Missed priorities of the Indian government.
Number of students from India are compelled to go abroad
to acquire higher qualifications as the Indian government is not addressing
their problem by providing them opportunities to acquire higher qualification in
India.
The opportunities in India for securing higher
qualifications are curtailed by the policy of the government, encouraging
reservations and providing limited seats for every faculty including medical,
engineering, commerce and every other professional qualification. These
limitations are imposed mainly because the established educational institutions
are supervised by the politicians and they want to maintain their monopoly over
the same.
It is a matter of common knowledge that considering the
huge population of India, India doesn't fulfil the norm of necessary doctors to
population ratio.
Considering the demand of doctors, engineers and other
professionals in India, the students from India are lured to go abroad to
acquire necessary qualifications so that they can earn their livelihood back in
India.
However, the Indian government is not addressing the
needs of the population and is busy enhancing infrastructure by spending a
major portion of its budget on infrastructure. It is said that the
infrastructure expenditure enables the political party in power to ponder money
from the contractors and thus the priority of the government in power is always
on infrastructural expenses rather than the expenses required to enhance the educational
facilities to the students, which are more needed.
Thus, even teenage students are compelled to go abroad,
even in the countries wherein the social atmosphere and the law-and-order
position is not so satisfactory. We may remember that after Russia attacked
Ukraine, the Indian government was busy in ensuring that its students are
brought back in the country safely. It was for the first time the country
realized that how the students are taking risks, even risk to their life, for
securing proper educational qualifications, more particularly higher
educational qualifications. Students are taking the risk only because the
Indian government has failed to address the need of the students by providing sufficient
educational institutions or universities catering opportunities of higher
education.
As on the date, India needs more institutions and
universities enabling the students to secure education, more particularly
higher education in their own country, rather than the bullet train projects or
highly expensive infrastructural projects, but who cares?
Considering the European standard ratio of doctors to
population, India is far away from achieving that ratio only because there is
lack of sufficient educational institutions catering that education. Considering
the population of India, every district needs a separate medical college
providing graduate and post graduate level education with facility of attached
Hospital with minimum 100 beds.
However, the present-day government is more interested
in exhibiting the so-called progress rather than achieving the progress addressing
the needs of the population.
