FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU daily Excelsior Welcome, National Testing Service Goddess Kheer Bhawani Established 1965 Prof. (Dr.) R. D. Gupta ruins of the old temple and shrine slabs Bharat Jhunjhunwala There is less innovation in the edu- any textbook. Second solution is to engraved with figures were discovered. Here Founder Editor S.D. Rohmetra cational institution. The students give out results in the form of per- heer Bhawani is a temple dedicated t present there exists a huge many images were also found but nobody then will not be innovative either. Let centiles rather than grades or num- to the Goddess Kheer Bhawani variation in standards of rebuild the temple till the Bikrami Era us, therefore, understand the prob- bers. All the candidates taking the (originally just Bhawani), construct- technical colleges in the K (Sambat) 1969 (Hindu lunar date) when A lems with such common tests. exams can be ranked and results can ed over a sacred spring. The worship of Chaotic City sewerage Maharaja Pratap Singh who was the disciple country, a majority of who churn out The first problem is that it stifles be given in terms of the top "x" per Kheer Bhawani is universal among the of the goddess, got a temple of marble built graduates who are not employable. innovation. Effort of the teachers cent in which the particular student nder Jawahar Lal Nehru Urban Hindus especially of Kashmir. The temple in the middle of the spring which still shines To buck this trend, the ministry of becomes to train the students to crack stands. In this case, one assesses how Renewable Mission (JNURM), a is situated at a distance of about 23km east like a pearl in a shell. The marble temple human resource development is the tests rather than to learn and inno- the particular student stands in com- of Srinagar city adjacent to the village of was completed in 1920s. Some people are of Sewerage Project for the Jammu city planning a major revamp of India's vate. There is a difference between parison to others who took exam at U Tula Mula. The term Kheer Bhawani refers the opinion that there was a mulberry tree technical education. The strategy was undertaken in 2008 by the concerned the two. Innovation requires a free the same time. There is no stigma of to rice pudding that is offered in the spring to involves rolling out the single near holy spot of Kheer Bhawani which is mind that grapples with new ideas marks or division. propitiate the Goddess which became a part department of the State Government. The old National Entrance Examination for locally known as Tul Mul. But Tul Mul is and concepts. Common tests, on the The third problem is of bureau- of the name of the temple. As is the custom Technical Institutions from January also derived from the Sanskrit word Atulya city project, as per plan, comprises of 26.53 other hand, require the student to cracy. The paper by Joshua C. Hall with Hindu deities, she has many other 2018. The proposed NEETI Exam Mulya meaning great value. It is believed conform to the established norms of of West Virginia University quoted names such as Maharagya devi, Ragnya kms of Trunk Sewer Line and 65.50 kms con- for admission to engineering pro- that Ravana, a great warrior and king of learning. Thus we often find that top- above says that the accreditation sys- devi, Rajni Ragnya Bhagwati and so on. nections for disposal of entire sludge, bath grammes will be the first exam to be pers from our universities languish tem in the United States "has evolved Kheer Bhawani is the most conducted by the National Testing room waste etc to maintain proper sanitation of in small jobs, while laggards move into a cartel caught… entrenching famous and important temple Service (NTS), which will be com- ahead in their careers. One engineer the status quo." The examination for the followers of historical the city. The major components of the Project pletely computer-based. The exams working in an American Multina- Vedic religion in Kashmir, included 27 MLD Sewerage Treatment Plant at will be conducted multiple times in system created by the proposed tional Company told that his fellow known as Kashmiri pandits. A a year. This step of the Government National Testing Service could sim- Bhagwati Nagar, Trunk Sewer Line and Lateral student who topped the class in the unique septagonal spring dedi- is most welcome. ilarly get captured by the bureau- school exams was nowadays selling cated to Goddess Khir Bhawani Lines. The project started in 2008, was sched- At present IITs, IIMs, CBSE and crats. The University Grants Com- dry fruits. He was a laggard in the flows from west (Sheer or head uled to be brought to completion in 2010. Nine more conduct