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The Anandabazar Patrika, the leading daily Bengali newspaper published the following article on February 11, 2010.
BESU Administration intends to follow prestigious IITs, St. Xavior's college for apolitical student body to eradicate student violences at BESU Shibpur campus. GAABESU Publicity Sub-Committee seeks objective opinions from alumni and all well wishers about this historic initiative.
However, GAABESU publicity Sub-Committe reserves right to delete any comment which violates GAABESU policy.
A related story and comments from our alumni:
| Comments by usha shankar bhattacharya from India on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 04:12 - IP Logged |
I do support concept ,tho don't know constitutional validity.Espcly if reps nominated by authorities r
acceptable to stds , what is the need for a union ? Best wud b for stds who wish to represent , to declare so without citing political affiliations.
Instead of campaigns / michhil / banners etc on campus , desiring reps may post their stands on websites and then stds be allowed to vote thro monitored email to avoid clashes/ fraud .
maintains all sides , without seeming autocratic/drawing RIGHTS VIOLATIONs flak like China .
In case enuf stds do not self nominate , or uncontested reps do not get over 75% votes , then authority may nominate as per pre set norms --viz toppers in each field etc. |
| Comments by Nripen Acharya, BE 1960 from United States on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 20:31 - IP Logged |
| I believe, Prof A. Roy is a thinker in the right direction.POLITICS, more than often in dirty forms are ruining the backbone of a great society such as ours. I strongly encourage V.C to move forward with his grand plan while trying to engage the maximum number of students in multifarious activties and affording them options outside their course of studies.Devise policy so as to avoid idle brains. Good luck. |
| Comments by Binoy Saha '76CE from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 09:59 - IP Logged |
I have passed out from B.E.college 1976 (civil). At present I am working at NTPC
I strongly believe that there should not be any political involvement in our
college.
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| Comments by SPMukherjee ME'67 from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 08:34 - IP Logged |
| It is a just move. This is the only way to save our educational institutions in the Country. Our political leaders have harmed the education and the system so much that it is high time we bid good bye to them and effectively debar them from entering into any educational institution. My full support to have apolitical Student's Union. Long Live BESU. |
| Comments by Dilip Kr. Sen Gupta '71EE from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 07:28 - IP Logged |
Congratulation for this apolitical union initiative. It will be a great achievement if you can achieve this. But as I see it, this will have trmendous opposition and will require a very special and strong effort to achieve.
We had apolitical union in 1966/67/68. But the scenario started changing after that. It completely changed in 1970/71 during Naxal period. The rest is history.
I salute new VC for the wonderful effort he has initiated.We all support him in his journey for this difficult goal.
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| Comments by Dr. Ashok Banerji from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 07:22 - IP Logged |
| Apolitical student body should be a must in an academic institution. There are so many things to be done while someone is in a college. The time should be invested wisely in academics and for human development and NOT for political activities. We have seen the days of violence in the 70s. Who gained out of it? Lessons should be learned from history and ban political parties within the campus. Both faculties and students should shun it if they are serious about their job. |
| Comments by Sachin Chattopadhyay from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 02:48 - IP Logged |
I am 1963 (Civil) from this great college. In our time college union was apolitical and there were no bad incidents.
I congratulate present VC - he should go ahead with his mission and we all wish his success. |
| Comments by Biplab Mukhopadhyay from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 01:32 - IP Logged |
| This is a step in the right dierection and I strongly support Vice Chancellor Prof. Ajoy Roy for this initiative and wish him all success. |
| Comments by Ashok Kumar Shaw from India on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 00:52 - IP Logged |
| I strongly support apolitical body for our BESU,Thank you very much Sir Go ahead with your vision we all are with you!!!!!!!!!! |
| Comments by Ananda Mohan Ghosh, Ex-Prof. from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 23:58 - IP Logged |
| Apolitical Student Union as suggested by the VC, Prof. Ajoy Ray, is most desirable for maintaining peace, harmony and growth of BESU, Shibpur. |
| Comments by Sasanka Bhattacharya from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 23:25 - IP Logged |
Dr Roy's initiative will set up an example to other colleges where such goondagiri is disturbing the real student's academic interest.Keep it up Ajoy.We are with you.
