I don not know why he looks pretty similar to someone whom with I had deep relation and shares family values. every single glance and sight produce sensation like the plant of Shameplant. It is little bit sarcastic to say that he belongs to reincarnation but seems me true. every meeting every sight everything what he posses seems me like he belongs to me very deeply and profoundly. even his silence had a voice which would like to drag inner thoughts clearly depicted on his face and it was like ‘He want to tell me something’ His eyes always says me he had something to tell me ‘it was like He would like to complete the story left uncompleted in previous birth’ suddenly he came from nowhere without any alarm or even without any slightest indication and foster the falter story remained uncompleted in the previous birth and took reincarnation to unabridged the scrappy parts into a complete life.

it was all started from a cricket ground I was very young a decent child who nearly and newly just learn to hold the bat, I saw him wearing googles very thin and skinny with a bright charm on his face with little nervousness fielding at the end point of the street that first sight electrified me and I got stunned in a short moment it was like I had seen him somewhere before that whole day I Passed thinking about where and when I witnessed him even I Spent my whole Night in Exploring who is that guy and I was pretty sure about one thing I had seen him before, but Interestingly I was a child too did not posses the rational mind but He attracts me something like an object attracted with the gravitational pull. I had developed a sort of excitement and interest within him. time passes with the pace even without any realization time got fly but gravitational pull was still there it was month of may my phone receive a message and i was shocked and surprised I got message from that ‘special guy’ whom within I have interest not from last twelve years but from previous birth He asked for Procedures to indulge within the institution and this ignites a lamp of zeal within me to indulge to enroll him within my institution. there is no bigger opportunity achievement moment and emotions than it that my reincarnated brother coming to complete his studies with me. we both were belongs to different families pursue primary and basic education with different mediums we were differentiated in everything but as i pronounced above there was an attraction that was pulling us to meet again in the unknown terrain to complete the left story. He was a tremendous guy, over the period from where i left him in the playground he developed him so significantly posses good academic records tops the school and apart from studies he was very serene simple cool and calm respects every emotion every aspects of the life pertinent to soil down to earth and overall an amazing personality. I had remembered When I encounter with him first time in the zoo i was full of enthusiasm and emotions and excitement to meet him everything was happening like Two things are compiling with each other and we were on the verge to complete the story left behind but you know It is like blushing to say everything in first meeting for someone you had developed emotions from previous twelve months and in a sudden it is very hard to express everything. It was very difficult for me to express my concerns and emotions and it was very difficult to tell him the all things that i was feeling from last twelve years where i left him in the playground. But Every meeting every convivial gathering with him tell me that He was also waiting for me from last twelve years to complete the story. And after a long wait I realized Yes He belongs to me, He is my brother from previous birth who might lost in the fair. Now He is an inevitable part of my life an integral part of my life who guides me on the path of life with his vision and mission vey Intellectual sharp minded with great personality traits and Behavior above it all ‘Knows to respect Emotions’ .

And this journey of life and learning became beautiful the day he enters, flourishing the life, cherishing the life with greatness of thoughts and emotions. We both now are completing the sketchy parts of the previous life. every bit of the second excites me to witness him again and again every meeting with him charges me his single sight produce lot of emotions and every single second said ‘more and more’ Meet “Dushyant” You Have your Integral part of life before you ” Vishal “

Glossophobia is the fear of public speaking, a kind of social phobia, the fear of the social situation. Too many of us scared to speak not only in front of the group even also with a stranger, in short, but it can also even occur in front of a few people. A study tells that 4 out of 5 choose to die over public speaking.
The people who are suffered from these always tried to avoid social gatherings also get symptoms such as Sweating, headache, increasing heartbeat, dry mouth, suffocation and mental stress. Glossophobia can be successfully treated with several ways .one of them is Cognitive- Behavioural Therapy (CBT) but the best way is yourself only, you are the only therapist who can come over from this if you really want to do. You will gradually command over your speech and confidence which will help out in public speaking.

Increasing Use of AI and Machine Learning 

According to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Agenda survey, the percentage of organizations adopting AI jumped from four to 14% between 2018 and 2019. Given the benefits that AI/ML offers in business analysis, risk assessment, R&D, and resulting cost-savings, AI implementation will continue to rise in 2020. 

