrants? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI E. AHAMED) (a) Yes, Sir, valid warrants of arrest issued by German Judicial authorities against S/Shri Ashok Kumar Chauhan and Arun Kumar Chauhan, Directors of AMITY International, Ghaziabad, U.P. exist and the Interpol has issued Red-Corner-Notice Nos. 453/1990 and 459/1998 respectively at the request of Interpol Wiesbaden. http://meaindia.nic.in/parliament/rs/2005/05/12rs07.htm

Could they have come up a better choice for their next meet, given the qualifications of thier hosts? May the Indian Science Congress learn more and choose more such excellent venues for propogating science.

And I guess they will because we do not care enough about the issue even to protest from our blogs en masse. If you write about this issue on your blog, I request you to please leave a link in my comment section, so that all the links can be viewed at one place.