Sasanka ( 74 ME) |
| Comments by Sk. Jellar Rehman, 85EE from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 22:51 - IP Logged |
I strongly feel that students' union should be appolitical, it is the politics which in ruining not only educational institutions but also the country,
Thanking you,
Sk. Jellar Rehman, 1985 (EE),
H-11 and Pandya.
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| Comments by s k mazumder from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 22:48 - IP Logged |
| my experience is students' force is often utilized by polytical people, including some faculty members, to achieve their self interest. Unless some of the teachers dedicate in extra and co-curricular activities with due support from the authorities, the vacuum will be filled by polytical persons. Granting INI status to this prestigious institute which is overdue will be of great help making polytics of seconrety importance since many students will be inspired by the research and developmetal activities. Students' unrest should not be made an excuse for not granting INI status to BESU.Is the GOI interested in building R&D in old and reputed institutes like BESU which has contributed immensely for our National Development? |
| Comments by Chiranjib Kumar Sarkar from United States on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 22:12 - IP Logged |
| This is an excellent idea and I whole heartedly support Hon'ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Ajoy Roy's initiative and congratulate him for this bold initiative and wish him complete success. |
| Comments by Subhamoy Kar ('90CE) from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 22:02 - IP Logged |
| I sincerely feel that any kind of political affiliation in BESU should be done away with. All of us understand that it's for BESU to excel as an institution. At first efforts should be made to sensitize the students, who are not yet realizing this. If the effort fails, there is no harm in adopting a coercive method. For example, details of such non-complying students should be published by BESU. Alumni will see to it that those boys are not employed easily. By any means, we want see BESU as a highly respected Institution. |
| Comments by Sanjoy Mukherjee from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 21:38 - IP Logged |
| I, fully, support the decision taken by the vice chancellor & hope this will eliminate the dirty politics from our beloved institution as well as put the improve the current reputation. |
| Comments by Upamanyu Bhattacharjee from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 21:31 - IP Logged |
| I fully support VCs position. I always felt that apolitical union should be in BESU. The present culture divides the students along political lines. Some of them start acting like enemies of each other even after passing out. This step will minimise the hatred between students for each other. They should concentrate on building there skills and be more competitive compared to students of other colleges and be united as students of one institution. We should promote brotherhood and sportsmanship among them rather than increasing hatred between them. I wish you all success in promoting an apolitical culture in BESU. |
| Comments by A. Lahoti from Korea, South on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 20:58 - IP Logged |
| Excellent step taken by VC. Everybody of the University (BESU) should support this initiative (Apolitical Student Body) for their own betterment. Join hand , together, and defeat ill-forces disrupting the academic matters and excellencies. We, the alumni, MUST convey our support to VC in this initiative. |
| Comments by Dipta Sundar mallick from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 20:44 - IP Logged |
| Prof Roy,s efforts are commendable.Institutes should not be the playground of political goons.With Prof Roy's efforts,the real leaders will emerge who can do lot of benefits to the institute and the country at large. |
| Comments by Debroop Sengupta from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 12:29 - IP Logged |
| The existence of an institute of excellence and heritage is justified by its impact on socio economical front. The core purpose of imparting knowledge and serve the nation with elevated research has always been the vision of BEC. All we needed is a visionary.The search ends in our present VC.I am sure the vision is no more a distant dream. However, the political structure of the state and especially at zonal lever posses a threat to such endeavour. In our tenure of college from 2003 to '07 we have seen the best(or the worse?) of it. We battled against all such odds for our dream of National Recognition - the status of IIEST.I still envision the dream today. A dream for an institute. A dream for a state. I dream for a change. |
| Comments by MALAY NIYOGI from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 12:11 - IP Logged |
| Congratulations to VC Prof. Ajay Roy,his team & the leadership. It's an excellent move. As such the overall image of West Bengal has considerably in a downward trends in Industrial growth & work culture wrt some other major States due to excessive political interferances resulting in slugish progress in most of the Projects.Time has come, we need to improve the situation in favour of true industrial & overall growth. So, with this apolitical students' Union, & with impercial decision making body, we can see much better future for the Institute, Industries, Society & the Engineers as well. I sincerly request all to support this movement for a great success. |
