Tatkal Era

I was dumbfounded looking at this news item:
quote:
http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/14/stories/2011061454170400.htm

Tatkal applications for Class X exams
Students who failed to submit applications to take the State Board Class X special supplementary examinations (SSLC and OSLC streams) could do so under the tatkal scheme before June 22, stated a release from the Directorate of Government Examinations here on Monday

unquote:

It would be too long, before a kid would come up, and request entry into the only toilet in the home of a large family, on “tatkal” basis, ..... of course out of urgency.... !!! (Kids would never take up any thing that is routine, uninteresting, etc unless it becomes urgent, apart from being mandatory! Use of toilet is no different.

I was under the impression that “tatkal” is a purely temporary measure, not to be allowed to create a precedent, and a compulsion of unforseen situation. A temporary shelter was what the great kings thought of, when they had constructed large halls of massive stone work in ancient temples. Any natural calamity would render the people homeless, and they can take shelter.

Now, even computer wizards use this concept of 'tat' (that small specific, particular, span )'kaal' (of time, kaal) on a regular basis... When a bug is reported, just delete that portion of the program, as a 'tatkal' problem-solving measure, instead of fixing that bug. Nobody would notice it anyway, since that bug-creating-portion was only supposed to feed the data into a feedback-data bank for some future use.

“Working” couples bring junk food from nearby hotels that close down at the last hour of the day...(not that they have large bracket of open-hours, but have 'tied-up' with another bulk-manufacturer for disposing large left-overs at cheap rates!)......... of course on a “regular tatkal basis”.

Objective type of question-papers/answers, tele-interviews, snap-audits, and what not.... All those things which are 'regularised' now were supposed to be 'tat-kaalik' !!! But regularisation of 'temporary staff' on daily-wages, is postponed indefinitely.

psn(13th June, 2011)