JALDAPARA TOUR (EPISODE - 02)

Roy: - We can go to Digha or Puri.

Debarjun: - Dhaath…Bengalis have no other places to tour. Don’t you feel bored to visit Digha or Puri.

Roy: - Actually, these are places, where the expense is very low and you can enjoy the sea beach.

Debrup: - No, no, no…not Digha or Puri…dhaath…I have at least visited Puri for more than 10 times with my parents. I know each and every nook and corner of the Sun Temple at Konark…ha ha ha…

Roy: - Hmm…well…let me think a while. Oho! I forgot to tell you people. Do you people know Mohit Hada and Narendra Agarwal of Section-D?

Ayandeep: - No, we only know Arindam Sain and Arindam Roy of our section B…ha ha ha…

Roy: - You people always have a tendency to bully me. You people are not at all serious about any tour. You people always play jokes about me and Sain. Go to the Section-A then. In Section-A, there are 3 Arindam and 6 Abhishek. In our Section – B, there are 4 Arindam and 3 Abhishek.

Sain: - Uff…baapre baap. Bengali parents are fond of keeping their boy’s name as Arindam or Abhishek. See the fun.

Ayandeep: - Anyway, jokes apart. Roy, now tell us, what you were actually trying to say?

Roy: - Narendra and his gang went to Jaldapara recently. They are saying that it is a reserve forest and the expense of the tour is not more than 4500 or 5000 bucks. So, we can plan for Jaldapara forest tour.

Devrup: - Jeeyo mama…you have given a good suggestion. We will go to Jaldapara. Maybe, you people are not aware of the fact that there are two bunglows inside that Jaldapara forest, which have been constructed by our West Bengal State Government. One is Holong Bunglow, which is at the deep forest of Jaldapara and another bunglow is at the buffer zone of Jaldapara forest. The second bunglow is known as West Bengal Development Authority Tourist Bunglow. One has to go with me tomorrow at the office of West Bengal Tourism. It is in the B.B.D. Bag area of Kolkata.

Ayandeep: - Ok, I will go with you.

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WB Tourism Officer: - You people want to tour Jaldapara…hmm…What is your professions?

Ayandeep: - We are MBA students of ICFAI Business School. It is our vacation time. That’s why; we want to go for a tour. We want to book two rooms in Holong Bunglow for 3 days and 3 nights.

WB Tourism Officer: - Holong Bunglow! ha ha ha…only the lucky people get the room reservation in Holong bunglow. Basically, Holong Bunglow is more or less a guest house for our respected chief minister Jyoti Basu. Whenever, Jyoti Basu visits North Bengal, he loves to spend his quality time in Holong Bunglow. Anyway, I will not disappoint you people. There are two rooms available after 4^th June 2007, but not in Holong bunglow. It is in the other bunglow. Will I book those two rooms for you people?

Debrup: - Yes, of course. We are 5 in number. We want to stay for 3 nights. Please tell us about the tour package.

WB Tourism Officer: - See, if you would have opted for Holong bunglow, then for 3 days and 3 nights, the expense would have been around 5500 bucks per head. But, for our ‘Banglar Bunglow’, it is only 3500 bucks per head. This amount is charged for both fooding and lodging. You don’t need to pay any extra money for having breakfast, lunch, evening coffee and dinner inside that bunglow.

Ayandeep: - Ok, we want to book two rooms from 5^th June to 7^th June. But, we will reach Jaldapara in the afternoon of 5^th June. We will not be able to have the lunch on 5^th June.

WB Tourism Officer: - Don’t worry, if you log in to our bunglow in the afternoon of 5^th June, then you can log out on 12 noon of 8^th June and can have your lunch in our bunglow only. Not an issue.

Ayandeep: - Ok, ok. Ei, Debrup. I am paying the entire money through my credit card.

Debrup: - No problem! Let me now call up Debarjun to tell him to book the tickets of Kanchan-Kanya Express of 4^th June.

JALDAPARA TOUR (EPISODE - 01)

Roy: - Oops! Thank God! I have passed in the subject of ‘Macro-Economics & Business Environment’ in our 2^nd Semester. I was expecting to fail in it.

Sain: - Ha ha ha…I was also expecting the same. By the way, you have done your B.Com degree from Jaipuria College. In B.Com syllabus, you people have already learnt about Economics. I have done my B-Tech under West Bengal University of Technology. In our curriculum, there was no subject on Economics.

Roy: - All Engineering students have a wrong perception that all B.Com students are good at economics. Boss, in our B.Com studies, we have learnt about accounting in details, not about Economics and Finance. But, one thing, you have to accept that an Engineering student studying under WBUT gets higher percentage of marks than any plain graduate student under Calcutta University (CU). Under CU, a student has to struggle to get 60%. It is very hard to get good numbers in any examination of Calcutta University.

Ayandeep: - Who told you that Engineers always get high percentage? Maybe, the WBUT has a good grading system, that’s why; hardly have I seen any of their Engineering students getting below 60% marks. But, go to Karnataka or Maharashtra. The Engineering students studying in Karnataka or Maharashtra hardly gets more than 60% marks. Take my case only. I have studied Engineering under Pune University. I have secured only 57%. Only 37 students out of 178 students in our college got more than 60% marks. As a net result, I cannot appear for most of the companies that will be visiting our ICFAI Business School – Kolkata campus in this year of 2007 as I don’t have 60% marks throughout in my academics.

Debarjun: - Hmm…that’s a problem. Every University in India should follow a standard and uniform grading system. There is no guarantee that a student of other University with around 85% marks is as intelligent as a student of Calcutta University with 56% marks. It is only because of the fact that there is a huge disparity in the grading system followed by different universities.

Debrup: - Uff…you people have started discussing about the education system and results. Just stop this discussion. We have ended our Summer Internship Program (SIP). We have also got the 2^nd Semester results. Our 3^rd Semester classes will start from 14^th June 2007. Today, it is 30^th May 2007. Once the college classes commence, we will not be able to go for any tour because the companies will start visiting our campus. Already, Sumita Madam has declared the company names and their probable visiting dates. D E Shaw, Nerolac Paints, TCS, 3i Infotech, Eveready, Satyam, Bank of Baroda, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Philips and TATA AIG will be visiting in between July and September.

Debarjun: - Dhhurrh…Sumita madam is not as efficient as Piyasi Sen was. Last year, believe me, even IDBI Bank, Eserve International and PWC came to recruit from our campus and that too before the SIP of our seniors. This year in 2007, I am damn sure that many companies will not visit our campus due to the attitude problem of Sumita Mukherjee. Basically, Sumita played politics on Piyasi to grab the position of Placement Officer. Now, Piyasi has moved to Globsyn Technologies and is using all her connections to get their students placed.

Sain: - Arrey, babah…you people don’t know the politics behind placing a student. For placing a student to a corporate, the placement officer charges some amount of money from the HR manager of that company. It is quite acceptable, because ultimately, the placement officer is giving a market ready human resource to that company. ICFAI Business School teachers have given their efforts to transform every ordinary student into a future manager. So, they cannot give their resources to a corporate without charging any money. But, in this case, I think that Sumita is charging more money than Piyasi. Moreover, unlike Piyasi, Sumita is herself deciding, who will appear for which company’s selection process. That’s not fair. Anyway, we will see what happens. Let’s not discuss about it. Debrup is right. We should go for a tour. But, where should we go?