| Comments by Subir Sen from United States on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 11:37 - IP Logged |
| An extremely important strategic decision for securing a bright furure for BESU. I have every reason to believe that Prof. Ray will take very determined and considered steps for making it happen. BESU cannot afford to fail in this effort. GABESU should do everything it can to help Prof. Ray and the BESU faculty to take politics out of the campus. |
| Comments by saunak sengupta from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 10:31 - IP Logged |
| Congratulation to our V.C Prof Ajoy K Ray for this decision.Please implement this as early as possible sir.We do not want any of the blame that we have faced early days.Hoping to see IIEST status in future.Hope this will change the environment of our great college in future. |
| Comments by Sujan Bhattacharya, 81'Civil from United States on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 10:13 - IP Logged |
| I whole-heartedly support VC's move to create a non-political student union at BESU. We learned from last three decades that it doesn't do any good to anybody - students, faculty members or, the institution as a whole. A model that exists in IITs would be a great option. Students can definitely support any particular political ideology but, they must not try to implement it in the campus, sacrificing academics, creativity, fraternity and solemnity of campus life. |
| Comments by Suvro RayChaudhuri from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 07:26 - IP Logged |
I welcome the idea of an apolitical Students’ Union – if there has to be any.
Having gone through a few places and also arising out of my experiences with hundreds of institutes across the country, apolitical students union serves the best needs of the students.
I have no reason to believe that any political flavor to any union is required – the specific purpose of a union being to muster the right amount of threshold power to be able to drive through an agenda which for common good for the members of the Union, as well as for the overall good.
We DO NOT need a political party to bless this threshold power build-up. That is because the ONLY power that students need to have is information and knowledge power, none of which can be derived from any political party with semi-illiterate entities driving self-interests.
I have been a witness to multiple autonomous groups (read apolitical students’ unions) which have done phenomenally well in the following:
1) Campus brand building
2) Campus placements
3) Thought leadership and capability building by external corporate and academic interaction
4) Etc
Please let me know how I can help in this.
Regds
Suvro. |
| Comments by Debasis Goswami from United States on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 07:24 - IP Logged |
| This is encouraging development. Over the past decades, B.E.College turned into an institution of declining importance in the Indian industry. While the RECs, the IITs thrived attracting more money and industry influence, BEC stayed behind. And one of the most important reasons of that is political fighting that has no relevance to the goals of an academic institution. A legacy of the political leadership in the state in last 30 years. I found it also encouraging in my last visit to the campus after many years that the students are now more serious about studies than before. (contd...) |
| Comments by Sujoy Sinha Roy from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 06:24 - IP Logged |
This is a very good step. There is no use of unnecessary student politics which did only negative activities for several years in the name of ‘student politics’. From education to cultural activity, everywhere there was a separation among students. In every institution, a student body is required. BESU should follow the IIT, not the state colleges. An apolitical united student body will help to keep peace and to maintain the recent direction towards development in the campus.
ETC ,2007 |
| Comments by Dipak Bhattacharya from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 05:26 - IP Logged |
BESU is an institution of future professionals of the country.Like any other organisation,sector, institution, Govt.department of the state,BESU was also severely suffering from the same contagious disease of wretched politics and political experimentation the State has gone through.Enough.It is already too late.The one-time admirable state has reached the nadir of development.Rot is everywhere.The middle class community is fleeing the state en masse, for survival!
Please extend your helping hand to Ajoy so that he may pull the univ/ college again up to the status where it was 45 years back. |
| Comments by Manjul Sengupta from Oman on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 05:23 - IP Logged |
An apolitical student body is very much welcome. Thanks to Ajoyda & others who have taken this initiative.
Unfortunately our political parties generally have a tendency to put their finger where they need not - our alma mater being the case. As a result it has suffered over the years as we all have been observing for the last so many years.
