The Mises Institute has just released a new edition of Hayek’s early works on economic theory, Prices and Production and Other Works: F. A. Hayek on Money, the Business Cycle, and the Gold Standard, edited and introduced by Joe Salerno. It collects the monographs Prices and Production, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle, and Monetary Nationalism and International Stability, along with the important essays “The Paradox of Saving,”
Joseph T. Salerno who is the editor of this book
Here is a detailed Hayek bibliography (through 1982) compiled by Leonard Liggio. Here’s a biographical essay written by yours truly. Here is the home page of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (and a pointer to my favorite volume). And it’s never too early to begin preparations for this important holiday.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Press is sun in Society to Report Facts not Fallacies by Chandra
First I heard several commentaries on press fallacies in reporting news in every day life.
There is lack of research and tactful analysis in India. In BS, TCA have written two important economic way of thinking article which is must read article to every citizen of this country.
The problem that is the media
The economics of bad media
But in USA, at least some or other economists are pressing the press fallacies in news reporting. Do read here the Dr. Arthur B. Laffer written a paper.
There is lack of research and tactful analysis in India. In BS, TCA have written two important economic way of thinking article which is must read article to every citizen of this country.
The problem that is the media
The economics of bad media
But in USA, at least some or other economists are pressing the press fallacies in news reporting. Do read here the Dr. Arthur B. Laffer written a paper.
Men and Nation do Things by Trying Every Alternative by Chandra
There are two interesting news one was recently published by David Brooks in NYTNS. It is really excellence line:
“For a time, it seemed as if we were about to use the bright beam of science to illuminate the murky world of human action. Instead, as Turkheimer writes in his chapter in the book, “Wrestling With Behavioral Genetics,” science finds itself enmeshed with social science and the humanities in what researchers call the Gloomy Prospect, the ineffable mystery of why people do what they do.
The prospect may be gloomy for those who seek to understand human behavior, but the flip side is the reminder that each of us is a Luxurious Growth. Our lives are not determined by uniform processes. Instead, human behavior is complex, nonlinear and unpredictable. The Brave New World is far away. Novels and history can still produce insights into human behavior that science can’t match.
Just as important is the implication for politics. Starting in the late 19th century, eugenicists used primitive ideas about genetics to try to re-engineer the human race. In the 20th century, communists used primitive ideas about “scientific materialism” to try to re-engineer a New Soviet Man.
Today, we have access to our own genetic recipe. But we seem not to be falling into the arrogant temptation — to try to re-engineer society on the basis of what we think we know. Saying farewell to the sort of horrible social engineering projects that dominated the 20th century is a major example of human progress.
We can strive to eliminate that multivariate thing we call poverty. We can take people out of environments that (somehow) produce bad outcomes and try to immerse them into environments that (somehow) produce better ones. But we’re not close to understanding how A leads to B, and probably never will be.
This age of tremendous scientific achievement has underlined an ancient philosophic truth — that there are severe limits to what we know and can know; that the best political actions are incremental, respectful toward accumulated practice and more attuned to particular circumstances than universal laws”.
And another one was published in the National Review.
In the 1937 essay "Economics and Knowledge," Hayek formulated the "knowledge problem" this way: "How can the combination of fragments of knowledge existing in different minds bring about results which, if they were to be brought about deliberately, would require a knowledge on the part of the directing mind which no single person can possess?" Hayek's answer was that market institutions manage to gather the "fragments of knowledge" and coordinate individuals toward efficient outcomes. No one knows just what combination of production inputs will minimize costs and produce the quantity of goods that satisfies demand. But the operations of the market, in which prices are not fixed but respond to changes in supply and demand, are a "discovery procedure" (as Hayek would later put it) for such information.
……….as Hayek explained in the 1939 pamphlet "Freedom and the Economic System," "impose upon the people the detailed code of values that is lacking" — paving a path toward despotism.)
Both these two articles are nothing but the Professor F A Hayek ideas was well researched scientific theses, premised as individuals do things based on what they possess as knowledge no central planners can gather those idea from each. In fact Professor Hayek coined broadly these processes as spontaneous order which in the market allocate the resources efficiently than the Government.
“For a time, it seemed as if we were about to use the bright beam of science to illuminate the murky world of human action. Instead, as Turkheimer writes in his chapter in the book, “Wrestling With Behavioral Genetics,” science finds itself enmeshed with social science and the humanities in what researchers call the Gloomy Prospect, the ineffable mystery of why people do what they do.
