A Dilemma...

When I reach the Food Court of my organization routinely to have my lunch, every time I spot some small kids working around. That is certainly not a pleasant sight...... But ponder on this.....

Why does that child has to work at all, may be the child's parents are not good enough to feed him or may be may be the parents are unable to see the bigger picture to realize that education is more important than earning a meager housekeeper's salary. What ever the reason might be... the child does not have an option.

Now, the employer has an option, the option is to avoid such kind of an employment. But, will this step improve the situation? ..... The financial status of the child and his family is certainly not at par, which is the reason that the child needs to support his family. And, now if the family loses the share of the income that the child was capable of earning, certainly the chance of that child reaching a primary school diminishes to a greater extent. This is ostensibly a vicious circle, isn’t it? Or an infinitely iterating loop?

The solution to this problem lies in the approach to this. We need to break this down into a number of sub problems and deal with each of those independently. Some of the causes of this problem as per my perception are:

1. Population of the country.
The rise of the population of our country is attributed to the fact that we are unable to do family planning at a grass root level. The majority of our population is unaware and ignorant of the responsibilities that come across with the offspring. The rural population of the country sees the offspring simply as an increase in the number of working hands, which would result to increase in the overall family income. We need to educate people in this regard.

2. Sporadic urbanization of the rural population.
Huge percentage of the rural population that migrates to cities are lured and attracted by the false promises that are kept in store for them. A feeling of "Bed Of Roses in the city" largely prevails in the rural household. This unaware percentage of people needs to realize the importance of a critical skill, that enables the sustenance in the cities.

3. Literacy rate in the rural regions.
This is arguably the most critical reason for all the issues faced by the Indian Economy at any point in time. It is the duty of the stable and affluent population of the country to educate the less privileged portion of the population. We see many NGO'S and non-profit organization take this up, but given the rural and uneducated population of the country, this effort needs to ramp up.

4. Ignorance of the higher strata of the society.
We have been blessed with a lot of responsible and sensitive citizens in our country, but what needs to be done is to propagate this "well doing" attitude. We still are in the stage of a developing country and our country would need the effort of each and every individual to cross this threshold. It is up to the higher strata of the society to realize this, because it’s easier and more logical for the up trodden to initiate this and take the whole nation in its stride.

5. Inability of the current infrastructure to create sustenance enabling skills.
Our governance needs to realize that monetary support is not the solution to the poverty in the country. After all, how much can a nation's working population support the unemployed and to what degree? What is needed is an infrastructure that creates skills that enable people to earn a living.

We have many hinderances to the execution of any plan or strategy in the country, mainly due to reasons like Corruption, Demographics, Diversity, etc. But, we cant sit and relax with these thoughts in our minds, we need to rise to the occasion and Deliver.......