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Thursday, June 22, 2006

A Step Ahead OR a Step Back :-/

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1669466.cms
Just now read this news in Economic Times that Infosys will train 100 Software Engineers from SC/STs list of whose will be provided by the Ministry with an expenditure of 1.36 crores!!!

Not sure of what is the motive behind this step by the Software Giant but the action proves one unstated point... it proves that the engineers from SC/STs lack the basic engineering skills and need special training of six months... This despite the fact that the list of 100 such engineers cud b d top notch amongst SC/ST quota... Does this shows that an engineer frm SC/ST quota takes twice the amount to learn things which a normal engineer takes (3 months regular training)... If they are Comp Engg, it is even more shame... So shall we have double the period of education for Sc/ST...

But such move will force other private institutions to take similar step and pacify the protets... There is no doubt that you dont need much skills once you are selected into infosys... Ctrl+C Ctrl+V... So definately they are going to clear the training... But this move will affect areas where specialization is needed.. areas of research... areas of medical...

I am sad to say but such a move was not expected from a company which is a Brand name in itself... which is respected throughout the world... which has a name in every household... unless there is some other... Infosys should have taken a step and set up a primary school especially for SC/STs rather than spendin cool 1.36 crores on this... That would have helped better....

Just hope that there could be some hidden motive in this to make Central Ministry realize their mistake... Else we all will regret soon :(

7 comments:

  1. Hope the authorities read this and summin churn inside their brains!! Alas!!

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  2. I still have my dobts on this news even though it has been posted in Economic Times or some part of me still cant believ this bizzae truth. Assuming this is true I fully Alok aka Jax has made an intresting argument...

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  3. I dnt think wat u hav heard is true.. this might be a statement given by som1 .. or is it a firm decision taken ?

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  4. read it in Economic times... I hope that it is not into making news...

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  5. Dude... good thoughts but open for wide discussion.. and debate... you can also read it as that Infy ... it gearing those kids for something specialized services like automobile or ES...or SAP where they can save hell lot of money which may be saved when these guys are trained inhouse... and moreover they can also act as the publicity champions later .. as the people of high potential... well.. .the sword in the mentioned article has both the edges sharp and turn either ways...
    To be clear.. i do not support the notion of reservation but there is no harm in seeing what Infy is trying to gain of it.. think of it..

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  6. To be frank, infy selects students on d basis of analytical ability... thr is no or we can say minimal use of engineerin education once u r into Infosys... Then y cant infy goes in for students frm BA BSC streams (it has started takin them sa Junior Test Engineer)... The point is it might not matter much to software service Industry like Infosys abt d caliber of candidate, but in fields of specialization, it means hell lot... I am even thinkin that Infy is doin so in exchange of some favor frm Ministry... Why cant Infy support d anti-reservation cause by opening schools and college for reserved class... Reservation, if any, must b done at d level whr it can help/... not whr it is detrimental to d growth of society and economy...

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  7. i beelieve its just another publicity stunt...

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