It was all calm inside the Principal’s room – an important file was being scrutinized – its content was to be abstracted and submitted to the University the next day and an innocent looking middle aged man-- sporting the east-Indian turban on as headgear, with stubbles of at least seven days appearing all over the unshaven cheeks--- peeped and a murmured ‘main aa sakte hun’ to reach the addressee--- this narrator. A typical modest veiled rural lady and a smart boy --- in BCET student-uniform were in company who followed the stranger.
‘Aaye baithieye kahiye’ was the natural response to make and then…
It was the unfolding of a real life story—appalling and horrible!
The commentary of a drama, in which, this narrator was also an uncanny actor!
The boy-- the son of that man and the lady, a third year matured WBUTian is examinee of his B. Tech class … he was due to get his university admit card for the 6th Semester as the University Exam due in the week to follow…..and, now he is not really to get it-- as the College has sent his class attendance to WBUT as twenty percent against his actual attendance of five percent approx.
And that, this was the fourth repeat of the same brave act by that boy at his class!!
The young man was spirited enough not to complete the sessionals even!!!
All concerned academically with him were disgusted and tired of him, had thrown their arms up---and thus … the outcome--- that ‘Shreeman X’ is not to sit in the end term exam due in next few days.
The real shocking part of the saga was a little more--- which brought a chill down the spine of the listener that day that time and that place ….the same was also unfolded by the fumbling parents.
‘There have been a peasant family… had mortgaged more than fifty percent of the whole family land possession to a local money lender
…. took a staggered loan semester by semester and could pay the fees for the boy’s engineering education so far.
The ‘year back’--as the inevitable consequence now, will ensure… first, the boy is not be at Durgapur anymore!
Not to nurture any dream to be an engineer!!
The family is to lose the land and the breads for the family in a short while as the repayment to the money lender will fail and… and…. And about the boy…?
That’s, what this College has made or making for the ‘boy’ and the ‘family’!
Say, what could the college Registrar do?
How the Principal could help?
There remain always the critics – ‘this Administration is not desirably firm’ in dealing with the habitual absentees!
During that day… those hours, there seemed nobody remaining anywhere to offer a solution… ‘to be, a savor from the catastrophe for an innocent rural family’!
A family which had seeded a dream—three years before --- as they left at that time ‘their fresh young boy at the precincts of a gorgeous college named B C E T ’ Durgapur!
A ‘d r e a m’ was born that day which got nurtured for more than two years
that…. in another two years’ time …. an ‘engineer was to go back from Durgapur’….and take the charge and it will be ‘all happiness from then on for the family’.
Alas, so far as the people here viz., --- the Principal and the Registrar, ‘the die was already cast’!
The College could not rewrite a ‘new percentage of attendance for that student and send that to the University’!
For some minutes… appearing like endless hours… ‘There was only sobs and silence in that room’.
Unbelievably to all our wonder, a rescue did come in a matter of days.
With the kindness of the University--- which had to see that family sitting in front of V.C.’s office for days…the boy could get an admit card!
Then what? This narrator was not made to know though years had passed meanwhile!
All these I make public for no other purpose than to strike the real-life point that ‘how we… those in the administration’, are burdened with such ‘realities that make the actual and complete personal life’ for some, remaining in the College --- while in our effort to administer, the pains and discomfitures which are to be borne by us only and yet not to appear lackadaisical!
It is the administration---which is taken by many a people as ‘it does not care to show firmness, throw proper light on fleeting events and ensure proportionate high-points for those who are ‘diligent and devoted’ and ‘those who are the opposite’ . As for such people who attend 100 percent of classes … appear as honest belabored examinees in the sessionals, submitting the assignments in time etc. etc. the ‘crediting’ make them same as the ‘others’---- who are ‘almost the opposite to all these’. The latter are not properly dealt and proportionately punished!
Painfully at times, some of the bests of individuals at the ‘even’ side of this puzzle viz., ‘those bright conspicuous set of students’ feel ‘demoralized’ and -- may be, get de-motivated to learn hard and be habituated to be successful and excel .
The simplistic ‘summing up done’ is that the administration-- in its laxity and dis-care-- do not hold back those, who for one reason or the other, desist to rightly orientate and conduct themselves …. . In these matters …. ‘the authority that be’ seems to be behaving as machines – set to run a system in certain ways and manners as fixed!
Dear students, having been practically educated from several such real life and fiery experiences – which need not be added to make it a long one sided commentary – the kind of ‘acts’ now being perpetrated at this institution by ‘us’ the Director…. the Principal …… the Registrar … and the HoDs are driven only by honest and conscientious perceptions and logic ‘ to nurture the good and to straighten the others’.
In these--- ‘not an iota of repressing any one’…. a grain of ‘applying senseless officialdom to anybody’…or a pinch of ‘giving lessons to any entity’ remain.
All that we remind to ourselves is:
That all students who are here, are not from backgrounds of plenty. But, for some of them circumstances and young-heart propensities to caricature that ‘I don’t care’ at times–overwhelm. The attitude to damn ‘the routines and desired conducts’ over powers, and that ‘I must appear rebellious......come what may’ becomes the attitude. And for these people, the ‘consequences’--nobody can predict.
We at our end as managers of college-affairs cannot afford to be oblivious to our assigned role of ‘guardians for the time being for every single youngsters’ who have just come out of the ‘protective and watchful’ shields of family elders with a ‘world of hope and expectations’ as they become and remain ‘the student’.