The prospect may be gloomy for those who seek to understand human behavior, but the flip side is the reminder that each of us is a Luxurious Growth. Our lives are not determined by uniform processes. Instead, human behavior is complex, nonlinear and unpredictable. The Brave New World is far away. Novels and history can still produce insights into human behavior that science can’t match.
Just as important is the implication for politics. Starting in the late 19th century, eugenicists used primitive ideas about genetics to try to re-engineer the human race. In the 20th century, communists used primitive ideas about “scientific materialism” to try to re-engineer a New Soviet Man.
Today, we have access to our own genetic recipe. But we seem not to be falling into the arrogant temptation — to try to re-engineer society on the basis of what we think we know. Saying farewell to the sort of horrible social engineering projects that dominated the 20th century is a major example of human progress.
We can strive to eliminate that multivariate thing we call poverty. We can take people out of environments that (somehow) produce bad outcomes and try to immerse them into environments that (somehow) produce better ones. But we’re not close to understanding how A leads to B, and probably never will be.
This age of tremendous scientific achievement has underlined an ancient philosophic truth — that there are severe limits to what we know and can know; that the best political actions are incremental, respectful toward accumulated practice and more attuned to particular circumstances than universal laws”.
And another one was published in the National Review.
In the 1937 essay "Economics and Knowledge," Hayek formulated the "knowledge problem" this way: "How can the combination of fragments of knowledge existing in different minds bring about results which, if they were to be brought about deliberately, would require a knowledge on the part of the directing mind which no single person can possess?" Hayek's answer was that market institutions manage to gather the "fragments of knowledge" and coordinate individuals toward efficient outcomes. No one knows just what combination of production inputs will minimize costs and produce the quantity of goods that satisfies demand. But the operations of the market, in which prices are not fixed but respond to changes in supply and demand, are a "discovery procedure" (as Hayek would later put it) for such information.
……….as Hayek explained in the 1939 pamphlet "Freedom and the Economic System," "impose upon the people the detailed code of values that is lacking" — paving a path toward despotism.)
Both these two articles are nothing but the Professor F A Hayek ideas was well researched scientific theses, premised as individuals do things based on what they possess as knowledge no central planners can gather those idea from each. In fact Professor Hayek coined broadly these processes as spontaneous order which in the market allocate the resources efficiently than the Government.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Chandra
One Liberal economist, based in India, New Delhi writes in livemint as a GUESTVIEW, it read “It is the economy, stupid!”, what does mean this, the people who live, lived, born and died in this country are the only, how it is bound be like that, but the author does says that, even not means. In other words, it is the people those who engaged in unrealistic bites with words in the economy.
Except the above line I totally agree with author.
Order! Order whose? By Chandra
When I read the article OURVIEW yesterday livemint news paper it sited quote from Nobel winning economist, it read “Nobel economist Douglass North has divided human societies into two categories. First, “limited access orders” which create orders by using the political system to limit economic participation, a process that creates excess profits (or what economists call rents). These rents are used to impose political stability and limit violence. Second, “open access orders” which maintain order by competition rather than rent seeking”.
Apparently, it shows that the coercion is the former system and the F A Hayek musings of spontaneous order is the later one where individuals are the orders and decision makers.
Luckily I have North book (Understanding the Process of Economic Change) in front of me, when I write this. When I saw this book first time in 2006 I come crossed two interesting lines in the book. They are as follow:
“Uncertainty has a long history in economic literature” p.13
“The development of well specified property rights, for example, will make the overall environment more predicable but will increase uncertainty for those who traditionally have used the land in question without having formal title. Hence an essential question we must ask is, who makes the rules and for whom and what are their objectives”. He went on to say “individuals are the decision makers”…. “and market has the lowest production and transition costs attainable” p.15.
This book is everyone must read book!
In fact the 1st Chapter of the book is available in online go ahead and muse what change he premise.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Choice is life by Chandra
Life is feasible for people when they have access of many choices in things which are essentials. A student written (UC Berkeley) his PhD theses in 88 pages only! that is too in Economics. It is shocking me I have never heard nor seen any such kind of theses in Indian universities. Indian universities produces theses minimum of 200 pages. Maximum it may goes to what the supervisor think note that not what the research area or topic reveal not even what the student muse on the topic. Tragedy tragedy!. Quality matters in research analysis.
Recently I read a Indian economist CV, it was 74 page!
