"An engineer has a duty not only to the client, but also to society and to the environment."

Today the consequences of human creativity in the areas of engineering, technology, and science have reached measures that only a few decades ago were unimaginable (e.g., telecommunication, genetic engineering, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technologies, artificial intelligence). This capacity and development means an enormous amount of Power and Power can be tamed only with responsibility, obligation and accountability.

It is always expected from an engineer to keep the well being of the society in his/her mind, while designing new plans and implementing them, issues such as:

> Health and safety of common men,

> Pollution of all kinds,

> Depletion of resources,

> Energy policy,

> Nuclear power generation and waste disposal,

> Privacy,

> Economic and social aspects of advanced technology and automation,

> Educational aspects of the impact of technology.

Must be considered, because the development that we aspire can’t be visualized if the basics are not met, we very well know that the higher the building is to be built deeper the foundation is dug.

The fact of living in a complex, global, and intercultural world coupled with the unquestionable technological power wielded by governments and societies, make it necessary that engineers amplify the horizon of their technical knowledge with humanistic values and harmonize their specialized innovations and development with knowledge of the norms, principles, and ideals of ethics, it becomes moral duty of engineers to work for the betterment of society and to implement their knowledge for constructive purposes only. An engineer who is working for a particular firm or person should not blindly follow the orders of his employer, he should not act like a “hired gun” rather if something is going wrong then he must object, we must remember that society comes above individual gain. An engineer is ought to be morally correct and considerate of the responsibility endowed onto him to change the past into a better future. In the moral sense, responsibility is a virtue: a “responsible person” is careful, considerate, and trustworthy; common citizen rely on engineers, so if engineers do there job diligently they are being more than competent; in serving fellow humans, and serving them well is being good and honest to their profession. All the professions are given liberty to work autonomously for the betterment of society, a common person blindly follows the advice of a professional be it a doctor, lawyer, teacher or engineer and this liberty to decide the fate of society should not be made a mockery.

Thus, a responsible and competent engineer is one who is responsible for balanced development of society, nation and nature; he/she should be well informed about his field, should think for common people and be diligent towards his/her work. Always remember if we are not paying back to our roots then we are being a defaulter and defaulters have no where to survive.

LOK SABHA elections

Its about four five months from now that worlds one of the largest democracy would go voting but the verdict is again going to be biased, there has been a trend to promote the pratices of regionalism and communalism and we feel proud behaving so un-rationally and by not electing the right person, most of the people today suffer from psuedo-concern disorder-yes, that is they dont care really to exercise their right to vote and even if they do so, they end up favoring someone who is from their caste or religion- its sad but true, party like BJP with true nationalist ideology has suffered a set back just because they don't know how to ensure their minority vote bank by making fool out of that marginally influential part of population. Its a tragic irony that when we call BJP a hinduvadi party we tend to ignore that the hindu party with so called 80% of population behind it fails to make it to power, and they are termed as bad people who promote violence and what not all; but their counter part is so pure that they don't even need to talk about hinduism still they get to power, the problem is with the system that Indian republic follows somewhere BJP is better and in some aspects Congress scores higher and for that matter any political party, what i feel is that there should be a fair fight between their ideologies but then turn up these little regional parties making the in roads into the totals of bigger parties creating a mess in the national level elections in the name of caste and region, this multi party system at national level spoils the essence of elections and the elections merely turn out to be a formality of redistributing the seats among parties for a later on mutual decision. If we really want some solid leadership then we need to follow a two party system (or only national parties should be allowed to contest LS elections) at the national level where the two(or only all the national) parties should contest the elections and the winner should be asked to form the govt. so that it may function properly for next 5 years and can take decisions that serve NATION and not any individual or religion or caste; while regional parties should be constrained to assembly elections so that they may effectively see towards the local problem and let the bigger players worry about global issues.There might be many alternative to the current scenario but seriously we do need to revise this whole federal democratic system of Indian republic.

...prateek

lead to a better tommorow

once again there is time when everyone will engage into seasonal patriotism that grows out of us twice a year 15th aug and today 26th jan, its good but apparently we tend to hype nationalism on these occasions....... we sing patriotic songs,reward brave soldiers with PVC, SM, VSM et al., remember our freedom fighters..... this all is no bad but the essence of republic day lies in reviving the constitution of our nation that guides India to be a better nation post independence.............

as the Preamble of constitution goes

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

the pillars of this documentation are going weak and if we dont realize it sooner the republic might collapse someday.....
* JUSTICE is frequently delayed
* organisations like MNS in maharashtra openly destroy the clause of FRATERNITY
* EQUALITY is nowhere to be seen
* LIBERTY is on the discretion of powerful

the time is to strengthen the basic ideas of the REPUBLIC of INDIA .... time to overcome bias on the grounds of region, religion and status .....
more than being patriotic we need to develop a sense of nationalism and brotherhood...... dont hate some one if you are from south and he is from north or vice versa it wont get you neither bread nor friends.......

do think about it and let INDIA be what it is ..... discourage separatists and encourage fraternity ..... जय हिंद

today its my second lohri in delhi...mood is upright party one, delhi junta is dancing the chilling winter out on blends of punjabi numbers - truly delhi has an air of India, every celebration makes a sense here people do indulge themselves... i just went out to get an Old monk bottle i could see out there people in small group with bonfire..... though i am not much into these punjabi tracks but there is something today in the air which made me listen to those tracks dil le gayi kudi gujrat ki, daru by RBD many like these ;

 

now when i look forward there is practical exams, then visit to home and of course with 4 golden globe awards slumdog.. is definitely in my priority list... wrapping up these days, past few ones were really kool.. 

...prateek