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https://republicanjanta.com/special-congrats-to-the-government-for-discovering-the-padma-shri-such-diamonds/ 

Amayi Mahalinga Naik
Kepu A small village near Adyanadaka in Karnataka. A man was working in a betel nut and coconut plantation there. Own neither house nor land. But seeing his dedication and honesty, Mahabala Bhat, the owner of that garden, gave him 2 acres of land as a reward in 1978. The land was on top of a hill. Totally barren and barren. There is no trace of water. If there was someone like us, we would have left the sound of the land.
But the man dreamed of a betel nut garden on this land; And so begins a quest - of adventures that take on struggles, paths of questioning, journeys of answers and survival...

Then started building a hut for the family at the foot of the hill. The hill was leveled. A wall was built for it. When it comes to water. There was no money to dig a well. Then she decided to dig it herself and started working. Being at the base of the hill, they started digging a horizontal narrow tunnel as per the ancient method of water storage.

Why should everyone struggle so much to know the price of water?, I think sometimes. Not a single drop of water is wasted in Naik's farm. is recycled. Today, Naik's farm has more than 300 betel trees, 75 coconut trees, 150 cashew trees, 200 banana and chilli trees. Totally organic farming, and zero energy consumption.

Even though he is over seventy today, Naik does all the farm work and hard work himself. Yesterday he was awarded the Padma Shri in agriculture.

In two consecutive recruitment cycles, 2015 and 2018, the Union government has left thousands of seats vacant without stating why. Meanwhile, thousands of qualified candidates remain unemployed.

https://thewire.in/government/the-true-test-for-candidates-for-paramilitary-gd-posts-comes-after-the-exams-are-cleared 

First of all, unlike recruitment for most other Central government jobs, the recruitment of paramilitary forces is based on state quotas, allocated based on overall population. So even if the youth in a particular state have a greater affinity towards jobs in the paramilitary, an artificial cap restricts the numbers that will get the job. Meanwhile, in another state where the youth perhaps do not gravitate towards such jobs, the allotted job quota remains vacant year after year.

Next, the process is further layered with a complex marking and assessment system that can vary from district to district even within a state.

Candidates first have to give a written exam. Those who pass are then called for document verification, followed by a physical test, and finally, the medical exam. Those who clear all these tests are declared qualified. At this point, they wait for the cut-off marks for their respective castes and district categories, based on which those from the pool of qualified candidates will make it to the final merit list.

Now comes the twist.

In any government recruitment, the cut-off varies and has a caste-based recruitment process. However, the SSC GD recruitment for constables, which is usually thronged by socially and financially marginalised students from rural belts of the country, has layers of complicated criteria which often confuse applicants.

First, each state is allotted a certain share of the total seats based on the state’s population. Next, within each state, there is a district-wise seat allocation by which students are divided into categories based on the nature of the district they come from: border, general or Naxal. Further, within these districts, their cut-off varies as per their caste.

For example, a student from the Dalit community in a Naxal district and a student from the Dalit community in a border district will have different cut-off marks. Based on this cut-off, even if seats in a Naxal district remain vacant, qualified students from the border district will not be selected. On a larger scale, if a state doesn’t have enough qualified candidates, the vacant seats do not go to waitlisted qualified candidates from other states.

by Hrishi Raj Anand

30/01/2023

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