Check out here, though one can not simple understand the concept unless have expertise on the subject.
Recently I read a Indian economist CV, it was 74 page!
Check out here, though one can not simple understand the concept unless have expertise on the subject.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Matrix of Ideas Transmission by Chandra
There is several ways to transmit the idea among human beings but no other method evolved on this earth except involving people.
He engages reader quite well! Do read 7th article published in a book by IEA, London.
"A teacher is the architect of future generation and hence the future of India depends upon the teacher to a great extent".
This article pity focused from student’s point of view. It reminds me several occasions where I encountered such absurd teachers, professors in class rooms in my school and college days.
There is also another article (Awakening a slumbering elephant: CCS in India) by respected free market economist in India is Dr Parth J Shah, President of the liberal think tank ‘Centre for Civil Society’ . He tells four different type of targeting the future generation to transmit the idea.
It really awake me to open the eye to imagine how one could march towards self sufficient of knowledge in a particular field or in institution or in society etc amazing when I realize the actions of ideas around the world played by human beings.
He engages reader quite well! Do read 7th article published in a book by IEA, London.
Friday, June 27, 2008
The unjust socialism by Chandra
After reading this new post by GMU professor, I was blogging F A Hayek “Individualism: True and False” whether it is available in PDF copy.
I got something else called “Socialism and Individualism” published in April 1 1907 by New York Times. It was a address by the than Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler.
He propagates socialism which is yet to over come any of other human problems except it own damages that it done to society.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
RBI=Thief who tries to escape a chasing crowd money by pointing “thief” at somebody ahead of him by Chandra
Quite good article but the point he made is unforgivable, in my understanding of Economics 101, there is no such thing as several hundred point basis to hike interest rates and CRR. What the nonsense he is talking?
"If RBI is interested in protecting the integrity of the currency, then it should hike the interest rates and the CRR by several hundred basis points"
My friend liberal economist use tell me "Economics professor's ideas never demise, mere their physical presence only demise" but on the streets of India on which man walk everyday in the route of prices, the natural order of Economics 101 is killed by every misunderstanding. Are you on these line? I do not know.
"If RBI is interested in protecting the integrity of the currency, then it should hike the interest rates and the CRR by several hundred basis points"
My friend liberal economist use tell me "Economics professor's ideas never demise, mere their physical presence only demise" but on the streets of India on which man walk everyday in the route of prices, the natural order of Economics 101 is killed by every misunderstanding. Are you on these line? I do not know.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Parents are rule of law to their children’s SCHOOLS by Chandra
There is an interesting article by Jayanti Roy, she is a Deputy Director, Academic Staff College, Panjab University but seems me he understand quite well what parents wanted from schools.
She writes quite revealing and the following a three paragraphs are note worthy!
“In fact, the schools can help ease the parents’ burden of raising the child by having parent-friendly procedures, timings, workings, etc. They can involve parents in decision-making, take regular feedbacks about the working of the school, invite their suggestions and recommendations and implement them if these are really good.
Schools can use parents’ expertise in giving exposure to their students regarding different careers and professions. Parents should be seen as assets and human resources. Qualified and interested parents can be called in as substitute teachers, resource persons.
Had American President Abraham Lincoln written that famous letter to his son’s teacher working in one of these parent-unfriendly schools, he would have got a rebuke from the school authorities. As parents, we do not ask for much. We only want to be equal and respected partners in sculpting our children’s personalities, which will only make the school’s work easier and more in tune with social expectations”.
As parents, we do not ask for much. We only want to beequal and respected partners in sculpting our children’s personalities, which will only make the school’s workeasier and more in tune with social expectations.Jayanti Roy
For long, educationists and policy planners have been advocating for our schools to be child friendly. However, there is another equally significant aspect regarding the working of our schools that is seldom spoken about—schools should be parent friendly, too. Most of the schools will fail miserably, if tested on this account.
So, what is being parent friendly? It is not demanding lesser fees or more facilities or that the parents be treated specially but recognising the need of the parents to breathe easy while raising children and trying to give them a quality education.
So, what is being parent friendly? It is not demanding lesser fees or more facilities or that the parents be treated specially but recognising the need of the parents to breathe easy while raising children and trying to give them a quality education.
Most of the schools make parents feel as if they have done something wrong. Today, parents seeking admission of their wards to various classes are seen as beggars. Every other day we read news reports about the highhandedness of school authorities. Most of the school managements are whimsical, arrogant and have archaic and rigid rules.
