Thursday, September 19, 2013

WHO WILL BE.....???




Will 2014 be a Milestone for Lakshadweep? Since 1967 Lakshadweep people had been sending their representative to the Lakshadweep. When four decades ago, a young man made his debut as the Member of Parliament at the age of 26. Then the world witnessed his odysseys and his glorious triumphs. PM.Sayeed, the architecture of modern Lakshadweep. Islanders used to call him Sayeed Sahib.
        When in 2004 General Election, Lakshadweep witnessed a political uprising against the unchanging leadership. PP. Koya, a medical doctor made his triumph over PM. Sayeed. PP.koya was the only non-congress MP from Lakshadweep. He served Islanders four year of span. Yet again a political succession had seen in 2009 General Election. Hamdullah Sayeed, 26 year aged young man ascended the throne as the Member of Parliament. His victory over PP. Koya encompasses the revenge for 2004 General Election.
        Decades had gone, years had gone, a new General Election is approaching. Will it be a Milestone for Islanders? A question will be engraved in all Islanders mind, who will be the new MP? Many apolitical (non-political) well wishers aspiring a change, change means neither political nor leadership change, but a change should be there in socio-economic aspects of Lakshadweep. As all elections, islanders are in expectation, people unconsciously pregnant with a lot of hopes. “World is changing, yet our islands unchanged! Will 2014 General Election bring changes?   
      In the present scenario of Lakshadweep politics there are two major political sides, Indian National Congress and NCP. As the General election is approaching, both camps have declared their election candidates. In Congress camp, its obvious that Hamdulla Sayeed will have been retained as their candidate. In NCP camp, Mohd Faisal.PP has been declared as their candidate officially for the counterpart of Hamdullah Sayeed. Mohd Faisal. PP is a MBA graduate from Androth Island, yet another young Androthean ! Anyway anyhow, forthcoming days will have been encompassed with political dramas and political turmoil. As someone had said '' Politics is the Opium for all people '', whether 2014 brings changes or not, whether it be the milestone or not. We are few! We are known to each other! More and more, We are Islanders. Let's keep Dweep Brotherhood.


       

Boardingnization of Lakshadweep Students : a case study






   Dropouts and Boardingnization are two evils that have continued to plague our educational system for long. Dropouts means, withdrawal of children from schools. Boardingnization is a non-dictionary term, which means that parents forced to admit their children to any boarding schools in Mainland. Dropouts from Lakshadweep schools is not a new emerged phenomena but now a days this thing increasing rapidly. The main reason behind the dropouts is obvious, that is the valueless education of Lakshadweep schools. Our parents are afraid about their children’s future in our schools, thus, they prefer boarding schools to admit their children. But our parents are ignorant about veiled evils within the boarding schools. Being a victim of Boardingnization, I can say that many Boarding schools are designed form of juvenile homes.

      Our parents are mainly approaching some so called boarding schools and hostels in mainland. Some of these are Crescent Boarding Madrasa vellimuk, AL-Ansar Vadakara, AL-Irshad Malappuram and Ansar Boarding Kottakal etc. The approximated strength of Lakshadweep students studying in these boarding schools is Five Hundred and more. These boarding schools are only instances; around twenty boarding schools are there in Malabar area, which are largely peopled with Lakshadweep students.
     
Unfortunately I had visited a Boarding Madrasa in Malappuram district, I had seen students of 4 to 7 classes standing in gloomy faces, and they were gazing out through their windows to the play ground. Actually they are caged, they are victimised to the boardingnization. The time, the bell rang they went to the mess to have their tea; the mess cook distributing only two pieces of tiger biscuit. They were far away from the warmth of their mothers, they were removed from their own kitchens, and to them, the white sands of their island’s beach became a distant vision. If consider the high school and higher secondary schools students, the education is being provided by Boarding schools is not acceptable, because previous year (2012-2013) approximately Eight SSLC students were failed in a Boarding school in Calicut district.
  
Gandhi said “Education is the drawingout of the best in child”. Without their mother’s warmth how can a student draw out his potential?

“Bringback them to our soil...
Let them laugh without tears....
Let them study from sea shore....
Let them fly to the endless wisdom''.