Dr. Banarsi Lal
We all have heard of campus selections in the Engineering, MBA or other colleges. Top IT companies visit Arts and Science Colleges to select the graduates in Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, and Mathematics etc. for different IT based jobs. The recruiting team says that these graduates are trained for a short period and then the jobs are offered to them. It is really a change. Now the education systems is globally changing and in this global interaction thousands of youngsters are going abroad for higher education and many of the youths are coming to the Indian universities from across the world. Now the education system in India has become more global than thousands years ago when the Chinese monks came to Nalanda to learn more about Buddhism in India. Now with the winds of change blowing across the different continents, the youths too have to embrace the whole world in one sweep, for knowledge boundaries and narrow confines. Now every Indian can be said as the world citizen and the whole world is now the job market for him. Now the Indian youth should hone his skill in such a way that he can not only become a job-seeker but a job-giver. The entrepreneurs like Mr.Mukesh Ambani and Mr. L.N.Mittal are not made in a day. It requires quality education, perseverance and positive attitude. They are now the stars in the business world. Now they have spread their empires far and wide. Isn’t it a miracle that these men of a country enslaved for over two centuries have come up on their own just after some decades after India’s freedom? Mr.L.N.Mittal is a symbol of Hon’ble Indian Ex-President Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam who has projected the Indian youths. In an interaction with school children, a child asked to Dr.Kalam that whether there would be enough jobs in India for all of them when they are grown up. He answered in a very simple way that there would be no dearth of jobs if many of you grow up to become job- providers, instead of becoming job-seekers.
Quality education develops sensitivity in us to the outside problems. Our well- educated officials must think that even the slightest dereliction of duty on their part would cause irreparable damage to the country and its people. Quality education creates conditions for the development of a wholesome personality of an individual so that he can contribute his best to the family, society and the nation. He can be capable of nurturing the right values within the setting of family and become a role model for the children. We should think that the children watch our activities. In case we fail to practice the values we teach, our children would taunt us about our lapse, much to our embarrassment.
There has been mushrooming growth of engineering colleges in India. It has been observed that there are more than 1,346 engineering colleges in India with an annual enrolment of more than 4.50 lakhs of students. Around 703 institutions are located in the four Southern States of the country and Union Territory of Pudducherry, accounting of more than 2.50 lakhs students .These states are not saddled with standard institutions. It is to be ensured that students do not feel risk while getting admission in such colleges that lack both faculty and facility. It is sorry to say that world class institutions like IIT,AIIMS and IIMSs have to co-exist with those whose performance has to yet come up to mark. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) needs to monitor the quality education in most of these private colleges. The parents of the students who spend huge amount of money on their children admission should think twice for admission in these colleges.
After evaluating out India’s top engineering colleges, experts recommended in putting them alongside IITs, saying it may even seem detrimental to the stature of the existing IITs. These findings came from two sources-an expert committee which gave its report to the Human Resource Development Ministry and a standing committee of the council of IITs .The expert committee was headed by Mr.S.K.Joshi, a, a former Director-General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).The committee short listed seven institutions in order of merit, taking into account all the relevant parameters. The committee said that even these institutions fall below the level of existing IITs in the criteria used for short listing. The committee felt that it is not correct to position these institutions alongside the IITs. The committee suggested that these seven institutions may be said as the institutions possessing the best potential among the engineering colleges in the country for up gradation to the level of IITs. Our main competitor country China and many other countries like Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are spending a lot of money on the higher education. They are having research- based world class universities. According to an issue of the London Times Higher Education Supplement which ranked the world’s top 200 universities that included three in China, three in South Korea, three in Hong Kong, one in Taiwan and one in India (an IIT at number 41).India is having the third largest higher education sector in the world after China and the United States of America but its cannot afford to sit on its oars. India edges over China in a way that it uses English as a primary language for higher education and research. Our country is having a long academic tradition. In our country there are small numbers of high quality institutions, departments and centres that can form the basis of quality higher education.
In India only 10 per cent of people can go for higher education, it is 15 per cent in China and more than 50 per cent in the industrialized countries. IITs, IIMSs, AIIMS and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research enroll well under one per cent of the population. We should contemplate a lot for our quality in higher education so that we can compete with the world. Our neighboring country China is investing heavily in improving the quality of higher education in its universities with the objective of making a large number of them world class in the coming years. China is striving to make internationally competitive research- based universities. India too needs quality education universities which can produce the brilliant graduates and also promising research scholars, which are required to provide knowledge to knowledge poor society. We should think that only quality education can provide right job to an individual. Quality education not only helps to get the right job but also creates opportunities of self-employment. We should face he truth boldly. If everybody will hunt for job then there are not enough job opportunities in our country. In Government sector jobs are few and it cannot accommodate the vast army of job-seekers.
A few among the daring individuals should take risk of becoming the job-givers. Many of today’s youths want the comfortable government jobs. Now the time has changed and if they find a job in a good company or in multinational company would be more satisfying as compared to the government sector. If we look to the heroes of rags-to-riches stories, we find that most of them were having brain and brawn but they were lacking the money to launch their projects born out of their idea. They were having indomitable will power to achieve the seemingly impossible targets.
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