Recently I got a chance to visit the MACFAST campus in Tiruvalla. I was expecting it to be yet another self financing college. But I was very much surprised when I saw the facilities in the campus.
The college only has got PG courses and every student is treated as a professional. Students are always in executive uniform (even though I dont agree to being formal always), the sight is very impressive.
The entire campus is wifi and there are students sitting here and there casually using their laptops. Unlimited internet access is guaranteed with fail over connections via RF and cable from different service providers.
The principal is a true visionary. Rev Dr Abraham Mulamoottil came to Tiruvalla to start this institution after having taken a PHD from abroad. All the infra was setup using the unused NRI money flowing to Tiruvalla. He plans to make this into a deemed university in the near future. He even has got plans to setup an IT park and a mini airport in Tiruvalla.
The college has got some of the best people from the academic scenario in Kerala. Prof Ignatious Kunjumon, a well known figure in the open source and free software movement in kerala is the HOD of Bio informatics and MCA departments.
The college has started a company, MACFAST Technologies which is providing jobs to students. Its not about the money, but the experience of working in a company atmosphere and getting paid for it really counts.
And before I left the college the principal revealed another plan of his to me. He plans to buy Tata Nano cars for his students. He wants his students to live like a professional even while they are studying.
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A hindu girl hailing from a lower middle class family in Kollam committed suicide today.
She was studying for MCA in Macfast, Thiruvalla- an institution run by the priests of the ReethuCatholics.
A note she left said she died because she couldnt afford a new laptop. She had lost her old one and the Priest cum Principal told her that she neednt come back unless she buys a new one.
She couldnt even imagine telling it to her family about this huge expense ( a laptop might be nothing for the puthenpanakaar westernised nasranis in orkut, but thr r many who need a lifetime savings to do that)
So she went and committed suicide.
Now the latest is that the SFI activists in Thiruvalla had went into the Macfast college and smashed all the labs and offices inside.
Long live swasrayam and the great “Christian Minority Rights”…is it the right to drive the poor to desperation that they go and kill themselves?
Comment by tk — March 27, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
@tk
You are trying to communalise the situation. In Kerala, most of the educational institutions are run by Christian church. How many students have committed suicide before this, facing mental torture the management ????? People like you are a menace to the society. Because those missionaries came to kerala, we are an educated society. Dont forget that.
A laptop is no reason to commit suicide, and that too a brutal one, cutting 2 veins and then hanging. I doubt those sucicide ntoes are fabricated.
And your hatred against Swasrayam is a typical communist mentality. Im not going to comment on that.
Comment by admin — March 27, 2008 @ 6:54 pm