EDUCATION IN BANGALORE: DREAM DEFERRED

It is true and we all must accept the fact that our beloved Bangalore is growing and growing at a pace which was never known to us in the past. Industries, Business houses, Corporates and what not, everything has gone up on the growth graph irrespective of their contributions.
But our city colleges strike a different note at this juncture owing to stack of problems either piled up by themselves or by the goernment. Those were the days when there was flood of other state students thronging at different city colleges to get absorbed. But today perhaps because of the imbroglio between the state government and the managements, infrastructural problems and lot many other problems have made them to take a U-turn and here the system is left all alone at the crossroads. As a result we see every year many vocational courses seatrs at various colleges left untouched. What does this connote then? Here we go mum despite the answer being hidden deep inside within ourselves.
Try getting the picture of Bangalore during 1990's. What a prosperous ambience then to learn and work for. But the same seems to be missing now a days. We see students cutting across many barriers to find enough space to stay and if they find one, there is yet another one as a sequel i.e. of feeding their belly. The reason for this metamorphosis could be the sprouting of consumeristic idea among our people, in other words today everything is measured and dictated interms of money or in our campus lingua'vitamin M'.
On one hand, the fintroduction of many new courses and unaffordable fee structure has created deluge among students in choosing one. This has made the students to explore new alternatives. There has been a gradual reduction in Post Graduation students ratio at the universities, because of more job avenues paying handsome salaries.
on the other, opening of PG departments at some of the private institutions has decreased the charm of those courses. With the independent PG departments each college would strive to preserve its identity and integrity at any cost and this makes them unstopable in demanding more fees for various things. Every year we see some special programmes to take up newly introduced courses in state, it hasn't taken enough steps to curb the mushrooming of too many private colleges and to add to it some legal setbacks and other impediments have derailed the govt's efforts in doing so.
In between these kind of ups and downs, the real victims seems to be students who are left abruptly at the cross roads. with the incoming of IT and BT and its associate industries such as BPO, ITES(IT enabled services) there has been a tilt in the students attitude towards the (traditional courses) Humanities and its associates. But the rising fee structure, unsettled diputes between the government and private colleges, difficulty in getting accomodation at the affordable cost have left students of Bangalore in midwaters.
Even many of the academicians feel that in the next five or ten years it would be difficult to alot a specific space for Bangalore on the education map of the country. this could be an alarm for the private colleges and other such institutions to review their educational manifestations and fee structure uniformally and provide some relief to the students in getting good and quality education and help India gtrowing.