REGENERATING INTO AN ANTI-UPSC CREATIVITY FORUM

In our fight against UPSC this year, the problem we encountered most was the good reputation of corrupt UPSC. IAS/IPS because of the powers vested in them, are not pointed fingers, same is the case with the agency who makes them. Their talent and idiocy are considered ideal, for they are the common man's stars and their selection procedure, is regarded a litmus test, totally fair. And our parents and us, always find a justification of ideal reward for merit in their position. We cease to realize that knowledge is a reward in itself because we dont get a job and have to struggle much. Just one mistake, one ego of UPSC to recheck the result cost us our hopes, ambitions and positivity of life. State PCS do listen to the call of society,  UPSC doesn't because it enjoys trust of people and good reputation. It is tough to make those believe who haven't suffered, with how much redundancy the discrepant system works.

When the impact of UPSC's deed can spillover on our whole year, our whole life....so why do we say UPSC is Corrupt, for a few days, or for a few months ??

Of course we all are optimistic for our next attempt, cant devote much time, but we do put in hard labour to understand the merits and limitations of Indian system. We do know what is messed up and how can that be improved. So why not discuss.

When the goof up happened with the last post, from the vast number of phone calls it was learnt about the footfalls on this blog. So let this anti UPSC wave in us not subside, let us not allow corruption in any form to prevail in our Nation, let us join hands for a lifelong fight for fair practices, let us continue awaking people and spreading awareness. And bringing the correct form of malignant UPSC before the eyes of all, a mission to bring out revelation of the malpractice and corruption, to destroy the false reputation of honesty which empowers it.

This forum now regenerates itself into an anti-UPSC creativity forum.

UPSC: The Dracula

And let us not forget our friends from Asia Film Society Noida, actively working on making a documentary on the life and struggle and fate at the hands of UPSC of IAS aspirants..Is it a vice to be an IAS aspirant !!

UPSC's Corruption Curve

UPSC: Unpredictable Public Service Commission


UPSC's plotted merit curve :P



IAS: I Am Sorry (to genuine candidates for failing them)

Friends, got this graph made from the selected roll numbers list available on the UPSC website.

FACT 1: UPSC answered in one of the thousands of RTIs filed by students that their basis of alloting roll numbers is not early applicants or regionwise, they randomize it. So, it is not like the first one Lakh roll numbers from which maximum selections are there, belong to Delhi or they are serious candidates who applied earlier. These assumptions are rejected.

Comments: It is astonishing to see this non-uniformly declining curve, while merit should have been evenly distributed. There are continuous streches of 4500 roll numbers, post 4,00,000 from which none has been selected for Mains.

Regret for goof up

Some goof up happened in the previous post, some frustrated IAS aspirant, username password was shared amongst many, we regret that. Now the problem is sorted out. Thanks for intimating us. We value your immense trust in us.

Writ in SC

Monday 25 August, a sigh of relief was heaved by all as the writ was filed in SC with the assistance of our lawyer who has been doing it free of cost for us. The guys engaged in the legal process, sittings with the lawyers had huge expectations from everybody to be agile on the issue. They worked day and night, ran lawyer to lawyer for suggestions and could finally get it done. Web Team shall try, if possible and permitted, post some scanned copies of documents related to writ over here.

Hopes from the writ: Optimist View: Immediate stay on the Mains 2010 exam: Could be/Coudn't be: It would depend a lot on the attitude of the judge concerned and the dates that are provided for hearing.
Skeptics View: Long legal fight can ensue between UPSC and the 2010 case filing people, which may lose momentum if in 2011 due to changed pattern and some pressure, UPSC starts declaring marks obtained...Secondly it is also feared that our writ can get clubbed with the 2006 Prelims, similar matter pending in Supreme Court. If that happens then our hearing would be next on November 11, with 2006 candidates case and the proceedings shall move with their case. It is worth noting that the 2006 grieved candidates, organized themselves for a long legal and social fight, into a group called TSA(Transparency Seekers for Accountability). It is an NGO, and they came for active support during 2010 sufferers fight.

