I was present in Kapurthala in summer of 1961, when Late KV Krishna Menon and then Punjab CM Pratap Singh Kairon inagurated first Saink School with lot of fun fare. I was a young boy of 9 years then. Defence Officers career was second to none, not even to IAS.
Today 47 years later I am in IT industry after taking premature retirement from Defence in disgust. Defence is no more a rewarding career either in terms of Money nor status it used to enjoy with respect to other Services. In other words, we have let down this important arm of the Union. Young students do not aspire to be in Defence and those within want to come out at first opportunity.
Sainik School malasie is another symptom, how we treat Defence. It is no vote catching machine. Therfore it is importnat to improve Sainik Schools but more importnat to make Defence as a career second to none and which every body will aspire to join.
It will be better to stop grants to institutions where students run away to forigen lands without contributing to own motherland, rather than squezee grants to Sainik School, whose officers will make utmost sacrifice for nation.
RE:Sainik Schools - Improve Career Opportunities inDefence
by on May 12, 2008 09:31 PM Permalink
Caution, Balwant Sharma: you could get Dooced !!
Came across this word - Dooced - on
UrbanDictionaryDOTcom
dooced : Getting fired because of something that you wrote in your blog.
"Blogger Heather B. Armstrong coined the phrase in 2002, after she was fired from her Web design job for writing about work and colleagues on her blog, DooceDOTcom"
Recently, Delta Air Lines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti was fired, she said, for what her supervisor called a misuse of uniform.
Simonetti had posted on her personal blog, Queen of Sky (now called Diary of a Fired Flight Attendant), pictures of herself, in her uniform, on an empty plane. Her blog also contained thinly veiled work stories.
You must Thank God for low internet usage and lower blog readership (by your bosses) on Rediff. !!
RE:Sainik Schools - Improve Career Opportunities inDefence
by Sincere Citizen on May 12, 2008 02:47 PM Permalink
I met and talked with some people from defence background or dealing with the defence personnel and they all accused of massive corruption in defence area, if this is truth then it itself can cause decent people to opt out of army.
After all people going to army would have more honesty, integrity and love for nation all these qualities would be in complete opposition to corruption.
Some of the ex-defence record in politics as far as corruption goes is very bad too.
