Hi Friends
The recent mid day meal fiasco got me to think on a very different direction. There is a lit of emphasis on literacy and education all around us . The government has introduced various schemes like Right to Education, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan , Mid day meal, Ladli scheme for girl child. Similarly, there are various NGO's working in this direction to educate children. In mass media, you always hear about importance of education and how this can be a ticket to get out of poverty.
Then there are tons of reports coming about how poor the education delivery in India is and x% of students in class 5 can't read class 2 text. How India is having very young population and thus focus on vocational education to make them employable.
My thought is if everybody gets educated the way every intellectual thinks, then what would happen. India population is 120 Crs and we have limited resources and development. How and where these educated people would get jobs?
Let me tell you as first hand report about Mumbai economy functions. There are lacs of people who are educated and work in white collar jobs or organised blue collar jobs like factories. But then there are lacs of people who work in unorganized sectors like auto driving, vada pav stall, sugar cane juice stall, tea vendors. plumbers, electricians, painters, cloth pressing etc who all make decent living. I had one teacher in my staff ( yah I also tried my hands to educate under privileged kids for 2 years) whose husband was sitting at home for 1 year. The reason is that he is 12th and he lost his formal job. Now, because he is educated, he do not want to do informal job like tea stall as that is below his dignity. Same conversation, I had with watchman of my colony. Looking at life style of educated class, he is also spending to get his kids private school education back in MP of course at Rs 500/month. Now surely that kid is not going to actually get into IIT or any other institute of repute as the competition is from kids of ours. But of he studies there till class 10th or 12th, he would surely do not want to be watchman or Ricksaw puller etc. Then what he would do for a living.
Somehow, I felt we are moving towards bigger disaster than what is presently there in society. Do we have so may formal sector jobs??
The recent mid day meal fiasco got me to think on a very different direction. There is a lit of emphasis on literacy and education all around us . The government has introduced various schemes like Right to Education, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan , Mid day meal, Ladli scheme for girl child. Similarly, there are various NGO's working in this direction to educate children. In mass media, you always hear about importance of education and how this can be a ticket to get out of poverty.
Then there are tons of reports coming about how poor the education delivery in India is and x% of students in class 5 can't read class 2 text. How India is having very young population and thus focus on vocational education to make them employable.
My thought is if everybody gets educated the way every intellectual thinks, then what would happen. India population is 120 Crs and we have limited resources and development. How and where these educated people would get jobs?
Let me tell you as first hand report about Mumbai economy functions. There are lacs of people who are educated and work in white collar jobs or organised blue collar jobs like factories. But then there are lacs of people who work in unorganized sectors like auto driving, vada pav stall, sugar cane juice stall, tea vendors. plumbers, electricians, painters, cloth pressing etc who all make decent living. I had one teacher in my staff ( yah I also tried my hands to educate under privileged kids for 2 years) whose husband was sitting at home for 1 year. The reason is that he is 12th and he lost his formal job. Now, because he is educated, he do not want to do informal job like tea stall as that is below his dignity. Same conversation, I had with watchman of my colony. Looking at life style of educated class, he is also spending to get his kids private school education back in MP of course at Rs 500/month. Now surely that kid is not going to actually get into IIT or any other institute of repute as the competition is from kids of ours. But of he studies there till class 10th or 12th, he would surely do not want to be watchman or Ricksaw puller etc. Then what he would do for a living.
Somehow, I felt we are moving towards bigger disaster than what is presently there in society. Do we have so may formal sector jobs??
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