Training Indian youth with technical skill

Santosh  Mehrotra’s article, “Utopia as skill set” the Hindu  Published in The Hindu (12.11.13) clearly points  out the deficiencies in our programme for technical and soft skill acquisition by undergraduates and graduates of India. He rightly says that setting unrealistic target regarding the millions to be trained in each year results in failure of the programme. All the suggestions given by him to reap the demographic dividend are worth government’s attention. India always seems to pay more attention to quantity than to the quality of services and this attitude is  standing in the way of consistent   and right type of technical  training to our youth and converting In them into human capital. If China, Germany and Japan have excellent technical  training  models , there is nothing wrong in picking  a suitable model among them and follow it in India , so that we will not be committing the blunder of wasting the enviable youth resource which has the potentiality to contribute to  industrial and agricultural productivity to a great extent  .

Clean India campaign

Swachh Bharat scheme is not an easy one to achieve in a short period  considering, the fact that, India’s global  rank in cleanliness is 123 . It requires a multi pronged approach and requires embracing water, sewage, garbage and pollution managements  and total coordination  between central and state and governments and local administrative units . It requires sufficient allocation of man , material and money to implementthe programmes chalked out. It requires massive awareness programmes in which the civil  society , NGOs , colleges and schools participate . Basically, Indians attitude of minding only the cleanliness of their homes  and ignoring and not minding littering or dirtying  the  public places should  undergo a  drastic change . Only then the position  where , “private places are clean and public places are very dirty " as many tourists feel will change