This is a riot!
I can't get over the Sentinel's sagacity!
At 8:59 AM +0530 2/16/07, mc mahant wrote:
<what is the need for such a survey? Take this:
as of now, 47 per cent of Indias population is
below 20 years of age; according to MindShare
Insights, by 2015, the figure would go up to 55
per cent>
Means most parents will die off at 35 years+!
Same kind of survey figures as the recent one
declaring "95% in Assam do not want Sovereignty"
GBS said what?
"Lies,DamnLies and Statistics"
Let's go further:
changed the way youths in India normally behave
-- Survey taken in New Delhi at Valentines
DAY at some *****hotel?
Indian youths think of the uniform civil code.
Aware, perhaps, as they are of the tenets of
secularism, 83 per cent of them have opined that
the country should have a uniform civil --Means
they already studied and Mastered all about
(India/British)written Law--we all seem to have
never studied.
but for the stereotypical notion of security
in government service. This so-called security
is such that -- means they want to perpetuate
Casteism--Do some hanky Panky and live happily
with (snatched from Janata)
-- DA+TA+PROMOTIONS+Pensions ever after!
modern, educated Indian youth would not
experiment with the nonsensicality of an
oversized, anti-people, callous Indian
Babudom--- or there is the Mandal factor?.
exciting and rewarding curricula as response
to the winds of change brought about by economic
liberalization. ---- Floral ending! What
specifically??
Consulting Editor--Wow how Sentinel educates Oxomiya Youths.
mm
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Subject: [Assam] Changing Youth Perception_THE
REALITY MIRROR_Bikash Sarmah"The Sentinel "
16.02.2007
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:18:41 +0000 (GMT)
Globalization and the subsequent happening of
free-market economy have changed the way youths
in India normally behave. Their perceptions have
changed. They are more confident about their
chosen ways and careers; more ambitious when it
comes to their careers; more assertive in their
unconventional mode of thinking; and more
flexible when it comes to choice. The Indian
youth has evolved with time, so say observers
and survey reports. The impression is that the
evolution would be a continuous one, given
especially the fact that economic growth is
touching new heights, and a plethora of diverse
career opportunities abounds that has
the youths compete and excel in their own best ways.
This is the gist of the survey conducted by
India Today-AC Nielsen-ORG MARG for 2007 to
study youth behaviour and proclivity in the
18-30 age bracket. Cynics might ask: what is the
need for such a survey? Take this: as of now, 47
per cent of Indias population is below 20 years
of age; according to MindShare Insights, by
2015, the figure would go up to 55 per cent.
When such a huge chunk of population is young
and seems to have successfully adapted to the
changed and changing order of the day, the
relevance of any survey on youths cannot be
overemphasized.
Carried as cover story by India Today (February
19, 2007), the survey in question has many
categories and parameters to assess the thinking
pattern of youths in modern, post-reforms India.
There are some interesting facts and figures
some startling too. First, a discouraging note.
Only eight per cent of youths spend a typical
weekend playing sports, while
48 per cent of them hang out with friends. This
is a bad sign for the health of the nation and a
pointer to the shame called India when it comes
to the Olympics. In India, barring the
vicariousness of cricket, games and sports do
not appeal to policy-makers.
But there are a whole lot of encouraging figures
as well, which probably epitomize the evolving
Indian youth. An overwhelming 85 per cent of
youths think that both males and females are
given equal opportunities at home reflective
of a kind of satisfaction in regard to gender
issues in a country that has long had a
tradition of gender prejudices. Take the youth
opinion on inter-caste or inter-religion
marriages, where 64 per cent of them say such
marriages are acceptable which means caste or
religion as a decisive factor in making families
is being increasingly jettisoned. It also marks
a shift towards social inclusion and
cohesiveness; more important, it asserts the
negation of man-made barriers that polarize
society. This naturally brings us to what
todays Indian youths think of the uniform civil
code. Aware, perhaps, as they are of the tenets
of secularism, 83 per cent of them have opined
that the country should have a uniform civil
code a line of thinking that indubitably
augurs well for a society given to
religion-specific personal laws that run counter
to the very claims of a secular nation-state. If
more than 80 per cent of Indian youths want a
uniform civil code, the government ought to wake
up and see reason.
Now I must come to the crux of the whole matter.
As of now, only 27 per cent of men in the 18-30
age bracket prefer government service to other
career opportunities, while for women the figure
is understandably higher 40 per cent. However,
that 40 per cent of young women would still
choose government service as the best career
choice, does not in any way go to the glory of
government service. Most of these women hanker
after government service not for any
adventure or career advancement, but for the
stereotypical notion of security in government
service. This so-called security is such that
one can earn even without having to bother about
work, and one can go on being employed without
bothering about performance. It must, then, be
said that our women that class of 40 per cent
are yet to unshackle themselves and redefine
the notion of job security.
But what is the average figure when it comes to
government service as the best career choice? It
is 34 per cent. This lot, both male and female
taken together, is still wedded to the idea of
security in government service. What is,
however, encouraging is that, of the remaining
ones who would not be government servants, 23
per cent have shown their preference for
entrepreneurship and 18 per cent for private
sector service. Add to this the preference for a
career choice that used to be the most sought
after at one point of time Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) and
Indian Foreign Service (IFS). Only seven per
cent of Indian youths would opt for IAS or IFS
as the best career choice.
Even last year, the percentage of youths opting
for government service was as high as 47, which
is now 34. What could be the reason for a
decrease by 13 per cent? It is that the modern,
educated Indian youth would not experiment with
the nonsensicality of an oversized, anti-people,
callous Indian babudom. More and more youths are
venturing out in the space created by
post-reforms market dynamics and industry.
Flexible as they are, and prepared to tread
uncharted territories, todays youths also
represent a mindset in the making, for which
building academia-industry partnerships has
acquired paramount importance in todays world
as rightly noted by Venkatesh Kumar, social
scientist associated with the University of
Mumbai. Since todays Indian youths are also
known for their professional mobility and
confidence, and since they are experimenting
with non-conventional careers, it is time our
universities changed their own mindset and
introduced exciting and rewarding curricula
as response to the winds of change brought about
by economic liberalization.
(The writer is the Consulting Editor of The Sentinel)
"The Sentinel " 16.02.2007
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