What Young Pune Wants !

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Surprisingly despite India being a highly diverse country with our youth comprising 55% of the total population, their voice still goes unheard.

While India is moving towards being one of the fast growing economies, there are still several issues that plague our city’s youth and needs to be addressed before they precipitate further. We spoke to citizens to do a reality check..

With rapid technological advancements people are busy adding friends on their social media account and yet know little about the person staying next door. Talking about depression that is taking the country by storm, Kavita Krishnamurty says, “Every third person especially in the 16-40 bracket is struggling with depression, the major reason being the lack of communication, and no one to confide in..

The need to cope with the growing technologies and being virtually omnipresent have rendered them disconnected from society and its natural modus operandi. Although technology is a mandate for developing countries like India, it does come with its side effects” she adds.

The education system is currently at fault, all thanks to reservation and the non-uniform cut-off criteria for admissions. The unreserved category students have to overwork off to qualify the high cut-offs for a B-school

Reservations should be provided for economically backward students.. Why do the universities have to keep different cut-offs for different category students? If a person has abilities, he shall qualify it. It is not necessary that an unreserved category person is well off or a reserved category one is not.

“A competitive exam should be conducted and then on the basis of the ability of the person and his economic background reservations and privileges should be provided,” says Gaurav Shinde, a B-com graduate.

Kunal Parekh thinks outsourcing has negatively impacted in bringing up job opportunities. “A lot has been spoken about skill development. To an extend we also have developed skilled professionals. But unfortunately, we lack in providing them employment opportunities.

“In order to cut costs and keep product prices down companies are forced to outsource manufacturing to other countries that produce products at much lower labour costs. It is a mere shame that engineers an MBA post graduates have to work as peons at government offices just to earn their living.

“Some even after acquiring adequate education remain jobless. This is a serious problem that needs to be addressed immediately. Although with schemes like Make in India, things might start flowing downstream, but currently there is a dearth of employment opportunities across all sectors,” he adds.

 

#All views expressed in this column are those of the individual respondents and Pune365 does not necessarily subscribe to them.

Loveleen Kaur