[PLUG] Sir, the whole country is burning and you are dreaming award for spoken tutorials !

Sun Jan 17 13:27:12 IST 2016

Please raise your concerns to Hindustan Times who are giving the awards.
Followup with MHRD is necessary for any kind of reply and/or action.

I can help in contacting Mr. P. A. Inamdar (of Poona college and other
associate institutes). He is pro FOSS.

Regards,

-Sudhanwa
On Jan 17, 2016 12:02 PM, "Milind Oka" <oak445 at gmail.com> wrote:

> THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS BURNING & YOU ARE DREAMING ABOUT AWARD FOR SOPKEN
> TUTORIAL !
>
> OPEN LETTER TO PROF KANNAN (IIT , MUMBAI)
>
> Dear Prof Kannan
>
> Sir,
>
> I am really very happy if you get award but ....
>
> Please read it carefully
> ====================================
> (True Copy)
>
> Government of India
> Ministry of Human Resource Development
> (School-5 Section)
> New Delhi, Shastri Bhavan
> Dated : 17.06.2014
>
> Subject: National Policy on Information and Communication Technology in
> School Education to adopt free and open source software (FOSS) Regarding.
>
> Sir/Madam,
>
> 1. The undersigned is directed to refer herewith to a letter received in
> the Ministry of Human Resource Development on the subject mentioned above
> and to say that attention of MHRD has been called to the National Education
> Policy on Information Communication Technology (NPICT) in School Education,
> All Central/State SSC/HSC boards have ICT subject in their curriculum and
> conduct the Examination on ICT papers. Softwares like Adobe Photoshop,
> Adobe Illustrator, M.S. Window, M.S. Office software has been made
> mandatory for framing and answering in the examination by Boards and a huge
> amount is spent for acquiring proprietary software by the affiliated
> schools. This decision of the Boards etc. is not in line with NPICT in
> school education. There is a concern that the amount spent on acquiring
> proprietary licensed software is recovered from the students, which brings
> serious implication on poor and needy students.
>
> 2. As you are aware that national ICT policy in School Education
> underlines a preference to adopt free and open source software-operating
> system and software applications in order to expand the range of learning
> creation and sharing. The ICT curriculum developed by the NCERT for the
> ICT at schools scheme of the MHRD is based on a Free and Open Source
> Platform and includes an operating system with pre-installed software for
> all application. State Government is advised to adopt the ICT curriculum
> and model your syllabi around this curriculum.
>
> 3. In the light of above you may consider an advisory to be issued to all
> educational bodies in the State/UT, to guide and suggest multiple and
> generic alternatives for the ICT content and to prefer free and open source
> alternatives, making ICT education cost effective and ethical.
>
> 4. The action taken report may be furnished to the Ministry at the
> earliest.
>
> (Subhendu Das)
> Under Secretary (RMSA-1)
>
> To
> Education Secretary (All States/Uts)
>
> Copy To :
>
> 1. RMSA State Project Director of all States/Uts
>
> 2. P. A. Inamdar, Member CABE
>
> 3. Joint Director, CIET/NCERT
>
> ==================================================
> It is clear that MHRD has violated its own policy deliberately in favor of
> Microsoft right from 2012 or perhaps before that.
>
> Even after their Notification/Memo to all states, go to any school,
> college, university and government office and see with open eyes how
> Microsoft is worshiped, spending trillions of dollars of foreign currency
> and pushing our country in to a danger zone !
>
> Following is a written documented evidence of unfortunate (and deliberate)
> negligence of Maharashtra State (and most of the other states).
> =========================================
>
> Taken from RTI reply received to me from MHRD dated 21 Sept 15:
> ..........
> ..........
> With regard to the item no. 3 of the RTI application the CPIO concerned
