Within the fabric of Indian federal structure, the region based development gives momentum to the growth and provides equality of opportunities to all the member states of the region. This approach reduces the disparities and conflicts among the states in a federal structure. How? I strongly believe that conflicts can be prevented only by missions for development, unambiguous communication of benefits of such missions to stakeholders, and a transparent management structure executing such missions in a timely and effective manner, so that the stakeholders experience the progress continuously. In regional development, best will come out of the region and the state or province will benefit from the best from the region.
When we say a federation of states what does it mean? They should have a shared vision; the shared vision emanates and penetrates from the individual, society, province, region and the nation. In such a federation, I visualize where the individual states produces best of grains and best of fruits and vegetables in a region, other states in another region produces the best of agro-processed food, a state produces best of minerals and processed metal products in the other region, the other states are best in craftsmen products in a region, one state best in hardware, another state is best in software and knowledge products, another state is best in automobile systems and components, one state may be best in shipping and marine products, some states may be best in tourism, group of states are best for Pharma research, healthcare and bio-products, some states have core competence in aerospace and high-tech products, some states are best for art, apparel, jewellery and fashion products. When you concentrate the development on regional basis based on the regional core competence the overall productivity of the region is leveraged, since there is no sub-optimal performance by any individual states. Overall planning at the central level has to focus on regional development to bring harmony in progressive development of the states.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Employment and Education
Presently our university education system is contributing 3 million graduates and post graduates every year. 7 Million students after their secondary school education in 10th and 12th stop further education and seek employment every year. Thus nearly 10 million youth are injected into the society every year seeking employment.
However, there is a large gap in the availability of employable skill. For example, as per the NASSCOM and Mc. Kinsey Report 2005, it is estimated that the IT, ITES and BPO sector alone will need 9 million direct jobs and 6 million indirect jobs in construction, retail and transportation by 2010, whereas we do not have such a capacity in the country to generate this number which will be acceptable to the three sectors of economy. Similarly, in the case of nursing professional, India is in the process of improving the healthcare services which will need additional 0.5 million nurses and paramedical staff. As per the latest report, worldwide requirements for nurses are estimated to be around 1 million from now to 2012. Presently, in India about 50,000 nurses qualify every year. In the small scale sector, presently 12 million units are employing around twenty eight million people. Many of them are unregistered units. There is a need to bring all the units under the registered category so that all the people can be provided benefits accordingly. At present, the small scale industries contribute to an export of over 20 billion dollars a year, which is expected to increase to over 40 billion dollars within the next five years. This will require addition of nearly 28 million people within 5 years with variety of skills in garments, processed foods, pharmaceutical, electronics, precision engineering and cosmetic products.
How to bridge this gap between availability and requirement in the globalized economy. To bridge the gap, an interface is needed between the education system and the needs of the three sectors of the economy. At present India has five hundred and forty million youth under the age of 25 which will continuously be growing till the year 2050.
During this period, India needs large number of talented youth with higher education for the task of knowledge acquisition, knowledge imparting, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing.
However, there is a large gap in the availability of employable skill. For example, as per the NASSCOM and Mc. Kinsey Report 2005, it is estimated that the IT, ITES and BPO sector alone will need 9 million direct jobs and 6 million indirect jobs in construction, retail and transportation by 2010, whereas we do not have such a capacity in the country to generate this number which will be acceptable to the three sectors of economy. Similarly, in the case of nursing professional, India is in the process of improving the healthcare services which will need additional 0.5 million nurses and paramedical staff. As per the latest report, worldwide requirements for nurses are estimated to be around 1 million from now to 2012. Presently, in India about 50,000 nurses qualify every year. In the small scale sector, presently 12 million units are employing around twenty eight million people. Many of them are unregistered units. There is a need to bring all the units under the registered category so that all the people can be provided benefits accordingly. At present, the small scale industries contribute to an export of over 20 billion dollars a year, which is expected to increase to over 40 billion dollars within the next five years. This will require addition of nearly 28 million people within 5 years with variety of skills in garments, processed foods, pharmaceutical, electronics, precision engineering and cosmetic products.
How to bridge this gap between availability and requirement in the globalized economy. To bridge the gap, an interface is needed between the education system and the needs of the three sectors of the economy. At present India has five hundred and forty million youth under the age of 25 which will continuously be growing till the year 2050.
During this period, India needs large number of talented youth with higher education for the task of knowledge acquisition, knowledge imparting, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing.
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