Thursday, March 22, 2007

Entrepreneurship in Eastern U.P.

Hi,

This is to say that I am an engineer who was working with NIIT-Tech Studio, New Delhi. I wish to bring forth to everyone's notice that we have a vast talent pool in Eastern and Central U.P. that is still untapped because of ignorance and proper education. They are poorly utilized and this is something that I wish to bring to the notice of NASSCOM as well as FICCI.
The problem is at the grass-root level and we have to rise beyond the hype and hoopla of India Poised kind of campaigns. We need to analyze the situation at the ground zero level.
Even in IIMs we talk of entrepreneurship but I seriously doubt that we in India can really go beyond the 9-9 corporate humdrum and do anything substantial to change the country at the grass-root level so that farmers stop committing suicide in hitech states, what to say of BIMARU. Our honorary president talks of better teaching pedagogies but who is willing to take the lead, barring the mushrooming of low grade coaching institutes who act as 'Mudra-Rakshas".
India can certainly attest importance to the demographic advantage of Eastern U.P. and Bihar and utilize fully the economies of scale even in the field of education. This will certainly help in the long run and will not be a myopic perception per se.
I know that like the umpteen numbers of mails this might also go unnoticed but that will not be a good reason to quit. If we quit as individuals, India Poised might become India Pissed. We need to strengthen our base and not just see the superficial analysis. Ergo, I propose a platform from where we can start focusing on basic and higher education in the backwaters too. I wish to start with Eastern U.P. Please help if you can.