India the land of “educated illiterates” !
The country that gave the concept of “zero”, the nation that is the land of “wisdom”, the motherland whose pride were universities like “Nalanda”&”Taxila”, where students from other countries came to gain knowledge, is now facing a situation where students aspire to leave and study abroad.

If you acknowledge and analyse the situation properly, we being Indians do not trust our own products and as a consequence, companies from abroad are spreading their roots rapidly in our own land. Why do we not rely on Indian products? The answer is pretty simple, the technology sector and the products thus made are not advanced as compared to foreign products. Now again a series of question arises why is it so that we are not able to match up the requirement of our people? The answer is because our labour is far too unskilled.
Students living abroad, of Indian origin, make “inventions”, discoveries and experiments and the news spreads like fire across the world. Why do students in India not gain that fame? Why do they don’t get the chance to invent and discover? The answer is again the same, we have very poor infrastructure when it comes to vocational training and skill development. Now the biggest question arises why is it so that the majority of people in working in different sectors are unskilled? The fault lies in the administration and poor thought process of the people that don’t let others excel. As said in “3idiots”, “run after excellence, success is sure to come”. But we believe in and are living in the “good old days”, when getting first division in Master of Arts was equivalent to getting an Oscar!
Many of our country’s sportspersons do not get the adequate facilities to train and better themselves to match the international standards. Since the Indian Government has no money to spend on their training and their well-being, they do not get enough support from the administration that they deserve and need. The Indian Army till date does not have high-technology built ammunition and contact source because the incentive they get from government is grabbed by the Army officials. The middle men are playing the role of a villain in a movie.
The farmers of India do not have houses to live, they do not have money to survive, and we can’t neglect the fact that many of them commit suicide under grave pressure of debt.
Another major issue is the rise in population. This rise is mainly due to fall in death rate and more birth rate. Due to continuous rise in population, there is chronic unemployment and under employment in India. There is educated unemployment and disguised unemployment too. Poverty is just a reflection of unemployment. The steep rise in prices has affected the poor badly. They have become poorer, the means of transport and communication have not been developed, due to which agricultural marketing is defective. Industries don’t get power supply and raw materials in time and finished goods are not properly marketed. The conventional wisdom to focus on labour-intensive industries to create more jobs needs to be re-examined. Not only has the per capita intensity of production been increasing sharply, but recent economic growth has benefited industries which rely on skilled workers and capital as opposed to unskilled workers. Given these trends, the prospects for labour-intensive industrialisation appear bleak.
In India, unlike in the developed countries, technological change is not accompanied by a large increase in the supply of more educated workers, which may have exacerbated wage disparity. The government’s ambitious Skill India programme, with a target to skill 40crore workers, over the next five years, attempts to address this gap.
For skill development systems to be effective, they need to be able to respond to technological changes in the economy. This requires providing young workers a broad foundation of basic skills and a minimum level of educational attainment so that they are able to learn the requisite skills in enterprises where the jobs are being created. “Contractualisation” poses a serious threat to skill challenges, since workers are discouraged from acquiring skills as they feel that even though skilling-up may result in improved productivity, it may not translate into higher wages as firms will prefer to hire them as cheap contract labour, it reasoned.
India’s key to future success-its youth- is a ticking time bomb. It is a growing mass of largely undernourished, undereducated, unemployable young people who aspire for a better life but don’t have the means to get there. Because they are not qualified for the job market, and even if they are, jobs don’t exist.
There are many canaries who foretell a gargantuan national crisis in the offing: when the aspirations of young India encounter the disillusioning reality of ‘new’ India. This impending crisis is all the more poignant as it comes in the midst of a large scale transformation of the education system, be it national experiments like the Right to Education Act or local initiatives. Indeed there is no greater fuel to the fire of social unrest than a thwarted revolution of rising expectations.