Revised Scheme of The Engineering Services Examination ( ESE ) 2017

UPSC has revised ESE Exam pattern along with the Syllabus and it will be implemented from the year 2017, since then it is going to be a Three Stage examination as Preliminary, Main and Personality test. 

• Only candidates qualifying in stage-I (preliminary) to be permitted to appear in stage-II (main).
• Only candidates qualifying in stage-II (main) to be permitted to appear in stage-III (personality test).
• Final Merit List to be prepared after stage-III (personality test).

Stage-I – Preliminary Exam- (Objective Type Papers)

Papers	Subject	Maximum Marks	Duration
Paper-I	General Studies and Engineering Aptitude Paper	200 Marks	02 hours
Paper-II	Engineering Discipline-specific Paper	300 Marks	03 hours
	Total	500 Marks	05 hours

Stage-II- Mains Examination- (Conventional Type Papers)

Papers	Subjects	Maximum Marks	Duration
Paper-I	Engineering Discipline- Specific Paper-I	300 Marks	03 hours
Paper-II	Engineering Discipline- Specific Paper-I	300 Marks	03 hours
	Total	600 Marks	06 hours

Stage-III – Personality Test

Personality Test is to be conducted of 200 marks.  
**Final list of selected candidates to be prepared after the counting of marks secured in all the III stages.

New crop insurance scheme

A new crop insurance scheme was approved by the Union cabinet on 13 jan 2016. Ever since the NDA formed the govt at the centre, it has launched a number of welfare schemes for various areas such as banking, pension, employment and insurance to the poor people of the country. Every thing was right but without the welfare of farmers India can’t go ahead, we know, agriculture employes nearly half of the employed people in the country. Thus the security and well being of farmers is of prime importance to the progress of the country. Having these facts in mind Pradhan Mantry Fasal Bima Yojana was launched on 13 jan 2016, perfect at timing, just ahead of Makar Sankranti – one of the main harvest festival celebrated in india.

This new scheme seems to have a lot potential, Government has launched a new crop insurance scheme - Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana with considerable improvement over the existing National Agriculture Insurance Scheme. If implemented well, it could help delink agriculture from the associated uncertainties.

Design:

1) lo premium at a max of 2 per cent for foodgrains and oilseeds and up to 5 per    cent for horticulture/cotton crops.

2) Centre - State :: 50-50  equal subsidy burden.

3) The government will adopt modern technology to assess crop damage for early settlement of the claims. 

4) Farmers will get claim against full sum insured without any capping or deduction.

5) Smart phones will be used to capture and upload data of crop cutting to reduce the delays in claim payment to farmers.

How will the scheme Benefit Farmers:

1) With Low Premium rates and Total Coverage of Insurance of Crops, Farmers will benefit financially.

2) Widening of the term Disaster(like Flooding of Crops and Damage after Harvest) ,will widen the Protection base and hence beneficial to farmers.

3) Post Harvest Losses are also Included, So it will provide safety and confidence to the Farmers.

4) Time Bound Payment of Losses will prevent delays and further worsening of Farmers's Distress.

5) Will Reduce Farmers' Suicide (Since Crop Failure and Financial Distress earlier was undressed but now ensured).

6) Easy usage of technology like mobile phone, quick assessment of damage and disbursement within a timeframe.

The Scheme is a Laudable measure taken by Govt., as it is focussing more on Crop Insurance which is the most vulnerable part of agriculture. The scheme is Inclusive and will surely help the farmers of our country at the time of distress.

Political Arena

“Move ahead never look back” may be a one philosophy working well in many cases but some time it's better to look back. There are many areas in which a reform with view to make it better is working extremely well but at the same time in many cases such reform is leading a system in very dangerous  situation and it could be easily verified for recently conducted election in U.P. for gram panchayats.

Why ? Yes why ? What was the problem in this election? State election commission has conducted it successfully and it was the dream of Mahatma Gandhi, he advocated panchayati raj as the foundation of India’s political system and current formulation of panchayati raj is based on ideas given by various committees headed by various notable personalities such as,

1. Balwant Rai Mehta : Estd 1957

2. V.T.Krishnammachari : 1960

3. Takhatmal Jain Study Group: 1966

4. Ashok Mehta Committee : 1977

5. G.V.K Rao committee  :1985

6. Dr.L.M.Singhvi Committee:1986

Which was formalized in 1992 by the 73^rd amendment to the Indian constitution. By looking these facts it seems a flawless structure but it's not, it's completely out of the way as dreamed by Mahatma Gandhi, He dreamed for a decentralized Local Self Government for a village by the  people of that village which has no outer influence. Our system failed here , now it has taken a complete centralized form, completely in the influence of big political parties.

On paper our system looks independent and working fair but in reality we know the current tradition of election in India and it has completely polluted our Panchayati Raj system. Money power has turned around  the basic moto of this system, now political partis has taken this system under their sphere. It dosen’t matter what you think about your people, what is your character how deep you understand your village. There is only one factor and that is money, if you have money power, you are supreme with the help of political parties.

That’s why it seems better to get rid of this system and follow the decades old system in which there was no influence of big bulls. It was the time when people of a village selects their Panch with their accord. They were respected person, well accepted person and well acquaint by their people.

Of course there are problems in every system and one always try to make it better but by various reforms we have reached to a very dangerous system.We have to break this Political Arena to fulfill the dream of Mahatma Gandhi. We have to look for the remedy of this system as soon as possible other wise it is going to make a unrecoverable loss. 

   

Engineering Examinations

Engineering and medical are two top profession opted by indian and no doubt india is performing as a top player in the world in these fields. We grow-up with a dream of being an engineer or doctor but due to the indian population ( god gifted :-) ) there is a stiff competition in these areas an everyone's wish can't be realised. In india , govt job is still on top, everyone has a wish for govt job but in competitive examination seats are limited just for few digits and appearing candidats number is huge. So there is a stiff competition for govt job in india.

Population growth α Competition 

When we talk about engineering there are some prestigious job like Civil services ( with engineering stream ), Indian engineering services ( IES ), State engineering services ( SES ) and some PSUs but due to limited seats every ones wish can't be full-filled. So one have to watch out for some other career backup option  while preparing for these examinations and when we talk about some good backup option we can think about SSC-JE, SSC-CGL and other examination which are based on common engineering aptitude and other subjects which are included in various engineering examinations such as general studies and english.

Error Type - ||

There were a lot buzz about the changes which has been encountered in last few decades especially in term of technology. Every country in the world accept it except the few including India but it was interesting that the decibel scale was on top in India among the others.

As an student/learner/researcher one try to innovate but it was pathetic that our law maker ( education expert ) was not interested in innovation or may be they don't get time to think abut the syllabus which were being taught in our colleges or the worst one may be that they were not able to understand the changes which were occurring  rapidly i think so, yes i think so because it may be the one reason due to which they continue 4-5 decade old syllabus.

It may be a biased view. So, what about the other view ? I think to whom we are blaming they were not able to understand the changes, they were thinking that everything is running perfect but in reality there was nothing aligned with time , It was Error Type - || ( a term used in engineering management , when one thing that noting has changed but in reality world has changed ) . Yes it was. Now it has been understood and they have started to revamp the loss. It can be seen with a new syllabus of Engineering Services Examination (ESE). A much awaited decision which must be welcomed.

Any how there is a long way to go... there are lots of debates going on the education system from hard copy to soft copy from mugging to open book examination 

We hope it will not end just as a chaos.