Young Indian professionals, no matter however prudent their niche field may be, often are grounded after they begin their career in the corporate. Simply put, they either stagger in the lower rung or are ejected as they begin their job in reputed multinationals.
A few techies in the corporate may have no repercussions for not being proficient in English. But, a majority of young professionals do. It's because they fail to effectively communicate. This takes us a few years back. Let us now talk to their parents when they were in class V/VI in a so-called-English -medium-Indian school. Let us take this discussion to present tense and match our observations with a few statistics.
The Hindu Reports: Science and humanities must be on an even plane By Vivek Shome
FEBRUARY 02, 2020 00:24 IST...UPDATED: FEBRUARY
01, 2020 18:00 IST
" Engineering or medicine? That’s
an age-old question faced by Indian students. The arts and humanities are out
of the picture. Only those whose grades aren’t great study commerce or
economics. But literature, history or political science? That must infer that
the student has either failed or is rebellious........... The dream of a secure
financial future can seem rosy, but will it compensate for broken dreams and a
world without innovation?.........."
LANGUAGE has been given the
utmost importance as a vehicle of expression. REGIONAL or South Asian Vernacular LANGUAGES will be the medium of instructions. Even IITs
will teach HUMANITIES !!!
We have a direct impact through INDIA'S DIGITAL transformation. This means you must know such languages to carry on economic transactions while in India. We, as language tutors, bear warm expectations to utilise our Human resources to the highest level.
THE NEW
EDUCATION POLICY envisaged by the ministry of Education today ie on 29/07/2020
is going to bring about changes in the schooling and university level after 34
yrs of stagnation. MORE STRESS WILL BE GIVEN ON LANGUAGES AND CULTURE. It will
help overcome the unemployability among the so called educated professional
churned out by the Institutes today. We have always
been advocating such a step to stop the craze among the middle class to splurge
on dead-end-courses.
There is a gamut of career options today including gig-jobs. In fact gig-economy contribute more in mitigating youth unrest by providing for them in their early youth. Hence it becomes even more pertinent to compete for a high clientele who belong to upper echelon of the society. Of course, one such cliet is worth 97 of commoners in terms of their spending capacity. Keeping this in view, we must also note that this 3% always attach importance to English communication as it being the PRESTIGE LANGUAGE. Hence, your kid, down the line after 10 years, as a young Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Chatrered Accountant, Manager, etc will require to successfully deal with his superiors, subordinates, colleagues and clients, customers. If he/she needs to earn better, he/she must garner English speaking high clientele.
Mad rush to spend more on Science subjects will certainly make the Linguistic skills to take a setback impairing the future of the kid.
[By profession this author is a 38 years' experienced private tutor. Visit www.dbhattacharjee.com to know more.
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