Showing posts with label Graduates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graduates. Show all posts

10th RUB Convocation Day

25th February, 2015 will be one of the most unforgettable days for thousands of young and energetic graduates gathered for the 10th RUB Convocation Ceremony in the Royal Thimphu College ground. The day was a rejoice for thousands of graduates graduated from 10 RUB colleges and one RUB affiliated college. For most graduates from 10 RUB colleges, they had a very good opportunity to visit the Royal Thimphu College and for the Royal Thimphu College graduates, it was a good comeback gathering to have a good flashbacks of their stay in the college.

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His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen graced the occasion. Speaking to the thousands of graduates in the gathering, His Majesty the King congratulated graduates for successfully completing their graduation. However, His Majesty told the gathering that Graduation is not the end of the education journey but just the beginning. His Majesty narrated his story that was being told by him to the young students. He told about the process and ingredients required to prepare Kewa Datsi (Potato curry with cheese). He told the gathering that young students know very well the ingredients required for preparing curry and the procedure for preparing it. He said that although he was glad that young and little students are very much knowledgeable in such works, he was later sad to know the moral of the story misunderstood by the students. He told the gathering that students have understood the speech of the King was about how to make Kewa Datsi. Later the King warned the gathering that those young students have got time to learn and understand things, however in the case of the graduates, that must not be the case. He said that graduates must be able to understand and analyse things better than anyone else.

His Majesty also shared the graduates the three things to remember. He told the importance of our unique culture and traditions. He urged the graduates to protect preserve the unique identity of the country. He also told that the capabilities of the younger generations will invariably decide the future of the country. The most unforgettable that I could remember and which instantly triggers my mind is, He reminded that we are trying to survive in the 21st century when the world around us is rapidly changing. He said that there is no time to waste. His Majesty also urge the graduates to work hard with our full potential to survive in the 21st century to hand over our country better to our next generations.

The day was very memorable for all the people gathered as we had an opportunity to receive the certificates from His Majesty the King and to have photographs with their Majesties. The day ended with Tashi Lebey (Ceremony ending song). The graduates later in the afternoon drove back to their homes happily with their graduation certificates in their hands

IT Graduates being left unattended

The very topic of mine may seem really unrealistic for the ones who are not in the IT field. It may also seem pessimistic for the ones who are already employed in IT sector of the country. Nevertheless, I being a recent and unemployed IT graduate for a month would like to share my experiences and feelings after my life in the world of job market. 

Life was full of works, full of enjoyments, exhilarating fun while in the college. All the students while in the college are much excited to get out of the college and experience the actual way of life. But in reality life is never easy. It is totally different from what we feel while in the college. Every second, every minute seem really long. Life as a jobless man, lingering from place to place, flipping every vacancy corner of each and every news paper in the country is like a life in a hell. However, most of the graduates including myself have much hope and expectations bestowed upon the Royal Civil Service Commission to announce the available vacancies.

However, as soon as it has been declared, I got stroke. I was shocked to see that in my course, there was just one vacancy, where I am pretty sure that hundreds of graduates will be competing. When I say this, it doesn't mean that I am not confident to face the competitive scenario in the job market in the country, yet I am little saddened to know that IT graduates are left out irrespective of the large requirement in the civil servant.

Moreover, the government says job seekers not to differentiate between government jobs and the private ones. I find some errors in saying this. This is not to blame Royal Government of Bhutan but I vividly feel it. Job seekers don't prefer in private sectors not because of the work load but because of the benefits and allowances. Private sectors in Bhutan id not developed and there can be a good number of comparisons that can be made between the two.

Nevertheless, I feel that the government and the related organizations and agencies must look closely upon the youths. I say not to directly employ them, but I want to urge the government to at least create opportunities according to the need of the nation. Moreover ministries and the government agencies announce vacancies later than the Bhutan Civil Service Examination. With this regard, it is really disadvantaged for the ones who are not qualified from the BCSE. I feel every ministries and other government agencies should work thoroughly to know the need of human resource so that all graduates working in civil service can be in the same grade. I say this because whether you are selected through RCSC examination or open competition we have to do the same work and the same work load.

Hope government will take my suggestions into considerations. And I would appreciate so many suggestions too from my readers.


