IN MIDST OF SORROW; A PINCH OF HAPPINESS!!

WHEN I WAS GOING TO KOLKATA FOR MY COUNCELLING, I WAS SURE THAT I WOULD GET A GOOD ENGG COLLEGE AROUND KOLKATA IF NOT IN KOLKATA. BUT WHEN I REACHED THE COUNCELLING CENTRE, I WAS AMAZED TO SEE HUGE AMMOUNT OF CROUD. I THOUGHT HOW COULD THERE BE SO MANY PEOPLE FOR COUNCELLING FORM BENGAL. THEY WERE SIITING ON GROUND, PAVEMENT, IN NEAR BY PARK AND EVERY PLACE THEY THOUGHT SITABLE. MANY OF THEM WERE SITTING ON PAPER SHEETS, WHICH THEY SPREAD ON THE GROUND. THERE WAS TENSHION IN THE AIR. EVERY ONE WAS THINKING ABOUT COLLEGES THEY SHOULD OPT FOR. WHEN I WENT TO GATHER THE INFORMATION ABOUT COLLEGES AVAILABLE, I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE THAT ONLY FEW COLLEGES ARE LEFT WHICH ARE CONSIDERED THE WORST ENGG COLLEGES IN W.B. I WAS OBVIOUSLY SAD. MY DREAMS OF GETTING A COLLEGE AROUND KOLKATA WERE SHATTERED.

I LOOKED AROUND AND SAW MANY FACES WHICH WERE DISAPPOINTED LIKE ME. THEN I HEARD A VOICE. IT WAS A FATHER ASKING HIS SON “ KI BA KAUNHO SEAT BACHALBA?” THEN I REALISED THESE FOLKS ARE FROM BIHAR. MY STATE BIHAR.THEN I BEGAN TO FOCOUS MY EAR ON THERE VOICES AND I DISCOVERED THAT MANY OF THEM WERE FROM BIHAR. INFACT A MAJOR SECTION OF PEOPLE WERE FROM BIHAR. I HEARD A BENGALI VOICE ONLY ONCE. IT FELT QUITE STRANGE TO SEE SO MANY BIHARI STUDENTS IN BENGAL. THOUGH I WAS SAD I FELT PROUD TO SEE SO MANY BIHARIS WORKING HARD TO EARN THEIR EDUCATION. I REALISED THAT THERE IS NO DEARTH OF TALENTED PEOPLE IN BIHAR BUT THE ONLY PROBLEM IS OPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM IN BIHAR. IN COMPARISON TO BENGAL, WHERE THERE ARE 60 PRIVATE ENGG COLLEGES, THERE ARE ONLY 2 IN BIHAR. SO PEOPLE IN BIHAR LOOK OUTSIDE THERE STATE FOR THERE EDUCATION. WHERE EVER YOU WILL GO YOU WILL FIND BIHARIS. THEY SPEND HUGE SUM OF MONEY ON EDUCATION. IF THERE WERE OPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM IN BIHAR THERE WAS NO NEED FOR THEM TO GO TO KARNATAKA, MAHARASTRA, WEST BENGAL AND OTHER STATES.

THIS YEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN’T APPEARED FOR BIHAR JOINT, RATHER THEY OPTED FOR WEST BENGAL JOINT AS THE DATES WERE CLASHING. THEY FIND A GREAT OPORTUNITIES IN OTHER STATE WITH COMPARISON TO BIHAR.

TODAY THERE IS A HUGE POPULATION OF EDUCATED NRBS (NON-RESIDENTIAL BIHARIS). IF WE JOIN HANDS TOGETHER AND ACT IN ONE DIRECTION I.E. BETTERMENT OF BIHAR THEN I AM SURE WE CAN TURN THRE FORTUNES OF BIAHR.

WELL, I LEFT FOR SHEALDAH BEFORE MY TERM CAME TO GO HOME AS I HAD TO ARRANGE FOR MY NEXT COUNCELLING IN SIKKIM MANIPAL.

AJESH KUMAR SHARMA