There is no transparency regarding management, its members, admissions, recruitments and qualifications of teachers, fee structure, awards, decision-making process, etc. This way schools maintain their arbitrary workings. God save the parent who wishes to know about these aspects.
The parents and their kids are subjected to different kind of emotional tortures. These things are rarely reported because parents are vulnerable targets as they are ready to suffer for the welfare of their children. Instead of raising their voice and taking stand, they prefer to keep quiet and suffer.
I know of a school principal who takes pride in turning the poor parents to tear for such small faults as rushing to the school to hand over the lunch-box to the child who has by mistake left it at home. In a much-sought-after school in Chandigarh, the staff are rude, they misbehave with parents and don’t show even the basic civil courtesy towards them.
This speaks a lot about the prevailing culture of snobbish negativity in the institute. What type of education a child will get in such atmosphere is another issue. To meet a principal of even an ordinary school, a parent has to pass through a security check. One has to divulge all the personal details, reason for appointment, etc. before he is allowed to meet with the vice-principal, who then clears the ultimate meeting.
Some schools impose heavy penalty in cash for trifle reasons. Parents are seen as culprits bent upon thwarting the school hierarchy. A school charges Rs 100 per day fine for late deposition of fee which cannot be waived even if there is a valid reason such as death or accident in the family.
Some schools refuse to refund the security money if the original receipt is lost. Annual functions and celebration of special days have become pretexts for harassment of parents. Are these rules there to improve the child’s intellect or to punish the parents?
In fact, the schools can help ease the parents’ burden of raising the child by having parent-friendly procedures, timings, workings, etc. They can involve parents in decision-making, take regular feedbacks about the working of the school, invite their suggestions and recommendations and implement them if these are really good.
Schools can use parents’ expertise in giving exposure to their students regarding different careers and professions. Parents should be seen as assets and human resources. Qualified and interested parents can be called in as substitute teachers, resource persons.
There can be joint workshops, discussion forums with school authorities and parents to mutually learn from each other, the focus being child’s all round development. In such a scenario, the emphasis would be on establishing and maintaining a bond of goodwill with the parents, which will in turn create a joyous learning environment in the school.
Had American President Abraham Lincoln written that famous letter to his son’s teacher working in one of these parent-unfriendly schools, he would have got a rebuke from the school authorities. As parents, we do not ask for much. We only want to be equal and respected partners in sculpting our children’s personalities, which will only make the school’s work easier and more in tune with social expectations.
The writer is Deputy Director, Academic Staff College, Panjab University, Chandigarh
The Fanatic Government over Schools by Chandra
The schools should be accountable to children’s and their parents instead to the bureaucratic papus and politicians. Beside, the schools irrespective of Government or private it should have autonomy to function what its customers needed that is parents and children’s. As you and I expect to satisfy particular product brought from any market.
There is a strikes by Parents Teachers Association appointed teacher’s in Himachal Pradesh, due to their validity of appointment. Though the, PTA appointed teachers are demanding for regularization of their employment but it should be based their performance instead blindly counting the number of years their served.
For the ready information I have pasted the full news below.
PTA appointees launch strike Seek regularisation, end to probe Tribune News Service
Shimla, June 23 2008 Demanding withdrawal of the inquiry into their appointment and regularisation of services, thousands of PTA appointees all over the state today went on strike, affecting studies in many schools, especially in the remote areas.
Hundreds of PTA appointees today staged a rally here today, raising anti-government slogans. Five PTA teachers sat on a relay fast close to the state secretariat which will continue indefinitely. They also distributed pamphlets about the injustice being meted out to them.
Vivek Mehta, president of the State PTA Teachers Association, said after teaching for six years in schools there was no justification in holding an inquiry into their appointments. “Our services should be regularised, a proper PTA policy be made and the inquiry being conducted into our appointment must be withdrawn immediately,” he demanded.
He said that the PTA teachers were open to a dialogue with the government but in case they are not called for talks, they would be forced to intensify their agitation. “We have been teaching in schools at one sixth the salary being given to permanent teachers, so it is totally unjustified to look into our appointments now,” he said.
Mehta claimed that the functioning of 70 per cent schools in the state had been affected and once information about the strike reaches the remote and far-flung areas, all schools would be affected. He claimed that over 220 schools, including 48 in Shimla, 16 in Sirmaur, 82 in Chamba, 12 in Kinnaur, 14 in Kullu, 15 in Solan 17 in Mandi, 31 in Kangra, 10 in Bilaspur, nine in Una and four in Hamirpur were solely being run by PTA appointees.
