No more computerisation, stresses Mulayam
April 14th, 2009 - 12:18 am ICT by IANS ( 2 comments )Lucknow, April 13 (IANS) Reiterating his party’s election promise to curb the use of computers, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said Monday, “Let us put an end to any further computerisation in this country”.
“India is a country with millions of unemployed hands and if we go on computerising everything, we will soon have a bigger army of unemployed youth,” Mulayam Singh told reporters.
Unmindful of the flak his election manifesto had drawn on account of the anti-computer and anti-English stance, he said: “Nothing should be allowed to go beyond certain limits. We have seen enough of computerisation and any further move in that direction would be detrimental to the overall growth of the nation.”
“Even proliferation of management courses seemed to have only resulted in producing more and more unemployed MBAs.”
“I have always been in favour of discouraging the use of machine in jobs that could be carried out easily by the human hand and mind.”
Citing from Mahatma Gandhi’s writings he said, “Even Gandhiji emphasised on the need to promote agriculture, as the livelihood of more than 65 percent of our population was dependent on tiling of the soil.”
Sticking to his guns on the issue of use of English, the Samajwadi Party chief said, “What is stated in the manifesto is nothing new. Even though I am not against the idea of learning English language, I am opposed to making it compulsory.”
“Inclusion of English language as a compulsory subject in the curriculum tends to deprive the larger chunk of the population. We need to give greater encouragement to use of our regional languages instead of promoting and pushing the use of English.”
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April 14th, 2009 at 8:43 am
He wants to make the whole country like UP/Bihar where public can remain illiterate with corruption and bribery and vote for him.
How can India succeed if it has such a blind visionary people in the politics.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:18 am
English! Some facts:-
1. English language is used in around 80 nations in education, administration, judiciary, economy etc.
2. Apart from a couple, most of these were/are colonies of US, UK & Australia.
3. Of these, 24 nations are still not independent from US, UK & Australia.
4. Out of the 80 odd, less then 10 are developed as per IMF, WB, UNO & CIA data.
5. Around 440 million people live in English-using-developed-nations, including US, UK, Canada, Australia & New Zealand. While around 1.9 BILLION people live in English-using-un-developed nations.
6. English people settled in US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Apart from these 5 nations, no developed country has English as its language of Education, Governance- Administration & Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Sci & Tech, Defense, Space or even Computers.
7. All computers of developed nations have keyboards of their respective languages.
8. Twice nuked Japan rose from ashes in Japanese.
9. In China, 3000-4000 characters (not alphabets) make 90% of Chinese in daily use. Yet it became what it is, with Chinese and in Chinese- from cottage & rural industry to Beijing & Shanghai.
10. Within the 5 nations, English is not the official national language of USA. Even 22 US states do not recognize English as their official language.
11. Canada had bloody riots between English and non-English speaking people.
12. To avoid controversy, Australia does not have any official national language.
13. Except for UK, no European country uses English. They are all developed in Education, Sci & Tech, Economy, Medical & Health. Scandinavian countries are amongst the highest rated in Human Development Index. Scandinavian countries do not use English.
14. European Union is committed to MULTILINGUALISM. Besides the 23 official languages of the Union, there are 60 or so other indigenous languages and scores of non-indigenous languages spoken by migrant communities. European Commission’s website is in all 23 languages. Please see- http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/index_en.htm
or http://ec.europa.eu.
15. 192 member UNO’s website is not just in English. It is in 6 languages.
Regards,
himalay