Now, the concern of us is, who is the judge in the matter. Because that would matter a lot. Some judges are sensitive to the cause of students leaving studies fighting in courts, they understand the gravity of need of speedy justice in the matter and the dates allotted for subsequent hearings are not to far. While the rest of them, don't care.

It has also been observed while looking at the profile and families of several judges associated with the cases against UPSC, that their children are IAS officers. Now this has to be established and sought out why during the case years only the offspring of judges write civils and they get through. Is it a mere coincidence or again something fishy!!(Source: Some analyis by NGO TSA, in their fight).

Well, right now we can't focus on it as we have to remind ourselves that we are fighting against corruption in UPSC, not against general corruption or corruption pertaining to media, police or judiciary whom we encounter most. And we were not allowed to sit at Jantar Mantar for fast unto death. We again reminded ourselves that we are not fighting for sitting at Jantar Mantar or to make space available for those with genuine complaints in India, we are fighting against UPSC. We shifted place to Delhi University. Since yesterday we are there. Today the hungerstrikers for the third time have started their fast unto death. May God bless them and give media some urgent required conscience to address such an important cause selflessly.

Fast Unto Death: IAS Aspirants: Postponed

Updates after 12:30 pm, October 22 night

Policemen to 12 IAS aspirants in lock-up: We need to get medical check up done of hungerstrikers. Kindly four of you, come along with Bapu.

They took them in their jeep and dropped them to Mukherji Nagar at 1:30 pm. And then went to police station back and asked the rest of them to leave and threatened of dire consequences if they returned back to Jantar Mantar.

Our hungerstrikers would have resisted had they been in strength. They had no option but to leave for their homes and postpone the hungerstrike.

Your lack of enthusiasm in this just fight against corruption proved costly to the hungerstrikers.

Next day (October 23) evening the policeman came and told the hungerstrikers at Jantar Mantar: Today dont enact drama like yesterday to waste our time, leave peacefully or if we take you to the police station we wont leave you before filing a case against you. Upar se bahut dabav hai, ki in ladko ko chorna nahi.

HUNGERSTRIKERS IN LOCK-UP WITH BAPU

Now there are two things central for Monday, October 25: Filing a writ petition in Supreme Court to put a stay on the Mains examination and secondly the resumation of fast unto death in the premises of Delhi University, with the assistance from DUSU members and President.

Media Coverage Problem: 1. Upar se bahut dabav hai.....2. Aap log nashte wagarah ka intzam nahi rakhte ho...........3. Koi masala nahi hai, ladke baithe hain kon dekhega tv pe, dukhi ho to kuch aag wagarah lagao

Events @ October 22: Delhi Policemen and the Civils Protest

Morning 9 am, the hungerstrikers gathered at Jantar Mantar amidst full enthusiasm for their fast unto death, a step ahead to their relay hungerstrike going on since September 4. The authorities took no special interest. Students kept on gathering as they waited for the arrival of Mr. Ram Bahadur Roy, an eminent journalist of JP Andolan fame, who came at 4 pm to encourage the students. Due to health constrainsts he couldn't stay for long but promised that he shall be there tomorrow as well. Importantly what he said was, Those who think that they will let themselves away with doing injustice to these students must know the fact that the conscience in India is not crippled enough to allow them go their way.

Guhaar Guys Put on a Hungerstrike :) BRAVO

 

Then there was an editor from a local daily Aap ki Aawaz of Patiala, Punjab, Mr. Garg who motivated students in their fight for justice and assured them of whatever help he could do in creating mass awareness about the issue.

Friend from Holland Frode and Ms. Roshni Basu from the Asia Film Society, Noida who were planning to make a documentary on us, also visited and stayed there till the end taking views of everyone regarding the issue.



