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Some points from Group Discussion held on 13/07/2013

There was an on the spot topic given to the group. Following are some points from that discussion.

Topic:- Implementation of one child policy in India as like China - pros and cons

The law of one child policy will provide many government provided benefits to the first child only and this may decrease the population. This was the purpose behind this policy. India follows democracy and China follows communism. The implementation of any policy is done in India only when it passes through a long process of parliament. They have very high population and are on the verge of population explosion giving lack of employ-ability, degradation of healthcare, education, natural resources and many other problems. China has implemented this policy. But there are many things to be considered for implementation of this policy in India.

India gives freedom of choice to its citizens. This allows them to have as many children as they want. It is not a law abiding nation so many of the laws related to no of children have not been neatly implemented. Many a time, changes are not easily accepted in this society. many policies have been manipulated and there will be a great chance of manipulation in this policy too.

Previously, there have been many efforts given for creating awareness among people for no of children. But they could not succeed to a great extent. Still in sub-urban and village areas, no of children are more than 5 or 6 even.

There is another side of this discussion. This law will threaten lives of girl child. Abortion, killing of first girl child will increase. Sex ratio will be hammered. Exploitation of women for first boy child will increase.

This law even will erase the brother, sister like family relationships. Children will not be able to experience these relations.

There is great week point with this law. This law does not consider twin's birth, amputated child, mental disabled child, incompetent child with less survivability in coming years and many such things which are related with the first child.

Although this law may open doors of employment, resource utilization, land use, growth in economy, spread of education, decrease in poverty, etc., the fundamental right of an individual to have children is put on test here.

Some points from Group Discussion held on 13/07/2013

Two topics were given to the group. One topic was known where as one was provided on the spot. Here are some points from already known topic:-

Topic:- Education System of India

India has a great history of Leaders and Talented people. The method of Education in India has been a topic of research for a very long time. But now a days, this Educational system has become a part of discussion where its existence and quality are being tested. Let us see some sides of this discussion.

Annual budget 2012-13 saw an increased Investment in Education sector as 12.7%. Government has implemented policies such as Right to Education (RTE)-Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, National Programme of Mid-Day Meals, Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls, SABLA and many more to ensure that the Education right of every child is secured. Girl students and poor students are taken care by many of such policies. [Figures and Statistics from TOI].

Another point is that India has been famous for its Teachers. Although there has been many cases of bad teachers at Municipal schools, the primary education in India has been very strong. There is a great Brain Drain from India for the quality of this education.

There are many negative points. The Education system in India is considered to be very generalized. There is no special or employ-ability feature in it. It is very theoretical and memory based. The traditional and history based trends used in this system must be changed. Indian Education system does no good in overall development of a child. No mental ability is tested and no support is given as per capability of student. The trends are limited and many are forced to pick up usual trends. No development in newer trends and no efforts to modernize the system are being taken. Foreign countries are many a time opted for Higher education as specialized contents are not available in India.

Communication and entrepreneurial skills are not taught and many times, are killed from the mind of children. Coaching classes have captured the market and no one believes in school education. Cost of primary, pre-primary to higher education has increases to a great extent.

Corruption is also one of internal ingredients in Indian Education system. Caste reservation and other factors have always been a topic of debate and discussion.

These points clearly suggest that Indian Education system needs a great peripheral change whereas internal structure needs to be neatly scanned and modified.

FROM THE DIARY OF A TEACHER

Some important points told by Prof. Naidu Madam on 13th July, 2013 after the GD session:-

1. KEEP EYE CONTACT
2. INITIATE THE GD
3. ALLOW OTHERS TO SPEAK
4. SPEAK CLEARLY
5. MAKE SURE TO BRING DISCUSSION ON TRACK
6. POSITIVE ATTITUDE
7. SPEAK SENSIBLY
8. LISTEN CAREFULLY TO OTHERS
9. NO NEED TO GO INTO MUCH DETAILS
10. FORMAL DRESSING
11. BODY GESTURES
12. BE THE FIRST AND ALSO THE LAST TO SPEAK

Some Moments of Group Discussion held on 13/07/2013

Regarding Group Discussion to be held on 13/07/2013

Topic:- Education system in India
ADITYA MORARKA, JAYANT NATHANI, KUSHAL AGRAWAL, SHRESHTHA SWAMI, RUCHI AGRAWAL, SAURABH MANTHAPURWAR, ANMOL AGRAWAL, PRATIK VERMA, RUCHA BADHE, MAYURI SAHASRABUDHE

Some points from Group Dscussion topics discussed on 6/07/2013

Doubt com or dot com?

Internet is an ocean of information. Many websites on the internet are used for searching and getting information on various subjects. It is considered as the fastest and the cheapest source of information. The subject expands as whether the information given on the internet and the ways used to give that info are good and authentic or not.

Many websites are visited day-to-day. When we try to get something from any site, it may want us to enter some vital info like email id, name and address, account details, credit card info, etc. These things do not seem to be necessary for the information. Many a time, websites want us to sign in through Facebook or Twitter or any social site id and password. The pages are not redirected to the profile and have great chances of putting username and passwords on these sites.

Information given on many websites which are mostly used by people like Wikipedia, different Blogs, different social discussion sites are not completely legal and authentic. But people use them directly in their discussion, writing materials, journals, projects, etc. This causes loss of truthfulness and creates doubtfulness.

There are many cases seen where people try to buy stuffs from internet through online sites and lose money over thieving offers. The credit card info and other personal details entered at some Travel Planning site get used by thieves for illegal things. Even some click-able links in your spam can hammer your security and take out saved password information.

There is a current trend of blackmailing and luring kids and teens through social networking sites. They have less ability to think, act and respond to such things and hence get easily trapped in these traps.

