An extension of the knowledge base, more than anything else, strength of will of the Indian economy in the 21 century, as it is a conscious move to a central pillar of the knowledge of the nation’s Development planning.

This was the message that resonate in every conversation in recent weeks with companies and researchers throughout India.

At the opening of the annual summit of partnership, the Confederation of Indian Industry in Kolkata invited donors mid-January, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a plan to establish a Commission of knowledge. His agenda specific to know, but Mr. Singh’s message was loud and clear: the time for Inde’s leap is here.

Economically, India is at its best post-war period. The currency reserves exceed $ 131 billion - sufficient funds for imports rose by nearly two years. And the knowledge base has been too long without continually expanded is a strength.

“Think big, bold feel about our country,” said Singh, his audience, mostly corporate India.

India is on the cutting edge of knowledge, not only before the command of the English language. The level of competence in English, without the benefits of knowledge in many areas, none other than the ability to work for low English Master.

It would not be a nation globally competitive. Japan launched its leap without much spoken English and second in the world of the economy. Thus, China.

India is now better placed than postwar Japan and China. His brain is enormous power and English is an official language by far across the country. The association represents the new generation of specialists in India with their Western counterparts in technological capacity, economy and ingenuity of each platform oratory is rare in developing countries.

It is this combination of brains and language, that India is the main meeting point for the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), otherwise known as information technology capable of services (IT-ES).

With this advantage, the Indians have the brain bank working more software, keeping accounts and Back-Office, functions for Western groups.

Today, American schoolchildren Santa Barbara after Michigan and Massachusetts are learning math and science online every day by the guardians to rest in places like Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in the South India. The potential of this new service line is so great that “approximately U.S. $ 10 million-$ 12 million to the economy this year.

India, the assets in emerging countries tutoring, “said the president’s career launcher, Satya Narayanan, supra, was on January 16 at national level will be put into circulation daily, The Indian Express, mental strength is its superior in comparison with competitors like the Philippines, Singapore and one in Asia - Pacific countries.

Launcher is a career 10 Online brain, that school in Massachusetts, USA. There is also some 20 years, earns $ 350 per month for a pocket money tutoring online and USA children, as tutors say that the Americans in their own curriculum is never difficult, because “we Indians are intellectually superior.”

These allegations prahlerisch it may seem. But how is beyond try to study, many American and European certificate India brain power by one against competitors in the allocation of work in India demand for high intellectual performance for the recruitment of graduates of Indian universities learning.

“The best of India is comparable to the best in the world,” says Dr. G. Prakash Apte, director of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), it was found that 200 super-brain of each year.

The support of this thesis, Pawan Kumar, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, is now President and Chief Executive Officer of software developer VMoksha Technologies, said that in the years 1980, software, state - US field and was a “person outside India, India was thought likely to produce software.”

We now but the situation has changed, America and the world are in India hit the doors of orders. This country deserves $ 12.5 billion last year, outsourcing services, with an increase of 16.5 billion dollars this year. In addition, Indian people overseas, many of them in key positions of jobs in global companies, pump $ 4 billion-$ 5 billion per year.

India brain Well, Mr. Kumar said, is reflected in the structure of the population and the number of graduates license and other specific qualifications Indian universities and institutes of higher learning.

More than 500 million Indians are under 25 years. About six million of them deserve a bachelor of science, economics or art each year and 400000 others deserve to graduate engineers. Nearly half of these graduates of engineering software specialization.

In addition, 1200 young men and women specializing in the areas of management and technology just over half a dozen institutes of engineering, technology and management, as IIMB, across the country.

Ever imagine that the computer and the Internet could help teachers teach better, course design to build better learning environments and improving the care of students more appropriate? Given the experience of technicians working in different parts of India on issues relating to information technology and teaching, FREDERICK NORONHA feels above all is certainly possible

The Internet is a medium soon, the study offers a flexible, Web-based Courseware are underway, as well as Roman Courseware development of tools for the design. Some even tried to develop a digital self-enabled learning courses for adults.

There were also other initiatives have come to Vidyakash, a little noticed international conference on learning rather than some time back in Mumbai. Let’s take a look at some of them.

TCS eVOLv (es)

Mumbai-Tata Consultancy Services items on the tool eVOLv appointed as a means for the promotion of e-learning. Madhuri Sawant TCS insisted on the need for updating knowledge in a changing world, the “learn, unlearn and re-learn” Mantra.

EVOLv was an audio-visual screen. Synchronous Championships information in the adjacent window. Thumbnails enables the learner navigation in the course. There is an integrated tool for quiz to test the knowledge of learners. Video streaming to shorten download times, and will deal with the constraints of bandwidth. You will receive the minutes of the police, in sync with the video. There are other features that you can use when learning links e-mail, and help a notebook.

– IIM Bangalore takes lessons from eCollege

– IIM Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Management, which is based in the garden of the city, was also published on its own model of e-learning.

