Moral of the story,"If you have money, then why not 'buy' projects of the best quality". This is what is happening in modern India. After all, every parent would want his or her child to bag the best grade in the project.
Read any advertisement of the so-called 'international' schools. Every other school claims of imparting an all-round development to the child and not just 'schooling'. In the name of making the children 'all rounders', the school charges an exorbitant fee. Average- incomed parents break their backs by signing the cheques in favour of the school.
If your kid is not enrolled with one of the 'International' schools, then probably he or she is not quite doing well or his or her career is in jeopardy. Parents would want their children to get the best possible education available in the country. Just like the lady who outsourced her kid's project to the 'project-maker', the modern-day parent is trying hard to buy 'all-round' development for his kid by pumping cash into the treasury of these 'international schools' or by 'getting things done professionally'.
Now, the question is 'what is best' or 'what is all-round development'? Is it knowing how to ride a horse and at the same time getting a 100 percent in the Math paper or is it visiting London on an 'educational tour' and topping the quiz competition held in the school at the same time?
Projects were always a nightmare to school going students. Going by the very intention of the activity called 'project', it is an activity where in the student gets an opportunity to go outside the textbooks, use his common-sense, venture into something new and create something on his own. It is nothing, but a means to empower and instill confidence in the school-goer.
Project alone is not the one way to gain confidence. There may be numerous other ways. The crux is that, it is this confidence that would translate to self-belief. Alas, money cannot buy confidence or self-belief. Once the kid is thrown into the dirty pool called society, he or she has to fight it out. More than swimming learnt in the 'Olympic-sized-pool' at school, it is self-belief and common-sense that would save him or her from drowning.
The second most important point is sensitizing the student towards the society. The fact that society cannot treated as an alien for long, drives home the point that the student should be taught and trained to become a responsible citizen.
The national academic bodies should research more on the means of imparting education so that education becomes more relevant to the present day India and would help in carving out responsible citizens.