However, many organizations that adopt AI and Machine Learning don’t fully understand these technologies. In fact, Forbes points out that 40% of the European companies claiming to be ‘AI startups’ don’t use the technology.

While the benefits of AI and ML are becoming more evident, businesses will need to step up and hire people with the right skills to implement these technologies. Some are well on their way. KPMG’s recent survey of Global 500 companies shows that most of those surveyed expect their investment in AI-related talent to increase by 50-100% over the next three years.  

Transparency Trends in AI

Despite becoming so ubiquitous, AI suffers from trust issues. As businesses plan to increase their use of AI systems, they will want to do so more confidently. After all, no one wants to trust the decisions of a system that they don’t understand. 

Hence, there will be a bigger push for deploying AI in a transparent and clearly-defined manner in 2020. While companies will make efforts to understand how AI models and algorithms work, AI/ML software providers will need to make sophisticated ML solutions more explainable to users. 

With transparency becoming a key conversation in the AI space, the roles of professionals who are in the trenches of programming and algorithm development will become more critical.

Long before the coronavirus pandemic, college costs had already entered unprecedented territory. According to a study by Broke Scholar, the average cost of tuition and fees — in inflation-adjusted dollars — at both private and public schools has more than tripled from the academic year 1971-72 to 2019-2020.

• In 1971-72, average tuition and fees at a private nonprofit four-year institution cost $11,540 in 2019 dollars. For the 2019-20 academic year, the current average cost is $36,880 for tuition and fees: an increase of 220%.
• In 1971-72, average tuition and fees at a public four-year institution cost $2,710 in 2019 dollars. For the 2019-20 academic year, the current average cost is $7,730: an increase of 285%, which means it nearly quadrupled.

Thus, the costs associated with attending a college or university were already moving in an unfavourable direction for the average American household. But throwing the COVID-19 pandemic into the equation is now presenting a multitude of issues that could accelerate this trend or send it off into erratic directions. On the other side of the equation, the colleges are facing troubling financial straits due to the disruption in tuition, fees and on-campus life.

“When it comes to higher education institutions, the pandemic has had — and will continue to have — a drastic financial impact. Institutions are suffering from lost revenue to partial tuition refunds, room and board, fees, etc.,” said Michael Hansen, CEO of Cengage. “For example, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, which oversees 14 universities, including the first HBCU (historically black college and university) of Cheyney University, and 17,000-student West Chester University, is projecting a $100 million loss from room and board and other fees. And the University of Wisconsin at Madison is estimating a $100 million loss due to COVID-19 impacts, which does not include potential lost revenue from lower enrolment in the fall. While a select few institutions have large endowments to help them navigate through this unprecedented period, the majority do not.”

PARENTS FROM DIFFERENT STATES MOVES SC SEEKING MORATORIUM ON SCHOOL FEES FOR LOCKDOWN PERIOD

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court by the parents of children from different States seeking declaration of moratorium or deferment of payment of school fees during the COVID-19 induced lockdown.

The plea also seeks direction to Centre and all the States for directing all the private unaided/aided schools to only charge the proportionate fees based on actual expenditure towards the conduct of the online virtual classes and no other fees from the students since April 1 till the commencement of physical classes.

“The Petitioners belonging to different states of the country have come together being constrained to approach this Court seeking inter alia the protection of fundamental right to life as well as education guaranteed under the Constitution of India, 1950 which the children & students enrolled up to the Class XII of various Indian states are being deprived of due to supervening factors namely, the ongoing pandemic- COVID-19 period,” the plea said.

It said that due to COVID-19 induced lockdown, financially incapacitated parents have to bear the brunt of the fees of the children, even after being faced with constant financial and emotional hardships which may leave a few of them with no option but to withdraw their children or students from seeking institutional/school education for an unforeseeable period of time.

“The Petitioners are also aggrieved apart from other issues as raised in the present petition by the unorganised and adversely influencing education imparted in the name of online classes, without addressing the supervening factors of incapacity of 25 per cent EWS category students, adverse impact of education of children of unregulated online education for students of Standard Nursery to 5th and for other students as well,” the plea said.

The parents through the petition filed through advocate Mayank Kshirsagar and drawn by advocate Pankhuri said that they are highlighting various factors leading to creation of hostile discrimination of children and parents of various states in India as some protection may be available for children or students in some states and the same may not be available in other states.

