MBA students outsourcing

Recently two days back i got to read an article which is pasted below, lets see whats the article all about:

MBA students outsourcing project works

This is the Head Lines of Hindustan Times of March 13 2008

All the dazzling young people whom parents cite as academic role models and who walk out of business schools B-School-Isnt-What-It-Used-To-Be with fancy salaries may not be working as hard as you imagine.

Many management students have started ‘outsourcing’ their project work. A new breed of faceless entrepreneurs who have caught the pulse of a growing demand in India’s rapidly proliferating management institutes — which mass-produce managers for the burgeoning Indian economy — are providing students with readymade classroom projects for a fee.


Just place an order for a project over the phone. When this Hindustan Times reporter posed as a student and called up Mahasagar Publications, a young woman who identified herself as Mahalakshmi said: “You can send us an e-mail on the project topic, mention the number of pages needed and send a scanned copy of the guidelines framed by your college. A 50-page project will take 10 days and cost Rs 4,000.”


Veena Ravishankar of Mahasagar Publications said they get 150-200 calls a month from students. There is a shortcut for students who do not believe in exclusivity of project matter or do not want to shell out money. They simply get on to the Internet and download projects. It may be the one a senior in college has posted.


The trick, however, is that students must be willing to share their own work and first upload their projects.


Rima Sharma (name changed) had to first “contribute” her work on insurance on www.managementparadise.com before downloading a project on stock markets. The website has a ‘project helpline’ where students put forth their request and a ‘project hub’ from which projects can be downloaded.


“There is no time to pore over big fat books. I don’t mind downloading and sharing projects as long as I get in-depth information, one that I can copy-paste and submit in class,” said Sharma, who is pursuing financial management from NMIMS University.


But the vice-chancellor of the university, NM Kondap, termed it “outright unethical”. He said: “The purpose of the project is a value-addition to the existing knowledge and it is a learning process. These students are damaging their own careers in the long term. Even during campus placements, companies will seriously interrogate students about the projects.”


He said his college had not encountered such practices. “Every college must take action according to its own guidelines,” he added. With 1,136 registered members, Share Term Papers - Index | Download Placement Papers | Online Project Making Help (STP) launched in November 2007, seems to be another hit with people downloading research projects and case studies to even dissertations and theses. A project on mutual funds was downloaded 11 times while a dissertation on ‘customer loyalty, customer satisfaction and profitability’ saw 72 downloads.


Stating that the site aims to provide a “single platform” for information sharing and helping one another make projects, STP’s global moderator Anurag Mehta, in an e-mail interview, told Hindustan Times: “Students are a little inclined towards referring to other’s projects because they provide actual practical facts and secondary data, which books can’t. Mostly, books limit students to only theoretical knowledge.” Mehta said he did not feel it was unethical to use these kinds of websites. “A student should utilise all the resources he/she can refer to make his/her projects. Calling information-sharing websites unethical is like calling Wikipedia unethical,” he said.


Juggling with work during the day and a part-time MBA in the evening, Nagesh Patil (name changed) was introduced to www.managementparadise.com when he began to feel the deadline pressure for project submission. “You get project material according to your requirement. It saves a lot of time. On search engines, one has to sift through a lot of irrelevant information. The website is like a good friend,” said the marketing student of KJ Somaiya College of Management.

Source :- MBA students outsourcing project works- Hindustan Times!

So this was the article in which the reporter has just critisized the upcoming managementsites, do you guys think we the youth of the nation are so lazy, or is it just an help that this sites are providing us, just like a teacher who guides us through our success journey. As a management student , I myself had seen howmuch difficulties a student faces while making the projects or while gathering the notes as most of the colleges dont have good faculties. It is the faculties work to help a student , to guide him/her in making a project or giving him the support or the notes which are essential but they fail to do so, at this point this management sites lend a help to them, they appear as a ray of light in a dark room, the forums helps in discussions where the student can get their doubts solved from their seniors or other students, as in this manner this sites act as a boon not as a curse.

