From: akn8257@ritvax.isc.rit.edu ( Arun )
Subject: Re: enRRum anpudan!
Reply-To: akn8257@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:22:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.060851.28671@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, ssankara@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sornam Sankara) writes:
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>>It is my belief that reservation system is one of the main reasons
>>for our poor work ethics.
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>>- Arun.
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>Mr. Arun,
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>What is the basis for this statement.  I totally condemn this attitude either 
>as ignorance or arrogance.  It is like questioning the ethics of the lower 
>castes.
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>Please, enlighten me about the ethics prevailing in the so-called meritorious 
>institutes like IIT.  I spent 6 years in IITM and I know what is the value for 
>ethics and merit.  Except very few professors (you can count), most of them 
>waste the time and money of this nation.  They do not spend enough time 

Well, I don't know much of what goes on inside IIT but I consider it as the 
finest educational institute in Tamilnaadu much much better than the one I 
studied. It would take a mile long if I write about what goes on there.

Also, I did not intend any disrespect to Backward classes as I belong to one.
I consider it is the a great disgrace to our self respect that the people
think we need a reservation in the colleges and after that a reservation for
jobs and then a reservation for promotions rather than to compete with the 
others. Just the providing scholarships and facilities like free books are 
enough. Anything more than that is discrimination.

My opinion is based on this. I worked for more than two years in a private 
company which supplies structurals for BHEL, NTPC and Southern Structurals
Limited. Engineers from all of these companies would come to inspect our 
supplies. I am supposed to offer the samples and conduct a quality check for 
them in their presence.

While the people from BHEL and NTPC were very reasonable and were not
interested anything other than the quality(to a reasonable extent). The
Engineers from SSL were unbelievable and impossible. They would not come
to our lab and they would go home but on the record they will be inspecting
in our lab. A envelope from our company will make the goods passable.

If you are not surprised by this wait for this. Once an Engineer from SSL 
didn't even know the formula for the surface area of a cylinder. To my surprise
he did not know the formulas for the area of a circle or perimeter of a circle.
He was shouting in our office that we are all trying to cheat him, later we
learned that the reason is the envelope didn't reach him by time. As soon as
he left there was a big burst of laughter.

You should have guessed the difference between BHEL and SSL by now. I am not
saying that BHEL is the best managed company in the world, in fact it runs in
loss more than its profit. But if you want to know about SSL, it does not
even make enough money to pay their employees and each month, the state govt.
has to pay their salary. I am only saying reservation is one of the, I 
repeat, one of the Major reasons for this.(Also it is a monopolised
government organisation which is one of the other but so is BHEL)

- Arun.