Education System needs to be Revised.

Happiness is the ultimate goal of life. To be happy, one requires good health, good relations, comfortable living conditions and peace of mind. To acquire good health, to maintain good relations and to pay the cost of living in the form of utility bills for comfortable living conditions one requires a reasonable amount of wealth. For having wealth, one requires one or more sources of income, which is possible through employment and then for employment, one of course, has to do work. The employment may be self-employment or employment-under-an-employer. Self-employment includes businesses, manufacturing products and offering services as per needs of the society. In the case of employment under an employer, one provides his services in lieu of fixed / flexible monthly salary. In any case whether it is self-employment or employment under an employer, the employee is required to have certain level of education and/or skills to perform the allocated job. Here comes the role of education and acquiring skills. It is observed that in our country with a few exceptions, for a vast majority of students, the only purpose of getting education is to get job. But most of the students simply continue their studies in schools, colleges and universities without clear targets and without career-planning in their minds. A small percentage of students who are good in their academics acquire professional education and trainings in most popular fields and become doctors, engineers, lawyers or journalists etc., whereas rest of the students after acquiring degrees run from pillar to post in search of employment especially the employment in Government institutions. Since the Government jobs are limited in number so a small section of candidates can be accommodated in bureaucracy and official jobs whereas the rest of degree holders remain unemployed, and hence the ratio of unemployment increases day by day. On the other hand, a vast-majority of youth cannot continue their studies beyond school level and hence add to the number of unemployed people of the country. Here comes the role of Government to resolve the issue and that is possible only by imparting purposeful/target-oriented education and skill development in the young population. The education system is required to be devised and revised in such a way that the students can be sorted out into different categories at the very early stages of their studies. It is fine with those students who are good in studies and get admissions in professional institutions but the attention is required more for the ordinary students who intend to discontinue their education during school and college days or who continue acquiring simple education without any clear goal in minds. In case of these students the education system should be so devised that real talent and tendency of such students can be identified and then attention is paid for their skill development in the field of their interest. It should be made integral part of the education-policy to impart technical education to develop skills in such type of the students. It would be even better policy that side by side of the conventional education a suitable skill must be developed in all students from the very beginning of their education. Resultantly students after completing their education or discontinuing their education as the case may be, would be able to go for self-employment instead of running after the government or private jobs.  In this way pressure on Government jobs would be reduced and self-employment would be increased. The State should also ensure peaceful, conducive environment through policies of “ease of doing business”. Government should promote culture of self-employment through skill development instead of producing millions of job seekers every year. This would boost the economic conditions at individual level and contribute positively towards overall economy of the country at national level. This education model should be refined and adopted after studying the education models of China, Japan and other developed countries so that we can compete them locally and internationally to join the comity of successful nations.