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Bad education may create insurgency; Says Hon'ble Union Minister for HRD Sri. Shashi Tharoor

               Bad education may cause insurgency says Union Minister for Human Resource Development Sri. Shashi Tharoor. This may lead to creation of unemployable youths. There is nothing more dangerous than creating unemployable youths. Proper education is the key to National security and social progress. Education should focus on expansion, equity, excellence and employability. Minister was addressing a meeting to distribute Tablet computers and internet connection to students who won A Plus grade in SSLC and CBSE examinations from Thrissur.
Education sector had witnessed sustained expansion. From 1947 the literacy in the country has grown from 17 percent to 74 percent; Women’s literacy from 8.9 percent to 65.5 percent. The number of students pursuing higher education from 4 lakh to two Crore. Number of Universities from 30 to 648 and number of colleges from 700 to 35000. With opportunities transcending barriers of caste, religion, gender, ethnic divisions and distance, education sector has achieved equity in some measure. But the country requires more educational institutions of excellence. Best educational institutions are islands of excellence in a sea of mediocrity.
Employers complain that graduates produced by some of our educational institutions are unemployable. A few top companies hold long training programmes for recruits to make up for the deficiency they have had through poor education in colleges.Knowledge of English was a passport to economic, social and educational advancement. If our students do not learn English they will have a real disadvantage in future. Keralites have to interact with non Malayalam speaking people, especially because their land cannot provide them large employment opportunities and they are forced to go to the rest of the World.
Reorganization of States had positive outcomes such as assertion of regional linguistic identity, but it killed multi culturalism that prevailed in the country till then and the obligation to be conversant in languages other than one’s own. Forty years before Late Sri.V.K.Krishna Menon had been elected to parliament from Trivandrum constituency, all his campaign speeches were in English. Had he contested today and delivered his campaign speeches in English? He would have lost even his election deposit. During the last four decades language has become a unifying phenomenon and political instrument.

Sethu