Trip to India(cont)

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Once I reached cuddalore. I felt elated because I'm going to see my family members and friends. I received warm welcome from my family members. I took rest for one day. After that I started visiting my friends. At First, I went to my maths teachers house to talk to him. He was very happy to see me back after one year. Its very difficult to find a teacher in cuddalore who is willing to teach IIT JEE syllabus. He agreed to our request and taught me for one year. I'm very lucky to have such teachers. We were started discussing about Singapore educational system and pedagogy. I told him, How Singapore was able to emerge as a first world country from third world country.
Suddenly we shifted our discussion towards the opportunities available to cuddalore students .Since cuddalore is a sea town. Fishing is the main occupation and next is agriculture.It seems Government of TN has banned fishing during may 1- may 31 in view of developing the breeding of fishes. So, most of the family have to depend on Government for food but TN government was very irresponsible to the voices of fishermen during this season. I found most of my friends family were suffering and telling me how they were managing their everyday activities. Most of the businesses in cuddalore indirectly depends on fishing , so even these businesses were affected. There was sweltering heat waves in cuddalore because most of the people stomach was burning without food. There are lots of discrimination in the implementation of ban also. Few boats are allowed to go to sea. I found even though India liberalized its economy, the free market economy is not well established in traditional businesses or occupation.
After staying in cuddalore for few days, I went to my mother's native place srilaki to meet my relatives. Most of the traditional businesses in srilaki is in ruin. Actually srilaki is located near many pilgrimage. One of the main occupation in srilaki is agriculture. The main reason for agriculture in srilaki is attributed to good irrigation facilities and stable ground water. Now, ground water is badly affected by poor rains and irrigation facilities is getting even worse than before. Most of the children of these families are studying in government school or private school.These students seldom goes to school because they don't have money to make living.
Educational institutions such as schools, colleges are very scarce in number. I seldom see students who are aspiring for higher education from srikali. We can see many hard working students in srikali than cities, but they at last end up in mediocre colleges because they don't know how to work smart? . They know only to memorize the stuffs given in the textbooks and vomit the same thing in the exam paper. They respect books more than their parents. We shouldn't blame students ,the teacher didn't know what they are teaching to the students. Is it possible now to expect an Abdul kalam from villages. One of my friend's father reiterated me, those days people used the opportunities available in the villages and migrated to cities.Currently the education and health care facilities are very bad. The people who are living now depending on the traditional occupation. Since traditional occupation is getting ruined, they don't have anything to do.Tamil nadu had experienced worst suicide of farmers in cauvery delta regions. Srilaki is also under cauvery delta belt. In the next post, I'll be discussing Special Economic Agricultural Zones(SEAZ) and how to make big money out of agriculture and traditional occupation.