Change in the admission pattern of IIT-JEE!

The drastic change in the IIT-JEE is right from one point of view. Thousands of student reappear and draw their two-three- even four years for writing the highly coveted Joint Entrance Examination only to find themselves with frustration, sever tension and lack of confidence (these persons otherwise after entering other fields viz. fashion design, law journalism, food technology, hotel management, pure sciences, defense etc would have done extremely well.)
If not selected after two attempts, they can concentrate on other things. These criteria (which if brought into action) will allow students to drop only one academic year. At the end of one year if not selected they can think of other equally available avenues in career. One plus point is that parents from rural parts of India have not to worry anymore about the high fees charged by 'private coaching institutions' for IIT preparation.
On the other hand the students from rural areas will be highly affected, because normally they start preparation after the completion of plus two. Many deserving and talented students will be deprived of their chances of getting into IITs.
The matter should first be discussed among students, educationists, faculties, ex-IITians and parents before coming to a final conclusion.
Let’s hope for the betterment of student community.

By: Ashwini Kumar Singh; Director, DREDS, Gopalganj.

(http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/17/stories/2005091702841003.htm)

DREDS VISION!

District Rural Education Development Society (in short DREDS) is functioning towards the social and educational betterment of rural community. It is presently functioning at small level from Gopalganj district of Bihar. The vision of the society for the future is as follows:


# To run a non-profitable CBSE/ICSE affiliated senior secondary school (in all the rural districts) in a way to cope up with the needs of time and to provide students the best of the school education. The level of studies in these schools will be at par with those of public schools/central schools. No longer the students will feel the need of migrating to other cities/states for coaching classes. The students will be right enough & capable to compete in IITs, Medical, NDA, Law, NIFT & other competitive examination right after their schooling. It will provide free education to all deserving students from underprivileged community and downtrodden sections of society.


# To run a women polytechnic for training women technically/professionally in a way to make them financially independent. Particularly it will help them in their hard times because our society is men dominated and more often women are the victims.


# To run a public library, to cater the needs of all students and book lovers, who otherwise are unable to purchase books or avail the facility of library, within the district territory in which the library is located.


# To open a youth & old aged club. The youth club will act multipurposly from helping the rural people in natural disaster to educate them on AIDS/latest agriculture techniques/ human rights etc and to organize Educational/Psychological counseling session twice a year for students from all over the district. The old aged club will function as a intellectual get together, as all the retired & old age people will share their experiences and come up with an idea about diverse range of topics.

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It will take some time to achieve that motto set up for the development of rural people. But nothing is impossible!"ACTION WITHOUT VISION IS A NIGHTDREAM!
VISION WITHOUT ACTION IS A DAYDREAM!"

Suggestions are welcome!

E-mail: dredsgopalganj@gmail.com

Winners Vs Losers!

Winners Vs Losers!

The winner is always a part of the answer; the loser is always a part of the problem.

The winner always has a programme; the loser always has an excuse.

The winner says, "Let me do it for you"; the loser says, "That is not my job".

The winner seas an answer for every problem; The loser sees a problem for every answer.

Winners see the potential; Losers see the past.

Winners make it happen; Losers let it happen.

Winners see the gain; Losers see the pain.

Winners are a part of the team; Losers are apart from the team.

Winners believe in winning; Losers believe for them to win that someone has to lose.

Winners choose what they say; Losers say what they choose.

A winner makes commitments; A loser makes false promises.

Winners have dreams; Losers have schemes.


So, know the difference and judge yourself.

Latest DREDS News!

The 1st & 2nd counseling session will be held in the month of July and December respectively. The session is open to all category of students & will be held in Gopalganj. For more details please get in touch with the DREDS office or e-mail to dredsgopalganj@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Tsunami - the effect and rehabilitation!

The biggest ever-natural calamity in last fourty years, the Tsunami hit the southeast and southern coast of India on the fateful 26th December 2004. A major earthquake(9.0 at ritcher scale) near Banda Aceh province off Sumatra coast in Indonesia followed by a tsunami [a Japanese word (tsu + nami), meaning tidal wave] claimed more than 1,50,000 lives in South and South-East Asia, and was responsible for displacing hundreds of thousands of people in the in the region.

This national disaster is a result of nature's internal disorder. Now all the NGO's, self help groups, whole heartedly individuals (apart from central and various state governments) should come forward to donate generously in order to provide relief, rehabilitation and to reestablish & bring the things to normal. Many helping hands are donating generously for the rehabilitation of tsunami heat areas, but it will not be sufficient for overcoming from the tragedy and psychological fear the people are going through. India should join hands in the global warming system as to prevent such incidents at huge scale in future.
May God help all those grievous victims and confer peace to the deceased!
It is a request to all those who by means of anything can donate generously towards tsunami-affected people.


Ashwini Kumar Singh
Director - DREDS.
Gopalganj.