IBPS BANK EXAMS ON JUNE-17 EXAM CENTERS

A Common Written Examination (CWE) conducts by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) as a pre-requisite for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre posts in the Public Sector Banks.

EXAMINATION CENTERS

(i) The written examination will be conducted in venues across many centres in India. The list of Written Examination centres is available in Annexure I. Candidates have to appear for the examination from a centre in the particular State/ UT for which vacancy he/she intends applying for.
(ii) IBPS however reserves the right to cancel any of the Examination Centres and/ or add some other Centres depending upon the response administrative feasibility etc.
(iii) As far as possible candidates will be allotted to a centre of his/her choice however IBPS also reserves the right to allot the candidate to any of the Centre other than the one he/she has opted for.
(iv) Candidate will appear in the written examination from a Examination Centre at his/her own risks and expenses and IBPS will not be responsible for any injury or losses etc. of any nature.
(v) No request for change of centre for Written Examination shall be entertained.

PRE-EXAMINATION TRAINING: It is proposed to impart Pre-Examination Training to a limited number of candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes/ Minority Communities/ ExServicemen/ Persons With Disabilities at some centers viz.

Agartala Agra Ahmedabad Amritsar Allahabad Aurangabad Balasore Bareilly Bhubaneshwar Behrampur (Ganjam) Bhopal Bengaluru Chandigarh Chennai Coimbatore Dehradun Dhanbad Gulbarga Gorakhpur Guwahati Hyderabad Hubli Indore Jabalpur Jaipur Jammu Jodhpur Kanpur Karnal Kavaratti

Kochi Kolkata Lucknow Ludhiana Madurai Mangalore Mumbai Muzaffarpur Mysore Nagpur New Delhi Panaji (Goa) Patiala Patna Port Blair Puducherry Pune Raipur Rajkot Ranchi Rohtak Sambalpur Shimla Siliguri Shillong Thiruchirapalli Thiruvananthapuram Tirupati Varanasi Vadodara Vijaywada and Vishakhapatnam

All eligible candidates who wish to avail of Pre-Examination Training should fill in the relevant column in the ON-LINE APPLICATION. While IBPS will provide the training free of cost all expenses regarding traveling boarding lodging etc. will have to be borne by the candidate for attending the pre-examination training programme at the designated Centers. IBPS also reserves the right to cancel any of the Pre- Examination Training Centres and/ or add some other Centres depending upon the response administrative feasibility etc.

Merely attending Pre-Examination Training does not necessarily imply a candidate’s right to be selected in any of the 19 participating Public Sector Bnaks mentioned.

IIT-JEE EXAM PATTERN FOR 2013

IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) to Undergo Changes from 2013

A new education system will be introduced to take admission to India's prestigious engineering colleges IIT, NIT and IIIT wherein, two exams - JEE Main and JEE Advanced will be held instead of one - IIT JEE. 

The IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) will undergo major changes from 2013 with the aim of reducing stress on engineering college aspirants, HRD Union Minister Kapil Sibal announced on 28th June, 2012. The new education system structure for engineering 2013 was decided upon by HRD Union Minister Kapil Sibal and IIT Council. 

According to the new education system,  IIT-JEE 2013 pattern will take into account Class 12 Board exam results along with a two-tier joint entrance examination — JEE-MAIN and JEEAdvanced. The main exam will be a filtering process in which 50% weightage will be given to the score in the class 12 Board exams.

The new education system will replace the entrance exams for IIT 2013 and AIEEE 2013. Students will sit for a main test and an advance test conducted on the same day.

The main and advanced exams will also determine admission to the various National Institutes of Technology (NIT's) and centrally funded engineering colleges across India, besides IIT's. There will be no separate exam for admission to non-IIT institutes from next year.