Dear students, please don’t M I S U N D E R S T A N D us; we in the administration cannot contribute to the ‘killing of individual and collective family dreams’ for any one.
With best wishes to all.
Prof. (Dr.) S. K. Brahmachari
Principal
Bengal College of Engineering and Technology
‘Aaye baithieye kahiye’ was the natural response to make and then…
It was the unfolding of a real life story—appalling and horrible!
The commentary of a drama, in which, this narrator was also an uncanny actor!
The boy-- the son of that man and the lady, a third year matured WBUTian is examinee of his B. Tech class … he was due to get his university admit card for the 6th Semester as the University Exam due in the week to follow…..and, now he is not really to get it-- as the College has sent his class attendance to WBUT as twenty percent against his actual attendance of five percent approx.
And that, this was the fourth repeat of the same brave act by that boy at his class!!
The young man was spirited enough not to complete the sessionals even!!!
All concerned academically with him were disgusted and tired of him, had thrown their arms up---and thus … the outcome--- that ‘Shreeman X’ is not to sit in the end term exam due in next few days.
The real shocking part of the saga was a little more--- which brought a chill down the spine of the listener that day that time and that place ….the same was also unfolded by the fumbling parents.
‘There have been a peasant family… had mortgaged more than fifty percent of the whole family land possession to a local money lender
…. took a staggered loan semester by semester and could pay the fees for the boy’s engineering education so far.
The ‘year back’--as the inevitable consequence now, will ensure… first, the boy is not be at Durgapur anymore!
Not to nurture any dream to be an engineer!!
The family is to lose the land and the breads for the family in a short while as the repayment to the money lender will fail and… and…. And about the boy…?
That’s, what this College has made or making for the ‘boy’ and the ‘family’!
Say, what could the college Registrar do?
How the Principal could help?
There remain always the critics – ‘this Administration is not desirably firm’ in dealing with the habitual absentees!
During that day… those hours, there seemed nobody remaining anywhere to offer a solution… ‘to be, a savor from the catastrophe for an innocent rural family’!
A family which had seeded a dream—three years before --- as they left at that time ‘their fresh young boy at the precincts of a gorgeous college named B C E T ’ Durgapur!
A ‘d r e a m’ was born that day which got nurtured for more than two years
that…. in another two years’ time …. an ‘engineer was to go back from Durgapur’….and take the charge and it will be ‘all happiness from then on for the family’.
Alas, so far as the people here viz., --- the Principal and the Registrar, ‘the die was already cast’!
The College could not rewrite a ‘new percentage of attendance for that student and send that to the University’!
For some minutes… appearing like endless hours… ‘There was only sobs and silence in that room’.
Unbelievably to all our wonder, a rescue did come in a matter of days.
With the kindness of the University--- which had to see that family sitting in front of V.C.’s office for days…the boy could get an admit card!
Then what? This narrator was not made to know though years had passed meanwhile!
All these I make public for no other purpose than to strike the real-life point that ‘how we… those in the administration’, are burdened with such ‘realities that make the actual and complete personal life’ for some, remaining in the College --- while in our effort to administer, the pains and discomfitures which are to be borne by us only and yet not to appear lackadaisical!
It is the administration---which is taken by many a people as ‘it does not care to show firmness, throw proper light on fleeting events and ensure proportionate high-points for those who are ‘diligent and devoted’ and ‘those who are the opposite’ . As for such people who attend 100 percent of classes … appear as honest belabored examinees in the sessionals, submitting the assignments in time etc. etc. the ‘crediting’ make them same as the ‘others’---- who are ‘almost the opposite to all these’. The latter are not properly dealt and proportionately punished!
Painfully at times, some of the bests of individuals at the ‘even’ side of this puzzle viz., ‘those bright conspicuous set of students’ feel ‘demoralized’ and -- may be, get de-motivated to learn hard and be habituated to be successful and excel .
The simplistic ‘summing up done’ is that the administration-- in its laxity and dis-care-- do not hold back those, who for one reason or the other, desist to rightly orientate and conduct themselves …. . In these matters …. ‘the authority that be’ seems to be behaving as machines – set to run a system in certain ways and manners as fixed!
Dear students, having been practically educated from several such real life and fiery experiences – which need not be added to make it a long one sided commentary – the kind of ‘acts’ now being perpetrated at this institution by ‘us’ the Director…. the Principal …… the Registrar … and the HoDs are driven only by honest and conscientious perceptions and logic ‘ to nurture the good and to straighten the others’.
In these--- ‘not an iota of repressing any one’…. a grain of ‘applying senseless officialdom to anybody’…or a pinch of ‘giving lessons to any entity’ remain.
All that we remind to ourselves is:
That all students who are here, are not from backgrounds of plenty. But, for some of them circumstances and young-heart propensities to caricature that ‘I don’t care’ at times–overwhelm. The attitude to damn ‘the routines and desired conducts’ over powers, and that ‘I must appear rebellious......come what may’ becomes the attitude. And for these people, the ‘consequences’--nobody can predict.
We at our end as managers of college-affairs cannot afford to be oblivious to our assigned role of ‘guardians for the time being for every single youngsters’ who have just come out of the ‘protective and watchful’ shields of family elders with a ‘world of hope and expectations’ as they become and remain ‘the student’.
Dear students, please don’t M I S U N D E R S T A N D us; we in the administration cannot contribute to the ‘killing of individual and collective family dreams’ for any one.
With best wishes to all.
Prof. (Dr.) S. K. Brahmachari
Principal
Bengal College of Engineering and Technology
