The principal aim of Sainik Schools is act as a feeder to Defence. Therefore the standard of the schools depend a lot upon the change of perspective towards Defence itself, over the years.
To uplift the standard of the schools I think two pronged strategy should be adopted. Sixth pay commission be revived to make the Defence more lucrative career. Secondly, the aim of the sainik schools be diversified. It should also focus upon producing students for other higher educational institutions like IITs etc. This need was felt way back in 1990s by our then Principal Cdr. S J Singh sir and we established a tradition of sending for instance three students from Vindhya House to IIT etc. This approach would further instil a sense of INTEREST in sainik schools and things should improve.
RE:SAINIK SCHOOLS
by on May 12, 2008 09:26 PM Permalink
No !!!
" To ensure mainly bright 9-year-old boys from the indigent strata joined these schools" .............................................. indigent
adjective
Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken. Informal broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers.
noun
An impoverished person: beggar, down-and-out, down-and-outer, have-not, pauper. ..................................
This was a bright, smart and secure way to create Future Officers from those who would have otherwise been Jawans.
Good Ole Arjun Singh will be very unhappy if he reads this and realises another Congress "loyalist", the then defence minister V K Krishna Menon, had 22 better and brighter ideas than Arjun Singh's tokenism for reservation quotas.
