Why Chhattisgarh fails to contain its talented brains
People migrate from their homeland to other places for two reasons - either because they fail to develop survival instinct in their native place or due to their high ambition to reach the acme of their career. For a performing government, migration is unacceptable because its reputation is staked when questions arise from all nooks and corners pertaining to its incapability in providing congenial atmosphere to the citizens to exist. Now, there is another type of migration which can precisely be termed as – ‘migration of talented brains’. The trend is picking pace in Chhattisgarh and the government has not yet taken any measure to check the massive outflow of the genius lot.
The decision to move from birthplace cannot be taken overnight. It requires commitment and focused attitude and absence of any of the two factors compels one to book return ticket for hometown. The students from Chhattisgarh usually prefer other states or abroad to pursue higher education because they know that the gateway for plum job is much wider in those places. Some of these students fly abroad either in search of more knowledge or to draw salary in foreign currencies. A large number of these students settle in their workplace and occasionally arrive home for a short stint when they feel nostalgic or to attend significant family events.
However, Chhattisgarh is not the only state that lacks the basic infrastructure for quality education and job prospects, but there are many more states in the country where similar conditions prevail. Now, why to compete for the worst spot when there is a chance of securing the best?
Chhattisgarh is only a ten-year-old state and it has immense potential to grow. The first step it should take is to get rid of ‘backward state’ image. For this, it would have to reform the higher education sector from the scratch.
Presently, there are more than 40 engineering colleges (both government and private), three medical colleges and more to come in the form of private ones, several management institutes that also offer large number of job-oriented professional courses. However, none of these academic institutes have succeeded in arranging campus interviews at national and international level for their students.
Although, some make effort and invite local companies to conduct campus interviews but after getting jobs in such organizations, the students quickly switch to other states and try their luck in MNCs informing them that they already had a job offer in their kitty, but since they want better opportunity, there were there.
This indicates that the training and placement departments of all the colleges are almost defunct and have been established only to attract students and their parents during admission.
You would have heard about a number of colleges arranging workshop or training for their students in renowned companies, but what is the percentage of these students getting job in such companies on the basis of their skill and marks? No one knows. Even the college administrations too are unaware about the real figures.
The research and development (R&D) facilities in these colleges do not exist at all. The laboratories remain open only during day hours. The libraries have limited number of reading materials. In this scenario, how can the students get study environment in these colleges like IITs or IIMs?
Now the government repeatedly announces that it will open software technology park (STP), industrial park, apparel park, gem park and so on but where exactly these parks are located? Why is the government delaying to commence such projects?
When the TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu was the Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh (AP), he had promised to develop Hyderabad as the best
IT (Information Technology) hub of the country leaving behind Bangalore. He kept his words. The changes came in the AP capital in the form of various MNCs opening their Indian headquarters in the city’s outskirts including Microsoft, Oracle and others.
Besides, Hyderabad has also gained popularity in its health sector with its ultra-modern medical facilities and economical treatment of fatal diseases and hence a number of patients from all over the country
including Chhattisgarh go there to avail the services.
The Bangalore city is again the one of the biggest IT hubs of the nation.
Students covet to get job in Bangalore and settle there. Pune,
Ahmedabad, Gurgaon and Chandigarh are few more cities that have earned similar reputation. These places developed into metropolises because the four cosmopolitan cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai have almost reached to a saturation level. However, comparison of small cities of Chhattisgarh with these big cities is not justified.
There is no doubt that Chief Minister Raman Singh has done commendable job in the past six years. He has succeeded in making the state number one in the country in terms of GDP (11.49 %). But the GDP can go up every year if the new brainpowers would be contained and provided competent environment to prove their skill and to lead a life at par to any of the globe’s sought-after academic place. From the knowledge comes wisdom and prosperity. The government should try to ensure that its universities and colleges be developed into centres of quality education. The private institutions should also be allowed to co-exist on the basis of competence.
People migrate from their homeland to other places for two reasons - either because they fail to develop survival instinct in their native place or due to their high ambition to reach the acme of their career. For a performing government, migration is unacceptable because its reputation is staked when questions arise from all nooks and corners pertaining to its incapability in providing congenial atmosphere to the citizens to exist. Now, there is another type of migration which can precisely be termed as – ‘migration of talented brains’. The trend is picking pace in Chhattisgarh and the government has not yet taken any measure to check the massive outflow of the genius lot.
The decision to move from birthplace cannot be taken overnight. It requires commitment and focused attitude and absence of any of the two factors compels one to book return ticket for hometown. The students from Chhattisgarh usually prefer other states or abroad to pursue higher education because they know that the gateway for plum job is much wider in those places. Some of these students fly abroad either in search of more knowledge or to draw salary in foreign currencies. A large number of these students settle in their workplace and occasionally arrive home for a short stint when they feel nostalgic or to attend significant family events.
However, Chhattisgarh is not the only state that lacks the basic infrastructure for quality education and job prospects, but there are many more states in the country where similar conditions prevail. Now, why to compete for the worst spot when there is a chance of securing the best?
Chhattisgarh is only a ten-year-old state and it has immense potential to grow. The first step it should take is to get rid of ‘backward state’ image. For this, it would have to reform the higher education sector from the scratch.
Presently, there are more than 40 engineering colleges (both government and private), three medical colleges and more to come in the form of private ones, several management institutes that also offer large number of job-oriented professional courses. However, none of these academic institutes have succeeded in arranging campus interviews at national and international level for their students.
Although, some make effort and invite local companies to conduct campus interviews but after getting jobs in such organizations, the students quickly switch to other states and try their luck in MNCs informing them that they already had a job offer in their kitty, but since they want better opportunity, there were there.
This indicates that the training and placement departments of all the colleges are almost defunct and have been established only to attract students and their parents during admission.
You would have heard about a number of colleges arranging workshop or training for their students in renowned companies, but what is the percentage of these students getting job in such companies on the basis of their skill and marks? No one knows. Even the college administrations too are unaware about the real figures.
The research and development (R&D) facilities in these colleges do not exist at all. The laboratories remain open only during day hours. The libraries have limited number of reading materials. In this scenario, how can the students get study environment in these colleges like IITs or IIMs?
Now the government repeatedly announces that it will open software technology park (STP), industrial park, apparel park, gem park and so on but where exactly these parks are located? Why is the government delaying to commence such projects?
When the TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu was the Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh (AP), he had promised to develop Hyderabad as the best
IT (Information Technology) hub of the country leaving behind Bangalore. He kept his words. The changes came in the AP capital in the form of various MNCs opening their Indian headquarters in the city’s outskirts including Microsoft, Oracle and others.
Besides, Hyderabad has also gained popularity in its health sector with its ultra-modern medical facilities and economical treatment of fatal diseases and hence a number of patients from all over the country
including Chhattisgarh go there to avail the services.
The Bangalore city is again the one of the biggest IT hubs of the nation.
Students covet to get job in Bangalore and settle there. Pune,
Ahmedabad, Gurgaon and Chandigarh are few more cities that have earned similar reputation. These places developed into metropolises because the four cosmopolitan cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai have almost reached to a saturation level. However, comparison of small cities of Chhattisgarh with these big cities is not justified.
There is no doubt that Chief Minister Raman Singh has done commendable job in the past six years. He has succeeded in making the state number one in the country in terms of GDP (11.49 %). But the GDP can go up every year if the new brainpowers would be contained and provided competent environment to prove their skill and to lead a life at par to any of the globe’s sought-after academic place. From the knowledge comes wisdom and prosperity. The government should try to ensure that its universities and colleges be developed into centres of quality education. The private institutions should also be allowed to co-exist on the basis of competence.
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