For NIT's and other centrally funded institutions, 40% weightage will be given to performance in the class 12 Board exam, 30% to performance in JEE-MAIN and 30% to JEE-Advanced. Students seeking admission to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT's), however, will face a filtering process and will follow the following pattern - 50% weightage to Board Results and JEE Main. Based on the main exam's result, the top 50,000 candidates will be selected for the JEE Advanced exam. Admission to IIT 2013 will be determined by a candidate’s performance in the advanced exam, after taking into account their performance in the board results and the main result. 

Education departments of Gujarat, Haryana and Maharashtra have already expressed their willingness to conduct this exam for admission to technical institutes run by their respective governments, though career experts have stated flaws in this education system. As for the mass, there has been a mixed reaction regarding JEE Main and JEE Advanced 2013 engineering entrance exam. While some think that this will cut out commercially run tuition colleges that are unavailable to the poor and in rural areas, others worry the burden on students will get more difficult to bear. We are yet to see the reaction of the prospective engineering students as a whole. 

“We are hopeful that many other state boards will come forward to adopt this. However, they will have flexibility in altering the weightage and other compositions,” Sibal said.

At present, there are 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) while there are 27 NIT's and 4 IIIT's in India. They are as under:

IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Powai, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Chennai, IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Patna, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Ropar, IIT Mandi, IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Indore.

NIT Calicut, NIT Srinagar, NIT Allahabad, NIT Durgapur, NIT Nagpur, NIT Surthakal, NIT Warangal, NIT Jaipur, NIT Rourkela, NIT Bhopal, NIT Tiruchirapalli, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Silchar, NIT Hamirpur, NIT Patna, NIT Raipur, NIT Agartala, NIT Sikkim, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, NIT Meghalaya, NIT Nagaland, NIT Manipur, NIT Mizoram, NIT Uttarakhand, NIT Goa, NIT Delhi and NIT Puducherry.

IIIT Gwalior, IIIT Jabalpur, IIIT Kanchipuram and IIIT Allahabad

M.B.A AFTER B.TECH IS A GOOD OPTION

The MBA is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. It is a degree designed to give you the ability to develop your career to its fullest potential, at an accelerated pace. What will you get out of an MBA? Aside from a powerful life experience, the MBA degree should supply three main value propositions: Skills, Networks, and Brand.

Skills

These include the "hard skills" of economics, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting, as well as the "soft skills " of leadership, teamwork, ethics, and communication that are so critical for effective management. MBA students acquire these skills inside and outside the classroom. Since MBA programs attract people from very diverse industries and cultures, a program should be able to leverage these differences and translate them into learning opportunities.

Networks

An MBA degree program offers access to a network of MBA students, alumni, faculty, and business and community leaders. This network can be very useful when beginning a job search, developing a career path, building business relationships in your current career, or pursuing expertise outside your current field. For example, entrepreneurs need access to capital, business partners, vendors, and clients. Arts-related businesses need access to funding and strategic management in order to position themselves to be relevant in the marketplace. Global businesses need access to local business cultures as they expand their enterprises to new territories.

Brand

The MBA degree is a recognized brand that signifies management and leadership training. The particular school and type of MBA program you attend also have brand associations that can help open doors based on the school's reputation. The strength of a school's brand is based on the program's history, its ability to provide students with technical skills and opportunities for personal growth, and the reach of its alumni and industry network. A powerful brand can give you the flexibility to make changes throughout your career.

CBI REVEALS THE TRUTH

HYDERABAD: CBI has arrested YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in a disproportionate assets case. The probe agency is expected to produce Reddy before a magistrate on Monday.

Protesting against the arrest of their leader, YSR Congress has called for state bandh on Monday. Fearing violence by Jagan Reddy's supporters, prohibitory orders were enforced by police in all major towns and cities of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday night. Security personnel staged flag marches in several towns and state road transport bus services were curtailed. There were reports also of police asking shops to be closed down in Kadapa.