At 6 pm the first warning from the policeman on patrol came: You should leave or we shall take.

He was taken aback by the reply: Ok take us.

Then he called his senior some DSP with rest of the policemen in jeep to assist him who told the students the futility of protesting and we should protest anywhere else. He explained to us the Section 144 of IPC in place at Jantar Mantar, that we cant stay there after 5 pm. The hungerstrikers requested him to suggest alternate place. Our response was: We shall pursue hungerstrike in Jail.
 

IAS Aspirants on fast unto death



He went quite amazed and then after half an hour sent his sub-ordinate who could speak in a rude tone and ask us, "Ab tum log maante to ho nahi, khud jaoge yaa utha ke leke jaaye". Our response was where to go. The bus of Police came at 8:15 pm to pick the hungerstrikers up. We requested them some grace minutes for some mediamen were due to arrive. They didnt come. Aajtak, NDTV, TV9, all cheated us perfectly well. Then at 8:40 hungerstrikers picked up their bags, placards and rug, placed them in the bus and on the top of bus and sat inside the bus and asked the police driver to start, to the utter amazement of all.

Alongwith 10 of hungerstrikers group, Bapu (Mr. Mahesh Chaturvedi) and a local BJP leader from Bihar also accompanied to jail. The two girls in the group were requested not to accompany to police station, and they boarded train from the nearby Patel Chowk metro station.

At the police station, the hungerstrikers were asked to leave at 10 pm. Their reply was: we shall be putting up back at Jantar Mantar, no home for us, until our lost dignity due to the corruption in exam is restored to us. You may keep us here itself.



Drenched in Rain: Fast unto Death resumes



The policemen were quite confused. They didnt know so much enthusiastic are students for getting arrested, as was Bhagat Singh during freedom struggle. Rang De Basanti movie has always been a favourite. The police tried new gimmick: "We wont be keeping you here till long, because you are protesting against the government organization you may be shifted to Tihar jail." This was their reply to some of the guys who later came at the call of conscience from Mukherji Magar to gave voluntary arrest.

Tomorrow morning the team on hungerstrike shall get released from Police Station and shall be back at Jantar Mantar for their fast unto DEATH.



Policemen taking the IAS aspirants in their bus



After Chennai Girl Suicide Protestors Put on Anti Suicide Help

TNN, Oct 7, 2010, 12.17am IST

Failed to clear civil service exam; woman commits suicide in the city

Read more: Failed to clear civil service exam; woman commits suicide in the city - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Failed-to-clear-civil-service-exam-woman-commits-suicide-in-the-city/articleshow/6702606.cms#ixzz12ym8idhg

CHENNAI: It was the dream of Anu (28), a native of Salem who lived with her doctor sister in Chennai, to be a civil servant. But when the dream could not come true even after two attempts, she ended her life by hanging herself with a nylon saree.

Last Monday, when the younger sister, Dr Manimozhi (23), returned from work to their home in Tiruvalluvar Quarters in Thirumangalam, she found Anu not answering the doorbell. When she looked in from the window, she found her sister hanging. A devastated Manimozhi then informed her parents in Salem and the police.

Anu, daughter of Annadurai, had undergone rigorous coaching in Delhi to appear for the civil services exams. She had twice managed to clear the prelims but could not clear the finals, police said. She had completed her post graduation and taking all measures that she could to get through the exams.

Dr Manimozhi told the police that her sister had been in a state of depression for the last one week. "She would tell her sister that while she had managed to complete MBBS and get a job, she was yet to get what she dreamt of. She was completely heartbroken ever since the UPSC results came out and refused to get out of home. On Monday, when Manimozhi left for the hospital, Anu hanged herself using a nylon saree," a police official said.

According to behavioural psychologist Sunil Shankar, there was no need for the person to be under extreme duress and that an individual taking the civil services exam would be expected to show more maturity and drive. "Frustration can be caused by over-aspiring (yearning for a goal that is beyond their potential). We cannot rule out peer pressure either," he said.