> has informed that no action taken report has been received from the State
> of Maharashtra in respect of the Ministry of Human Resource Development
> letter dated 17.06.2014. Therefore no copy of action taken report from
> State of Maharashtra can be provided.
> The appeal has been accordingly disposed off.
>
> ================================================
>
> Do you really think that spoken tutorial is doing something great in FOSS
> ????
>
> Far more serious thing is that MHRD is funding spoken tutorials clearly
> knowing that thousand such spoken tutorials cannot do any harm to
> proprietary giants like Microsoft and others unless MHRD removes
> proprietary software from school. (Have you forgot Richard Stallman ?)
>
> Why don't you ask MHRD about NOT following their own policy before
> accepting funds from them as your mission is FOSS ??!!
>
> I have done the following instead of spoken tutorials ( since I am not IIT
> Professor but a school teacher)
>
> =================================================
>
> Sir/Madam, Your case is filed in Bombay High Court on 2015-08-06 11:28:58,
> Case Stamp Number is PIL/21299/2015 And CIN No is 01006212992015
>
> CASE NUMBER PIL/21299/2015
> PETITIONER MILIND S. OKA
> V/S
> RESPONDENT THE UNION OF INDIA THROUGH THE SECRETARY AND ANR
>
> Prayer Sought : Remove Microsoft and other proprietary softwares from
> school curriculum as per the education policy. Government is violating its
> own policies and using schools as instruments to promote Proprietary
> Software.
>
> ==================================================
>
> Sir, I hope you will do the needful for our country. You have far more
> knowledge, potential and intelligence than me. Why are you not protesting
> OPENLY about this violation ?
>
> जरी उद्धरणी, व्यय न तिच्या हो साचा
> हा व्यर्थ भार विद्येचा.
>
> (What good is this futile burden of education, if it is not used for the
> betterment of my motherland.)
>
> -- Freedom Fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
>
> Waiting eagerly for your reply...
>
> Regards,
>
> Milind Oka
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: "HT for Mumbai" Award: Please vote for Prof. Kannan Moudgalya.
> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 04:37:03 -0000
> From: administrator at spoken-tutorial.org
> To: oak445 at gmail.com
>
> Greetings from the Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
>
> Prof Kannan Moudgalya, who leads the efforts of the Spoken Tutorial
> Project, has been nominated for the Hindustan Times "HT for Mumbai awards"
> 2015.
>
> >From his profile that appeared in Hindustan Times (
> http://spoken-tutorial.org/media/news/772/772.pdf
> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fspoken-tutorial.org%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2F772%2F772.pdf&h=aAQHMhylDAQH89-pawAVygHgaA6MHu2rclq4NKLlOzGlHJg&enc=AZMY_ZQZX-BkQF_7FVWBZYjBkUISK_GOX2HlYVV0zvvQyeDZDI1i21JYl7WnizzQk1H8qClVJywtd7y5K6dg0B8y3NZ3AycdJW82VAQfGYReaDuRw2ywP43P2dY0p_J2y_hpghB8Km2ZvJqweona680y8KoX_9kKeAiUK8aV0lRFQrwnE-c4ZNCOCxH-SV8Uev7v-AfZJbYSucRWn8X7aXzk&s=1>),
> you will see that this is a recognition of our IT literacy campaign through
> Spoken Tutorials.
>
> Pls visit this link and vote for him under the individual nominees
> category. His victory is the Project's victory.
> http://spoken-tutorial.org/ht-for-mumbai-nomination/
> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fspoken-tutorial.org%2Fht-for-mumbai-nomination%2F&h=_AQHQyGeUAQEQLKwXmU3l1d0v803XrEiQtOtNo4M6_JSfdA&enc=AZMJszDXcE2J6_GOqFct2UNCvdksWx1QEOensIIBuF0lsT5i-X2h4IKb08-POoyud-uAndmCoqta3GGGHIxtFsnmXzTlDSAzsw7aLj46jbK6Khp7KGTXVwIB8EuGyvLZJNJrpx8mV6B2AeH7RtlssMYn8Sm4TZb3kExnGg4COjouFPLKgi4S3vk_5_OP4Z_gfnAJD_P4vsHXlO_2TyUhh-6D&s=1>
>
> Spread the word and help him and our Project win!
>
> Last date for voting is 9 Jan 2016.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Spoken Tutorial Team,
> IIT Bombay.
>
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