The move comes a day before Jagan Reddy was scheduled to appear before a CBI court. Reddy is the first accused in the case. CBI has accused 18 persons and corporates in three chargesheets filed so far. A CBI court had earlier posted the hearing of his anticipatory bail plea for Monday. Reddy had sought anticipatory bail till bypolls to 18 assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat were over. The by-elections are scheduled for June 12. With his arrest, Jagan Reddy's plea before the CBI court would be for regular bail.

CBI, probing the case following the directives of the Andhra Pradesh high court last August, has accused Reddy of amassing huge assets through illegal means by allegedly using his father, the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy's office, when he was the chief minister. Jagan Reddy had rebelled against Congress and floated his own political outfit YSR Congress, riding on the legacy of his father.

CBI has also accused many prominent business houses and industrialists from Andhra Pradesh to be part of the business web allegedly woven by Jagan Reddy to profit from his late father's influence. CBI has named 58 companies and 13 individuals in its first information report and has arrested four persons. CBI has accused corporates of investing in Jagan Reddy's businesses for alleged favours they received from the YSR governmentin the form of licences, allotment of projects, mining leases, and huge tracts of land and relaxation of norms.

CBI has also accused the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a helicopter accident in September 2009, of misusing public office to benefit his son. "The modus operandi followed by the duo was to dole out public properties, licences, SEZs, mining leases, ports, real estate permissions and other benefits to persons of their choice, violating established norms and procedures of the government," CBI said in its chargesheet.

Reddy, who had appeared before CBI on Friday for the first time in connection with his disproportionate assets case, was quizzed by CBI officials over the last three days for nearly 24 hours. The questioning centred on various favours allegedly doled out to corporates, in general, and Vodarevu and Nizampatnam Port and Industrial Corridor (Vanpic), in particular. Vanpic's Indian promoter Nimmagadda Prasad has invested nearly Rs. 1,000 crore in various businesses of Reddy.

On Sunday, Jagan Reddy was quizzed in the presence of his family auditor V Vijay Sai Reddy, the first person to be arrested in this case and now on bail, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad and bureaucrat Brahmananda Reddy. Former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, who was arrested and who is now in CBI custody, was admitted into a private hospital due to ill health. Prasad and Brahmananda Reddy, whose CBI custody ended on Sunday, were sent to judicial custody at Chanchalguda Central Prison

UGLY ECONOMIC DECISIONS

Obsessed with the growth figures, the planners have tried but failed to hide the ugly underbelly of India’s economic growth

Montek Singh Ahluwalia has been at the helm of India’s planning process for quite some time now. It is during his tenure as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission that India has been pushed deeper and deeper into the quagmire of poverty. With the largest population of hungry in the world, the Global Hunger Index 2010 has placed India in the pit.

I wasn’t therefore shocked when I read Ahluwalia blame the hungry for the rise in food inflation. From someone who literally lives in the ivory tower of the Yojana Bhawan, anything can be expected. But what, of course, surprised me was the audacity with which he blamed the poor and hungry in the rural countryside for the rising inflation. Although I hate to say but there can be nothing more stupid than blaming the poor in the villages as if they have started eating more and therefore the pressure on food prices.

A few years back, former US President George Bush had made that ignominious remark shifting the blame for the 2007 global food crisis to the hungry Indians. He had said that the food crisis was because the Indians had started eating more. In an interview, I had then replied that if Indians started eating as much as the Americans do, then probably the world would need to grow food crops on the moon.

While one can ignore what George Bush had said, how can one pardon the head of India’s planning process who should know much better. It also reflects on the disconnect India’s Planning Commission has with the existing ground realities. Obsessed with the growth figures that continue to be tossed around with much fanfare, the planners have tried but failed to hide the ugly underbelly of India’s economic growth.

Only a few weeks back, India was ranked 67th among 84 hungry countries of the world. Two years back, in 2008, the Global Hunger Index had placed India at 66th position among 88 countries. In other words, India had slipped still lower down the pit in the past two years. I can’t fathom how the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) had placed India in such a low esteem if the poor in the villages had started eating more.

