08-12-2004, 12:51 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is on a destruction spree. From its collection of thousands of PhD dissertations collected from all over the country, barely 800 have escaped destruction. A large number were burnt and the remaining are in an advanced state of decay in ICSSR's godown.
What's the rationale behind such largescale destruction? The Council's National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) has been transformed and moved to an ultra-modern building which presumably had no space for these works.
But shockingly, ICSSR's alibi that every piece of written word would be put on microfilm or digitised was not followed in this case.
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It is a great pity when the so called scholars don't recognize the importance of good dissertations!!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is on a destruction spree. From its collection of thousands of PhD dissertations collected from all over the country, barely 800 have escaped destruction. A large number were burnt and the remaining are in an advanced state of decay in ICSSR's godown.
What's the rationale behind such largescale destruction? The Council's National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) has been transformed and moved to an ultra-modern building which presumably had no space for these works.
But shockingly, ICSSR's alibi that every piece of written word would be put on microfilm or digitised was not followed in this case.
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It is a great pity when the so called scholars don't recognize the importance of good dissertations!!