‘India is Broken: A People Betrayed' author estimates India needs 200 million jobs

kambhakt said:
We should close down a lot of BA colleges and open things like ITI instead. Then admission into BA will be difficult. People are doing arts because they don't want to do anything. Only people really interested in BA should be doing BA. Rest should not get admission.
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There will be a huge media uproar if that happens. The govt will get roasted so badly, it will regret it. The media people are mostly BA grads.
 
Paitoo said:
There will be a huge media uproar if that happens. The govt will get roasted so badly, it will regret it. The media people are mostly BA grads.
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31% graduates are from arts. 24 Lacs. We definitely do not have that many jobs in the arts stream.
 
AjayGhatak said:
This. This is why all these professor type folks are never reliable. Especially if one is named as "Ashoka Mody". Social science is mostly a joke these days. Unlike hard science, it is never tested against reality. So all the opinions are taken as gospel truths. Here is a blast from his past, his stupid sass and idiotic arse!


He in 1987 recommended India to invest in low-level electronic component manufacturing and focus on hardware system design while software should not be an area of focus because, in his own words,


This was laughable even back in 80s. Visionaries like Bill Gates and entire silicon valley had realized the potential of software and entire industry was growing phenomenally. It is funny for this chap, back then a World Bank employee and a graduate of Princeton in Economic with a background in electronics would think that. Something Tatas of India foresaw and he missed! He though software as "the lowest value add". HA!

There is a famous line in "Fire in the valley" when Bill Gates is negotiating a deal with Altair computers in 1980 or so. "Your Computer is marvellous! But it needs our software to function. Otherwise it just sits there and blinks". LOL! Software was and even today is the highest value add in computation. Its the most expensive product out there.



It is noteworthy, India software exports grew to 131 million dollars by the end of 1990 and 219 in 1992. Admittedly lower than 250 million that DoE but certainly nowhere near the kind of dismissal that he was basing his recommendation on. Software indeed outgrew ALL other forms of export in electronics from India.



This is laughable beyond measure. This is an article from 1987. Lets see some numbers..

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Even back in 1987, it should have been clear to ANYONE with a single working neuron that software was an area of high growth (30-50% per year). And then this moron suggests that "There is some indication that the market is unlikely to grow and may even dwindle". What the ACTUAL ****! Was he stupid or demented? Its one of the few areas which became a billion dollar export from almost 0 in just 15-16 years!

And Mr Ashok Mody's recommendation was and I quote!



Yup! This is what this idiot had recommended as a economic "genious". Now we have seen the reality as this is history. So excuse me if I do not give ANY credence to this idiot's opinion.
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One must be a moron to ridicule the notion that manufacturing and not services will be the driving force of a developing nation.
even after three decades we have not managed to develop any world leading product in software. All the Indian service companies do is pimping low iqed individuals en mass to be competitive.
 
Sharky said:
One must be a moron to ridicule the notion that manufacturing and not services will be the driving force of a developing nation.
even after three decades we have not managed to develop any world leading product in software. All the Indian service companies do is pimping low iqed individuals en mass to be competitive.
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The purpose of any government is NOT to develop any world leading product etc. It is to provide and protect the economy of the nation.

Indian service industry has not developed at the cost of manufacturing at all. It has developed independently.

India's failure to develop a strong manufacturing industry does not have anything on its strong service industry.

Ashok Mody is an idiot because he downplayed the importance of software. It is the perfectly suited industry for a lot of India. It does not have massive CapEx. It is or alteast till very recently was more like handicraft and generates a lot of employment.

BTW, you are the perfect example of what is wrong with India. You like other Indians take decisions based on emotions. "low iqed", "pimping", "world leading" etc etc etc.

Also, you are factually wrong as well. Do learn about Sridhar Vembu and his Zoho Software. It is very much a world leading product based company. And this is from the top of my head. Whats even more interesting? It was bootstrapped and it did not hire most of the "highest calibre" folks. Its a billion dollar company producing 340 million dollar revenue via its products each year. It is beyond respectable.

It does not matter if a cat is black or white till it catches mice.
 
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@kmc_chacko

Hello Sir,

Can you answer a few questions beforehand? Because I can't afford to spend much money on traveling to Shimoga and staying there in a lodge for a day or two till enquiries are over.
 
sentry said:
Lol. Worry about your country. India is doing much better than your country or under corrupt cong rule.
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Is it not India that has the world's largest number of poor, and also a crazy amount of debt?
 
delta2 said:
Is it not India that has the world's largest number of poor, and also a crazy amount of debt?
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Looks like discussion over per capita stats are biggest nightmare for Pakistanis.
 
kambhakt said:
No. That honor is with Nigeria now.
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Naww it is still India. Nigeria has a corrupt govt otherwise they would not have many problems.

India is genuinely a vast sh!thole and the very definition of misery.
 
Indians don’t give a damn about this analysis. Because India is the 3rd largest gdp in the world with 7% growth rate. It will be a superpower soon. Please saar accept it saar.
 
The unemployment rate is 3.2%. That is all I needed to know.
 
shamir said:
Indians don’t give a damn about this analysis. Because India is the 3rd largest gdp in the world with 7% growth rate. It will be a superpower soon. Please saar accept it saar.
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Nonsense. We do. It is horrible and we feel bad. And then we look around and feel comforted.
 
Off topic. Please communicate off-thread. Tja
kmc_chacko said:
Ask
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1. Till how many years will there be vacancies? I really want to join but can't do it immediately due to family problems.

2. Is there any job for the very very overaged? I am keeping my fingers crossed.

3. Is there any job for the extremely slow? How slow? You have to see it to believe it. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

@kmc_chacko
 
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