Two members of the National Knowledge Commission - Professor Andre Beteille and Pratap Bhanu Mehta- resigned on Monday protesting the system of numerically-mandated quota.
Not sure if this will ever work again but figured I'd start the issue about it. People are reporting that megatools and other downloaders are no longer able to bypass Mega's 5GB restriction.
May 23, 2006, 12.00 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Two members of the National Knowledge Commission ��� Professor Andre Beteille and Pratap Bhanu Mehta��� resigned on Monday protesting the system of numerically-mandated quota, as against real and meaningful affirmative action.
In a debate that has till now been focused being either for or against reservation, the resignation of these two members has introduced a third position: Supporting affirmative action, while opposing numerical quotas.
However, it is unlikely that their resignation will have an impact on the government���s decision to go ahead with extending reservation quotas for other backward classes (OBCs).
Beteille and Mehta argue that numerically mandated quotas violate the cardinal principle of a knowledge-based society. They argue that the government is hiding behind the pretext of constitutional amendment.
In his resignation letter to the PM, Mr Mehta, member-convenor of the commission, wrote, ���The government���s recent decision to extend quotas for OBCs in central institutions, the palliative measures the government is considering to defuse the resulting agitation and the process employed to arrive at these measures are steps in the wrong direction.���
He further argued that ���They (government) have violated four cardinal principles that institutions in a knowledge-based society will have to follow: they are not based on assessment of effectiveness, they are incompatible with freedom and diversity of institutions, they more thoroughly politicise education process and they inject an insidious poison, which will harm the nation���s long-term interest.���
Prof Beteille argued in a similar vein. He had earlier written to the PM on the issue. Prof Beteille told ET, ���Affirmative action is based on respect for autonomy of institutions, it is based on trust, on the fairness of the admissions process.
There is a vital distinction between numerical quotas and affirmative action. Affirmative action allows for socially more inclusive institutions and the natural process must be encouraged. Universities have taken the lead in becoming socially inclusive.���
Explaining his position, Mr Mehta wrote, ���As a society , we focus on reservations largely because it is a way of avoiding the things that really create access. Increasing the supply of good quality institutions at all levels (not to be confused with numerical increase), more robust scholarship and support programmes will go much further than numerically mandated quota.���
Even as Prof Beteille argues for the need for affirmative action, he says that ���it is easy to queer the pitch by introducing numerical quotas. But now the situation has become difficult, so much so the students seemed to have turned their back on affirmative action���.
But if the anti-reservationists want to claim Prof Beteille as their own, he has something to tell them too. ���The whole issue of merit is a red herring. Merit is important, but their are other important criteria as well. Merit is not a right.���
In a debate that has till now been focused being either for or against reservation, the resignation of these two members has introduced a third position: Supporting affirmative action, while opposing numerical quotas.
However, it is unlikely that their resignation will have an impact on the government���s decision to go ahead with extending reservation quotas for other backward classes (OBCs).
Beteille and Mehta argue that numerically mandated quotas violate the cardinal principle of a knowledge-based society. They argue that the government is hiding behind the pretext of constitutional amendment.
In his resignation letter to the PM, Mr Mehta, member-convenor of the commission, wrote, ���The government���s recent decision to extend quotas for OBCs in central institutions, the palliative measures the government is considering to defuse the resulting agitation and the process employed to arrive at these measures are steps in the wrong direction.���
He further argued that ���They (government) have violated four cardinal principles that institutions in a knowledge-based society will have to follow: they are not based on assessment of effectiveness, they are incompatible with freedom and diversity of institutions, they more thoroughly politicise education process and they inject an insidious poison, which will harm the nation���s long-term interest.���
Prof Beteille argued in a similar vein. He had earlier written to the PM on the issue. Prof Beteille told ET, ���Affirmative action is based on respect for autonomy of institutions, it is based on trust, on the fairness of the admissions process.
There is a vital distinction between numerical quotas and affirmative action. Affirmative action allows for socially more inclusive institutions and the natural process must be encouraged. Universities have taken the lead in becoming socially inclusive.���
Explaining his position, Mr Mehta wrote, ���As a society , we focus on reservations largely because it is a way of avoiding the things that really create access. Increasing the supply of good quality institutions at all levels (not to be confused with numerical increase), more robust scholarship and support programmes will go much further than numerically mandated quota.���
Even as Prof Beteille argues for the need for affirmative action, he says that ���it is easy to queer the pitch by introducing numerical quotas. But now the situation has become difficult, so much so the students seemed to have turned their back on affirmative action���.
But if the anti-reservationists want to claim Prof Beteille as their own, he has something to tell them too. ���The whole issue of merit is a red herring. Merit is important, but their are other important criteria as well. Merit is not a right.���
Mega is one of the Popular Free Cloud Storage Provider and today I’m going to show you How to Bypass Mega Bandwidth Limit Quota Exceeded Error.
Mega Cloud Storage offers 50 GB Free Storage for free users and It’s one of the popular Free File Sharing Sites, but we can’t download files that are more than 5 GB of file size.
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Mega is very good at handling Download Speeds and very few cloud storage providers offer 50 GB space which is comparatively a major point to consider while choosing one.
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How to Bypass Mega Bandwidth Limit Quota Exceeded Error
Before getting into the tutorial, I’ve made a video tutorial of the same which will help follow the procedure more precisely and most of my readers prefer watching the video tutorial because they’re lazy to read ?
So let’s get started. For the sake of the tutorial, I’ve uploaded a 10 gig file to Mega, and I’ll download it through a browser to verify the Bandwith Limit you can check this in the embedded video.
I’m hitting around 30 – 35 MB/s download speed which is equal to 240 to 280 Mbps. Mega gives a tight competition to Popular File Sharing Sites in terms of download speeds.
After reaching the Maximum that is 5 Gigs my download has been suddenly paused/suspended. To bypass this and enable Unlimited downloads from mega. You just need to download and Install a software called ” Mega Downloader .”
You just need to download and Install a software called ” Mega Downloader .” from here. Once the Installation is done. Copy the Mega Download file URL and then open Mega Downloader.
on Mega Downloader click on Streaming and then select ” use Streaming Server ” and click “Save.” Finally, All you need to do is to select ” Watch Online ” from the Stream Menu and paste the copied Mega URL.
Then You’ll get a Steaming link which you need to copy and you need to paste it on IDM to download the file. Internet Download manager will automatically detect the file and we can download it with full speed, and there won’t be any bandwidth limits.
Also Read: MegaDownloader For Mac
Video Tutorial to Bypass Mega download Limit using IDM
Wrapping Up
There’s so much value in this tutorial and most of them will find this tutorial very useful because all recent large files are being hosted on Mega itself.
People are preferring Mega over all the available file sharing sites due to these reasons: 1) Very few offers 50 gigs of free space 2) Easy of access and Faster download speeds.
But upload speeds from the browser are very slow in Mega. I haven’t observed speeds greater than 2.5 MB/s or 3 MB/s using browser download.
Mega client app for desktop prevented this bottleneck, so if you’re planning to upload huge files then use the Mega App. Now you’d probably do this because you now know how to download faster using IDM by Bypassing Mega Bandwidth Limit Quota Exceeded Error
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