Mental divide still a hinderance

This is not like my typical blog on economics rather its something related to it through my personal experience. I am in a train and 10 minutes ago was really getting bored so I decided to write a post because the constant murmuring of few people did not allow me to sleep even. I then decided to hear those murmur more seriously as the topic they discussing interested me a bit. They were discussing over the topic : The role of youth in education today.

This train goes from Delhi to Mussfarnagar. Delhi is off course well known but Mussafarnagar is a small town in Bihar, I have never visited it though. Most of the people are from Bihar except few like me and my friend, a couple sitting above talking continuously as the time is really running short for them and a pretty girl sitting in front me and reading 5 point someone. These people will probably drop at the Lucknow Station. Same sense of looking the way people are talking and doing has made me to derive this logical conclusion and this demarcation is so big in India that one can easily reach such conclusions. Again back to the group discussion taking place in my fellow compartment and which has gained even more energy and participation of the people around. I said i have a bit of interest on such topic so I had my own view point over this. As I started to listen to these people I was bit amused over the way the education is imparted in my country and the education system about which these people were talking about.

One person here is a teacher from a degree college in Balia, a place very close to Bihar. His anguish for the students was more than evident. He said, one of his fellow teacher was recently murdered by a student and it was not the first instant that this has happened in his area. It is been happening in regular succession there. This drew my attention even more towards them. He went on to demean the students in his college by giving examples as to how the students produced fake mark sheets and certificates, how they got involved in politics of the colleges and committed crimes to prove that they are best suited to the Indian politics. Another men sitting there started to applaud there own student age when they used to study and used to get beaten hard for not doing so. All of them together produced such a dismal picture of the student and education system that I had nothing to say but to be astonished. My astonishment was obvious, if I had been asked to speak or put me view I would have initiated with all applauds for the youth and would have given evidences has how youth is constructing the future of this nation by there efforts. I had been very proud of the youth of India before I listened to these people but now I think it is not whole of the young Indian lot that making India shine but a part of it and that part is really very small.

I am certainly not happy when I come to know that changing India has not changed much but unfortunately it happens very often everyday. Things have changed a lot in metros but most of the India still remains unvisited by the development. Reason has to be in the roots only. Why the youth from one part of the India is creating incredible India and why some other youth are far away from thinking about development???? We need to change the mind set of the youth and that can be done only by imparting correct education right from the basic level. Correct brining up changes the way one things. I had different perspective about Indian youth because I had been brought up in that way. For me the young Indians are my friends, my idols whom I see on TV and young entrepreneurs but for them its entirely different story. They live in environment where crimes, stealing and murders are part of life. I am still in train and something very disgusting had just happened which I will tell you some other day.