The challenges that plague India: The unrealized potential
I am currently 21 years old, one year away from completing my Bachelor’s degree, and like everyone else, I am looking at all the employment options available. The CORONA pandemic has brought along with it a few challenges concerning employment and many opportunities in the already thriving IT space.
As this is the right time to ponder upon my career and related opportunities, it has become apparent that employment is not merely about filling vacancies in MNCs and enjoying the various perks associated with it. The primary purpose of the job one does is to add value to society. Hence it becomes essential to look at the problems that plague society in the first place to work towards its amelioration.
Many challenges are being tackled to a great extent by the western world, but I have noticed that many problems are unique to India or to post-colonial nations in general that have rarely been discussed. These are primarily systemic, and hence there is little or no scope for monetization and does not attract the brightest minds.
Technology has been developed with little or no regard to its psychological and social implications, as a result, technology has thrived and people have lost their path.
Hence, I get this sense that technology has developed to such a great extent that it is already able to solve all the problems that exist today, but with the wrong systems in place, even the best of solutions are bound to fail. The logical implication is that the next revolution is not technological but will come from somewhere else. I do not know where, but I feel that it will change how we perceive reality and move away from this utility-driven perception.
In effect, the technologies of blockchain and Artificial Intelligence marketed as revolutionary, though very lucrative career options, will modify the way we live and work but not revolutionize it in the true sense of the term.
The Challenges we face can broadly be classified as follows:
- Education
- Health Care
- Water Management
- Waste Management
In the subsequent articles, I will be elaborating on each of these topics.