Pointing out that there was no discounting the fact that the exams can take a toll if a person was repeatedly faced with what they perceived to be failure, the psychologist said this could steer them towards aberrant actions. "A person in their immediate enviroment, like a member of an individual's family or their peer group, should pick out clues such as depression, lethargy and sudden withdrawal from activities. If they make ambiguous statements like, It's been nice knowing you', this is a sign that the person is approaching the end of his or her tether and cannot take much anymore. In these cases, it is imperative that an individual be urged to take a break or seek help from a qualified psychotherapist," Shankar said.

Chennai IAS Aspirant: Victim of Prelims Discrepancy 2010

OUR UNIQUE ANTI-SUICIDE HELP

Well, we too come across our friends who just come and tell us they want to kill themselves for nothing is going to happen to them in the corrupt system. Their merit shall remain unrewarded and the girl friend is getting married and the parents are building on pressure, etc.

These are the common but pertinent problems we all face alike. It hurts to see someone succumbing to them like Ms. Anu Annadurai. She is just one of us. We too several times stand at the point where she stood and took the disastrous action. A second thought could have prevented her. Young men and women of India shouldn't die like this. It is regrettable. We can have more meaningful lives.

We need to develop the ability to appreciate the fact that this degree of knowledge and wisdom that we cultivate during the civil services preparation is a reward in itself, though it may not immediately materialize into a good job and success. We are a lot better than the stuff we come across, working in big MNCs and suit-boots and they aren't sure about the location of Nagaland in the map of World.

A sample sms series to a friend, who got rejected in  seven interviews in a row:

Friend (at 1 pm): My life is ruined. For the last 4 years I am sulking in Delhi without job, messing up everything. I am good for nothing. I don't know why am I alive. It is useless. I am a waste.

Us: Men of merit, don't lose heart when faced with adversaries. So many selection in written means you have it in you, you just need to present it properly and a system is required can can appreciate your talent.

Friend: Why do I always make the victim of that harassing system? Why do I suffer due to their unsystematic system? Why? Why? Why??

Us: Be cool and try to understand. It is not only you. We are all victims alike. Young generation of third world countries is suffering from social malices like corruption alike. We can't help it till it takes 100 more years to have a fair system like that of America. Hope we leave a better India to the posterity than what we had recieved.

Friend: I respect your feelings. But how can we think about the village when our own home is burning. I can't be a means to others, until I am myself not worth and capable to do that. Ya, I am not fool and weak, but up to what extent? It was my 8th interview. I know you want to motivate me, but it is enough frustrating, you know..How can I?

Us: Never forget that destiny tests the toughest. Only weaklings and fools get favourable waters to navigate or they wont survive. Chillex(Chill+Relax) for a moment and ask yourself isn't this knowledge that you attained during preparation, a reward in itself of whom rodents like son of riches stand devoid of ?

Friend: May be, but right now the knowledge reward isn't paying to me anything.

Us:  Ok! Then you must die, but you must die properly. You should die in such a manner that it helps us. We are running a protest against corruption and to get coverage as media channels have told, we need to do some gimmicks, stunts like someone voluntarily putting on fire. If you are willing, kindly be Shri Nathadas Manikchand of our movement. Please dont waste your death, like your life. Die for us, die for a noble cause. Volunteer and be against the corrupt UPSC. We need you alive more than dead, but if you are dying please let it be in a generous manner for us. Please, friend.

Friend: Shut Up! I am not dying. You manage/damage your affairs yourself. Keep me away and at bay. Thanks. I am happy.


Chennai Coaching Centre CIVILS EXPERT, coming out for unique social initiative, putting on an Anti-depression helpline through its website to prevent further loss of valuable life: 

http://civilsexpert.com/welfare/Anti-Depression-Helpline.php