TR Madanmohan proverbs and Jai Ganesh IIMB: “The Internet has enormous power, the improvement of the educational process. Thanks to the use of the Internet, training can be customized for each user, so that Each student receives a number of papers focused on his or her specific educational objectives and success so far. At the same time, the Internet makes it possible to update a dynamic for hardware, which allows up - to-the minute resource for students. ”

IIMB, 30 years old, an institution as one of the best business schools in India, maintains contact with their students by e-mail and other forms of feedback. She allegedly tried to students’ concerns about the need for skill upgradation.

Thus, the model provides individual custom materials, study guides, activities and debates on the available documentation, manuals, CD-ROM resources or tutorials. The online interactions and discussions employ almost half of the students, the time of filling predefined content, the other half.

There are other solutions, such as eCollege (an e-learning software and service providers). We propose that the IIMB team: “Technology has made a number of powerful tools for us. Based on the experience, technology is not the limiting factor, but it is instrumental and conquest in the habit of studying. Most of us are usually exposed and other direct methods, and most of the missions are based group. ”

IIMB researchers have also pointed out that some scientists and educators, and she will continue to fight e-learning, in principle. Scientists and educators have expressed their concerns about the perception of loss of control over the process, education and may, by the exchange of e-learning courses and universities, as well as the possibility for the low quality of learning. Some of the real concerns can and should be at the institutional level.

Feedback on the latest measures in favour of lower castes have been turbulent for the people such as the battles of coveted places in higher education institutions

The scenes in the streets of Bombay, Delhi and other major Indian cities have shocked India. Medical students and young doctors peacefully protesting a government to maintain the initiative on the part of other seats for colleges and universities, members of lower castes, police, the demonstrators, many of have proposed to handle.

Even more outrageous as a result of many officials argued that although a few students were in the hospital, the police had no difficulty in using force. A politician, the violation itself as “only a few bone fragments.” These responses have given rise to students and young professionals across the country to protest.

FORMER GRIEVANCES. Rarely has an issue so divided in India. The country, with 10 million Undergraduate Students, which has already limited the number of posts at universities continue to decline. This in favour of “affirmative action” program - as a general rule, as “reservations” - say that these measures are necessary to prevent, for the years 3000 of a caste system, Hindu society can be stratified in a privileged few and the many excluded.

A loosely organized guild system, based on professions, such as priests, princely warriors, leather workers, blacksmiths, cowherds Weber, and subsequently have developed in the box. For centuries, the system can control the Brahmin priests made enormous power over the kingdoms warriors, and won wealthy merchants. They use the rest of the population, shipments of them on the sub-layer as a result of their birth. Mischehe socialize, and even between different box was prohibited.

Officially, the caste system was abolished, while India’s independence has reached British rule in 1947. The first Indian leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi excited against him, and he encouraged the lower castes, their complaints and participation in public life. First Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, made a plea for “affirmative action” to reduce the gap. Two decades ago, India began to book classes for the lowest - including the untouchables, the Dalits, or - 22% of workstations and government agencies in public schools and universities.

VOTING BLOC. The program has many advantages. India in the past, the President, K.R. Narayanan, and the current president, A.P.J. Kalam, the researcher, who is also head of India has made progress in the development of atom, the bottom of the box. And measures to allow the lower caste politics. As they aware of their rights, she was a powerful voting bloc.

Still, politically, but allowed, the reserves have little to empower the people economically deprived of poverty of the masses. Today, the caste system persists, and the ranks of the lower castes have swelled as India, the poor have increased. Narendra Jadhav, a Dalit, is the chief economist of the Reserve Bank of India, the Reserve Bank of India, says reservations are all the more necessary today, “due to the inability of the system to be fair and equitable. ”

The debate today is to extend these privileges to other lower-caste groups, as cowherds, leather workers and butchers. If implemented, such a policy would be to add at the beginning of the 22% previously, more than 28% of the seats in universities for students from lower castes, so that, for a total of 50%. This drop box foremost want entry into the new economy, which has benefited they feel privileged class, which lasts from contesting institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Indian Institute of Management.

BRAIN DRAIN. The anti-reservationists argue that the reservation of seats of aircraft, India deserves some autenthisch higher education institutions and to dilute the standards, students were at the bottom, and go-start the brain drain, which had just just begun to go back. India has been the education sector, institutions such as the IIT. In addition, they are on the chronic lack of qualified candidates for the posts of professors from universities Indian lower castes. Finally, they discuss the reservations at your school will not work with India to improve primary and secondary education.

Indeed, despite the excellence of the best schools in India, most of the nation remains far behind. Of the 202 million children, who are for him schools 1 million annually, or about 15% too high, it makes school, and only half of those polled - about 14 million - a diploma, Pratham , a foundation that stresses At education. Then there is an acute shortage of higher education in the country and a lack of vocational training institutions. Of the 370000 engineering graduates each year only 200000 are of good quality, said Mohandas Pai, a board member intended for human consumption of resources on software and services house Infosys (INFY). About 140000 of these companies, software of the year. “Thus, what is left for the rest of Indian industry?” Questions he said.