Take another international report that was submitted by the Save the Children Fund just a few days prior to the UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that was held in the last week of September in New York. With over 5,000 children succumbing to malnutrition every day, India had once again topped the global ranking. This shocking disclosure is enough to put every Indian to shame. I wonder how the head of Indian Planning Commission can even walk with his head held high.

Let me also draw your attention to the 2006-07 report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) which brings out the stark truth. It tells us that the correlation between hunger and economic growth is robustly positive -- more the economic growth, more people go to bed hungry. This challenges the widely held view that economic growth pulls poor out of poverty and hunger.

What makes the alarming situation still worse is that ever since economic liberalisation was launched in 1991, the NSSO tells us that cereal consumption has been on a steady decline, with no corresponding increase in the intake of more nutritious eggs, vegetables, fruits and milk. It means hunger has been on a rise and is now more widespread and well-entrenched. So far the feeling was that with the changing food habits, people have shifted from cereals to nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables and milk. This assumption too does not hold true anymore.

Cereal consumption

The decline in cereal consumption has more or less followed a steady pattern in the rural and urban areas, and of course, much faster in the rural areas. I don’t think Ahluwalia ever read this report. Accordingly, per capita cereal consumption per month in the rural areas across the country has fallen from 13.4 kg in 1993-94 to 11.7 kg in 2006-07.

The decline has been sharper between the period 2004 and 2007 when just in three years, cereals consumption fell from 12.1 kg to 11.7 kg. In the urban centres the decline was from 10.6 kg in 1993-94 to 9.6 kg in 2006-07. In a largely vegetarian society, cereals constitute the single important source of nutrition and therefore its importance in the Indian context is well established.

This is still not the real picture. The NSSO survey does not cover the period 2007-08 when the world was faced with an unprecedented rise on global food prices. In any case, the average household expenditure on food shows an increasing trend, but does not translate into more food consumption. It only means food prices have been on an upswing, and the poor are finding it difficult to fill their bellies. The recent price rise had made it still more difficult for the poor to be well fed. Cereal consumption therefore is expected to fall still further in 2009-10, and the impact it must have had on the poor and hungry can be well imagined.

SATYAMEVA JAYATE HAS INSPIRED THE HARD HEARTS FOR PEACE AGAINST WOMEN

Aamir Khan's highly acclaimed Satyameva Jayatehas inspired a sarpanch in a Rajasthan village to register police cases against women and families who go for tests to detect and abort the girl child.

"Illegal sex determination is rampant in the Shekhawati region (Jhunjhunu, Churu and Sikar districts)," sarpanch Randheer Singh of Budania village told IANS.

The village, some 200 km from here, is home to some 5,000 people.

Randheer Singh said a six-member committee had been formed to keep a tab on pregnant women.

"After watching Aamir Khan's TV show Satyameva Jayate on female feticide, I felt that awareness in Rajasthan is not enough," he said.

"Checking female feticide at the village level is necessary to save girl children."

He said that auxiliary nurses and midwives know about almost every pregnant woman in villages.

"If a woman is found involved in illegal sex determination and abortion of a girl child, an FIR (First Information Report) will be filed against her with the police," Singh said.

"If she is forced to abort by her in-laws, similar action will be taken against them also," he said.

According to the 2011 census, Rajasthan has 883 girls in the 0-6 age group for every 1,000 boys. The child sex ratio in 2001 was 909.

The Rajasthan government has taken several measures to end illegal sex determination tests. It has hiked the amount of money given to people who complain about errant ultrasound clinics.

Aamir Khan, in his programme telecast May 6 that drew record audiences countrywide, highlighted a sting operation done seven years ago by two journalists to expose growing female feticide in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA IS STILL A SIN TO PEOPLE

In India, the lists of classified matrimonial ads in the newspapers are almost endless. Caste is always mentioned, invariably. However, personal ads today also mention religious affiliations and professions. Doctors, engineers, even computer-software specialists are advertising in India for mates. The fact that the 3500-year-old caste system should survive in India today almost defies comprehension. It has been an aberration of the Hindu psyche. Indians who use lofty rhetoric about progress, characterizing their society as "united in diversity," seem to be simply perpetuating the system of social gradation that has blighted so many lives.