RTC Online Admission System - My Project

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Bachelor of Computer Applications in Royal Thimphu College as per the course syllabus prescribed by the Royal University of Bhutan demands us to do the real-time project which is of 300 credits and is equivalent to three modules. The IT department of the college in the Fourth semester i.e. when the BCA students are about to get into their final year go to organizations, institutes, agencies, Non-Government Organizations and Corporates to get the projects which will be taken as our project client. In my batch, we are 3 in number and we have nine projects in total. Our clients are Bhutan Power Corporations, Bhutan Telecom, Druk Holding Investments (2 projects), Department of Information and Technology, Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan National Bank, Athang Pvt. Ltd and Bhutan Herbal Bath Pvt. Ltd. We were divided into nine groups for which group comprises of 3-4 members each.

In case of my group we have selected to work for our college, Royal Thimphu College. We have learned and observed that the college Student Service Department and applicants are struggling during the admission process. We thought why not we can help the college in our own small ways that we could. My group started the development works in December 2012 and worked whole winter including weekends. Having worked for the live project for the first time of its kind we enjoyed a lot, though we faced some problems. Before starting the project we sat together for almost three to four days and planned our schedule. 

RTC Online Admission System is an online application through which students from different locations can access college information and take admissions. Using this system, time for application process will be reduced and students who are located geographically can fill admissions forms. Cost of traveling for students will be reduced; man power for university will be reduced.


It is an automate the system whereby it pre-checks the inclusion of all required material and automatically ranks each student’s application based on a number of criteria. The data used by the system is stored in a database that will be the center of all information held about students and the base for the remainder of the process after the initial application has been made. This enables things to be simplified and considerably quickened, making the jobs of the people involved easier. It supports the current manual process but centralizes it and makes it possible for decisions to be made earlier and easier way.

We have developed the system using PHP and the programming language in Eclipse working environment. We have used Xampp for the MySQL database. We have incorporated JQuery, Javascripts, HTML5 and other plugins are used for graphical display in case of reports generation for the administrators.

The Project was led by Mr. Somnath Choudhuri as the project guide and Mr. Yeshi Samdrup as the Team Leader. My self and Sangay Dema were the co-developers in this system. We may be soon hosting it in RTC website for the admission for 2014-2015 cohorts' admission.
 



Democracy in Bhutan- Part IV

I am sorry if my stereotypical blog posts have made my readers bored. Actually I am forced to write till the fourth part which are dedicated for the four political parties. I am dedicating every part of the aforementioned post title for every political party of Bhutan who will be contesting in the primary round of Second Parliamentary election in Bhutan. I don't wanna be biases or inclined towards any political party being a apolitical student, so I am writing post for all of the parties differently.

This part four, which may be the last part for "Democracy in Bhutan" is dedicated to the Druk Chirwang Tshogpa. The party is also one of the new parties other than Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa who will also contest for the primary round of National Assembly election in Bhutan. 

The party believes in progress in pursuit of Unity, Prosperity and Happiness. The president of the party; Aum Lily Wangchuk says the party has 50% youth participation as their candidates in different constituencies. She also says that the party also comprises of some retired senior government officials and women. She said the members in the party have suffered and experienced all sorts of problems in lives so that they can understand the problems of people clearly.

Aum Lily in her public debates and forums says the reasons of her joining politics. She says she suffered from cancer and she was in her last breathe to leave the world. However, because of the prayers and her fortune she said she got relieved. During her bad times she said she had the strongest thought to serve the people. She said that she doesn't have any one to look after so that she will be fully dedicated in serving the people of Bhutan.

However, some sections of Bhutanese feel that it will be fearful for them to rely upon youths as their candidates who will be serving the country; if they get selected. They say DCT was hunt for their candidates and accepted whatever came their way. But when I say this I don't have any concrete proof to be proved but this is vividly what I have heard. Anyway, all the best for DCT.

SO, LET US ALL JOIN OUR HANDS AND MIND TO SELECT THE BEST PARTY TO GOVERN US.....


Democracy in Bhutan- Part III

I have wrote posts on aforementioned title- part I & part II which were dedicated for Druk Phuensum Tshogpa and People's Democratic Party. Now with the third part into queue of my blog posts, I would like to dedicate this post to Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa. 

