20/05/2024
India’s Human capital is its greatest strength!
India has been doing great, it has been growing at average 7+ percent, on its course to be USD 4 trillion economy making, fastest growing in emerging economies, breaking into the first five economies. India is reaping its demographic dividends in IT, Technology, Defence, Health, Infrastructure, Modern Railway Infrastructure, Medicines etc. It is testimony to its growing strength, resilience and increasing the core competencies. India’s Make in India, Atmanirbhar Bharat programme proved to be a catalyst. India is becoming increasingly self reliant as a net exporter in National Security, building up the capabilities to sustain and improve on all these in future. India needs to keep working on its skills development programme and fostering the entrepreneurship ecosystem, MSMEs & small business with focussing on ease of doing business that generates employment & diversified the development.
We have some inherent capabilities, given a group of people in a given locale and most importantly we have an emotionally connected passion to pull off almost miracles in different professions. India’s ISRO programme is one telling example, its expedition in space, in a budget that is lower than Hollywood movies is highly commendable. It is testimony to our way of life, we have been ruled by invaders for thousands of years, yet we could sustain our culture & wisdom even in the remotest villages, it is a life of austerity that reflects in our way of doing things.
India is a vast country with different regions having different strengths and weaknesses. There are different types of people: some with the best education, training, exposure and experience. There are many less fortunate ones with average educational opportunities and work experience.They are many unfortunate ones for whom survival ones take all attention, they have few skills and less opportunities. These groups feel considerably well aided with free ration, ayushman card. Lakhpathi Didi is women centric entrepreneurial that helps entire families in lower income group families. An objective appraisals have shown the ability to absorb the new techniques, skills and methods of functioning.
It is noteworthy that young men womens from ordinary schools and colleges have contributed to India's major technological and industrial achievements. Many Indians living in different parts of the world have not been educated in prestigious institutes like Indian Institutes of Technology or other such institutes. There are doctors, engineers, technicians, teachers, nurses, artists, writers, journalists, accountants,different professionals and others in the workforce. Even India’s IT’s soft power is the result of tenacious hard work of Indian employees from common families, most educated in ordinary Indian Institutes.
We can evidently say India’s core strength is its human resources. It is India's strength. It is the greatest challenge for the leadership to utilise them in creative work. We need to train the unskilled people and impart better skills. It has been interesting to have challenging environments, coordinate and collaborate with people to build the economic opportunities in agriculture, Industry & service sectors. Indian youth need to identify their core skills, keep building on their strength to participate and take up their families, communities & country to new economic heights. It is important to create awareness about startup, make in India, MSME’s to contribute more.
Regards
Amar Koli
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