ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced. Living in a dynamic and constantly burning socio-economic environment gives us a hundred issues to ponder upon, but seldom a possibility to put forth our views.

Keeping this in mind, Net Impact Delhi University provided an opportunity to prove your wordsmithery by organising an Online Essay Writing Competition.

Top three writings were awarded a certificate from Net Impact and their entries were posted on the Facebook page.

The topics of the competition were as follows:
1. Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of the victimized individual?
2. Has media in India, presented biased views, if so how has this affected general public’s opinion?
3. Economic survey 2016 - 17 points to sluggish employment growth. What skill development initiatives can bring Indian man force competitiveness to Global levels?

Multiple entries per person were allowed and the last date of submission was 10th June.

The winners of the same were as follows:

First Position: Krishanu Ranwan, New College, University of Toronto
Essay link: http://net-impact-delhi-university.blogspot.com/2018/06/essay-writing-competition-first-position.html

Second Position: Harsimran Kaur, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi
Essay link: http://net-impact-delhi-university.blogspot.com/2018/06/essay-writing-competition-second.html

Third Position: Udayveer Singh, Tiny Tots School
Essay link: http://net-impact-delhi-university.blogspot.com/2018/06/essay-writing-competition-third-position.html

Our heartiest congratulations to all the winners!


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ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - THIRD POSITION

Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of the victimized individual?

INHUMANE INC. 

Imagine having a tiny group of people who will follow all your commands, will work all the hours you want, won’t take leave until its parts are broken and all of this in return of only a small maintenance fee. Sounds like the future with Robot workers? This is the harsh reality of many labours working for multinational corporations in the present day.

With no possible way to detect such violations and with no sets of specified working conditions, the large corporations around the nation are open to using human labour at their will with no one to question them and only the fellows who are in desperate need of money to provide shreds of evidence against them.

This blackhole for workers is a clear violation of human rights at so many levels and still will be left unnoticed by everyone who can take an action. These victims are ignored by the local public; what can they expect from the people at the top.

The way to kill this mammoth of a problem are the arrows of humanity and reporting such problems to everyone who will listen. And what will be better is the creation of a panel for humanity just like there’s for the care of the customers, only this time, focusing on the people working hard to make the products these customers get and sooner or later, every inhumane practice in workplace will have to bow down to the power of rights.

By Udayveer Singh
Tiny Tots School

ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - SECOND POSITION

Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of the victimized individual?

Large corporates take the privilege of exploiting their workers and earning profits from them. In China, the working conditions in the manufacturing plant of various big corporates are too bad. The workers work like machines under very extreme working conditions and get wages not equal to minimum wages. Is it not a right of a worker to get what they deserve after putting so much hard work?

In case of Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh, even after severe cracks on the walls & continuous warnings, the building was used for manufacturing garments for some big brands like Benetton, Walmart, Mango etc. On Apr.24.2013, the building collapsed making it the deadliest garment-factory accident in history. 1134 people died & approximately 2500 were injured due to collapse.

 The question is who is responsible for this? Only the manufacturer? Is it not the responsibility of corporates also to check the working conditions before giving the contract? Corporates should consider worker safety as their first priority. It is not the right of every worker to have a safe and secure working environment? Although they are not their employees directly, but they work for them.

 Corporates should discuss the working conditions and wages before entering in contract. A committee should be formed to keep an eye on these issues. There should be sudden inspections so that the manufacturer can’t lie. The UN should keep an eye on such accidents & take strict actions against the culprits so that other can learn a lesson from them.

By Harsimran Kaur
Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce
University of Delhi

ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION - FIRST POSITION

Large corporations tend to violate human rights and get away with it. What can be done to ensure the protection of victimized individual?

A corporation is recognized as a legal person under the law. Its ultimate objective is to create value for shareholders. This means that all decisions are taken keeping profit-maximization as highest priority in mind. All else is secondary. This single-minded pursuit of money and consequently power & influence is the central feature of any corporation.

Its other features are that it is amoral, lacks empathy and displays a lack of conscience & concern for others because profits take precedence over these other more humane traits.

If an individual were to have these same characteristics, then they would be diagnosed as a sociopath or a psychopath. In my opinion, a corporation- in its entirety, is a psychopathic institution.

With this background, one must understand that psychopaths are strictly motivated only by Rational Utility Maximization. So, there’s only one effective key to engaging with a corporation. We must make it so that their Utility is maximized only when they are ethical and humane. This can be done by raising the costs of pursuing alternative non-humane courses of action.

They can be made to internalize their externalities, or they can be forced to be broken up in case of a monopoly. Increasing the necessary percentage of CSR is another way. Most importantly, election campaigns must be completely insulated from corporate influence in every way.

 No appeals to emotion, ethics or humanity will ever be effective over the long term here. Only raising costs of non-desirable actions can protect victimized individuals.

By Krishanu Ranwan
New College
University of Toronto