Nursery admissions Dilemma, and what it means to farmers growing Sugarcane

You can this a hangover of reading 'Freakonomics'. But, its moral to ask the right questions, and the thorough data accumulation has really caught on with me.
After aimless wanderings, with 'personal embarassment glorified' being the central idea, this blog has finally moved to a sense of greater meaning. Also now that the VIT play stands cancelled, I need some avenue to relocate the endless rants from the script, for creative satisfaction(only).

A recent study revealed that all newly marrieds, having or expecting kids,(DIOK,SIOK), spend all their potty n brushing time wondering what school to send their child to, and whether they themselves can pronounce 'Deutschland' when the schools test them while their kids play with Lego. The recent news of teen killings arent helping their hair loss treatments either.
There was talk recently to adopt the Chicago public school system, where every neighbourhood has a public school and admissions are done for only that neighbourood. Consequently, no parent needs to look farther than their own block. It simplifies a major headache issue for 2+1 families, its only catch being that if you live in a Blacks dominated area your ward is more likely to come home with broken bones than complain of heavy homework stress.
For our desi counterparts, it would be a huge relief for families, but at the same time schools like DPS, Blue Bells, Tagore Int'l would be forced to compromise on their quality of which they boast about in TOI n HT every spring. Also, the parents' freedom of choice is arrested. The sense of equality, that we delhites have successfully managed to evade for generations, would creep in our kids and would destroy their mindset! An industrialist's son would have to sit next to a Socialist's daughter. Now, how could their parents ever be best friends, and watching their wards having pyjama parties together would break their hearts for sure.

Anyway, it would seem far fetched initially, but a typical, lately suicidal, indian farmer,(havent they been in news all year!!) , growing Sugarcane, suffers from the same kind of dilemma.

As the informed, and heirs of huge chunks of farms, amongst you would know its that time of the year when the crops are ripe and the canes are ready to be sent to the sugar mills. Its the end of a farmer's financial year.
Now, usually the state government allocates a rate(rs.135 per Quintal last year) that the mills pay these farmers. The procedure is straight and simple. The problem arises when a private mill is set up which pays more to the farmers to strangle the govt. supply and strengthen their own. Farmers from various districts throng that mill. This is where the simplicity vanishes. unlike the govt mills, the private ones test the quality of canes and take in only those which pass a certain criteria. Most of the times these tests are biased, and favourism & favouritism find themselves deeply rooted there.

Now, imagine a 1000 parents being interviewed each day for 50 seats, and a 1000 farmers with overloaded trollies fighting it out for 40 receipts.

Now, imagine living that life.

Now, digest this fact - It is happening right now. In front of everybody. And, nobody gives a fuck about it!

Democracy lives.