Educational system does not inspire creativity
About 75 per cent of the population in India is untouched by the growth the country has been witnessing in the last five years, H.K. Mittal, Advisor and Head, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, said here on Wednesday.Speaking at the inaugural of a seminar on “Technology Integration – Problems and Prospects in Small and Medium Scale Business,” at G.R.Damodaran Academy of Management, he said that growth was concentrated in certain pockets of the country. Our cities were growing at a rate of 30 to 40 per cent.If the same rate of growth had taken place in Small and Medium Enterprises, the growth would have been more uniform, he said.By 2020, India would have about 45 million surplus workers, both skilled and unskilled. “If all these people have to be employed, we would have to use appropriate technology to engage them in suitable jobs.”Our educational system did not inspire creativity in students. In developed countries, innovation and entrepreneurship was inculcated in students’ right from the school-level.And, they put these concepts into practice at the college level.The faculty played an important role in bringing innovation into the teaching methodology. They should give opportunities that would encourage the use of technology and innovative methods.In India there was a National Innovation Foundation which had documented more than 60,000 ideas.
