Going overseas, that is the brand new illness afflicting the kids of the nation, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar mentioned Saturday, lamenting what he referred to as is each a “foreign exchange drain and mind drain”.
The commercialisation of training, mentioned the Vice President, is adversely impacting its high quality which isn’t good for the way forward for the nation.
“There is one other new illness amongst youngsters – that of going overseas. The baby enthusiastically needs to go overseas, he sees a brand new dream; however there isn’t a evaluation of which establishment he’s going to, which nation he’s going to,” mentioned Mr Dhankhar talking at a perform organised by a personal instructional institute in Rajasthan’s Sikar.
“It is estimated that in 2024, about 13 lakh college students went overseas. An evaluation is being made about what’s going to occur to their future, folks are actually understanding how brilliant their future would have been if they’d studied right here,” mentioned Mr Dhankhar.
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This drain, mentioned the Vice President has created a “gap of $6 billion in our overseas trade”.
The Vice President referred to as upon business leaders to make college students conscious and assist cease the mind drain and lack of overseas trade.
“Imagine: if 6 billion US {dollars} are funneled into bettering infrastructure of instructional establishments, the place we are going to stand! I name this a foreign exchange drain and mind drain. This mustn’t occur. It is the duty of the establishments to make their college students conscious of the overseas scenario,” he mentioned additional.
Education morphing right into a enterprise isn’t good for the way forward for the nation, underscored the Vice President.
“In some circumstances, it’s even taking the form of extortion. This is a matter of concern,” he mentioned, calling for optimum use of expertise to present high quality training to the scholars.
The Vice President additionally praised the National Education Policy which he referred to as a “recreation changer”.
(With PTI inputs)