Skilling and education are two sides of one coin. One without the other is just a badge, namesake. However, the good news is that India is realizing the importance of skilling and education in all areas, whether it is qualification, vocation, or profession. And it is all for the better. Education that does not prepare the students to apply what they have learnt in practical life holds no meaning; on the other hand individuals with exceptional skills and flair without backed by formal education leaves them lost. We have suffered enough for lack of application.
We have entire States with a hundred percent literacy rate and yet there is unemployment in those states; people are without jobs. The reason for this is that education alone does not make an individual employable. Education remains a theory, knowledge, a degree unless it succeeds in opening your mind and making you confident to face the world. And this is where skilling has an important role to play.
If
India had realized this fact earlier the problem of unemployable youth wouldn’t
be so huge! But like they say all things happen in their own time. We can also
put it as, that we as a nation are evolving and to compete on the world
platform we will need skilling along with education. With just one thing we
can’t get too far.
