From where to where?

This post of mine has been animated by one pumped up conversation that I had with my friends when we were in Idikki, a beautiful hill station in Kerala. De facto it was a frivolous blabber but surely left me in a thought.

“What is your profession?” You can expect a majority to reply “I am into IT/Software.” What does this IT sector contain in itself that people are willingly abdicating their present to step into an uncertain future. It was predicted in the year 2004 that some time between 2008 and 2010, annual export revenues from India's information technology (IT) sector would promisingly hit $50 billion, up from $16.3 billion, which is a spectacular growth curve and is indisputable to become reality with the Satyams, Wipros , Infosys and the like.

Over the years the services sectors like nanotechnology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, aviation, tourism and telecommunication have not been in the limelight for inevitable reasons. Government’s investment into various sectors is destined to have either a direct or indirect impact on the alarming social issues that the country is facing. There has been an undeniable tremendous support and influence of the IT sector on the nation’s economy. Nevertheless what about the services sectors of the country? Especially when all the knowledgeable, elite and eloquent are in a rat race to jump into the IT sector? The so called noble teaching profession now finds itself in equation with the software eccentrics. The IT professionals find it soothing to end their careers as teaching professionals for want of gratification which is often hard to earn all their life. On the other side of the equation are the teachers who unable to resist the fight for resources and luxury find it easier to earn bucks in the IT field.

The standpoint of the Indian government plays a demanding role in deciding where the agricultural, manufacturing and other sectors go from here on. The percentage share contributions of the economic potentiality reflecting agriculture and manufacture sectors to the GDP have not been remarkably impressive over the years. Hardly do we find knowledgeable people pursuing their career in those areas of profession due to fear of deficient pay and ecstasy for the lush of life and a status in the society. India is rich in natural resources and labor. The judicious usage of the available resources can turn the tables over in transforming our society into an estimable one. There is so much of pomp and ballyhoo when it comes to even the minutest detailing of the IT field whereas relatively on the other hand we barely get to see the happenings in the other sectors.

Rather than playing the blame game, it would be encouraging to strive in creating cognizance in our people about the less favored significant spheres of work. Boosting to endeavor to appreciable levels of development and support in other domains would serve in the well rounded development of the nation. At that juncture, we can affirmably state that our country is developing in a holistic point of reference. One day may come when we find civil servants, agriculturists or even scientists in extinction considering the proportion of students engaging to be either doctors or more dominantly software engineers after their 10th grade. Only one of say 100 educatees or even more would actually go for a research study in their field of expertise or for officialdom. To serve the country was putatively a baronial cause to fight for but now it turns out to be the least preferred. It remains questionable about from where, to where have we moved in terms of our world view.

Investigating the ways and routes to reach that zenith where we are ruled by the educated and enlightened front is called for. That would be a day which I would be looking forward for and promisingly be a time when every Indian hopes to find a solution to his age old ever persisting problems of life.