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Freelancers and Women: Outstanding potential

April 12, 2016
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Who was Rosalyn Yalow?  Janet Rowley? No idea? How about Marie Curie?  Rosalind Frankin? Give up? Well these are all women who made tremendous contributions to the world of science and through them, improved  all of our lives. Without these women we would not know today how to measure hormone levels in people (Rosalyn Yalow), or know how chromosomes cause a kind of leukemia known as Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (Janet Rowley) or know anything about radiation (Marie Curie) or even know much about DNA itself (Rosalind Frankin).

What am I getting at? What I am getting at is that women have contributed greatly to human understanding and scientific growth. Without the women mentioned above – and many others whose achievements have not been as celebrated as the ones mentioned above – our lives would be much worse. All of our lives – men included of course – would be so much diminished if not for the brains and the intelligence of these wonderful women.

This is why I applaud very much the suggestions made last week by the Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani. Acting on minister Irani’s suggestions, on Tuesday April 5th, 2016  the University Grants Commission (UGC) made the decision to relax the criteria for women and for selected disabled candidates with at least a 40% disability to allow them more time in which to complete their MPhil and PhD degrees.

Women make up the other half of the human race. Without women none of us would have arrived on this earth and none of us would have had the nurturing, loving person in our lives which made our very lives possible. However, women in today’s world are capable of these noble things and more – much more. Women today can be that wonderful nurturing presences in our lives while at the same time help to discover how DNA is formed. They can give birth to us while at the same time become one of the most famous researchers in the world of radioactivity. In short, women can – and do – live to their potential every day. And we should help them to do so.

Under the new UGC criteria announced last Tuesday, women and those with more than a 40% disability will now be allowed an extra year to complete their MPhil degree and two extra years to submit their PhD theses. How wonderful! What this means is that women can now take some time off to have their children and still be able to come back and finish their degrees. This means that the Rosalyn Yalow of tomorrow, the Janet Rowley of the future will have the opportunity to give to the world the fruits of their excellent and wonderful minds.

We at IndiaFreelancers.com have been celebrating the keen and wonderful contributions which our women programmers and web developers give to the technical world for a long time. We have many Freelancers who are women and we celebrate their achievements every day.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Vidyalakshmi

April 7, 2016
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The world values Indian’s IT capabilities and now our government in India is showing us that it very much values out IT as well.

The India Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) today, April 8, 2016, proposed that all IIT students, at the time when they are admitted to the school, are to be given the possible access to INTEREST-FREE loans for their entire tuition, under the government’s “Vidyalakshmi” program. Now, as attractive as that sounds, we have to remember that it is particularly difficult to obtain admission to an IIT school in India. Indeed, the JEE (Joint Entrance Examinations) can be the “make or break” for the dreams of a young person who dreams of being an IT student. Indeed, just to qualify to take the examination students need to have a minimum 75% passing scores in their examinations and /or be in the top 20 percentile in the class XII examination. It is no easy accomplishment for a young person to obtain entrance to IIT.

But, with hard work and perseverance, a young person is able to obtain entrance to IIT – and their government will reward them with an interest-free loan as part of this new “Vidyalakshmi” program.

Why is this so significant? Indian IT is becoming a world class IT. As I have mentioned many times in this blog, we have India countrymen who are heading up some of the most prominent IT companies in the world such as Google and Microsoft to name a few. Entrance to IIT may be a young person’s chance to lift his or her family out of poverty and into the growing middle and upper class in India.

Once finished with IIT schooling, a young graduate can work with IndiaFreelancers.com and earn an amazing income – even while he or she ponders what will be the next step in his or her career.

The future of the world is in IT and with this “Vidyalakshmi” program our government in India recognizes that in India we have some of the best IT personnel in the world – and they are helping to continue this trend. Websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com are leading the way. We have some of the very best IT experts, web programmers, Internet experts, web developers in India working in IndiaFreelancers.com – and we applaud the government’s “Vidyalakshmi” program as a step to continuing the growth of this excellent class of professionals in India.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Education and India’s future

March 18, 2016
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As I have mentioned often in this blog, India is on the rise. Our economy is on the rise. Our standing in the world is on the rise and the sons and daughters of India in prominent positions in some of the world’s largest corporations is on the rise.

But how about the not-so-fortunate in India? How about the children in rural settings. For example, those studying in government schools and those coming from less privileged backgrounds, such as Dalits and tribals? A recent study has shown that these children in these schools do not do as well in school as the children from more privileged such as some of the larger cities in India.

Education is India’s future. Whether it is for higher numbers of technical professionals like web designers and computer programmers of the quality that we find in IndiaFreelancers.com or doctors, engineers and many other professions. The days of rural, unskilled labor being the main type of labor in India are passing – and we need to educate our young people in preparation for this.

A recent study conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in the year 2015, evaluated 7,216 schools across 33 states and Union Territories (UT) in India. This study concluded a few important points:

1) Girls do as well as boys in Math and Science. This is important as many of our tech experts on IndiaFreelancers.com are indeed women. The old notion that females are not as capable in the math and science fields is not holding up to the realities of our current studies today.

2) Students from rural and less privileged backgrounds do worse in their academics than those from more privileged backgrounds. This is important as we need to bear in mind that all of India needs to rise if we are to continue to rise as the world power that we are poised to become.

3) Girls indeed do have better language skills than their male counterparts. This has long been felt to be the  case and this new study indeed bears this out as well.

In summary, India is on the rise. Tech experts such as the excellent ones we have in IndiaFreelancers.com are a sample of the excellence that is coming out of India and is making a name for themselves on the world’s stage. People from all over the world, Australia, England, America and beyond, hire programmers, developers and other tech experts from IndiaFreelancers.com. As they do, word of mouth in those countries will continue to grow and let the world know the quality that is to be found in India – especially on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

India Institute of Technology (IIT)

January 22, 2016
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In a  recent article in the Times of India (August 18, 2015), it was noted that an increasing number of start-ups in India are employing India Institute of Technology (IIT) from as early in their school years as from their second and third years of IIT school.

It can be quite lucrative. A student from IIT Bombay earns as much as Rs 70,000 a month by just devoting only about 3 hours a day to developing software for a startup company. Other students who do not wish to work for someone else, simply create accounts on websites such as www.IndiaFreelancers.com and get work from employers as far away as the USA, England and Australia through that website.

In addition to websites such as www.IndiaFreelancers.com, there are a number of startups in India such as Bewakoof.com, Venturesity, Jabong, TouchKraft and VanityCube – just to name a few – all of which are employing IIT students in increasingly large numbers.

It is a win-win for both the companies and the students says Ashu Malhotra, head, human resources at Jabong, since “Companies gain by getting solutions while the students gain by getting exposure of two to four months”. With India’s growing IT presences in the world, freelancing and employment in the IT world are bound to continue to increase in India.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

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