Ladakh Flash Point
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Media reports say that initially the soldier was thought to be an ordinary corporal but now it has emerged that he was posted in a very sensitive location and has detailed knowledge about orbat of a PLAGF Highland division deployed near LAC.
So he will remain in custody for questioning for some more days.
So he will remain in custody for questioning for some more days.
India's Semester and Carry Over system.
The "engineering colleges" don't have qualified teaching staff. Some retired professors from an earlier era are around to temporarily show their faces during the All India Council for Technical Education certification. Having collected their fees they then move on to the next "college" to get that certified.
The teaching is done by the students themselves, 4th year students teaching 3rd year and so on. The "degree " is the objective.
How does the semester system work?
After paying a donation, lets say a student joins an Electrical Engineering class. In the first semester he has 6 papers ( in an exam held by the affiliate university) of which he clears 3. He then has to write 9 papers in his next semester. There are no supplementary examinations and the students have to be kept moving from semester to semester so that the seats for the entry year are kept vacant for more students ( and more donation money !).
The subjects keep "carrying over" till at the end of four years the engineering student could have a whopping 20 papers to finish in single examination period.
It is not surprising that the passing rate is only 20% of the batch even with rampant cheating and manipulation.
But the "engineers" have to be ejected for the next batch of unfortunates. So the "engineering colleges" issue a course completion certificate stating "
Mr. So and So enrolled in the course of a Batchelor in Electrical Engineering on ( date) and successfully completed the course ". The certificate does NOT say the candidate got a degree.
But it doesn't matter for their future employment with the BPO office.
The "engineering colleges" don't have qualified teaching staff. Some retired professors from an earlier era are around to temporarily show their faces during the All India Council for Technical Education certification. Having collected their fees they then move on to the next "college" to get that certified.
The teaching is done by the students themselves, 4th year students teaching 3rd year and so on. The "degree " is the objective.
How does the semester system work?
After paying a donation, lets say a student joins an Electrical Engineering class. In the first semester he has 6 papers ( in an exam held by the affiliate university) of which he clears 3. He then has to write 9 papers in his next semester. There are no supplementary examinations and the students have to be kept moving from semester to semester so that the seats for the entry year are kept vacant for more students ( and more donation money !).
The subjects keep "carrying over" till at the end of four years the engineering student could have a whopping 20 papers to finish in single examination period.
It is not surprising that the passing rate is only 20% of the batch even with rampant cheating and manipulation.
But the "engineers" have to be ejected for the next batch of unfortunates. So the "engineering colleges" issue a course completion certificate stating "
Mr. So and So enrolled in the course of a Batchelor in Electrical Engineering on ( date) and successfully completed the course ". The certificate does NOT say the candidate got a degree.
But it doesn't matter for their future employment with the BPO office.
Hmmm, I smell 声东击西
Convenient isn't it that he went off chasing a yak while having all these documents on him, to make him seem like an important person. Very convenient indeed.
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I wonder if he is drinking up and sharing a bed with the Indian commander.
I put the wrong stratagem, fixed.
But seriously, this chain of action seems unusual for PLA, it could be a ruse. Question is how much do Indians study about 36 stratagems. Usually when you discover juicy information like that you're not suppose to tell the enemy that you found out.
INDIA'S STRATEGIC DISADVANTAGE IN INDUSTRIAL WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY.
India's flawed education and caste system places it at a severe strategic disadvantage as compared to China.
The biggest shortfall India has is in a trained and literate industrial workforce. While "engineering colleges" as discussed before produce clerks and "babus" there is a critical shortage of trained trade persons ( Example : Hydraulics systems mechanics for maintenance of construction equipment ) because India has not invested in Trade Schools, and Polytechnics, nor is there an active industrial internship programs. The workforce consists of " experience by work only " unorganized labor. So going back to the example of a hydraulics system mechanic, a person such as this will have minimum literacy and cannot read a schematic. The person will have acquired some proficiency based on trial and error on a particular product say a wheeled front end loader of a particular make but will take a long time to adjust to maintaining a piece of military equipment with a similar hydraulic system.
Southern India with its much higher literacy and reduced caste barriers does do an adequate job training industrial manpower through Trade Schools but ironically the prime objective ( particularly in the state of Kerala) is to provide manpower for export to the Middle East of elsewhere. So a certified welder is much more likely to seek employment in Dubai than in a naval shipyard.
Worst of all is the fact that industrial manpower in India has a severe gender disparity. A female welder or crane operator, a common sight in China is rarely if ever seen in India.
The Indian shop floor work environment offers no protection against harassment.
With a "babu" culture the West has India right where it wants it, heavily dependent on outsourced clerical jobs, and fast slipping in self sufficiency in key defence and critical technoloies.
India's flawed education and caste system places it at a severe strategic disadvantage as compared to China.
The biggest shortfall India has is in a trained and literate industrial workforce. While "engineering colleges" as discussed before produce clerks and "babus" there is a critical shortage of trained trade persons ( Example : Hydraulics systems mechanics for maintenance of construction equipment ) because India has not invested in Trade Schools, and Polytechnics, nor is there an active industrial internship programs. The workforce consists of " experience by work only " unorganized labor. So going back to the example of a hydraulics system mechanic, a person such as this will have minimum literacy and cannot read a schematic. The person will have acquired some proficiency based on trial and error on a particular product say a wheeled front end loader of a particular make but will take a long time to adjust to maintaining a piece of military equipment with a similar hydraulic system.
Southern India with its much higher literacy and reduced caste barriers does do an adequate job training industrial manpower through Trade Schools but ironically the prime objective ( particularly in the state of Kerala) is to provide manpower for export to the Middle East of elsewhere. So a certified welder is much more likely to seek employment in Dubai than in a naval shipyard.
Worst of all is the fact that industrial manpower in India has a severe gender disparity. A female welder or crane operator, a common sight in China is rarely if ever seen in India.
The Indian shop floor work environment offers no protection against harassment.
With a "babu" culture the West has India right where it wants it, heavily dependent on outsourced clerical jobs, and fast slipping in self sufficiency in key defence and critical technoloies.
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It does seem odd that the Indians knows where he was deployed given the fact that under the Geneva convention, captured soldiers only need to give their name, rank and serial number, and the captor cannot demand more than that.
I’m guessing he is going to give them a huge and terrifying list of weapons and ordinance deployed.
With the outcome of the US elections just little over 3 weeks away now, there are potentially historic strategic considerations and opportunities for China. I am guessing that China wants to scare/warn the Indians off from any stupid miscalculations or misadventures (potentially at the behest and orchestration of the US) to start a war in the west with China, as China wants to keep all its options open and viable in the East.
I'm wondering if he's part of a Chinese strategy to disorient the Indian Army. I refuse to believe the laughable Yak story.
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