Let me start with an example first: While standing in a line at bank to deposit money, there was a girl standing just ahead of me and she was there to deposit cheque. The girl was wearing uniform of an MBA institute which means that she has had good academic education, when it was her turn she has given the cheque to teller and the person on the counter asked her that she has to attach slip with it before depositing, the girl went back to the desk where slips are kept, she looked utterly confused about what to fill inside those boxes, a person who was standing there told her to fill with account number, now more interesting thing, the girl called to someone (most probably the person who gave the cheque) that please give your account number while she was supposed to put her own which was again corrected by teller. Reason to start with this example is that our youth which gets through good academic education, many time fails to work on real life things. Ask them to 1. Go to GPO and do speedpost, sending register AD or 2. Going for routine bank work or 3. How to invest money e.g. SIP, shares, equity and mutual fund (specially science students), calculating taxes or 4. Basic legal terms, filing income tax return, purchasing stamp paper even. Yes they learn it but it is after they come into field and it takes few years to make them aware about all these things. Many of you will say that we know all these things but here question is that do you really believe that an engineer knows it all just after passing out? My answer is no in majority of the cases. So this is the problem statement, now what's the solution? Well as government is amending education policy after almost three decades I wish that they include such topics in the curriculum so that it becomes part of routine. What if government doesn't do that? Well in that case the God made teachers whom we call parents have that responsibility to teach their children about all these things. If we can teach our children to use laptop and smartphones, we must take responsibility to make them aware about all these things which are part of day to day life. Youth is aware of which web series on which platform or how to register for an event of comedian/singer but they don't know about filling up form for train reservation or not even meaning of various terms after you book a train ticket. Time to give importance to basic social discipline, laws which can be useful in day to day life and the things which I have mentioned earlier as we are not working in an absolute environment where we are supposed to work only with one subject but we have to deal with many things at time and better to prepared during our years of academic education. I wish to know your views into it and let's try to spread this message that much that it reaches to authorities and they give their time to think about it. As always I am waiting for your suggestions!!!