Social distinctions can still be discerned in modern India in many ways. Even a highly educated Brahmin physician (a Brahmin is a Hindu of the highest caste) wraps the wrist of a Sudra (or low-caste person) with a band of cloth before feeling for the patient's pulse. That way, the Brahmin will not to be "defiled" by touching the Sudra's skin. Low-caste people are forbidden to use the wells in villages that high-caste Brahmins use for fear they will pollute the water. A low-caste family is refused the right to bury a family member near their village, where both high and low castes live, because of a superstition that the dead person's ghost will haunt the high- caste people. And a Brahmin bachelor living in a state with only a few surviving Brahmin families has to wait for five long years while his parents search for a suitable mate of the same high caste as he.

A low-caste poverty-stricken street dweller.

An Ancient Institution While scholars differ on the origins of the caste system in India, they agree that it is a very ancient institution. Some speculate that both the complexion and the occupations of the Aryans who invaded India around 1500 B.C. contributed to the growth of the caste system. The Aryan invaders, who spoke Indo-European languages, are believed by some to have been a fair-skinned, blue-eyed ethnic type. They dominated the darker-skinned original residents and made them subservient, much as the British did many centuries later.

According to the traditional Hindu view, human beings were divided into four categories on the basis of their intrinsic qualities. The highest caste, the Brahmins, were the thinkers, philosophers, and priests whose role was to provide both spiritual guidance and intellectual sustenance to the society. Originally, they lived on the charity of the people, given in return for the performance of various rites. Next came the Kshatriyas, or Warriors, who were primarily concerned with the defense and governance of the state. The kings and rulers belonged to this caste. The third caste consisted of the Vaisyas, or Traders, who were involved in agricultural and commercial operations. In the fourth category were the Sudras, or Laborers. This caste, at the lowest rung of the hierarchical ladder, were responsible for various services, including menial jobs like scavenging and cleaning. They were considered "untouchable" and the three higher castes were not permitted to mingle with them. Marriage across caste lines was forbidden, and even now this taboo persists. Those who fall in love and marry in spite of the taboo risk excommunication from their castes.

This social system of gradation was given religious sanction by a verse in the ancient sacred writings of Hinduism and the earliest document of Indian history called the Rig Veda. Believed to have been composed between 1500 and 1000 B.C., it records that Brahmins came from the face of the creator, Kshatriyas from his arms, Vaisyas from his thighs, and Sudras from the soles of his feet. Members of the lowest caste were subjected to many restrictions in society.

Lower-caste women work all day picking weeds for a wage as low as 50 cents a day.

There are also references to the four castes in the ancient epics of Ramayanaand Mahabharata. A detailed description of the caste system is found in theManusmriti (Ordinances of Manu), named for its author. The Manusmriti, which dates from A.D. 700, is the most authoritative work on Hindu law. Centuries later, it was adopted by the British rulers in India. The status of the low caste continued to be degraded by the Brahmins. Even revolts against the high castes by religious leaders such as Mahavira (540-468 B.C.), the founder of Jainism, and Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.), the founder of Buddhism, failed to reduce the rigidity of the caste system because caste distinctions persisted in both religious sects. Caste distinctions persisted even during the period of Muslim rule in India (1206-1862). The attempts of other religions, including Christianity and Judaism, to eradicate the caste system did not succeed because class distinctions persisted even in their folds. The Beginnings of Change It was the Industrial Revolution that finally made a dent in the caste system and brought a new awareness to Indians that social mobility might be possible. Industrialization encouraged urbanization, as villager dwellers of both high and low castes moved into the cities for better jobs. There, they were introduced to new technologies. In the urban areas, the rigid, age-old ,caste- centered thinking gave way to a more liberal outlook, encouraging the mixing of castes without distinction. Trade unions and other associations had members from all castes working together. The British government of India had a considerable, transforming impact on the country's Hindu social structure. The British brought change by passing many important laws designed to aid the marginalized lower castes--laws such as the Hindu Act, the Caste Disabilities Act, and the Widow Remarriage Act. But the British could not find a lasting solution to the problem of castes, particularly since the British saw themselves as a privileged ruling class. The strongest, most systematic attack on the caste system has come in the twentieth century through the Constitution of India, adopted on November 26, 1949. India's constitution guarantees the right of all its citizens to justice, liberty, equality, and dignity. It has been a long and arduous journey from ancient caste distinctions based on Hindu philosophy and religious traditions to the constitutional pledge of a democratic government with equality, dignity, and justice for all human beings.