He also disputed the statement of the director, secondary education, that the PTA appointees had gone on strike without giving a prior notice. “We had gone to meet the director but he was not available and so we gave notice for the strike by getting it received in the central diary,” he said. He said that there was great resentment among the 15,000 PTA appointees and the government would be responsible in case they adopted an aggressive path. He said imposing new conditions on the PTA appointments was totally wrong when they had been appointed by the previous regime as per rules.
There is a strikes by Parents Teachers Association appointed teacher’s in Himachal Pradesh, due to their validity of appointment. Though the, PTA appointed teachers are demanding for regularization of their employment but it should be based their performance instead blindly counting the number of years their served.
For the ready information I have pasted the full news below.
PTA appointees launch strike Seek regularisation, end to probe Tribune News Service
Shimla, June 23 2008 Demanding withdrawal of the inquiry into their appointment and regularisation of services, thousands of PTA appointees all over the state today went on strike, affecting studies in many schools, especially in the remote areas.
Hundreds of PTA appointees today staged a rally here today, raising anti-government slogans. Five PTA teachers sat on a relay fast close to the state secretariat which will continue indefinitely. They also distributed pamphlets about the injustice being meted out to them.
Vivek Mehta, president of the State PTA Teachers Association, said after teaching for six years in schools there was no justification in holding an inquiry into their appointments. “Our services should be regularised, a proper PTA policy be made and the inquiry being conducted into our appointment must be withdrawn immediately,” he demanded.
He said that the PTA teachers were open to a dialogue with the government but in case they are not called for talks, they would be forced to intensify their agitation. “We have been teaching in schools at one sixth the salary being given to permanent teachers, so it is totally unjustified to look into our appointments now,” he said.
Mehta claimed that the functioning of 70 per cent schools in the state had been affected and once information about the strike reaches the remote and far-flung areas, all schools would be affected. He claimed that over 220 schools, including 48 in Shimla, 16 in Sirmaur, 82 in Chamba, 12 in Kinnaur, 14 in Kullu, 15 in Solan 17 in Mandi, 31 in Kangra, 10 in Bilaspur, nine in Una and four in Hamirpur were solely being run by PTA appointees.
He also disputed the statement of the director, secondary education, that the PTA appointees had gone on strike without giving a prior notice. “We had gone to meet the director but he was not available and so we gave notice for the strike by getting it received in the central diary,” he said. He said that there was great resentment among the 15,000 PTA appointees and the government would be responsible in case they adopted an aggressive path. He said imposing new conditions on the PTA appointments was totally wrong when they had been appointed by the previous regime as per rules.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
People feed themselves no technology of government need to handspun by Chandra
Environmentalism is good business as well. It is illusory in economics understanding that government feed people, rather other way around, through taxes. Indian liberal politician Sharad Joshi writes “There is a lot of hue and cry about climate change and global warming, though nobody is very clear what it really means”. That is true but “A couple of decades earlier, there were similar tirades against “capitalist” growth by the Communists and fellow-travellers, who argued that growth in a capitalist economy was bound to suffer from intermittent cyclical depressions and economic crises”.
As I said earlier in one post, is worth to read some ideas from well experienced people like him. “The Communists who, in their heyday, ridiculed Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi as obscurantist charlatans, have taken to professing environmentalism after the fall of the Soviet Union. When Stalin lived and ruled, these very people championed the cause of establishing a Communist global hegemony as a legitimate revolutionary aspiration. Now, they are opposed even to the establishment of a set of rules of international trade under the World Trade Organisation.
Even if the fears of the environmentalists of an impending doomsday look like materialising, human ingenuity is capable of coping with it. Already, plans are afoot to create an artificial sundial in space to soften the effect of solar radiation.
Neighbouring planets are being explored with a view to finding a congenial environment for the settlement of generations to come. In fact, human ingenuity is such that, as Ayn Rand put it, even if the Sun itself were to collapse, human beings would be able to replace it with a Sun of their own creation.Malthus predicted widespread epidemics and famines in a situation where the supply of land was constant and the population increased in geometric proportion. He was proved false by technological innovations that permitted citizens of today to eat more and better than his forefathers did.
