Ragam Updates..

Ragam09 , the third ragam of my life was over a few days back..
Here are the stats(you won't see this anywhere else)..

Some 1395 external participants, 71 colleges.
Final standings..

	College	Points
1	NITC	402
2	College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram	265
3	Govt. Medical College, Thrissur	263
4	Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Pappanamcode	184
5	Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Tech., Nalanchira	97
6	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam	83

With about 350 participants CET rocked the campus..Thanks to one and all from CET..Special thanks to Sanu S Nair ,their team captain...With about just 48 participants, previous champions GMC thrissur came second. SCT under Lijo Mathew came third.

I don't know what was the exact budget of the event..But it is something between 25 to 30 lakhs. A mammoth sum , indeed..

So it is time for a small interospection.. Is Ragam growing ? Or is it moving in the right direction ?

The numbers shows that it is certainly growing...From about 1110 participants,
it moved on to 1395. Number of colleges increased from 60 to 71.

But the saddest part is that Ragam owes a lot to the above 5 colleges for its existence..Minus these colleges , I am afraid that It is a big zero..Certainly these are painful confessions.. Ragam has become a professional college festival. The Arts and science colleges seem to ignore it. Or the other way.

If Ragam was all about pro shows , I would not have complained.None from Farook college , Devagiri college ( Calicut university Inter zone champions ) did turn up..If 1000 plus participants can come from the Thiruvananthapuram district, Why not atleast one from a college that is in the viscinity ? It certainly disappointed me..I was expecting something around 3000 , but not even half turned up..

It is high time we recognise our faults and make corrections.A detailed review later..

Signing Off
RK