The education system in India needs to be transformed

One of the main paradoxes of this country has been the fact that in spite of our billion plus population, there continues to be a shortage of skilled talent for the emerging industry sectors like IT, BPO, retail, hospitality and healthcare. Another paradox that is emerging is that in spite of the large number of new colleges of engineering and management set up, particularly in states like Maharashtra Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh, there is still a clamour for employable graduates by the industry and many available seats are going a begging in the newly minted colleges as disillusionment sets in with the quality of talent emerging from these institutions.

The solutions have been staring us in the face for quite some time. The education systems in our country need to be transformed to encourage vocational skills development as an honourable alternative to higher education and in some cases as a skills...