The world’s largest advertising carrier in today’s Chennai edition :
To copy editors at ToI, repeat slowly
IIT – Indian Institute of Technology – elite, academic institutes that
offer..bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, management and other disciplines. The IITs are also known for world-class research.
ITI – Industrial Training Institutes, are
training institutes which provide training in technical field and constituted under Ministry of Labour, Union Governament of India. Normally a person who has passed 10 standard (SSLC) is eligible for admission to ITI. The objective of opening of ITI is provide technical manpower to industries. These persons are trained in basic skills required to do jobs of say operator or a craftsman
and use common sense, there is no point giving free bus passes to IIT students – there are too few of them to make a difference electorally. On the other hand ITI’s are more numerous, have a lot more students who may look kindly on the State for ‘free’ bus travel !
As I have said earlier on this blog, the ToI seems to have got rid of most of its copy team, and replaced it with the edit function on a word processor or a DTP software !!
I would absolutely agree with you here. Long live the ToI 🙂
“electorally”.
Actually they are probably fixing a bureaucratic lapse. There is nothing new with free bus passes in TN. It was first implemented in 1990 for school students from standards VI to XII. Was extended to college students sometime in the early noughties. The ITI students were inexplicably left out of the scheme. They have been pointing it out to all new governments for two decades and finally someone has noticed it. Getting kids to school by freebies – free food, transport, uniforms, text books – is a long followed TN govt policy
And they still haven’t changed…..hai re Angrezi ki kismet phooti