Prashant Paliwal

Civil Engineering School Allahabad:  Facilities for higher education were extremely limited in the country during the British Period and were mostly intended for meeting the administrative needs of the country. Therefore, there was an acute shortage of technical personnel of all categories during the war.  After the end of the war in 1945 and independence … Read more

Association of students: All countries of the world have representative bodies of students under different names and with different functions. In the good old days, when we were students at Meerut College Meerut, we had a mock parliament of students in the institution. The intention was to familiarize the students with the  smooth  functioning and … Read more

Admissions to engineering schools of Lucknow: For almost twenty years, Civil Engineering School Lucknow had full freedom for framing rules and procedures for selection and admission of students to the overseer’s certificate course run by it.  The management of Civil Engineering School Lucknow had earmarked ten seats for the admission of nominees of donors and … Read more

Blunt Square: Blunt square was a newly developed locality in the south  of Charbagh railway station, bounded by Kanpur Road on the east and a deep ravine on the west. It was a  neat little development with open surroundings. Most of the houses in Blunt Square belonged to people working in secretariat services of U.P. … Read more

Background: Improvising is something, which has been a common tool, since times immemorial. Improvising widens the frontiers and inspires  the man to keep moving.  It replaces static and dormant thinking and paves the way for action and keeping the dreams alive. Some of the most celebrated institutions of the world had extremely modest beginnings, but … Read more

Settling down at Lucknow:   Before independence, for almost hundred years, Thomason College of Civil Engineering Roorkee was  a  leading and prestigious institution of the country. It  was more of an officer’s training school for the production of field oriented officers needed for the construction and maintenance of Ganga Canal.  However, as times rolled on, the … Read more

My early life: I was born  on 18 January 1925 at  Banswara, which was a small, land locked princely state of erstwhile Rajputana and grew up under the loving care of my parents. I had my early education at Bundi, which was another small princely state of Rajputana, unaware and unconcerned about the winds of … Read more

Change of guards in Rajasthan: Morarji Desai was chosen as the leader of the Janata Parliamentary Party  and was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 24 March 1977. Soon after assuming office, the  Janata Government put pressure on all  congress ruled states to resign, on the plea that the general elections held in … Read more

Polytechnics: The directorate of technical education was established in Rajasthan in 1957 followed by the establishment of three state government polytechnics at Jodhpur, Udaipur and Ajmer in 1958. Kota Polytechnic  had started functioning in 1960 followed by polytechnics at Bikaner and Alwar in 1961. There was an acute  shortage of technical manpower at that time … Read more

Background:   Wide spread  rallies and demonstrations by the opposition had completely paralysed the normal working of the government, when the state of internal emergency was proclaimed in the country on 25 June 1975.  Proclamation of emergency was an unusual step under unusual conditions and it is very difficult to say, whether,  it was good or … Read more