JOBS NEED TO RETHINK

NATIONAL SAFETY BOARD Every time an accident occurs, apart from sorrow in the nation and families of victims, there is a loss of National Resources. While we attribute the luck factor to the occurrence of an accident, we cannot ignore the fact that the accidents are indicators of system inefficiency. The system inefficiency gets transferred to nameless people and their relatives. After the occurrence of an accident (Road, Rail, Air, buildings, Mining, etc) the usual reactions take place. The actions include face-saving and drawing political mileage. Asking for resignations and blaming the government. To assuage public opinion, often, an inquiry is ordered, and ex-gratia payments or visits to victims' houses take place. Let us now start with the investigations. The composition of the board is normally from a safety organization. In some cases, a judge is appointed. Can you expect impartiality from serving officers? Would any officer find fault with his own organization? In the i...

JOBS .NEED TO RETHINK Lack   of jobs, a favorite topic everywhere, from drawing rooms to streets of India. Simplistic conclusion arrived at. Popular being blame the central government or any other soft target. This favorite activity leads to creating false and misleading one sided versions .The same are then disseminated .Thus root of problem is not addressed and only short term methods are adopted to assuage criticism. Due to this short sighted approach, the sufferers are youth of India. They are aspiring for meaningful life    and the solution is not being addressed in totality. The problem requires a long term solution. Solution requires deeper understanding of total problem. To my mind there is structural mismatch in preparing the work force for future meaningful utilization The utilization perspective hast be of 30 to 40 years The system of education and skill development requires a long drawn effort ,in which all the constit...