What is Happiness Index?

Date – 6th Feb, Venue – The Orchid , Vile Parle , Mumbai

WAT – Teacher Training Programme in India has not been effective in India . No effective teachers are being produced Through Training Programme . It is better to stop all these Training Programme and save public money to build Toilets and infrastructures in Schools. Analyze and argument ……etc

Panel 4 – Professor 1 ( Anirban Das ) Professor 2 ( Not Able to find )

P2 – So, Anup you are a production engineer , how production engineering is different from mechanical engineering ?

Me : Told ( There are few Papers that are more managerial that we study in 7th and 8th Semester )

P2 : No , I am not asking about papers , but as an overall role they play ?

Me : Mostly Production Engineers are handling role that mostly relates directly to production like production supervisor or even in PPC their role comes …..LiKE in my company mostly these roles were given to a prod. Engg. ( I was exception )

P2 : Ok, So u were in PPC ?

Me : No, sir I was in L&D , working as Training Manager.

P2 : Ok, What u were Doing?

Me: Explained them in detail about how Time , motion study was used in training to reduce skill conversion time .

P2 : Wait ? What is that skill conv??

Me: Sir, it is time taken to convert a trainee into operator ( Conversion of Skill level )

P2 : Ok , Can you tell me what are the types of yarn?

Me: Sir , It depends on Count ( I.e Thickness of fibre is called count ) Varies from 1 to 100.( Can varie more)

P2 : Ok , Can you tell me how variability in yarn can be dealt with variability in production?

Me : Stuck ( Blank )

P2 : Did you understand my question …?

Me : Sir ,Can you repeat that….

P2 : Ok, tell me what are variabilities in yarn that comes?

Me : Sir , only the thickness and initially some mixing comes into play other than this if you are taking dyeing into account . it was not done in our plant.

P2 : Laughingly , Ok dying was not done there ?

Me: No , sir only yarn manufacturing.

P2 : What about Arvind mills ? Look towards P1 laughingly

Me : Sir, I don’t have any idea about Arvind mills but they are also in textile and Vardhman is the major leader in yarn industry. ( Later I came to know Arvind is in Ahmedabad )

P2 : Asked one more question related to what parameter to look into Fully automated plant ? ( Don’t remember exactly )

Me: Answered , but was corrected by P2 .

P1 comes into play

P1 : So Anup you have written that you are looking for some data to agree with author ? ( Referrin to WAT )

Me: Yes, sir as I think without proper data , we are mere giving opinions .

P1 : But what you will do with that data , they are mere chunk of numbers?

Me: Sir, We all can share our opinions and views in day to day life but taking such decision of stopping training programmes without any sound data analysis is vague.

P1: What data are you looking for?

Me : Sir, I would say what are the % of students getting failed in schools % of teachers passed/failed through these training programmes.

P1 : But still how data can help you in making decision ?

Me: Sir , I would like to add one point that recently a data was released by aspiring mind showing unemployability among 80 % of engineer ……this figure 0f 80 make us think that problem is grave and engineers are not getting job ……if the same figure would have been 10% or 5% , we don’t bother much…data’s are helpful in understanding different scenario..

P1 : Tried to question again but P2 came into play …

P2 : So , Do you think so many engineers are not getting job ….there should be some training for professors of engg. Colleges?

Me : Definitely , sir…There is a need for that…( Confidently )

P2 : (Smiles) Why you think so?

Me : Sir , the education is not job oriented there , even lot of my peers after getting job faced lot of problems in their job as they felt what they are learning now , should have been done in college itself . like I myself faced lot of problem in learning excel as most of my work was related to data and I was not good with that……

P2 : (Going completely out of the track) But most of the parliamentarians are given training but yet it is dysfunctional?

Me : Sir, I think two opposing parties would never like to agree on to same views

P2 : You are also giving opinion now……how can you say that..?

Me : Sir, we can look for data in this case also.

P2: Ok , What data u will look?

Me : What number of bills were passed /not passed …..blahh…..

P2 : (seems satisfied)Ok, data of republican and democrat will be helpful in this?

Me: Yes , it can be…