Politicians and Bureaucrats have time only for Private Sector!

Politicians in power draw their salaries and perquisites from the Government and the Public Sector.

Bureaucrats draw their salaries and perquisites from the exchequer.

They, naturally owe their duty to the Government and the Public Sector.

They owe their primary duty to attend to the functions attached to their post. They, if surplus time is available, can probably attend public functions which benefit the people or the Nation and not private-moneyed tycoons. More so, they should not spend their time at the heck and call of the Private Universities which run on business lines.

Right from the President of India, down to the District Collectors are spending their time attending functions organised by private educational institutions. This gives the institutions undue business publicity and make the Government Universities and Colleges cinderellas.

One recent example: Mr. V.K. Saraswat, the Chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) preached at the Convocation of the GITAM University: 'Make job-ready Engineers!'. Will that University listen?

Mr. Saraswat would have done a great service, had he made this preaching at the convocation of a Government University. As a head of a Government Organisation , he should consider himself as a stake-holder in a public sector University or College. There should be a symbiotic relationship between the Heads of Government Organisations such as DRDO, ICAR, CSIR and the UGC, AICTE, MCI, and Government Universities.

I get a suspicion. What do the politicians and bureaucrats get, when they attend the Convocations, Conferences and Seminars organised by Private Colleges and Universities? Are they paid some standing fees, convocation-dress wearing fees, speaking fees, hand-shaking fees, posing for photographs fees? Mr. Saraswat owes a moral duty to reply.