When the evil effects of technologies start manifesting, man has usually found a way to overcome them by innovating further towards a more advanced technology. Humanity will take the problem in its stride and find ways of overcoming them. Humanity lives by its more innovative and enterprising members. Human ingenuity is limitless. There is no doubt that each innovation may create some new problems. But those problems, one can be sure, will be overcome by man’s ingenuity”.
The full article is here. It is double worth to read with open mind.
As I said earlier in one post, is worth to read some ideas from well experienced people like him. “The Communists who, in their heyday, ridiculed Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi as obscurantist charlatans, have taken to professing environmentalism after the fall of the Soviet Union. When Stalin lived and ruled, these very people championed the cause of establishing a Communist global hegemony as a legitimate revolutionary aspiration. Now, they are opposed even to the establishment of a set of rules of international trade under the World Trade Organisation.
Even if the fears of the environmentalists of an impending doomsday look like materialising, human ingenuity is capable of coping with it. Already, plans are afoot to create an artificial sundial in space to soften the effect of solar radiation.
Neighbouring planets are being explored with a view to finding a congenial environment for the settlement of generations to come. In fact, human ingenuity is such that, as Ayn Rand put it, even if the Sun itself were to collapse, human beings would be able to replace it with a Sun of their own creation.Malthus predicted widespread epidemics and famines in a situation where the supply of land was constant and the population increased in geometric proportion. He was proved false by technological innovations that permitted citizens of today to eat more and better than his forefathers did.
When the evil effects of technologies start manifesting, man has usually found a way to overcome them by innovating further towards a more advanced technology. Humanity will take the problem in its stride and find ways of overcoming them. Humanity lives by its more innovative and enterprising members. Human ingenuity is limitless. There is no doubt that each innovation may create some new problems. But those problems, one can be sure, will be overcome by man’s ingenuity”.
The full article is here. It is double worth to read with open mind.
Time to accept efficient Private Firm and inefficient Government schools by Chandra
The Chandigarh UT had announced to outsource education department housekeeping works to private sector. At least the time has come in north to outsource inefficient government departments works to efficient private sector.
I have pasted the whole news below.
Private firm to keep govt schools clean
Education Dept Outsources Housekeeping Work
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chandigarh: In order to overcome the problem of filthy toilets, dirty corridors, unclean classrooms, dangling electrical wires and overgrown gardens, the UT education department has handed over its housekeeping department into private hands. The oneyear-contract has been given to Sunrise Facilitators, which starts work on June 23, which is Monday. The general scope of the work would include cleaning and maintenance of building works, public health, gardening, electrical work and open spaces, said DPI(S) SK Setia. The contract would include all model and non-model schools of the city, he added. The pri vate company would be required to clean and maintain buildings with the latest mechanical and manual equipment as per the schedule prescribed. Gardening would include development and maintenance of grassland, lawns, regular cutting of grass, doing landscape, and regular cutting and keeping gardens clean and properly maintained. ‘‘The students’ health is of prime importance to us. So we’ve asked the agency to provide anti-mosquito treatment along with regular anti-termite control, rodent control and general pest control,’’ a DPI(S) official told TOI. The official added toilet blocks and urinals would need regular attendants so that cleanliness and hygiene could be maintained. ‘‘We will provide cleaning machines for quality services to the government schools ,’’ said the contractor, Gurdeep. ‘‘As the quotation given by the department is quite less, we would provide one full-time sweeper in small schools and two for the big schools . Apart from that, we’ll be giving two part-time sweepers for the second shift in all the schools . Our main concern is to provide quality work and manage things well in the government institutions,’’ he asserted. Talking about outsourcing, Setia said the manpower would be shifted to schools reeling under shortage. Eligibility criteria The department has set minimum eligibility for the manpower and the staff that would be provided by the agency. A three years’ experience is must for the supervisor and the electrician and plumber need to be ITI certificate holders in electrical and plumbing trade.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=TOICG&login=default&AW=1214053373812
I have pasted the whole news below.
