In a Release Meet marking the 22nd anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies here on Monday this has come to light. Drop out rates are high and quality education and vocational education and skills are going amiss. A skewed job market and undistributed development seeks a solution. But the answer does not add up to a cutback on defence cost. With nations playing a game of muscle twisting and arms terrorizing can we afford to say this? If so what when we are educated. Can arms be substituted by a pen/pencil always. May be they complement each other and strengthen the nation but in today’s world it is a ‘not one without the other scenario’.
Also present was former Union Energy Secretary E A S Sarma who is quoted by The Hindu for having said the country was facing a crisis of democracy with its four pillars- dialogue, dissent, discussion and debate- on decline. Dialogue and thinking and learning go hand in hand but in the presence of an aggressor how far can a discussion go.
Food for thought?!
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