Case Study - Tushar Mahajan

[Rajesh Mulchandani]

Gentleman and Ladies,

 

As promised, here is the profile of a potential candidate. Please review the same and post your views and comments on this thread.

 

I look forward to some progress on this.

 

Hope this will flare up some sparks! It has been very quiet lately.

 

Cheers

 

Rajesh

[Rashim Singh]

Thanks Rajesh

You have done a great job here.

Just one question though, why we need to change school here? He is performing great in this school too. Until the school is really bad. I myself has done 9-12th in a govt. school. I don't think school is that important here. Instead of spending 25,000 on his fees, may be we could use that money to support his daily needs of good food, sports, books, school dress, coaching school to prepare for entrance, registration fees of enterance exams if thats he wishes to go for, and eventually his college fees.

Why i am saying this, that in so called good public school, living and spending standards of kids are very different. Pincics, b'day parties and a lot of stuffs. I am not sure his mother working at a monthly wage of 70 Rs, will be able to afford and he will be able to compete with other kids about the spendings in and outside school, which sometime make the kids from lower economic families feel secluded, and eventually they become introvert. Its very important for a growing kid to feel equal and accepted to his friends in school. i don't think that environment will be easily provided in very costly public school.

Just a thought.

regards
Rashim

[Suresh Chawrai]

Thanks to Rajesh for the very first proposal and Rashim for her comments,

 

This infact seems a well organised proposal and we should appreciate Rajesh's efforts in collecting the thorough information and presenting that in this group. At least, now, we have something to deal with after we have the Trust legalized and hopefully we will have a few more proposals very soon.

 

I think, this proposal and other future proposals could be looked into in details after we have the Trust legalized and the website launched. For this I again request everyone to please submit write-ups and volunteer to contribute to the website development. 

 

Rajesh, I remember you had mentioned about asking your colleagues to help us in website development. Is this still possible, and if yes, what do we need to do before you can ask them for the required help.

 

Everyone is aware that every other person is also very busy like him or her..... but even after that if everyone contributes a little to this group and the future Trust in any way, that would be more than enough to convert this "proposed Trust" into a "real existing Trust" in just a few days or months time.

 

many thanks

 

Suresh

 

  

 

  

[Prashant Shishodia]

I agree with Rashim. The first idea should to improve the existing condition/environment of an individual rather than changing the entire environment. However, given the present circumstances of Tushar and his performance so far, he seems to be a good entry in the competition of first ESIT award. Suresh has a point that we should first register the Trust and make this existing.  

[Rajesh Mulchandani]

Rashim,

 

Thanks for your feedback and comments.

 

I have nothing against the Govt schools. The town/village he is living in is very small and we all know how much money local authorities put in state owned schools. Also it is not just study but other activities like sports, extra curricular activities which help in development. Now if the govt schools have just enough funds to pay their teachers, do you think they will be spending on any of these activities? In India we get good hard working people but not leaders and I think this is where some private schools make a difference.

 

There are MBA schools in India as well but why do students spend thousands to come to UK to study? It is the quality of the teaching and the exposure you get.

 

Now about the activities in public schools, I must say I have been to the Pravara  Public school and I have seen the life the students living there. It is unusually very ordinary life. I think one of the reasons could be that Pravara is a very small village where the main source of earning is a sugar factory, farming and education. There is a saying about the village that it was settled for education purpose only and I think that is very true.

 

I am not saying we have to send him to a public school but to a better school where along with studies he will get exposure to other things as well. It could be a private school in or near to his town.

 

Suresh,

 

About website development, I can “code” the website. Regarding design, I know a designer in India. I will check with her and get back to you.

 

Rajesh