We all know the sorry state of education standards in India. It is also a fact that our manpower is earning precious foreign exchange by exporting their services and is able to almost meet the deficit created by most pampered manufacturing sector, who just believe in importing sub-standard technology at high rates. This is despite the fact that just nearly 1% of the population is graduate. And most of current graduates are incapable of appearing for Banking, SSC(School Service Commission) etc. No political party or media is highlighting these facts about the right career prospects.
One of the reason for sorry state of education standards is dual standards at primary and secondary level. Sometime back, Allahabad High Court ruled that children of MLAs and Govt. Executives must go to Govt. School for education. But we are yet to see implementation of the same. Media and Politicians are totally silent on the issue. When most of the executive work and outsourcing conducted in English, What is the logic of keeping a wider population away from the language in the name of national pride? Why the national pride not applicable to children of elite society?
We talk about increasing the incomes of rural population. There is no other easier route than imparting employable education to rural children and letting them find job in urban centers. This will automatically reduce the number of population dependent on agricultural income. With lesser denominator, the percapita income will rise and improve the lifestyle of rural folks.
Increase in lifestyle of rural folks will generate more demand of industrial goods, which again will create jobs and kick start the economy.
It is right time, the middle class take up the responsibility in its own hand to spread the education in lower starta of the society. Media is under financial pressure of nexus between politicians and crony capitalists.
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