Parents of the school going children who have moved the top court hail from Rajasthan, Odisha, Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Maharashtra.

In their plea they said that considering the adverse impact of online education, ban has been imposed by Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh while other States have not considered its impact.

It said that after COVID-19 disease was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, on March 25, 2020, a country wide lockdown was announced whereby all the activities including the educational sector were shut down completely having a catastrophic effect over the economy of the country with many people losing their jobs or getting a deducted or nil income and facing immense sufferings in their daily life.

“The school going children and students were unable to attend the physical classes at their respective schools. Some of the private aided/unaided schools made arrangements for online classes in April, 2020 however the same has not been universally made available and even cases where no online classes are being conducted the schools are charging normal fees and rather some schools have hiked the fees,” the plea said.

It added that many of the schools hiked their fees and/or started harassing the students’ parents to pay the entire quarterly fees in advance despite the non-functioning of the schools and the students not availing any of the services provided by the schools.

The petition said that despite circulars issued by various States asking private aided/unaided schools ought not to hike their fees in the times of the pandemic, no substantial relief in the form of waiver of fees, or reduced fees, or proportionate fees as per actual expenditure etc. was granted to the students in most of the states, leaving their parents with a huge financial burden to bear, impliedly resulting in the student’s right to life and education getting infringed and violated.

“It is further noteworthy that no specific provision/direction was issued by various states as mentioned with regard to the 25 per cent economically and socially backward/weaker students under the RTE Act, 2009,” it said.

The plea sought directions to Centre and all the States for directing all the private unaided/aided schools to not charge any fees whatsoever from the enrolled students of such schools for a period of three months starting from April 1 till July 1 or till the commencement of offline/physical school classes.

It also sought directions to Centre and all the States for directing schools to only charge the proportionate fees based on actual expenditure towards the conduct of the online virtual classes and no other fees whatsoever from the enrolled students of such schools since April 1 till the commencement of offline/physical school classes.

The petition said that direction be issued to schools to only charge the ‘tuition fees’ and no other fees whatsoever from the enrolled students since April 1 till physical classes resumes.

IMPACT OF THE SCHOOL FEE PAYMENT PROBLEM ON TEACHING STAFF

However, while there is uninterrupted dissemination of education services provided by our valiant teaching staff despite awaiting their dues, their sacrifices along with the non-teaching staff must be appreciated.

It must also be noted that these teachers who are going beyond the call of duty are solely dependent on their salaries for their livelihood.

There are an approximate 5 Crore teaching and non-teaching staff employed in over two Lakh schools across India who are hoping that parents come forward at the time of crisis so that salaries can be paid to the staffers.

Here, the government and parents should ensure teachers’ concerns are considered by releasing adequate funds as an immediate resort which will help reduce the financial strain on them.

The government, state bodies, education boards, financial and educational institutions, and parents should jointly formulate a mechanism to make sure that academics and institutions don’t come to a grinding halt or a closure due to paucity of funds.

 

HERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE TO SOLVE THE SCHOOL FEE PAYMENT ISSUE DURING LOCKDOWN

1. Providing interest-free loans to parents to pay fees as education is a part of the priority lending sector

This will ensure that no pillar of India’s growth will be compromised due to dearth of funds.

While RBI has on numerous occasions infused stimulus packages in our economy, this would be the first time the Central Bank can issue loans with zero interest and also provide relaxation in payment tenure for schools and higher education fees.

2. Interest-free loans should be extended to schools to pay salaries

The past decade has witnessed many sectors benefiting from the Finance Ministry and Reserve Bank of India to prevent collapse of business and these sops have helped these sectors revive their growth story.

While education is part of a priority lending sector, granting them interest-free loans to pay fees for crore of teaching and non-teaching staff would immensely help them and also reduce the burden of the parents who are obligated to pay timely fees.

This would also help conduct urgent repairs in schools to prepare them for the resumption of the academic year post-pandemic.

3. Provide subsidies for school bus operators due to drop in oil prices

The world has witnessed a slump in the oil market and while it is important for India to adjust costs owing to the pandemic by keeping a check on the excise rates and taxes on petroleum products.

Citing the present state of affairs, the government should also look into certain tax breaks or subsidies to aid these operators. This will have a direct bearing on the economics of every parent who are sending their children to school.