Civil Services Coaching

There are many well-known coaching Institutes in Delhi and the nearby areas providing expert coaching for civil services examination. These institutions are of two types. The first category concentrates on giving classroom teaching with the expert resource persons. They will not provide any boarding or lodging facility to the candidates. They charge a very high commercial rate for the coaching. The quality of the input given in the classroom coaching is also high. The notes and other materials given as part of their instruction is of high value to the civil services preparations. The candidates have to make their own arrangements for the room and food if taken admission in these centres. Normally they start admission to the prelims cum mains coaching programme in Oct every year. The number of students is each class can be up to 200. The second category is the institutions that are run by some universities with the assistance of the government. The intake in such institutions is limited and the quality of the classroom input is not at the level offered by the private coaching centres. However, they offer very good residential facilities and the food is also provided. The candidates need not worry about the physical facilities and they can concentrate on their studies. These centres offer good library facility with quality books. There will be a good group of students who are all preparing for the same examination. This grouping of fresher and experienced is the major strength of these centres. They charge minimal fees for the room and food and generally the coaching programme is free. The admission is through competitive tests, conducted across the country. They have certain high levels of standard with regard to the discipline. Two such reputed residential coaching centres are Hamdard Study Circle, New Delhi and Residential Coaching Centre, Aligarh. Both are considered to be good with a lot of alumni making to the Civil services every year. The Hamdard Education Society runs the Hamdard with the support from Ministry of Social Justice, mainly intended for students from minority communities. The admission is made through competitive Examination to be held on 6/10/2013, last date for application is 8 September. The application forms can be downloaded from www.hamdardstudycircle.org. Bidar is declared as the ninth Centre for the Test in the country, if sufficient number of applications is received. The Residential Coaching Academy, attached to Aligarh Muslim University is sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The programme is intended mainly for the students belonging to SC/ST/Minorities and Women categories. The admission is made through a nationwide competitive test on 14 September. The last date for filing application is 31 August. The application form can be downloaded from the website www.amu.ac.in. For further details and assistance, any interested candidates may contact the District Centre for Guidance and Training, Old Civil Hospital, Gawan Chowk, Bidar. The filled in applications along with the supporting documents can be submitted in the DC officer during the working hours. The last date for submitting the applications is fixed as 31 August for Aligarh and 4 September for Hamdard. Any application received late will not be entertained as the centres are very strict about the dates. There will be test centre in Bidar for both the screening test. Email- deo.bidar@gmail.com Please make the best use of this situation

UPSC Orientation/Coaching

The District Administration, Bidar through the District Career Guidance Centre announces a four months programme for the Training and guidance programme for the aspirants of the Civil Services Examinations being conducted by the UPSC. The focus will be prepare them for taking the exam for May 2014. We will be imparting basic coaching to the students. Later they will be encouraged to go to bigger cities like Delhi where the environment is more encouraging. The programmes will be held in the Centre for Guidance and Training, Old Civil Hospital, Near Gawan Chowk, Bidar. The candidates will be selected through a screening test to be conducted on 5 August, 2013. Those candidates who are interested to join shall register their names with the District Administration by 31 July. This follows the orientation programme conducted a few months back. Those who want to just test their skills but not interested may please keep away from applying or attending the classes. We are looking for only serious candidates as we the time and resources at our disposal are limited. Aspirants from Bidar district will be given preference though those belonging to nearby areas can apply... Registration form can be downloaded from www.bidar.nic.in The filled up form to be e-mailed to deo.bidar@gmail.com

Coaching for KMAT 2013 in Bidar

The Admission to the MBA Course is made only through the Management Aptitude Test from this year. Those who want to get admission to MBA can appear the KMAT which will be held on 21 July 2013. The last date for applying for KMAT is on 10 July and the results will be announced on 1 August. The candidates have to apply for the test online through the website http://www.kmatindia.com/. The District Administration and the MBA department of Lingaraj Appa Engineering College are jointly organising free coaching for the KMAT Examination from 3 July to 6 July. The classes will be held at the District Career Guidance and Coaching Centre at Old Civil Hospital, Near Zilla Panchayat Office. The Centre will help in filling up the application online. Students who are interested to attend the classes should be present the centre by 10:00 am on 3 July.

Public Consultation on Special Status to Hyderabad Karnataka

Cabinet Sub Committee on Special Status to Hyderabad Karnataka (article 371) is scheduled to hold a public consultation sitting in the Conference Hall of DC Office, Gulbarga on Monday 1 July 2013. The time slot allotted to Bidar district is from 10am to 12 am. Those who are interested to present their views can submit their views in writing. The write ups can be submitted to the DC office Bidar by 30/06/2013 or personally at the meeting venue by 9am in Gulbarga. Individuals and organisations are welcome. I request all the citizens of Bidar to share their ideas on the subject so that the special status to Hyderabad karnataka becomes specially meaningful to us...

Operationalisating the Airport in Bidar...

