18 May 2024

Missed priorities of the Indian government.


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.

 


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