Wednesday, 12 November 2014

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  .

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