Presently our university education system is contributing 3 million graduates and post graduates every year. 7 Million students after their secondary school education in 10th and 12th stop further education and seek employment every year. Thus nearly 10 million youth are injected into the society every year seeking employment.
However, there is a large gap in the availability of employable skill. For example, as per the NASSCOM and Mc. Kinsey Report 2005, it is estimated that the IT, ITES and BPO sector alone will need 9 million direct jobs and 6 million indirect jobs in construction, retail and transportation by 2010, whereas we do not have such a capacity in the country to generate this number which will be acceptable to the three sectors of economy. Similarly, in the case of nursing professional, India is in the process of improving the healthcare services which will need additional 0.5 million nurses and paramedical staff. As per the latest report, worldwide requirements for nurses are estimated to be around 1 million from now to 2012. Presently, in India about 50,000 nurses qualify every year. In the small scale sector, presently 12 million units are employing around twenty eight million people. Many of them are unregistered units. There is a need to bring all the units under the registered category so that all the people can be provided benefits accordingly. At present, the small scale industries contribute to an export of over 20 billion dollars a year, which is expected to increase to over 40 billion dollars within the next five years. This will require addition of nearly 28 million people within 5 years with variety of skills in garments, processed foods, pharmaceutical, electronics, precision engineering and cosmetic products.
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| Author: SajithkumarS 22 Feb 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Arun kumar,
Your article on the imbalance of Employment and Education is very true. It is the very reason that India has been able to make huge strides economically due to its huge manpower resource. Till late what was seen as a burden suddenly became a huge asset for the country. What policy makers failed to realise is that eventually the pool of talented human resource would get exhausted if it was not properly developed. Moreover with sudden shift of a large of people towards IT, ITES and BPO the other industries started feeling the pain. The policy makers did not take adequate steps to insure that huge amounts received as software exports be put back into the education system to maintain constant supply of talented human resource. Even corporates were late to realise this need and have started contributing centres of education only recently. It will take some time before this gap can be reduced. Till that time we will have this Indian Dilemna of job hunters vs job seekers.
Sajith
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| Author: sagar 23 Feb 2008 | Member Level: Bronze Points : 1 |
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