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Indian Students in US face economic distress
by Pradip on Mar 06, 2008 12:08 AM   Permalink

I lived in the Us for many years, mainly in the academia and therefore saw and felt the problems not as an onlooker but as someone who had empathy with this cause. About 70-8000 students go to US each year, many of them live in shanty apts called ghettos where economically poor sections live. In India hostels are provided everywhere, AICTE, UGC have formulated norms to follow, violation or enforcement is not our forte, however, in most universities, hostels are scanty and sometimes do not provide the vibrant ambience the students would like to have which also force them to live outside campuses. Housing is pretty expensive, so they are forced to live in socio-economically backward localities. US is a land of opportunities bla bla everything is fine but their infrastructure in higher seat of learning needs an abrupt overhauling. At any given day, politicians from Delhi to DC behave interestingly like mirror images. Yet, we score over them in terms of hostel facilities. No one can deny the intellectually-stimulating atmosphere the US universities offer or integrity and commitment of the faculties know no boundaries or barriers. Unfortunately, the violence in school campuses are also alarmingly on the rise, drugs are rampant, if US does cease to work for the ELEMINATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE CAMPUSES, it will be a global loss. Those modern day temples, THE US Universities WHICH GENERATED GREENSBERG AT THE SAME TIME EMBRACED BEATLES OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE can never cease to ex

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