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This has reference to your editorial titled “Building skills” in the (Business Line, August 29). Skills and talents must be developed in all spheres of activities and across all sectors, on a national scale. We need skills in areas such as, planning, teaching, handling and management of risks, project formulation, effective implementation monitoring skills, governance skills, oratory skills, PR skills, information technology, farm management, horticulture and energy conservation.

With better skills, even micro-finance and self-help groups and SMEs as well as agriculture can be managed better and greater results can be obtained.

Basic education is a pre-requisite for building skills and, hence, education must be given primacy by the Centre and all States, and allocations for education must be enhanced.

Setting up of more and more institutes of excellence, such as IITs and premier management institutes, and initiating skill and talent development-oriented courses in colleges and vocational training centres is also imperative.

K. K. Ammannaya e-mail

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