Private firm to keep govt schools clean
Education Dept Outsources Housekeeping Work
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chandigarh: In order to overcome the problem of filthy toilets, dirty corridors, unclean classrooms, dangling electrical wires and overgrown gardens, the UT education department has handed over its housekeeping department into private hands. The oneyear-contract has been given to Sunrise Facilitators, which starts work on June 23, which is Monday. The general scope of the work would include cleaning and maintenance of building works, public health, gardening, electrical work and open spaces, said DPI(S) SK Setia. The contract would include all model and non-model schools of the city, he added. The pri vate company would be required to clean and maintain buildings with the latest mechanical and manual equipment as per the schedule prescribed. Gardening would include development and maintenance of grassland, lawns, regular cutting of grass, doing landscape, and regular cutting and keeping gardens clean and properly maintained. ‘‘The students’ health is of prime importance to us. So we’ve asked the agency to provide anti-mosquito treatment along with regular anti-termite control, rodent control and general pest control,’’ a DPI(S) official told TOI. The official added toilet blocks and urinals would need regular attendants so that cleanliness and hygiene could be maintained. ‘‘We will provide cleaning machines for quality services to the government schools ,’’ said the contractor, Gurdeep. ‘‘As the quotation given by the department is quite less, we would provide one full-time sweeper in small schools and two for the big schools . Apart from that, we’ll be giving two part-time sweepers for the second shift in all the schools . Our main concern is to provide quality work and manage things well in the government institutions,’’ he asserted. Talking about outsourcing, Setia said the manpower would be shifted to schools reeling under shortage. Eligibility criteria The department has set minimum eligibility for the manpower and the staff that would be provided by the agency. A three years’ experience is must for the supervisor and the electrician and plumber need to be ITI certificate holders in electrical and plumbing trade.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=TOICG&login=default&AW=1214053373812
Parents and students scrutinizes Teacher performance by Chandra
It is the best system to monitor the teacher is performance through children and parents satisfaction of learning instead the other way around.
In Chandigarh, there is innovative but not shocking one. I have pasted the whole story here.
Students to decide fate of teachers on contract By Dhara Katoch/TNN
Chandigarh: UT education department has come out with an assessment report of its SSA teachers working on contracts, which, interestingly, has been done by students of government schools. The initiative, undertaken by the UT education department, is first of its kind. According to Saroj Mittal, assistant director (vocational education), “We have covered 70% of rural and urban schools (both model and non-model) of the city.” She added, “We have decided to conceal students’ identity in order to avoid any kind of harassment by their teachers later,” she said. The department has received around 400 assessment forms from some of the schools and the analyses of which has already started. The assessment is being done under strict supervision of the counsellors. This will make chances of child being pressurized by teachers or school authorities very bleak, informed DPI(S) official. “The required action to be taken against the teacher will be decided only after thoroughly analyzing the report. Moreover, the renewal of the contract of SSA teachers will also depend on their assessment and points they have earned,” said SK Setia, DPI(S). While department officials are of the view that the idea will be helpful enough, the concept has not really been an impressive one for a few teachers. Sudesh Kaur, lecture, GMSSSS, Sector 8 said, “I don’t think it’s a great idea on the part of the department. How can students assess their teachers. They can be biased while giving feedback. It’s fine at the senior secondary level but not for the younger lot.” She suggested that senior teachers or officials from outside could visit different schools and assess the teachers. However, Sunita Kapoor, senior counsellor said, I’ve personally worked on the assessment project and it is a huge success. Students are satisfied and teachers have also realized that now they have to work hard.”
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In Chandigarh, there is innovative but not shocking one. I have pasted the whole story here.
Students to decide fate of teachers on contract By Dhara Katoch/TNN
Chandigarh: UT education department has come out with an assessment report of its SSA teachers working on contracts, which, interestingly, has been done by students of government schools. The initiative, undertaken by the UT education department, is first of its kind. According to Saroj Mittal, assistant director (vocational education), “We have covered 70% of rural and urban schools (both model and non-model) of the city.” She added, “We have decided to conceal students’ identity in order to avoid any kind of harassment by their teachers later,” she said. The department has received around 400 assessment forms from some of the schools and the analyses of which has already started. The assessment is being done under strict supervision of the counsellors. This will make chances of child being pressurized by teachers or school authorities very bleak, informed DPI(S) official. “The required action to be taken against the teacher will be decided only after thoroughly analyzing the report. Moreover, the renewal of the contract of SSA teachers will also depend on their assessment and points they have earned,” said SK Setia, DPI(S). While department officials are of the view that the idea will be helpful enough, the concept has not really been an impressive one for a few teachers. Sudesh Kaur, lecture, GMSSSS, Sector 8 said, “I don’t think it’s a great idea on the part of the department. How can students assess their teachers. They can be biased while giving feedback. It’s fine at the senior secondary level but not for the younger lot.” She suggested that senior teachers or officials from outside could visit different schools and assess the teachers. However, Sunita Kapoor, senior counsellor said, I’ve personally worked on the assessment project and it is a huge success. Students are satisfied and teachers have also realized that now they have to work hard.”
