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Despite India possessing high economic growth potential, its low human capital management has denied individual ranking for Indians among comity of nations, according to Mr J. Satish Kumar, Territory Manager of Wipro GE Healthcare in Coimbatore.
Inaugurating the Business Line Club at P.A. College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, here Mr Satish Kumar, quoting data from the Union Human Resource Development Ministry, had identified poverty, illiteracy, corruption, unemployment and disunity as factors hindering India's human capital growth.
India as a nation ranked top in areas such as satellite/space research, agriculture and communication. It stood fourth in terms of purchasing power/market. But in human development index, it comes at 132 position, carries 30 per cent of global illiterates and third highest HIV positive population.
Where India went wrong? India has become a case of its individual citizens' problems turning into its national problems. Mr Satish Kumar quoting from the available HRD data enumerated the seven strong individual traits of laziness, postponement, desires, attraction, jealousy, romance and anger as the negative factors that prevented its human development focus, in addition to groupism in region/religious lines among its citizenry.
The silver-lining for India, however, is its young population and 55 per cent of the country's population is below 25 years of age. The average working Indians age by 2020 would be 29 years as compared with China's 49 years, the US's 60 plus and the Europe's 60 plus age. This meant India will have 25 per cent of the world's youth workforce
In order to bridge the high economic growth and the low HRD, Lead India 2020 Foundation has come out with a mission mode national plan. It has proposed to enlist corporate volunteers to launch its campaign against illiteracy and corruption by November 11.
The function was attended among other by Mr P. Appukutty, Chairman of the college, Mr D. Rajkumar, Assistant Regional Manager, The Hindu, Coimbatore.
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