Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Wrote to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on improving practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia

I sent the following message yesterday (27th May 2014) to Honourable Prime Minister (of India), Shri Narendra Modi, via the PM website link: http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.php

Subject: Education

Comments: Sir, in an interaction you had with TV18 during your campaign, you had mentioned about employability issues in our education system. I share a similar concern in the field of Information Technology in India. I request you or your aides to go through my pre-print paper on arXiv.org, Cornell University, USA, titled, Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia. Abstract link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1715 and Paper link: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1202/1202.1715.pdf.

Please note that for the past many months (if not a year or two) this pre-print paper of mine is the first or second result for Google search for the following terms
poor programming skills Indian CS graduates
poor programming skills Indian CS and IT graduates
poor programming skills Indian Computer Science graduates
improve programming skills Indian CS graduates
improve programming skills Indian software graduates

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A little while after I submitted the message, I received a standard email acknowledgement from PMO Public Response Unit, do-not-reply@gov.in, mentioning, "Your Mail is being  reviewed."

So far, so good. Let's see whether matters go beyond this perhaps automated response.

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