INDIAN WOES : HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Infrastructure and human resource development is certainly the next gen growth engine of Indian economy and surprisingly precious little is has been done on both fronts by the self acclaimed messiahs of the welfare of common man and Indian prosperity. The politicians, the ruling class and the intelligentsia of the country all have been guilty of slogan raising and playing vote bank politics to further their ulterior motives of getting power and remaining in power. In a scenario of deceit of nation by the mighty and powerful of the country for the last six decades, it was very refreshing and hope giving to read the views of Kancha Ilaiah under the heading ' Even if 10% dalit children got English education, India would change'. He is absolutely right in saying that it is the quality education that will transform their fate as also the fate of the nation and reservations are just a means of fooling the vote bank for the mean ulterior motives of the polity. What a bargain for the polity, a promise of couple of thousand jobs a year for ensuring more than 200 million votes. What kind of sincerity and concern for these hapless millions is this?

The have nots and less fortunate of the Indian masses, particularly belonging to dalits, scheduled tribes and the other backward castes constitute more than 50% of the Indian human asset and it is shameful for the nation that we are still striving for providing 100% literacy only even after 65 years of getting independence. It is still not too late that the nation strives to change our rudderless education system , on a war footing and provide value addition in terms of quality of education to improve upon the employability and earnability of the individual along with turning them into a real asset to the nation.

The mindset and philosophy of the rulers of India must change. Let them see two working hands available with a human being rather then seeing the stomach to be filled in. Let them strive for value addition by changing the unskilled labour to semi skilled labour. Let them strive to move this vast resource from the unorganised to organised sector of employment. That has to be the only way forward if Indian masses have to  feel the results of GDP growth impacting their lives, for otherwise India will develop into a semi industrialised country without much impact on the condition of general poor masses with small pockets of affluence in an otherwise sub human level existence matrix.