separate admission mission is singlehandedly responsi- school but has been successful in section) to the east (padh or tests. Aspiring candidates have to ble for destroying our universities. years have passed by when the project was life. This happens because the school feel). The holy spring is known appear in multiple tests. The first The National Testing Service could taken up. During this period, the project jumped exams do not test the ability to think to change the colour of its round of all these tests will be sub- go the same way. That would be dis- three deadlines and still one is not sure whether or innovate. Julia Black of the Lon- astrous. At present few universities water with various hues of red, sumed in a common test taken from don School of Economics tells that pink, orange, green, blue, white it will be completed in one and a half year from the NTS. The NTS will be estab- are actually teaching despite the one of the main demands presented bureaucracy of the University etc. which was noted by Swami lished along the lines of the Educa- by the students was "an end to the now, which is the next deadline. Grants Commission. These too Vivekanand also. A black shade demons of Srilanka after his worship of the tional Testing Service of the United audit culture which makes academ- The main reason of deferment of this project would have to stop teaching and of the water of Kheer Bhawani spring is goddess offered her Kheer (rice pudding States. At present large numbers of ic output an object of assessment and pushing students towards cracking believed to be inauspicious for Kashmir. In with milk) which she accepted and since after 2014 is no release of funds. This is what universities and autonomous col- measurement, which stifles free the NEETI. The solution to this is to 1886, Walter Lawrance, the then British then it is known as Kheer Bhawani. leges are handing out degrees that thinking and impoverishes innova- the executing authority has often stated. have more than one testing agency. Settlement Commissioner for land, during Mentioning of Kheer Bhawani in have wide variation in quality. Many tion..." Authorities claim that hundred per cent work on The ISO Certification is today pro- his visit to the spring, reported the colour of Rajtarangni: The mention of Kheer Bhawani are charging huge fees. The aspirant The second problem is of varia- vided by a number of agencies oper- the water of the spring to have a violet tinge. has been made in Rajtarangni by Kalhana. Sewerage Treatment Plants and laying of Main does not know what the quality of tion in the subjects and the curricu- In Rajta Rangini, Tula Mula and the ating independently. Value of the He writes that the sacred spring of Tula education he will get. Acommon test lums of different universities. One spring of Kheer Bhawani have been consid- Trunk Line as well as 70 percent Lateral Line ISO Certificate depends upon the Mula is situated in a marshy ground. The will enable the aspirants to assess the student may have studied history ered very sacred and the Brahmins of Tula were completed three years back. However, credibility of the issuing agency. name of the spring is the mother Ragini performance of the provider. The while another may have studied Mula are regarded notable for their spiritual There are multiple private rating Kund (Mata Ragini's pond). She is in the the next stage of the executing agency provid- aspirant can see the marks obtained chemistry. One university may give power. It is believed that thousand of year agencies like Moody's, Fitch and form of Durga Bhagwati. The Brahmins of by students of that institution in the more emphasis on the theory of eco- ago, a large number of floods used to occur ing household connections remained pending Kashmir worship the spring and the pilgrims NEETI Exam to get an idea of the nomics while another may give more Standard and Poor. Similarly, the in Kashmir and the sacred spring of Tula because of non-availability of funds. According come here from every corner of the country. quality of education. Private col- emphasis on application of the theo- Government, instead of establishing Mula was inundated under its sway and the Devotion of king Ravana to Mata Kheer to the estimates of the executing agency it leges will not be able to hoodwink ries. One solution to this problem one single NTS itself, can provide holy place could nowhere be traced. At last, Bhawani: It is believed that Maharagya was the applicants by marketing cam- mentioned by Paul E Barton of the funds to, say, three or four private Kashmir saint named Krishna pandit had a requires Rs 13.6 crores for lying of pending 20 very much pleased with the devotion of paigns.