Starting the Civil aviation operations from Bidar has been a major demand from many parts of the district for some time now. The demand picked momentum about five years ago when the Govt of Karnataka proposed to start a green field airport and the process of acquiring land was initiated. However, at a later point of time, the administration came out with another proposal that would save much of the cost. The idea was to utilise the existing runway and ATC facility with the air force and provide necessary infrastructure to start civilian flight operations from Bidar. Accordingly, a proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Defence for clearance to use the air force facilities. This was accepted with certain conditions by the Ministry of Defence. Subsequent to the clearance by the Ministry of Defence, the district administration approached the state government for creating necessary infrastructure, which was readily accepted. Thus approval was given to construct the terminal building for the Bidar airport. This building was constructed after obtaining the views form the experts in the field. Though the terminal has been completed in time, the aviation operations could not be commenced due certain reasons related to the Operations of the Hyderabad airport. Thus, the civil aviation remained an ides that could not be materialised. However, still the idea was there in the minds of the people and it was being pursued at different levels of government by the political executive and the officers. The move got a good push when a meeting was held regarding this subject under the chair of the Secretary, Civil Aviation, Govt of India in the month of September. The meeting had decided to have a spot inspection jointly by all the stakeholders. Accordingly, a joint spot inspection was carried out by the representatives of the State Government, Civil Aviation, Ministry of Defence, GMR Hyderabad Airport and the district administration on 19 November. It was clear that the facilities existing would be sufficient for commencing the operations. However, clarifications need to be made regarding the commercial viability of the operations. The facts about Bidar, especially its importance due the Religious reasons and the historic reasons were presented by the district administration to the team. We estimate that there is a good demand for operationalizing the Bidar airport. The observations gathered during the spot visit and the local enquiry would be considered by the GMR before they give their opinion about the issue. Subsequently a meeting will be held to take a final call. Thus, it is one step ahead for the commencement of the flights from Bidar to certain locations.

PC Jaffer's Blog: The murder of Narendra Kumar (IPS) - A few thought...

PC Jaffer's Blog: The murder of Narendra Kumar (IPS) - A few thought...: The brutal killing of the young IPS Officer, Narendra Kumar by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh is absolutely outrageous and shocking. He ...

The murder of Narendra Kumar (IPS) - A few thoughts of an officer.

The brutal killing of the young IPS Officer, Narendra Kumar by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh is absolutely outrageous and shocking. He had the option of just passing across the truck and directed to the nearby Police station to inspect the tractor and continued his journey. Instead, he chose the harder way and paid the price for doing the right thing. From the reports, it is clear that he has been acting tough on the mining mafia. They operate with the single objective of ensuring the materials reach the destination in time. The driver is often briefed "not bother for anything that comes to your way, just drive off even if somebody comes on your way, we will see that nothing happens to you". The advent of IT and mobile phones has made the communication within the mafia very easy. I am sure the members of the mafia would have watched Narendra Kumar’s movement closely. Even his own subordinates would have tipped the others of his moves. This is a challenge a young officer from outside the state has to face. He does not know whom to trust, whom not to take into confidence. Most of the officers get through this challenge. It is unfortunate that a young promising officer had to make the ultimate sacrifice due to this. The mafia operates with single motive, will adopt anything to attain their aims. The whole society views the officers as completely hand in glove with the mafia while a majority are not. Most of them keep silent due to various factors, like fear for life or not getting enough support from the higher/lower level. Those who do not budge are many times threatened, transferred and in extreme cases, attacked. However, the incident of yesterday is in fact very shocking as the physical elimination is not resorted normally. Even, I had to face such a situation in my district recently when a team of revenue officials were attacked by the sand mafia during the night. That was also for the first time, though we have been casing too much damage to them during the last two years. We have to doubt whether there is a conscious change by the mafia in their modus operandi. That is, Instead of fighting the law enforcement, adopt a policy of physically removing the toughest from the scene so that the rest will either comply or will keep quite. We have to read the incidence of burning the Additional Collector, Nasik also along with this. These incidents bring a major issue to the focus. That is the safety of the law enforcing machinery and the confidence enjoyed by these officers in taking the mafia of various kind head on. The IAS/IPS officers are lucky to get some level of protection and public attention, while the case is very bad for the lower level staff. They are most of the time left alone to look after themselves. We do not have a system that would work as an effective shock absorber in such situations. When many around you turn the informers, one becomes helpless and realise the futility of his efforts. Added to this, the most ill equipped government system also contributes to the lower degree of law enforcement. When a group of officials face an unruly crowd, many of them would bot have been equipped with protective gear, simply because they are not available at the lower level. This leads major injury to the ground staff especially the constables. The situation is at least better in police as they have been provided with some types of protective gears. Our system does not recognise the need of other law enforcing departments to be equipped with such life protecting equipments. Revenue, forest, mines and geology are some such departments which are vulnerable as they are asked to go to the field in time of crisis or to conduct raids, but the department has systematically forgotten to equip them either with materials or with skills. Finally, it is easy for an outsider to criticise the inaction on the part of government officials. However, people rarely realise the difficulties they face, the pulls and pressures affecting them and the tough battle they fight. Neither public nor media never highlights the good things done by them. This in turn severely affects their morale. Such stray incidents of physical elimination increase the fear. The law enforcing machinery would get into action now, catch hold of many who are in the granite business and effectively control it for some time. Once the dust settles down and the public get another major issue, this will be forgotten, and the same situation will come back. The ultimate loser is the family of the officer and the society at large. Let us hope those who are responsible for this act are brought to the law faster, tried and given maximum punishment that deter others. Lets support his family for coping up with this irreparable loss.