And the rest I leave upon you, coz you are the next big thing of this nation, and you can very well decide, that you are cheating or doing a write thing.

Kalyan youth shows train bullies who’s boss

24-yr-old Raju Pillai gets bullies arrested after he was hit and pushed off train by them on Tuesday for standing at ‘their spot’

NILESH NIKADE

Afew months ago, a scuffle over standing on the footboard at the door of a local train compartment resulted in the death of a Dombivli resident — he was thrown out by other commuters. In a similar incident on Tuesday, a youth from Kalyan almost became another casualty after he was hit and pushed out of the train by a group of commuters for standing ‘at their regular spot’.
But this young man refused to be a silent victim and got one of them behind bars.
Raju Pillai, 24, an employee with a bank and resident of Kalyan, travels to Nerul every day. On Tuesday, Pillai boarded the 8.22 am fast local from Kalyan and managed to find a spot near the compartment door. Pillai said, “At Dombivli, a group of seven men boarded from the track side of the train and started pushing commuters who were standing near the door telling us to get off at Thane, the next station. Suddenly, one of them hit me on the face with his bag claiming that it was the group’s regular spot and that I should move.”
When Pillai argued that he was there first, the group started abusing and threatening him. “I objected to their bullying and said I had equal right to stand at the spot. They said it was their regular train and their reserved space, as they had been travelling on it for 16 years. One of them then held my arms. I was scared he would throw me off the train,” Pillai said. He decided it was prudent to keep his cool but was shocked when the men pushed him off the train at Thane.
But Pillai was not about to let the train bullies get away with it. On Wednesday, he approached the Dombivli Government Railway Police. B P Kardel, Senior Police Inspector, Dombivli GRP, said, “We decided to set a trap for the group on Thursday and asked Pillai to identify the group members. Our men in civil clothes waited for the fast train to arrive. As soon as the group tried to climb from the opposite direction, we caught them on the tracks.”
However, of the seven men detained, only Naresh Shetty, a Dombivli resident, was booked for manhandling Pillai.
A K Sharma, Commissioner GRP has asked commuters to file complaints against such groups. “We promise to take action against such. We can be reached on 23759201.”

Raju Pillai (above) was held by the arms and threatened by Naresh Shetty (right)

Source: MM

We need more Such youth.

Students Make E-Bike.

MATCHING THEIR steps with the emerging technologies of the world, students of Thakur Polytechnic College, Kandivli, came up with innovative and interesting projects for the annual submission. But the project that took everyone to surprise was an Ebike.

Talking about the projects, Rajesh Singh, Director of the college, said, "Students worked in a team of four and displayed 150 projects. Each one of them was unique, but the E-Bike grabbed lot of attention.

An E-Bike is battery powered, has zero pollution and is a zero maintenance bike. It has five speeds in a range of 5 to 40 kms hour. It can run a total of 60 kms in a fully charged condition with a cost of 10 paise per km.

"Around the world, mankind's love affair with the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle is polluting our air, depleting precious resources, and congesting our roadways. We can help solve these problems by altering our transit patterns and taking advantage of clean and efficient modes of powered transportation. My team mates Mayank Goswami, Lohit Raskar, Jay Bhatt and I then came up with this idea," said 18-year-old Govind Jangid.

Such bikes though are not much prevalent in India is popular in the US. Made on similar lines the E-Bike by the students costs only Rs 9,500 and took seven months to finish. The battery run bike is easy to handle and can easily drive you to shorter distances.

"We have made it in a way that it can be charged through a mobile charger in dire circumstances. One only needs to connect the charger with the battery and plug the charger in. The battery will be fully charged in four hours," said 18-year-old Mayank Goswami, another member of the group.

The bike also has shock absorbers for bad roads and weighs 35 kg but with a capacity to carry more than 100 kg. The outside body is made of fibre frames.

source HT.