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Revised formal regulations
The determination by the Indian Army to present caller azygous regulations is commendable. Through these combined measures, the Indian Army cultivates a chiseled organization individuality rooted successful India’s ain taste cloth (June 15). These measures bespeak the Army’s continued committedness to ensuring that the institutions, traditions and spaces wherever soldiers live, bid and service progressively embody India’s ain heroes, values and nationalist bequest portion preserving the professionalism and practice of the force.
R. Sivakumar,
Chennai
The changeless invocation of the “colonial vestige” statement is becoming tiresome. This is the Army that has stood steadfast done wars, crises and information challenges, delivering erstwhile the federation needed it most. Before lecturing institutions oregon changing traditions and symbols that person proven their worth, the authorities would bash good to code its ain shortcomings — from repeated controversies implicit NEET and infrastructure failures to concerns astir electoral processes. Credibility is strengthened by performance, not rhetoric.
Vivek Gupta,
New Delhi
Portal closure
The admittance exertion portal for the BS (Research) programme, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) closed connected June 7 earlier the declaration of the IISER Aptitude Test (IAT) results – expected by June 20. Since admittance done the IAT transmission is based connected rank, applicants were incapable to supply this important accusation portion applying. As admittance processes mostly commence lone aft the declaration of qualifying introspection results, galore candidates reasonably assumed that applications could beryllium submitted aft the IAT results were announced. Owing to the antithetic admittance docket and constricted consciousness that IAT details could beryllium updated later, respective deserving students whitethorn person missed the exertion deadline contempt appearing for the examination. All applicants had to wage a non-refundable fee. In presumption of these circumstances, the IISc indispensable see reopening the portal to alteration eligible candidates to apply. Such a measurement would guarantee adjacent accidental for each applicants seeking admittance done the IAT route.
Lalit Manohar K.,
Hyderabad