Thanks to Ajay da for changing the scenario.
Our students also need to realise that in a professional institute like ours politics simply has no place. If they can stay united & say 'No' to politics, I feel no political party/ leader can 'finger' our alma mater (and they have no business or right to). |
| Comments by S B Ghosh Dastidar from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 04:36 - IP Logged |
| All along student's union at B.E.College, Shibpore was apolitical.That was why B.E.College was No.1 Technical Inst. in India.In our time IIT Kharagpur was No.1 amongst IITs and in our batch many who got top ranks in IIT Entrance Exam and got offer in their desired stream joined BE College intead.Ever since the Student's union has become political its downfall has started. |
| Comments by Ashoke Datta from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 04:27 - IP Logged |
| This is an excellent move. We will do everything to see it is achieved. I remember in our time (1964-69) in B E College, there was attempt of political party to enter college union. This was resisted by the students only.I sincerely ask the students to think and act. |
| Comments by Kaustav Bandyopadhyay from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 02:04 - IP Logged |
| I wholeheartedly support our VC's intention. But the biggest problem lies in the system. I had been a student from 2003-2007, may be the most turbulent time in the recent history of BESU and I have this apprehension that our ruling party is so much into politicising the whole education system that it will be a difficult road to traverse. The comment from the student leader with the ruling party affiliation just reiterates it. As a stakeholder to the upliftment of BESU I wish all success to this endeavour. |
| Comments by Jiban K Chaudhury (E'68) from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 01:14 - IP Logged |
| Welcome move. Hope that Prof. Roy will be able to succeed to eliminate the pollution of hooliganism in the name of politics from our great Institute in coming days. |
| Comments by Anirban Biswas from India on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 00:57 - IP Logged |
| Our respected VC mr Ajoy Kumar Roy has taken a great step for diminishing student collison in BESU campus.We the students(Alumni)has heartily accepted his view over this students election procedure.We should take care for our Alma Mater each and every moment so that it could be the elite(like IITS)institute serving engg students around this earth. |
| Comments by S Nandan CE1993 from United Kingdom on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 00:26 - IP Logged |
Education, Innovation and Excellence should be the only objective in an University. Make an end to the practice which harm the students and the reputation of the University.
I have full support on this. |
| Comments by Prabir K Bagchi from United States on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 19:13 - IP Logged |
| This is a great news. The VC would be remembered for a long time if he can implement this. In the 1960s, when we studied this was the norm. This may pave the way to the long awaited upgradation of BESU to IIT or IIEST with renewed vigor. Alumni stands ready to convince and/or persuade SFI students. It really pains to see the plight of an institution that used to be the pride of the country. Many chose BESU over IIT in those golden days. How times have changed? May I request the students who are still sitting on the fence or opposing it, to ponder over the steady decline that the institution has seen recently and come forward and extend unstinting support and active co-operation to the VC to lead this institution to prominence again? |
| Comments by T.K. Basu from United States on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 19:41 - IP Logged |
| Whether it is USA, the oldest democracy that has most of the best institutions in the world or it is communist China which is trying to develop good institutions, one does not see party politics among their student governments (unions in India). Same was true at BESU in the past and is true for the better schools in India today. Since political parties got involved in BESU students' union, things have gone from worse to worst. The situation got out of hand when administration started behaving partial to a particular political party. So, it will be nice if present administration can remove the cancer of party politics from the student body. As an alumnus, I hope the idea floated by the VC becomes a reality and BESU becomes great again. |
| Comments by Susobhan Ghosh from United States on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 06:35 - IP Logged |
| An excellent move, and it will be a great achievment if we can do it. Students, faculties and staff should be convinced to support this agenda. It will help students in the job market and career advancements. Faculties and will be greatly benefitted when it get the upgrade to a central government institution. People of West bengal will be better served when this institution gets upgraded to IIEST or similar institutions because more industries will find a reason for investing money in W. Bengal. Bottom line everybody will be a winner. I sincerely urge all students to support such a move. | |
