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Proud to be an Indian Prof. A K Mudgal

Proud to be an Indian Prof. A K Mudgal. Largest Democracy. World class Institutions. World’s 4th largest economy and a software powerhouse. World’s most exotic travel destination. World’s second largest film industry. Sports. Our Size.

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Proud to be an Indian Prof. A K Mudgal

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  1. Proud to be an Indian Prof. A K Mudgal

  2. Largest Democracy

  3. World class Institutions

  4. World’s 4th largest economy and a software powerhouse

  5. World’s most exotic travel destination

  6. World’s second largest film industry

  7. Sports

  8. Our Size 2009 Population Estimate of UN: India 117 crore and World 678 croreWe are 17% of the World

  9. In 2009 of the 543 newly elected MPs in India153 had criminal cases pending against them with 74 having serious criminal charges • 28% of our legislators are law offenders

  10. Our Economy • GDP in 2008 according to IMF:India $121,000 crores and Spain $161,000 croresSpain has 3.93% of India’s population but produces 30% more • Per Capita Gross National Income according to the World Bank:India $950 and Singapore $32,470Every Singaporean on average earns 34 times more than every Indian

  11. Our Software Industry • 2008 Industry Revenue of IT – BPO(Business process outsourcing)as per NASSCOM: Global > $160,000 crores and India < $7,170 crores

  12. With > 30% of IT BPO headcount we have < 5% of revenues • 2008 Revenue of top 13 Global Technology companies (in $ crores)Total = 85,787; USA = 48,976; Japan = 30,696; Finland = 6,141; India = 0Nokia of Finland alone is almost as large as total Indian IT-BPO industry

  13. Our Academic Performance • 2009 All time Nobel Prizes tally India 8 and Germany 102 Compared to German schools our great schools are pure hype

  14. Sports Performance • 2008 All time Olympic Games medal tally India 20 and Hungary 465 Hungary with a population < Delhi’s has 23 times more medals • 2007 Cricket World Cups tally India 1 and Australia 4 Australia is better in Cricket plus has won 438 Olympic medals

  15. Our Tourism Industry • 2008 International tourist arrivals as per UNWTO: India 50 lakhs and Austria 208 lakhs Austria is smaller than Arunachal Pradesh but attracts 4 times more tourists than all of India • Our Film Industry2008 All time best foreign language film Oscar award tally India 0 awards and 3 nominations, Sweden 3 awards and 14 nominationsSweden produces only 20 films per year which are of far better quality than Bollywood films

  16. WHO WILL DO IT • 117 CRORE INDIANS

  17. 64 CRORE WORKING INDIANS

  18. 53 CRORE NON WORKING

  19. 145 IQ • LESS THAN 0.25 % WORKING POPULATION • ONLY 16 LAKH ARE GIFTED

  20. FATE OF 16 LAKH 34% i.e. 5 lakh were born too poor to go to school Thesepeoplestruggle to survive, they: grow up to become menial labourers are exploited by the rich are ignored and marginalised by the educated are manipulated by the politicians actively vote and significantly influence polls

  21. 66% i.e. 11 lakh went to school in an education system designed to make clerks • Everyday for 15 years, they spent: • 10 hours at school – cramming subjects • 03 hours – doing homework • 02 hours – with friends • 02 hours at home – being compared to others • 07 hours – relaxing for the next day

  22. After this, they decided their career: 70% wanted to become Engineers 15% wanted to become Doctors 07% wanted to become Accountants 05% wanted to get into some other profession 03% i.e. 35,000 were undecided The decided students spent next 6 years studying almost 16 hours per day. However, not even 100 of the 10.65 lakh CAN write 15 sentences about their chosen profession.

  23. Common reasons amongst students to choose a career are: • “My father wants me to be an engineer and my sibling to be a doctor” • “My father is an engineer / doctor and I want to follow his footsteps”” • “All my classmates want to be engineers” • “My cousin sister is an engineer, she is very successful”

  24. 10% i.e. 1 lakh became top engineers, doctors, bureaucrats, accountants, managers, etc. Note: Mostly engineers (not scientists), managers (not entrepreneurs), and civil servants (not politicians)

  25. Thesepeopleprosper with clerk mentality, they: • compete only with fellow Indians • lose zeal once they have a house, car and spouse • are eager to settle abroad • ignore the 34% possibility of being born poor • talk intellectually about politics but do not even vote

  26. Note: Mostly software developers, field sales managers, bank officers, government officials 90% i.e. 10 lakh tried one exam after another - to finally accept whatever life offered • These peoplesurvive with clerk mentality, they: • are completely bogged down by competition • struggle to think independently • make their workplace a political play ground • keep their children under continuous peer pressure • crib about everything but are unable to do anything

  27. Our education system systematically destructs independent thinking . . . Proof: even the highly gifted future citizens of India (who were fortunate to go to school) were not independent when taking the most important decision of their own life

  28. HOW CAN WE DO IT

  29. Send everyone to School

  30. India has 40 crore illiterates (34%). If, we have classes of 50 students and 5 teachers in every class, we would need 4 crore teachers. If we pay every teacher INR 5,000 per month we would need INR 240,000 crores every year Total education expenditure in Union Budget for 2008–09 was INR 39,000 crore India is a poor country. Even if our Government wanted to, it cannot afford 100% literacy. Obviously no Non Government effort can help either.

  31. Change the education system • We run great professional institutes at the cost of primary education leaving 34% of our population illiterate • Another 59% (90% of those who are fortunate to go to school) spend most of their youth trying to get into our great professional institutes • The remaining 7% elite who do study at our great professional

  32. institutes are still clerks – great followers but neither leaders nor independent thinkers • Proof: Count the number of post 1947 leaders or visionaries who are comparable to Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Swami Vivekananda… • Do you think it is by chance that this has been happening since 1947? India will surely gain if we stop producing clerks, but who will lose?

  33. Inspire Parents • 34% parents are illiterate and very poor – still most of them do whatever they can to send their kids to school – they cannot be expected to do much more • 59% parents survive with clerk mentality – they send their kids to the costliest school they can afford – struggling to make ends meet, they are very difficult to change

  34. 07% parents are elites – they send their kids to elite schools – however they also do not think independently; even if they changed, they are too few in number • All parents rely on schools to provide their kids with a vision – trying to change schools is far more effective than trying to change parents!

  35. Motivate Teachers • Every teacher wants his/her students to rise and shine. They are our best hope. Now, the question is: “What can teachers do?” • Without a change in the education system they cannot do much to make their students true independent thinkers. However, they can: • Start with a more achievable goal: Motivate students to be independent when choosing their career, which is the most important decision of their life.

  36. The challenge is that career guidance options in India are limited to a few books, newspapers and a handful of trained counsellors • We cannot stop at creating awareness, we need to provide a quality solution which can be scaled to a country as big as ours.

  37. GIVE A THOUGHT HOW CAN YOU MAKE EVERYONE FEEL PROUD

  38. THANKS

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