Articles by M Shatrugna

and malingering. But they refuse to count the cost of credit-financed liberalised imports at inflated prices, subsidised exports of commodities which do not enjoy comparative advantage in foreign markets and extravagant spending of the government by reckless deficit financing which has characterised the Rajiv government's management of the economy.

M Shatrugna The entrance examination as the sole basis of selection for postgraduate courses is illogical and meaningless. By conducting such examinations universities are dishonouring their own first degrees.

order, there is no use making demands on the developed countries. Bargaining with the North in the prevailing conditions has to be on the basis of giving something to the stronger side first and then asking for a return gift, presumably not so much as a right but as more of a charity. In the frame of such a negotiating position, inter-dependence cannot but be a euphemism for abject dependence It also means that India is opting out of the third world and instead of playing a positive role in the G-77 and the non-aligned movement, India will be flaunting the banner of a medium developing country and in that capacity will be ready and willing to act as a honest broker in the world economic order ordained by the G-7 and multinational corporations; It cannot, therefore, be fortuitous that India is playing an ambivalent role in the Uruguay Round of GATT. It is willing to adjust to the demands of the developed countries on the question of intellectual property rights and trade in services. The hard-won principle of non-reciprocity in economic exchanges between the developing and developed countries is being relegated to the background even as the developed countries are imposing trade sanctions, introducing stiff conditionality clauses on technology and capital flows and raising protectionist barriers against the developing countries. The newly- discovered fascination for liberalisation in the domestic economy and the strident support for multilateralism in foreign trade is indeed ominous in the context of the drift towards a debt trap, internal and external, and accelerated pace of structural adjustment process at work in India.

Innovations', February 1982, p 9, 5 Eklavya, Annual Report 1982 83, p 8.
6 There are my deductions on siudying the operational breakdown of the budget. Vinod Raina commented that these were not entirely correct, but, in the absence of further elucidations from him, l have retained my original analysis, 7 Friends Rural Centre and Kishore Bharati, 'District Level Testing of the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme, June 1978, P2- 8 Eklavya, Annual Reports.

THE Telugu Desam government in the last five years of its rule has brought about a number of changes in the education setup in the state, most of them undemocratic and retrograde Two years ago it had appointed the well known Vice-Chancellors' Committee which had brought out a thoroughly disgraceful document on higher education in the state. Based on the recommendations of the VCs' report, the Commissionerate of Higher Education was set up with K Ramakrishna Rao of Andhra University as the chairman. The commissionerate set-up, apart from being undemocratic had all the features of a siiper-university. Though it was supposed to be autonomous, all its members were nominated by the government. Neither the existing universities nor the teachers' bodies were consulted before the formation of the commissionerate.The commissionerate was vested with financial, administrative and academic powers and was given wide-ranging powers to ride roughshod over the autonomy of the universities. Additionally it was given powers to transfer teachers from one college to another. As was to be expected, the act which brought into being the commis- sionerate was struck down by the supreme court last year on a petition filed by the Osmania University Teachers Association (OUTA). But the joy of the teaching community in the state was short-lived.