Technical education
Sir,
A news report was
published titled, '' 18 new polytechnic
college.... (DE, Feb 2) '' which carried a news
that eighteen new polytechniques will be set up
in new districts besides funds to the tune of two
hundred and fifty crore will be spent for the
upgradation and improvement of existing
industrial training institutes.
In this context I
would like to submit that for the speedy
development of the State we need to inculcate
scientific and technological spirit amongst us.
These college and the existing colleges of
technical education will produce a large pool of
scientifically and technically trained staff. To
give them gainful employment Government cannot
absorb all of them in Government jobs. Very few
Govt. jobs are available in the State. The best
way is to make the State industralised so that
these young trained people are employed in
private sector. In addition to that soft loans
should be made available so that these young men
and women start their own concerns which in turn
can employ even large number of people.
By merely setting
up new technical institutes is not enough. The
Govt has to find ways and means of giving them a
stable future. Otherwise we see these very people
stage dharna, hunger strikes etc. for employment.
The State needs rapid industralisation.
Government should focus on setting up of suitable
industries in the state then alone shall we do
some justice to creating of more technical
colleges.
Yours etc...
S S Chib
Nanak Nagar
Jammu
Human values
Sir,
We seem to have
lost sight of human values. Those values which
our ancestors nurtured with patience and care for
thousands of years have been given a good bye by
the people. Who cares for those old values. If
some body talks about them he is derided and
labelled outdated.
We, in the present
circumstances savour and relish only the
materialistic life. A life that has more of
consumerism in it and less of values. Some people
even say that 'Times have changed', now we should
look to the future and not backwards. But can any
future be build with the rich experience of the
past. We cannot make much headaway by ignoring
our experience. Afterall man learns only through
experience and makes a meaningful contribution
towards life. Old values are not redundant. They
are vibrant and time tested. Those values which
are time tested should not be discarded as a
useless rubbish.
We will be doing a
great service to our own selves if we open our
eyes and create a new approach to life which is
based on human values. Honesty, ethics, morality,
integrity are old words but they are so essential
to us that without them this life will seem to be
unfit for humans.
Yours etc...
Ramesh Malhotra
Talab Tillo
Jammu
Elder care
Sir,
An article was
published in the Sunday edition of this paper (dt
Feb. 3) regarding old people. Elderly people in
our country are being subjected to more and more
abuses and their future is not as secure as it
was a couple of decades ago.
After
independence, Government laid increasing stress
on education. Hundreds of colleges and tens of
Universities were setup to give formal education
to crores of young boys and girls. But when we
elders look at the result of this huge programme
of education, I, sometimes am constrained to say
that nodoubt we have created scientifically
trained human beings but we have not been as
successful in creating people who would care of
elders. In otherwords despite rapid progress we
as a nation have not been able to create a system
in which weak, old and infirm find themselves as
secure atleast as they were decades ago.
Yours etc...
Manohar Lal Sharma
Channi Himmat
Jammu
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