India surely deserves to be one of the greatest and
biggest manufacturing hubs of the planet with more than 65% of the population
under the age of 35 and exhibiting complete alacrity to work for the nation
building. Though this potential of Indian denizens has always been deemed as
nugatory by the former governments but the contemporary government has rightly
acknowledge our this power as the most opulent need of the time which could
assist India in the long term to grow up with humongous pace.
But it has been rightly quoted that
“With great
power, comes great responsibility.”
As the almighty God, has given India the weapon to
skyrocket its progress rate in the coming future but it’s also the demand of
time that Indians learn to know how to use the ammunition.
People’s Republic of China today is one of the most
powerful nations of the world and it has been attributed with the precious tag
just due to its excessively well-crafted use of its human population. China has
successfully used its population to transform itself into one of the biggest
manufacturing hubs that have ever existed in the world history while on the
other hand due to reluctance of previous governments in focusing on Indian manufacturing
development, India has turned itself into an importing hub, even importing
commodities like coal (Notwithstanding having one of the largest coal reserves
in the world). Let me give you an example of the decline of Indian economy and
the upsurge of Chinese’s. In the year 1980, Gross Domestic Product of India was
189.6 billion USD while surprisingly that of China was 189.4 billion USD. In
just five years China ameliorated its economy to 306.7 billion USD and India could
just afford to reach 236.6 billion USD thereby producing a gap of 70.1 Billion
USD and now according to the available statistics China holds a GDP of 9.24
trillion USD and India has been limited to 1.87 trillion USD.
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| Why not Made In India. |
If we really want to think about how China improved
itself so much then fortunately we needn’t think much. Just take a glance at
the skill development schemes induced by China. China started its transition from
a simple nation to that of an extraordinary one in the 1970s. Chinese
government implements extensive skill development programs with a vision to
convert China into a manufacturing hub by the 20th century and with
strong hard work they succeeded. Due to the skill development programs, Chinese
people got huge employment offers and thereby also putting a full stop on
various problems being faced by China like that of poverty, low life expectancy
and many others. In the 1970s, poor rural population in China was 250 million
which was abated to just 32 million people at the dawn of 21st
century. Such a massive reduction in the
poor population of China speaks much about the progress with which it has moved
further. Today almost everything in your home from your laptops to your mobile
phones, from crackers to plastics, from machines to papers everything is made
in China. Yesterday as I was just thinking about China, I took off the back
cover of my phone to find out “Made In China” written in the inside of my phone’s
back cover and that made me laugh and also made be pretty sure that China is
surely one of the greatest manufacturing hubs in the history of earth and that’s
the main reason why its progressing in other fields too. The capital generating
from manufacturing hub is invested hugely in science, medicine, technology etc.
leading to more and more upgradation of the nation.
But I believe that much time has not lapsed for India too.
Today we have in our hand the greatest workforce in the world. Just as our
Prime Minister said in the United States of America that by 2020 the whole
world would feel a great dearth of people and India then can be of huge benefit
to the world. The Indian young population can also be given employment if the
world invests in our nation and that too is happening. The United States is
going to invest $41 Billion in our nation in the coming days and Japan too has
promised investment.
But just as I said earlier with great power comes
great technology. To give world one of the best workforce we need to make our
own people acclimatized to the world standards. We need to produce people who
could go on to be the best workmen in any area and for that the government
needs to come out and impressively the government has done it. Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana (DAY) has been launched by the Indian government
in order to boost the process of skill development amongst our youth
population. Around Rs.15000-Rs. 18000 would be spent on each urban youth to
impart coaching under various fields of work. Establishment of micro
enterprises and group enterprises would be encouraged by the government through
financing such businesses. SHGs (Self Help Groups) would also be constituted
with direct linkage with banks which would in turn help the working class of
young people get money whenever they need it. Market oriented skills would be
imparted to the youths through City Livelihood Centres in order to prepare the
type of work force that the whole world would crave for.
All such programs are truly exception and
can be immensely fruitful if implemented with meticulousness and assiduousness
and I believe that one day when I would open my phone’s back cover I would find
a “Made in India” tag on it.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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