The Art Of Living

Learning is one specific term that has always been substituted with cramming. Segregation of students take place solely on the basis of grades. But the irony surrounding all such 'sensitive and worth addressing' issues is that reforms hardly face into these dimensions. All you get, after waiting for a decade for corrective measures, is a film like "3 Idiots".

The film touches the chord with every section of society (especially the youths), churns out quanta of profit and finally phase out after sometime. At the end of the day, we are left battling the same system without having even a 'quark bit of change' in it.

Most of the time, I keep on wondering why is there such a huge gap between the quality of graduates being produced throughout the country and the industry requirements. Once I read a newspaper article that was compiled using the statistical data record of the NASSCOM, providing the figure of employable graduates from technical and non-technical backgrounds.

It stated- "out of the total technical graduates being produced in an year, only 10-15% are employable with the figure falling even more shallow to 5-8% for those hailing from non-technical background".

Don't you think its quite a startling fact? Is it going to do any good to quench the thirst of skilled man-power which an economically growing giant like India requires? There need to be some changes, especially in education system, where there is ample room for it. Becoming a jobless graduate will only add on to the rising problem of the world, i.e., the possible threat of "academic inflation". So, is this how we will challenge the world of being a power enough in the near future? Atleast, I beg to differ in this case. The future position of our country depend on the youths. As the matter of fact, for any country it's the same, be it a developing nation or a developed nation.

India is poised fantastically to look at the world 'eye in eye' and ditch its tag of being "a third world nation". Hope the 'much anticipated' changes in every sector, especially education, sets in before there is irrepairable damage done to it.

Regards.

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