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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X X VII No.5

BOARD OF ADVISORS A
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla gainst the backdrop of alarming reports that 40 percent of
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Dr. graduates of India’s 53,000 undergrad colleges and 1,338
Nissar Ahmed (Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. universities are unemployed for over 12 months, choosing the
Augustine Pinto, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala,
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma, Manjeet Kripalani most academically and aptitudinally suitable higher education
(Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Prof. Geeta institution (HEI) has become a critical life shaping decision for
Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah,
Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Vivek Shukla (Kolkata); school and college-leavers. The era when years spent in HEIs was a time for
Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); Shyama Thakore young men to woo and win women students in parks, picnics and gardens as
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depicted in Bollywood blockbusters, is well and truly gone.
EDITOR Decades of low industry and economic growth combined with casually de-
Dilip Thakore signed syllabuses and curriculums unaligned with industry requirements have
taken their toll. Today a plain vanilla college degree is no longer a guarantee
MANAGING EDITOR
Summiya Yasmeen of a respectable, adequately remunerated job in this era of high inflation and
scary new digital and AI technologies obsolescing traditional entry-level jobs.
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR This is not to say that jobs are vanishing. I have always agreed with a
Sundar Anand statement made by Morarji Desai, a long-forgotten former prime minister, to
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) the effect that India is a big country with millions of problems and so work
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) is always available. But amazingly, omniscient central planners who drew up
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) detailed five-year plans for national development for over 60 years until the
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Planning Commission was moth-balled in 2014, never thought about induct-
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MARKETING India has an overwhelming surfeit of youth qualified for rapidly disappearing
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