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Victory Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi reached the finals of the Ordina Open tennis tournament being played in s’Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands)   on Friday. They defeated Argentineans Guillermo Canas and Juan-Martin Del Porto in a hard fought match to enter the final .Paes and Bhupathi beat the Argentinean due in a marathon battle that lasted more than one and a half hour.

Tough Match In the enthralling contest, the unseeded Argentinean pair of Canas and Porto gave Paes Bhupathi tense moments from the very first start that they missed the first set narrowly losing to the Argentinean duo 6-8 in the tie-breaker after squandering two set points, one of which came in the tie-break After losing the first set narrowly the Indian due stormed back into match in the second set and broke their rivals in the opening fame itself. Canes and Porto saved the third game though Indians had got another chance to break their rivals. It was an enthralling and tough contest the result of which could be decided only in the super tie-breaker.

Super Tie-Breaker It was only their experience that paved the way for the Indian due to their victory. The super tie-breaker turned out to be a see-saw battle but the experienced Indians held their nerves to earn two match points and the wrapped up the match to win that was also a toughest match of the tournament so far.

Olympic Preparation The Indian due was playing together on the ATP circuit after the gap of four years. They had gone into the tournament under-prepared and also after a long gap. They had won three Grand Slam Titles playing together and an Olympic medal. Recently Paes and Bhupathi had decided to play together for India at Olympics. This tournament is the part of their preparation for the Olympics. Ace tennis player had pleaded to Mahesh Bhupathi to put aside all the differences and play together for the country in the Olympic but Bhupathi had showed his resentment in playing with Paes. It was only on the initiative of the AITA that both the player got united and decided to play together in the Olympic Games. Paes and Bhupathi are the best options for India for the Olympics. They have played together in many tournaments and know each other’s playing style very well. With them, India has hoped to win a medal in the Olympics.        

History India is famous for is well structured education system that prevailed in the country from the remote past. India used to be the education center in the ancient times and students used to come to India to learn. Nalanda was famous for its educational infrastructure in the ancient times. Rulers of the medieval age and later on, the colonial rulers encouraged the spread of education with policies, programs and commissions. After independence India built up a very large system of education following the planning and recommendations of the various national commissions set up by the Indian government.

British Rule During the colonial rule of British, though the education system improved a lot but the literacy rate was very low. In the ancient times Brahmans, the highest class holds the authority to gain knowledge. British wanted the natives to be educated enough to be able to help them in administrating the Indians. So they introduced the new education system in India.

Present System After independence Indian followed the same pattern. Government spent a lot to establish and expand educational institutions throughout the country. But the government system could not produce the desired results. Condition of the public educational system deteriorated during the decade of nineties. There are many reasons behind it. Most the population of India lives in village and the schools in rural areas have little or no facilities. In some areas teachers are lazy, always drunk, uninspiring and even violent towards children. A very little improvements have been done in the educational system on the part of government and the public educational system is unable the match with the new demands of the Industry etc.

Solutions Private investment in the field of education has increased and is job oriented. But most of the people can not afford the costs of sending their children to schools and colleges. To alleviate such problems it will take a great deal of efforts and commitment on part of public and private sectors of India. New organizations, committees, examinations will be required to improve the quality of education. Government may need to come up with such schemes as providing meals, books and supplements so that children can be inspired to come to schools.

APHC All Parties Hurriyat Conference is a mixed bag of ideologies and personalities that claim to represent the ‘true’ wishes and will of the Kashmiri people. APHC is the alliance of separatist parties and leaders consider them selves to be freedom fighters fighting for the freedom of Kashmir and justify their militancy sponsoring activities as freedom struggle. They do not recognize the Indian constitution and has always stayed away from all the elections held for J&K assembly so far.

Separatists All Parties Hurriyat Conference was formed on March 1993 as a political front to struggle for the cause of Kashmir separatism. Pakistan has consistently supported this separatist group to legitimate its claim over the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir. Though they have repeatedly emphasized on a dialogue to resolve the Kashmir issue, they have consistently stayed away whenever there was any opportunity of dialogue. By staying away form the dialogue process they try to project themselves as the bigger and more exclusive group in the process for resolving the Kashmir issue though all of its decisions and acts are influenced by instructions from across the border.

Pakistan Sponsored When Indian armed forces launched counter-insurgency operations Kashmiri militants soon realized that they were following only the Pakistani policy of creating troubles inside India there was nothing that could be called a freedom struggle except killings of innocent people. Hurriyat Pakistan has always attempted to portray its proxy war against India as an indigenous uprising against Indian sovereignty and Hurriyat backed by it has always worked as a cover for its violence supporting activities in India

Thinking Goals of the APHC were, to struggle for the right of self determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, find an alternative solution to the dispute by involving third party and mainly to project the ongoing struggle as a struggle against the “forcible and fraudulent Occupation of Kashmir by India”. It supports the Pakistani claim that Kashmir is a disputed state and India’s control on it is unjustified and the dispute needs to be solved ‘ as per the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Unrealistic Thought Hurriyat claims itself to the ‘true representative of the people of J&K, it has never participated in the assembly elections. Reason is very simple that if it takes part into the elections, the myth of its ‘true representation’ will get broken and that will be the end of its Pakistan backed games that it is playing by misleading the innocent people of Jammu and Kashmir.