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Outsource all abysmal service of government department by Chandra
In this globalized era, the well known recent employment generator is outsourcing mania at least in India and developing countries. It is now time to outsource all poor (tax payers) funded government departments works to efficient private sector domain. But prompt monitoring is required in private sector otherwise the service will become endanger as it was in the government domain.
The Punjab government recently announced some of the government services to private sector to ensure the proper management and it reaches the needy people.
I have pasted the news as it is to use further in future.
State to outsourced mid-day meals
GAUTAM DHEER
Posted online: Thursday , June 12, 2008 at 02:45:19Updated: Thursday , June 12, 2008 at 02:45:19
The state government has decided to outsource mid-day meals in Punjab schools. A centralised kitchen, replacing thousands of make-shift cooking places within schools, will soon be set up for supplying fresh cooked food to children in primary schools.
The proposal, which has got the formal approval of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, will be first launched in three Punjab districts— Tarn Taran, Ferozepur and Nawanshahr. The project is expected to save hundreds of teachers from the daily grind.
The inspiration for outsourcing came from Delhi, where a similar model was set in place not long ago.
A senior official said, “The state government extensively studied the Delhi model and then decided to replicate it in Punjab.”
About 3.17 lakh students in as many as 2,233 primary and middle schools in the three districts will be covered in the first phase of the project. Under the existing system of mid-day meals, a schoolteacher is tasked with major part of the process, including procurement of raw material, storage, maintenance of accounts and arranging cooks (at a meagre wage of Rs 400 per month) among other things.
Once the centralised kitchen is put in place, schoolteachers can concentrate on academics. Talking to The Indian Express, Director General, School Education, Krishan Kumar said, “Tenders have been invited from NGOs and voluntary organisations. The state will pay them remunerative cost as per the instructions of the Centre. Wheat and rice will be supplied to them as per the original format.”
This year from March 31 onwards, the midday meal scheme has been extended up to class VIII. Krishan Kumar said the change would also ensure adequate checks and balances on not only hygiene and quality of food but also the calorie and protein content as per the laid-down norm.
Sources said if the pilot project yields encouraging results, it would be extended to other districts as well.
In Punjab, there are about 22 lakh children who are given mid-day meals for 220 days a year.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/State-to-outsource-midday-meals/321836/
The Punjab government recently announced some of the government services to private sector to ensure the proper management and it reaches the needy people.
I have pasted the news as it is to use further in future.
State to outsourced mid-day meals
GAUTAM DHEER
Posted online: Thursday , June 12, 2008 at 02:45:19Updated: Thursday , June 12, 2008 at 02:45:19
The state government has decided to outsource mid-day meals in Punjab schools. A centralised kitchen, replacing thousands of make-shift cooking places within schools, will soon be set up for supplying fresh cooked food to children in primary schools.
The proposal, which has got the formal approval of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, will be first launched in three Punjab districts— Tarn Taran, Ferozepur and Nawanshahr. The project is expected to save hundreds of teachers from the daily grind.
The inspiration for outsourcing came from Delhi, where a similar model was set in place not long ago.
A senior official said, “The state government extensively studied the Delhi model and then decided to replicate it in Punjab.”
About 3.17 lakh students in as many as 2,233 primary and middle schools in the three districts will be covered in the first phase of the project. Under the existing system of mid-day meals, a schoolteacher is tasked with major part of the process, including procurement of raw material, storage, maintenance of accounts and arranging cooks (at a meagre wage of Rs 400 per month) among other things.
Once the centralised kitchen is put in place, schoolteachers can concentrate on academics. Talking to The Indian Express, Director General, School Education, Krishan Kumar said, “Tenders have been invited from NGOs and voluntary organisations. The state will pay them remunerative cost as per the instructions of the Centre. Wheat and rice will be supplied to them as per the original format.”
This year from March 31 onwards, the midday meal scheme has been extended up to class VIII. Krishan Kumar said the change would also ensure adequate checks and balances on not only hygiene and quality of food but also the calorie and protein content as per the laid-down norm.
Sources said if the pilot project yields encouraging results, it would be extended to other districts as well.
In Punjab, there are about 22 lakh children who are given mid-day meals for 220 days a year.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/State-to-outsource-midday-meals/321836/
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