Friday, November 03, 2006

BITS Pilani - refuses to have caste reservations!!!

The Hindu : Merit is the only criterion for admissions: BITS Pilani

Pilani, Rajasthan, IND, 2006-11-02 08:59:03 (IndiaPRwire.com)




Its
time for every Indian to read Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel prize
winning poem and appreciate the stand taken by Ekla Chalo Re BITS
Pilani, in the context of reservation fire raging the length and
breadth of the nation.

'Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high"

While
various deemed universities said that they would wait, watch and
ultimately toe the government line, BITS Pilani's bold stand that it
would not implement quotas and reservations in admissions shook the
conscience of the nation. For BITS Pilani, courage is what it takes to
stand up and speak. Its for nothing Andrew Jackson said "One man with
courage makes a majority".

"Where knowledge is free"

BITS
Pilani is a privately funded institution playing an eminent role in the
nation building task at par with the IITs and the government of India
as well as all its agencies must ensure that autonomy for admissions,
fees charged, curriculum design, faculty recruitment etc are not
encroached and eroded.

"Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls"

BITS
Pilani has ensured the creation of a classless, casteless society and
thousands of BITS alumni take pride in identifying themselves as
Indians and not belonging to any caste, religion or language.

"Where the words come out from the depth of truth"

BITS
Pilani had no hesitation in stating that students who take admissions
through a criterion other than merit would find it difficult to pursue
higher education and as such would be a drain on the system.

"Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection"

BITS
Pilani believes that any departure from merit will only end up deemed
or otherwise universities becoming doomed universities.

"Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit"

To
ensure homogeneous input in higher education, BITS Pilani has
emphatically stated that merit and nothing but merit should be the only
criterion for admission.

'Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action"

BITS
Pilani has said what millions of Indians wanted to say by saying that
the Government and Society at large must focus on Primary education and
schooling system by giving special attention, care, concern,
scholarship and coaching so that candidates of weaker sections can
compete with other students and become worthy citizens of the nation.

"Into that heaven of freedom my Father, let my country awake"

Will our country awake, will our country awake, will our country awake ...............

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about children of BITS and Birla Education Trust staff Pilani and students from Pilani Birla schools getting direct admission without BITSAT. Is that not a compromise on only merit policy while saying No to reservations of the govt kind.

Anonymous said...

in the past two decades BITS Pilani would have admitted over 600students under staff quota and pilani Birla Schools quota despite Vice Chancellor LK Maheshwari claiming in public in Nov 2006 that BITS does not have reservations of any kind and merit is the sole criteria and even his own children can not get admission without clearing the famous online exam BITSAT.

Anonymous said...

You are correct - there is a staff quota. But the staff quota doesn't give them access to engineering courses - but only to generic humanities courses!!!