The New Education Policy (NEP) has clearly laid out its focus on breaking barriers to equitable access to highest quality education, which creates great hopes for harnessing India’s human capital potential.
I grew up in the quaint town of Ranchi during the eighties and I was raised with a belief that I must study hard so that I do not end being ‘jobless’ in my adulthood. Owning a car was aspirational those days and I dreamt of owning a big one someday. This was the story of every small towner with big dreams back then!
From where I came from, Engineering or Medicine, were the only visibly-attractive career options unless one was determined to be a civil servant or someone in the immediate family was better exposed. India has made giant leaps forward from then, and owning a car is no longer a yardstick of success. Today, India…