{we don’t agree with the article’s charge but we do agree with the assessment that India must turn into a knowledge economy}
The Modi government is not on course even in implementing the programme of skilling India. The demographic dividend of young India is slipping as the young remain uneducated, untrained and unemployable. The government’s anti-intellectual — this goes beyond liberalism and secularism — attitude makes it difficult to grapple with the social and economic challenge of creating a skilled workforce, and turning India into a knowledge economy because that is where the future lies. There is need for intellectuals and experts of all hues to transform India into a 21st century economic powerhouse. The Prime Minister and the government have displayed a distinct distrust of experts. And this does not augur well either for this government or for the country as a whole.
