#WATCH | Ranchi, Jharkhand | A class 12th student, Sarthak Sidhant, says, “…I have written a blog that compares the tender documents of CBSE. I have uploaded and published it… There were at least 15 discrepancies, as per my blog. I would like to highlight three or four of them. Let me give a background about Coempt. It was known as Globarena, and they have a very shady background. 23 students killed themselves because of coempt… Now, I would like to tell you about RFP (Request for Proposal). What happens is the government issues a tender and asks the bidder to bid for it. CBSE issued this tender three times… I have compared the old RFP and the new RFP, and I found some discrepancies… The first discrepancy is that there were three clauses of poor performances which was completely wiped out from the new RFP. In the earlier RFP, there was a clause called blacklisted earlier, whereas in the new RFP, it was changed to blacklisted currently. Why would the board want a service provider which was blacklisted earlier? The third thing I found out is the 50 crore limit, which you needed to qualify, and coempt qualified that by 1.7% … The time frame of corrupt practices was halved, and there were project criteria changes… It shows a pattern that the industry giant TCS was not preferred, but coempt was preferred, which works as a very fragmented group of institutions…”
The idea of an all-new ‘Flying Sikh’ understandably captured headlines this past weekend.
And perhaps no event in athletics grips the world quite like the 100 metres sprint. The search for the world’s fastest human being.
As schoolchildren, we watched Jim Hines break the 10-second barrier at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. At the time, it was hard to imagine India ever entering that conversation.
Which is why the performances of Gurindervir Singh and Animesh Kujur feel so significant. They make us believe we do have what it takes to compete at the highest level.
India’s national record stood at 10.26 as recently as 2023. We have now moved to 10.09 in remarkably little time.
I checked on the net and found that Olympic finalists are typically in the 9.8–9.9 range.
World Championship semifinalists are often around 10.0–10.1.
And Asian/Commonwealth medal contention can happen around 10.0–10.15 depending on the field.
So Gurindervir is now operating at the edge of genuine international competitiveness.
(For perspective, let’s not forget that Su Bingtian of China ran 9.83 at the Tokyo Olympics semifinals in 2021.)
The final frontier, of course, is the mythical sub-10 barrier. One of sport’s rarest achievements.
A huge challenge still lies ahead.
But watching Gurindervir explode off the blocks and streak to the tape was exhilarating.
I’d like to start my week with that same momentum…🙂
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