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa felt the need of providing choice for the people of Bhutan in party selection. So, keeping this at the core of heart and having thirst to serve the people of Bhutan, they formed the new party. Moreover, they wanted to form a government of people. Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa believes in New Times, New Ideas. 

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa which is led by their president, Aum Dorji Choden form Thrimzhing Kangpara constituency says they will strive and work according to their ideologies of Solidarity, Justice and Freedom. The president is the first woman engineer in Bhutan.She has masters in Arts in  Public Administration from US and Bachelor in Civil Engineering from India.
 
I have a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India and a Masters in Arts in Public Administration from Syracuse University in the United States - See more at: http://www.druknyamrup.info/president/#sthash.s7x4Pyck.dpuf
The party is being formed by every types of candidates that are required for the formation of the party. When I say this, I am not inclined towards DNT as I have verified in my previous posts too. The party has come into play in front of the public of Bhutan. So, it is the roles and responsibilities of we the Bhutanese to find and use our power to choose the best one. So, DO YOUR BEST TO CHOICE.

DNT is grounded on long term vision of ensuring continued participation in the democratic process; 2013 election is just a beginning of the institution’s milestones. - See more at: http://www.druknyamrup.info/president/#sthash.s7x4Pyck.dpuf

Democracy in Bhutan- Part II

Having written the post for the aforementioned title which was dedicated for DPT, here comes the next post which is dedicated for People's Democratic Party. The party is being led by its president Tshering Tobgay who was the first democratically elected Opposition Leader of Bhutan.

 After having secure two seats in the parliament of Bhutan in 2008 elections, PDP secured to be the opposition party in the country. The party's president Tshering Tobgay and its member Damcho Dorji worked tirelessly to find each and every mistake of the ruling government, DPT.

As I said earlier, I am not inclined to any political party and I write this not to support PDP but just to exercise the right and the freedom of expression of mine being bestowed upon every individual in the constitution of Bhutan.

PDP believes in "Power to the People" which is stated as "Wangtse Chirphel" in our Bhutanese terms. It can also be restated as  "empowering people for liberty, equality and prosperity by devolving power and authority from the center to the people". As said earlier in my Part-I, there is similar appreciations and criticisms for the opposition party since 2008 till 2013. Some say, two of them did whatever they could do for the benefit for the people of Bhutan. But others say and are worried that how they will do if given a chance as a ruling party. They say it may be easy to find mistakes in others but it may be difficult to deliver your pledges for the people by yourself.

So, lastly I would like to let my readers to have flash backs upon what PDP has done as an opposition party. If they had done satisfactorily and you believe that they would do better if given a chance to rule the government, Go for them. If not think wisely and vote.

Bhutan Civil Service Examinations

Bhutan is a small and the most happiest country in this world. It is the country land locked between two gigantic countries: China to the North and India to the South. Happy and fortunate to be born in this beautiful and peaceful country of mine, yet employ-ability is yet another concern of mine when I am nearing towards receiving my Bachelor certificate. The policy of Royal Civil Service Commission is to have compact, competent and dedicated civil service. The number of graduates passing out every year from different universities increase drastically. Eventually, with no other options left for RCSC to select the best candidate for the civil service, they conduct BCSE.

Needless to say, I have to sit for the same in this August. For good or bad, for right or wrong, this is the time and opportunity for graduates to prove themselves. In case of me, BCSE strikes through my mind each and every fractions of second. I too have to face the biggest obstacle in my life. I have been going through so many obstacles where I could challenge all. This August is the most challenging and the most important battle that i have to fight for my life. 

Preliminary Examinations will tackle all most 50% of the graduates in the first round of the war. Later, the stronger ones will go for the second round of the battle. I worry every day and night about at which round will i reach. Nevertheless, I am not that pessimistic to get afraid of it. I know this is what life is actually all about. I know all are facing it. I know if i don’t get through that is not the end as it may be happening for the good cause. I know god is always there for me.

I write this in my blog, not to show that I am afraid of BCSE but to remind all those graduates to be prepared in advance so that you will enjoy the sweet fruit in your whole life. I say this because government is the only employer in Bhutan which provides the most secured jobs. You may be highly paid in private companies but i feel there is no security in private companies of Bhutan. Therefore, all the best for all the graduate who inspire to sit for BCSE, 2013.