Vox KGP
Is it possible to have fair and "pactless" elections in Kgp?
- You must be dreaming! Kgp is a perfect microcosm of Indian Politics. (24%, 55 Votes)
- Let's face it, Elections = pacts. It is impossible to decouple them. What's the point ? (22%, 51 Votes)
- Yes We can! Provided the VP and Gymkhana take adequate steps. (18%, 42 Votes)
- Silly College elections, hardly matters! (18%, 41 Votes)
- The current crop of student reps are products of pacts themselves, so it is unfair to expect them to do anything about it. (14%, 33 Votes)
- None of the above (Do send us your comments/ideas!) (4%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 229
Start Date: February 27, 2010 @ 01:56
End Date: No Expiry
What would be the ideal timeline of classes to suit your needs?
- Nov - Feb (including Dec) 2009 (26%, 20 Votes)
- Jan - Apr 2010 (25%, 19 Votes)
- Other (18%, 14 Votes)
- Nov - Mar (excluding Dec) 2009 (18%, 14 Votes)
- Feb - Whenever (13%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 77
Start Date: October 31, 2009 @ 14:58
End Date: No Expiry
Would you be interested in special classes for GRE to be conducted on campus?
- Yes (46%, 57 Votes)
- No (44%, 54 Votes)
- Maybe (10%, 12 Votes)
Total Voters: 123
Start Date: October 31, 2009 @ 14:55
End Date: No Expiry
When are you planning to appear for the GRE ?
- Later (32%, 37 Votes)
- Mar - Apr 2010 (25%, 28 Votes)
- Nov - Dec 2009 (24%, 27 Votes)
- Jan - Feb 2010 (19%, 22 Votes)
Total Voters: 114
Start Date: October 31, 2009 @ 14:37
End Date: No Expiry
If you had to score 80% in CBSE in class 12 to be eligible for JEE, would you have had the chance to be student or an alumnus of any IIT today?
- Yes (83%, 205 Votes)
- No (17%, 41 Votes)
Total Voters: 246
Start Date: October 20, 2009 @ 15:53
End Date: No Expiry
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November 1st, 2009 at 02:58
L.O.L. @ Poll results !
February 27th, 2010 at 15:09
Elections means inter alia having a chance to exhibit the invincibility of being capable of serving through a selection based on Equality to All, Currently I don’t find the equality of being represented as understood by Appendix – B of the TSG Constitution which advices that the eligibility of contesting the Vice President position should be 3 Years of Academic experience, very hard to understand this as even the Indian Constitution by virtue of Article – 58 explains any Indian Citizen has the right to contest for the position of the Indian President , I find it totally ill transparent to understand the motive of this. Considering the eligibility criteria no PG student is Eligible, except for the research scholars, which means that THERE IS NO FAIRNESS EVEN IN THE BASIC STATUTE, then comes the next fairness about the proceedings of the elections. So to interim conclude let the basic structure of EQUAL OPPORTUNITY be first implemented to take it forward for discussion about the subject – John, Student of Law, RGSOIPL
February 27th, 2010 at 19:13
John, I think it is fair. The VP Gymkhana is a post which requires understanding the workings of all the student administration linkages, and one year as a PG student, in my opinion, is too less of a time to get to know all this. I speak for experience of my first year when I hardly knew what was going on, it was kind of go with the flow.
March 7th, 2010 at 00:34
Dear Mithun – Appreciating your views on the subject, Let me first let you know that though I can acquiesce with your points there are certain areas which I need to enumerate and ask your view. 1) There are some PG courses which have a duration of 2+ years, for example LLB is a three year course and the students who come to this course have an Engineering Degree/Medicine Degree or some other related degree and also many have ample work experience in some of the best companies of the world like Accenture,IBM,etc. in addition to their bachelor degree, My question to you is don’t you think that their basic bachelor degree coupled with work experience will give them an edge and make them acquire the requisite knowledge of so called “Student Administrative Linkages” in 2 years? 2) How can we come to a conclusion that “A student having being in IIT for one year cannot understand the system”, Abdul Kalam got elevated as the Indian President neither being a politician nor having any understanding about politics, taking your view he should not have been elected as the president as “he might not had the so called linkages of the political system”.
3)IIT Kharagpur is for Lawyers, Technologists, Physicists, Mathematicians, Medical Professionals, Chemists and many more, we are of diversified culture, don’t you think equal opportunity has to be given to everybody rather than monopolizing, considering the heterogeneous nature of the system.
4) Don’t you think If there is a duty of voting there also should be a right of being voted?
March 11th, 2010 at 22:50
John sir,
I appreciate your question,
But didn’t you think of this,
when we entered in first year and although being in Indian Institute of Technology we all celebrated our state cultures without inviting the other to get a glimpse of it.
When a student is known by his/her hall name..
If it is so the IIT is a small platform or playtime for the bigger polls and grooming the skills for handling the future problems when you have to manage a huge Degree Holder uneducated people who vote on the basis of the so called trends ignoring the best candidate…..I hope sops are meant for that…
And giving equal opportunity is okey but What Mithun is saying is that its less time for other than UGs to Get involved into Gymkhana can be opposed by the monopoly of UGs for not allowing interference from the others…
How many chances they give to others ?
It not that they dont have the capability to handle those things, they have done it earlier in their UG times…Dont forget “Every PG was a UG ” and they have a vast experience of the things which are a part of the campus…
Encourage everyone to attend the SOP and let them listen the things a Candidate is gona say,,…but on the side of that the past candidate should also be felt proud or shame in that SOP itself for doing or not doing the promises they did last year..
Right of being voted should be encouraged.