I was reading my daughters economics text book.
'The share of the primary sector (agriculture, forestry, fishing and such allied activities mainly based on natural resources) in the gross national product (GDP) had been around 24.3 percent in 2003-04. This sector engaged around 60% of India's work force. This shows that a large population of India's population is engaged in relatively less productive primary sector.'
The whole exercise across the political spectrum is to keep the status quo. They want the rural population to be stagnant. And hence the cross subsidy.
The rural people have to be sucked out of the villages. It is not financially feasible to carry on the agriculture in a traditional way and IT IS NOT WORTH IT.
What is important is to increase the aspirational value of the rural people. Money should be pumped in to educate the rural people. Obviously there would be migration to the cities. There would be scarcity of labor in the rural areas. Mechanization has to be done.
If India has to prosper…
India has to keep pace with the requirements of the industry.
There is a severe dearth of skilled educated labor in the country. The state of new highways or the recent construction mess at the commonwealth games is due to the lack of abundance of skilled labor in the infrastructure sector.
The availability of skilled labor in the automobile sector is very visible. Educated labor is required in a big way for the growing retail sector.
After all there is not dearth of employment. But the requirement is not of unskilled labor.
The country, both the private sector and the public sector should rise to the occasion.
The educational infrastructure is where the money should be.
India would require at least one crore teachers in next six to seven years.
The government and the opposition emphasize on the physical infrastructure for the schools and colleges.
The emphasis should be on human resources'. The structure can follow.
The teachers training institutes have to be multiplied.
Similar to the medical colleges, the big, established schools can be given permission to open B.Ed colleges. After the course they can be working as trainees in the same schools.
