Musings of an Educator (Principal)

I would like to congratulate all the 12th standard students of IISJ for achieving excellence in board examination. Your perseverance and dedication paid off. . Keep it up! And Get yourself prepared for the challenges coming ahead in your life and career.

On 16th May 2010 there is another deadliest Naxalist attack in Dantewada where more than 40 were killed including cops. Naxalism has been troubling Indian government for over four decades killing more than 10,000 people. The gravity of the problem can be understood where 16 out of 28 states are baffling with local terrorism. Majority of them are the poorer states. In fact Indian prime minister called this a major threat to country’s security. The reasons for uprising insurgency is the process of economic liberalization of the government where the rights of underprivileged, untouchables and marginalized people have been violated by taking land from them in the name of development by transnational corporations and industrialist ,the trials whom land pieces of land were taken still deprived for the rehabilitation. Grinding poverty is the root cause for new incumbent to join naxalism. Bahukutumbi Raman, a former head of the counter-terrorism division of India's external intelligence a...

There was a report in one of the leading newspapers of Saudi Arabia that 87% of employees in private sector are expatriates, now the question arises why private sector is attracted to foreign manpower? The reason is obvious foreign workers have been able to do all kinds of jobs but Saudi youths are reluctant to do jobs but selective ones and moreover they lack the professionalism they consider it low on the one hand lack attitude and refuse to put in their cent percent efforts and able to reduce the cost to firms and thus firms are able to earn more profits. Saudi being a wealthy economy is unable to control unemployment rate among its youth despite of government policy of Saudization. There seemed to be a mismatch between skills supplied versus skills required. Lack of work ethics and skills among Saudi youth is another cause for rising unemployment. The Saudi government is quite determined to reverse the situation by allocating a lion’s share of the current budget on education. Thi...

King Abdullah orders to build nuclear city as an alternative source of energy is a step in the right direction for meeting its rising energy requirements as kingdom’s population is increasing rapidly. This step would help kingdom to generate electricity economically and helped the rapid growth of industrialization and put the nation on the list of using eco friendly source of energy. Most of the countries of the world are looking forward to use Nuclear energy as cost effective source of generating electricity. At present nuclear energy supplies 15% of the world’s electricity. Since kingdom is a rich nation so it can afford to go for this environment friendly energy over the conventional sources of energy which responsible for increasing environmental problem.