Women and education are two wheels of the chariot taking the nation towards ‘developed India’: Vice President
Jaipur, 28 September (Hindustan Reporter). Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said that the woman and
Education is the two wheels of the chariot that takes the nation towards ‘developed India’. The Vice President described women and education as the two wheels of the chariot which will drive the economy and without which India cannot develop. He appealed for a radical change in the functioning of the Indian society to increase the country’s influence at the global level and said that to give India the status of a developed nation, we will have to increase our per capita income eight times.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar ‘Developed India 2047’ at IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur on Saturday
He was addressing a discussion program on the topic ‘Role of women and education’. He stressed that there is a need to create the right eco-system for a developed India and good education and especially women’s education has an important role in shaping a self-reliant India. Dhankhar described education as a means of balancing the social system and also a medium of change. A right step in this direction is the introduction of the New Education Policy 2020, which allows students to receive quality and purposeful education while moving away from degree-oriented education. He emphasized that empowering women through inclusive education should be an important factor in driving social and economic progress.
He said that most people do not understand the outline of a developed India, we aspire to have a developed India by 2047. There is a great marathon march going on for this. All stakeholders are coming together. In just the last few years we have reached very high levels. We are the fifth largest global economy on the planet. Globally, developed India has not been defined. Developed nation is not defined but you have to read it through many mechanisms and one of them is per capita income. To give India the status of a developed nation we have to increase our per capita income eight times and for this some fundamentals are required.
He said that any society which is driven by corruption, driven by greed, driven by contact agents, driven by a system where without corruption you cannot get a job or a contract, is definitely against the upliftment of the youth. Corruption eats up talent, corruption neutralizes ability. A major change has taken place, the corridors of power which were once filled with corrupt contact elements, who used to have legitimate leverage in decision making, who awarded contracts and jobs without considering merit, those corridors have become ineffective. You must have seen that there is now transparent accountable governance in the country and this has been brought through technological penetration to the villages where money is transferred without middlemen.
He said that there can be no change without education, education should be quality education, education should be purposeful education. Education should go beyond degrees, acquiring degrees one after the other is not the right approach towards education and that is why after three decades the country came up with National Education Policy which allows students to fully exploit their talents . They have been turned away from degree-oriented education. The nation has adopted the National Education Policy. Education brings equality, education reduces inequalities. Education is a great medium to level the social system, education provides oxygen to democracy. If we look at our Vedas, there was a lot of emphasis on education and women’s participation. We lost our way somewhere in between, but in the Vedas, in the Vedic era, first of all, women were on the same footing. She was the policy maker, she was the decision maker, she was the guiding force. We lost our way somewhere, we are finding it back fast. We still have a system. Come on, don’t cry, you’re a boy. Be a man. Now these things have become old, even the person saying them has started feeling scared.
Before the program, the Vice President and his wife Sudesh Dhankhar planted a tree in memory of their mother. After this, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Dr. Ashok Gupta expressed his gratitude by presenting him a memento.
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Hindusthan News / Rohit