So, the overall situation is Internet is not as secure as it should be and the information given here is not as authentic as it should be. The sites are creating doubts over their use, authenticity, security, validity, information they provide, services they give, information they take from us and their policies or actions.

SOME MOMENTS OF GROUP DISCUSSION HELD ON 6/07/2013

FOR SATURDAY SESSION ON 6/07/2013

LIST FOR GROUP DISCUSSION TO BE HELD ON 6/7/2013

TOPIC 1: SAMSUNG V/S APPLE ?
KUSHAL AGRAWAL, ANURAG DAMANI, AKASH DHANORKAR, JITENDRA KOTHARI, PRATIK VERMA, RUCHA BADHE, AANCHAL GUPTA, UZMA AMBREEN, SAKSHI DARDA, RUCHI AGRAWAL.

TOPIC 2: DOT.COM OR DOUBT COM ?
ANMOL AGRAWAL, RAHUL UMAK, PARTH BIRAMWAR, ANKIT AGRAWAL, PALASH AGRAWAL, MINAKSHI BALEKAR, PRIYANKA AGRAWAL, VAISHNAVI ASATI, RAKSHA AGRAWAL, MAYURI SAHASRABUDHE.

Some important points of Topic 2 in group discussion held on 29/06/2013

Topic 2:- Is data secure in Cloud?

Cloud storage is a model of networked enterprise storage where data is stored not only in the user's computer, but in virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties, too.

To think about security of the cloud, you need to view few points below:-

1.Cloud provider's policies, processes, procedures to maintain controls.

2.Disaster recovery and business continuity processes. 

3.If the Cloud provider goes bankrupt, Can the enterprise’s data be sold to a creditor or at auction as a provider’s asset?

4.What is the way of safeguarding  my data? Are the Encryption policies or Username-password schemes of authorization and authentication tested and verified? Does the data remain in useable form during transport?

The major points which hammer the security of the data in cloud are:-

1. IAM: Cloud computing turns us all into remote workers, which makes identity and access management (IAM) one of the key challenges after a cloud computing move. It is important to have robust life-cycle management regarding users and user access so that user accounts, credentials and access rights are always relevant and up to date, including disabling an account when an employee leaves. 

2. SSO: This enables users to securely access data or systems across autonomous security domains. Consider introducing single sign-on (SSO) for enterprise applications and leveraging this architecture to simplify cloud provider implementations. A move to the cloud will appear far more seamless to your users if they are already used to SSO, and it’ll make managing trust across different types of cloud services less onerous. 

3. Bandwidth: The increased Internet usage that cloud computing brings also increases the increased risk of network congestion bottlenecks. Web-based applications are extremely latency-sensitive, many barely functioning if the network is too busy. Downtime or slow processing frustrates employees and can lead to breaches in policy. Slow file or data transfers, for example, can lead workers to use alternative methods that may be far less secure and break security policy rules. 

4. Firewalls: Connections between the internal network and the cloud should certainly be encrypted; sending any sensitive or mission-critical data back and forth in the clear over the Internet is like offering attackers an invitation to steal the data. As a network engineer, ensure network devices can handle the processor-intensive, public-key encryption algorithms involved in SSL-encrypted communications.  

5. Audit: Another important task after a cloud computing implementation will be to conduct an audit of all security policies to ensure they remain relevant. Also review, update and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans and procedures. Processes, and more importantly, people’s roles, will have changed now that cloud computing infrastructure is a part of day-to-day systems management.  

Some important points of Topic 1 in group discussion held on 29/06/2013

Topic 1:- Linux is free, yet not popular among personal computers. Why?

1.There is smaller selection of peripheral hardware drivers for Linux.

2.Many things are Command oriented, which makes uneasy for the use for beginners.

3.GUI of Linux OS are not as great as compared to other popular OSes.

4.There is no commercial support available for the Linux users as it is available for Windows and other OSes like 24*7*365 online and telephone support.

5.Many of the commercial and famous software are not available in versions which can run on Linux.

6.Many computer vendors give their computers with preinstalled operating systems. The percentage of Linux in those OSes is very less.

7.As Linux is available as Open Source without any cost, people are afraid to install them due to reliability puspose. Many a time, people think the purchased things more reliable and suitable for their  use.

8.There is no publicity done for Linux. There is a great role of awareness and advertisement in making any product popular.

9.Confusion in variants is another thing. When people search about Linux, they find so many option in front of them which makes the selection of single Linux variant suitable to their needs almost very difficult.

10.Power utilization and assurance of completion of any given task in Linux is so low that a developer needs to change some vital codes of the OS and then run it.

11.As there is full access given to the source code, any Malicious Developer may take advantage of any weakness of the OS.

PHOTOS OF GROUP DISCUSSION HELD ON 29/06/2013

VERY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE GROUP MEMBERS FOR THEIR GREAT EFFORTS AND BEAUTIFUL EXECUTION OF THE GROUP DISCUSSION PROGRAM.

First Group Discussion

Group Discussion (29/06/2013) (8am-9am) (CSE 7th sem)
Group1 [Topic:- Linux is free, yet not popular among personal computers. Why?]
KOMAL LALWANI, PRATIKSHA KAMDAR, RUCHI TIWARI, SHRESHTHA SWAMI,
SWATI RIYAL, ABHILASH SHARMA, ADITYA MORARKA, ASHISH KHETANI,
ROHIT JAIN, SAQUIB ALI.
Group2 [Topic:- Is data secure in Cloud?]
ADITI AGRAWAL, AVANI JOSHI, NEHA AWASTHI, PRANIJA JAJOO, RASHMEET
MATHARU, ABHISHEK PAL, ANIKET DESHPANDE, HIMANSHU GUPTA,
SANDESH AGRAWAL, SAURABH MANTHAPURWAR.

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