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Interesting. I was always under impression that Jawaharlal Nehru's reforms (pretty much socialism) were the key. His policies and reforms were key in establishi

by sdizdar 15y ago

Interesting. I was always under impression that Jawaharlal Nehru's reforms (pretty much socialism) were the key. His policies and reforms were key in establishing India education system. Without him and his reforms there will be no path for better quality of life for many Indians. How much of credit should be given to Jawaharlal Nehru's reforms? I'm not Indian, so please excuse my ignorance.

kamaal 15y ago
The current form of education system is very different than what existed during the immediate post-independence era when the reforms were carried out. The entire Indian Industry and people passing out on the basis of their jobs in those times could be classified into the following categories. First and foremost, The elite, the civil services, UPSC et al. Next opportunities in the defense services, Next came government jobs(clerks, small time accountants etc). The private sector jobs were limited to factories(Process based jobs) like ITI, BEL, HAL etc. Then small time business men. So depending on them the general qualification were BA, BCom and Industrial training courses(Welding, electrician etc). Medicine and Engineering were considered elite, the demand and supply was both limited. For a while India had a Gulf boom, many people went to gulf to work. But real turn around happened after Manmohan singh's FDI's reforms in the early 90's. This is when the outsourcing market took off and the IT boom started and demand for both crappy colleges and engineers went high. During that time, it was easy to get promoted and work in a foreign country. Due to all this every tom,dick and harry got promoted and became a millionaire. Even if he was moron and knew nothing and did nothing. The market was such that all this could go on. Now the entire Indian IT's middle management is rotten. The expectations of the current generation is very high. The college grads think they can easily promoted to be a manager in 3-4 years so they need not have to be technically good. All this has led to horrible state of affairs that exists today. The scary thing is good people are never rewarded and bad ones some how keep making money through job hopping.

by sdizdar 15y ago

kamaal 15y ago

The current form of education system is very different than what existed during the immediate post-independence era when the reforms were carried out. The entire Indian Industry and people passing out on the basis of their jobs in those times could be classified into the following categories. First and foremost, The elite, the civil services, UPSC et al. Next opportunities in the defense services, Next came government jobs(clerks, small time accountants etc). The private sector jobs were limited to factories(Process based jobs) like ITI, BEL, HAL etc. Then small time business men. So depending on them the general qualification were BA, BCom and Industrial training courses(Welding, electrician etc). Medicine and Engineering were considered elite, the demand and supply was both limited. For a while India had a Gulf boom, many people went to gulf to work. But real turn around happened after Manmohan singh's FDI's reforms in the early 90's. This is when the outsourcing market took off and the IT boom started and demand for both crappy colleges and engineers went high. During that time, it was easy to get promoted and work in a foreign country. Due to all this every tom,dick and harry got promoted and became a millionaire. Even if he was moron and knew nothing and did nothing. The market was such that all this could go on. Now the entire Indian IT's middle management is rotten. The expectations of the current generation is very high. The college grads think they can easily promoted to be a manager in 3-4 years so they need not have to be technically good. All this has led to horrible state of affairs that exists today. The scary thing is good people are never rewarded and bad ones some how keep making money through job hopping.