School of Productivity
- A new idea developed by the author -
G S Oinam *
What does School of Productivity expect from the government?
A. Nothing but Sensitivity.
B. No money required.
C. Policy and programme Support.
D. Only land required for Institution and workshops.
E. Interest Free /concessional loan to the beneficiaries / trainees.
F. Market support.
G. Redressal grievances cell.
H. Relaxation to avail resources from abroad.
I. Any other support required for the project from the Government.
1. Modality, Concepts and Priority of the School of Productivity:
a. Basic education or capacity building to make the people free from ignorance
b. Increase Productivity to reduce poverty
c. Public health and hygiene facilities to reduce health related problems
d. Providing basic needs and linkages for sustainable development
e. to aware of financial, social and ITC literacy to become a mature society.
2. Objectives of the School of Productivity must be:
a. Meet basic needs
b. Increased potential and productivity
c. Reduce drudgery
d. Ensure choices
e. Improved health and well beings
f. Make better resource management
3. The output of this process must be able to:
a. Social Just
b. Ecological sustainable
c. Economical viable
d. The politically participatory
e. Culturally vibrant
4. Reasons for Hope
* Massive unemployment of educated /uneducated in rural areas
* Availability of funds with the banks, community and funding agencies
* Raising expectations of the people
* Inadequacies of earlier models
* There are no better options available
* The author is a journalist based in New Delhi and contributes regularly to e-pao.net. He can be contacted at gitchandraoinam (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) in. This article was webcasted on March 20th, 2009.
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