Parliament (both houses) was adjourned for the day (I wonder when and what they do “in there” apart from watching p*** and shouting), after A CAG report highlighting a scam and monumental loss of revenue* in allotment of seats in prestigious institutes like IITs and IIMs was leaked in media. Media cited a draft report which is to be finalized and tabled in parliament after a mandatory review by Monia Gandhi and Kamata Banerjee (You know the real names). The report calculated the amount of money that could have been generated if instead of allotting seats on merit (through silly examinations like CAT or JEE), seats would have been auctioned. CAG calculated the loss by using complex financial calculations on the basis of Present value of money (I needed to show off me being an MBA). The loss was calculated by bringing total salary earned by any student after passing out to the present value at the time of admission. Report also assumed that like global business school 5 to7% of Indian students became entrepreneurs after graduating (I really found this assumption amusing). It also undertook cost of living in to account and performed financial and probability analysis by using Monte Carlo method to calculate per seat revenue forgone by not auctioning them. More details of methodology can’t be revealed here because that may lead to confusion. (Actually I was not able to understand it myself).
This leak of report has created furore over the political circles with different people putting their demands. Apart from general calls of innocence from Congress and resignation of PM from BJP, Kamta demanded all the institutes should be closed down immediately and money saved should be used for serving “poor of the poorest”. Subramanian Swamy said he is preparing his papers to file a petition in court asking for revoking of all degrees(obviously from the establishment of Institutes) allotted through unscrupulous means. This scam is different from previous ones as for this scam reactions have came from as far as heaven (actually HELL). Kharjun Singh said in his statement that he tried reducing the loss as HRD minister by reserving seats for OBC’s as paying capacity of backward castes is less than upper castes (Don’t ask about proof for this assumption as it is constitutionally permitted).
Meanwhile as this drama unfolds in Delhi, meritocracy fled from the nation expecting a better future abroad.
*I have not written the magnitude of scam as I am no able to count number of zeros in the figure mentioned in report.
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