Sunday, 1 May 2011

Indian Student Parliament Process for Selection


The Indian Student Parliament has been proposed and is being brought into being, with the main objective of exposing the young student leaders to the real world, and help them in gaining useful experience through interaction with some of the experts from various sectors. The Indian Student Parliament will not only encourage the leadership abilities in students, helping students from all parts of the country to work as one, towards the betterment of our nation, but also help in introducing new, innovative and fresh ideas in the society, something which we can see is sorely needed there!
The selection procedure for the Indian Student Parliament is a fairly simple one, if one looks at it. This process is truly very transparent, leaving no space for manipulations and cheating. The students from each college will be organized into what is known as a Student Council (SC). The Student Council, represents the students of the said college in the university, to which it is affiliated. The student council, has its own office-bearers, namely- the General Secretary and the Joint Secretary. There is also a University Representative (UR) for a university, chosen from the colleges affiliated to it.
These elected or nominated students are expected to participate in all kinds of "Social work" like community work and several other activities. The students will be exposed to the problems as well as ideas and conceptual insights in various fields, like academics, media and entertainment, social work as well as politics, through interactions with experts like Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, Dr. Narayan Murthy, Dr. Kiran Bedi and many others.
The 33 Universities from Maharashtra will each have the aforementioned representatives, and representatives of other central and other universities from around the country shall also participate on a selective basis. There are around 4000 colleges affiliated to the 33 universities in Maharashtra alone, and the rest of the country has a total of around 426 universities. Thus, all these 4000 colleges in the state of Maharashtra and the other 2000 colleges in the country will be invited to send two of their Student Council representatives to participate in the event. In all, the estimated number of participants attending the summit will be around 10000-12000.
This is an initiative taken by the MAEERS' MIT School of Government, to effectively make students having the potential of doing some good to the nation come together and exchange ideas as well as learn the importance of working together. This is a golden opportunity, not only for young and fresh minds who look forward to doing something worthwhile for this country through their leadership, but also for the nation to embark on a new path and succeed in developing our nation even further!

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