Engineering a vibrant Indian economy for the future
Nearing the end of a wonderful 2005, the PM could not have found a better time for announcing plans for bolstering our growing economy.
I’m in the middle of a wonderful vacation with family which is why Indiblog has been lying idle for a few days now; and this is only an interlude for I shall return only by the end of next week in time to celebrate the dawn of 2006 with you all!
So, I read this wonderful news which must have got covered in all of our Press about great designs for strengthening one of the economic titans of the world that is India! Plans are afoot to modernise taxes, VAT, railways, roads and manufacturing!
For a background, take a peek at an earlier article on Agriculture, Manufacturing and Services in India. And to get a comprehensive picture read this report from Rediff.
On the other hand, India seems to be extremely lax on the education front. It may be because we are too proud of our “skilled English-speaking” workforce. Neither skill nor English is exclusive to India, and China and Southeast Asia are catching up fast. Subhask Kak informs us that it would be self-destructive to ignore education.
And this without even talking about the recent bill to have compulsory reservations in even private educational institutions. Clearly, the poll on the right expresses many of your displeasure against reservations.
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The reservation in India is affecting the quality of services and specially teaching and research. In the practice people never compromise with the quality. When a person is accused of a murder he will not go to a lawyer of his own caste he will contact the best lawer. Similarly when some one is seriously sick he will contact the best doctor and not the doctor of his own community or caste. when some is searching a teacher for the tution for his son or daughter he will contact the best teacher who had given the best result in the previous compition exams. Unfoutunatly in the government jobs the caste reservation is doing havoc. I have seen persons on such a high posts as the Directors of the National Research Institutes and the Professor who were not the worth for the first post in that cadre. Hence the government now wants the private institutes to follow the reservation so that the geneous of the county should suffer and the below average people should rule the country. With in a decade all the head of the Institutes and all the Directors of the government departments, all the Chief Engineers wiil be from the reserved castes only. Is it a justice?