The Caste System Today Today, many lower-caste people--especially in rural villages--are still marginalized, with little access to education, limited resources, and unskilled or menial jobs as their only option. However, thanks to a long history of missionary schools and to various changes in government-sponsored education, many have become better educated and hold higher-paying jobs.

The "Holy Bath," a Hindu ritual, is a purification by water before worship. Large numbers of Hindu worshipers bathe in the Narmada River for the festival of Makar Sankranti.

At present, Indian society is characterized by an obsession with the kinds of development that would lead to a free-market economy. The growing economic success of some in India has created a chasm separating the rich from the poor, who make up about 56 percent of the population. Economists describe "two Indias"--one rich and one poor. India's caste system can no longer fully contain the socioeconomic change that the country is undergoing. Different religions, occupations, and levels of education are no longer correlated with caste. A high-caste person cannot be born a chief executive, for example, but must work to become one. A person of low caste may now get a good education and become an executive, a college professor, or even a government leader.

Indians who belong to the lower castes that were once considered "untouchable" now choose to call themselves by the name Dalit, meaning "oppressed," and signaling that they are actively resisting injustice. Dalits make up 18 to 20 percent of India's population. Only about 3 percent of India's population is Christian, but 50 percent of the Christian population is Dalit, according to Ms. Soosai Raj Faustina, a teacher and member of the Dalit Solidarity Peoples (DSP) National Working Committee. Foreign Christian missionaries have also had a history of helping Dalits with education and with economic development.

Rural India still presents a dismal picture of life for its low-caste people, though. A friend of mine, Dharamnath of Jagdalpur, a member of the Methodist Church and an excellent vocalist, says that the typical low-caste village family may have only one sari (a draped dress using several yards of cloth) for all its women. So, while one woman comes out the hut draped in the sari, four other women must wait inside for their turn to wear the same dress. They can only come out one by one. Faustina explains that, even though she teaches in a mixed school run by the Roman Catholic Church in Ongur, Dalits are still separated in the village. "Normally, Dalits are put on the east side of the village," she reports, "because the wind blows from west to east, and non-Dalits don't want to be contaminated by wind that has touched Dalits. All the institutions are in the non- Dalit area of the village. We are resisting these things," she adds. The Supreme Court of India in Delhi. Migrant populations flock to the outskirts of cities to find work.

A village girl holds her little brother. In fact, empowered by India's constitution, the Dalits have organized to push for change through legislation and social institutions. Public transportation, radio, and television have begun to have a modernizing impact, especially on children and youth, even in rural villages. But a lack of political will on the part of the state prevents some recommendations from being implemented. Also, villagers who travel to large cities in search of job opportunities are likely to encounter crime syndicates and mafia organizations there. Even in small towns, gangs have proliferated. Last year, the worst-ever massacre of Dalit and landless men, women, and children occurred in Bihar. Sixty people were killed by the Ranvir Sena, a self-styled armed militia of the upper-caste landed gentry, formed to crush the movements of Dalits and agricultural laborers