Tomorrow's Citizens
Our Greatest Wealth
India is poised in the mission of transforming itself into a developed nation and by the year 2020. The prime resource through which this transformation is possible is the 540 million youth who are below the age of twenty-five.
Children and youth are the picture of a nation's future. They are our hope for tomorrow. The youth in India constitute a sizable, vibrant and resourceful segment of our society which has a burning desire to scale greater heights. If their energies are properly channeled, they will unleash a momentum that would propel the nation on the fast track to development. We need to carefully nurture this vast and precious human capital by making it a focal point of our planning and development process. Encompassing the needs. rights and the expectations of youth to the central stage of development should be our priority.
Children are our greatest wealth. Every child born in the nation should be allowed to blossom. It is particularly important to provide extra care and facilities to the children including those who are not fortunate to have their families to look after them. This noble service should be promoted by all individuals and government organizations, leading to the development of enlightened citizens who will become an asset for national development.
My interaction with children in India and In other Nations revealed that aspiration of the the young Aadi team that is so live in a peaceful prosperous and Secure Nation all of them are looking for challenging missions good role models and leaders who can be their guiding spirit a combination of knowledge, enthusiasm and hard work of the youth is a create dynamic fire for the for transforming the Nations.
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Education is the Right of Every Child
Education is the most important element for growth and prosperity of a nation.
We have 350 million people who need to be made literate. Children who belong to the weaker sections of our society are undernourished, and only a small percentage of them manage to complete eight years of satisfactory education. We need to think specially for them. Education is indeed a fundamental right of every Indian child. Can we allow the situation to continue in which millions of children are forced into lifelong poverty?
An important area of concern is the unequal access to educational resources, which still exist after almost six decades of Independence. For example, I have seen in our village three types of families. The fortunate ones, who due to their economic well-being, realise the importance of educating the young ones at any cost, guide them at all critical stages. Then there are those families who might realise the importance of education, but are not aware of the opportunities in time, nor of the procedures and ways to realise these opportunities for their children. There is a third category of families who are economically weak and do not realise the value of education and hence for generations together their children are neglected and continue to live in poverty. It is essential that we enlighten them and create widespread awareness of education among all sections of society particularly in rural areas and among the urban poor.
It is reported that 39% of children drop out from school after studying upto 5th class and 55% drop out after studying up to the 8th class. This situation needs remedial action, especially since assent has been accorded for the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, Right to Education Bill for children between the age group of 5 and 14 years. But an act alone cannot achieve the goal unless the education is delivered in a manner relevant to the people to whom it is addressed.
Dream-Thought-Action
The challenge in the mission of Developed India calls for an important, cohesive and focused effort of the young. A nation is focused effort of the young. A nation is great because of the way its people think, Particularly the young population of India must have a big aim; small aim is a crime.
Though the present academic system may give students a lot of workload, it should not prevent them from dreaming. It doesn't prevent them from working hard to acquire knowledge. Hard work and perseverance are beautiful angels who will support you.
In the 1960 Prof. Vikram Sarabhai, the visionary of our space Programme, put forth the vision that India should design and develop its own communication satellites, remote-sensing satellites and launch them in polar orbits from the Indian soil for mapping Indian national resources. Today his dream has become true. The nation is capable of developing any type of space system.
Dream, dream, dream,
Your dreams will transform into thoughts,
The thoughts will result in actions.
And you will succeed.
Encourage all children to dream for themselves. Unless they have dreams they will not be motivated to attain them. Slowly, you will find that, with proper effort, dreams will transform into the thoughts and with effort and labour, these thoughts can be transformed into actions. Success is possible only when we have a commitment to action. This “dream-thought-action” philosophy is what I would like it to be inculcated in each and every one of the students.
It is not a disgrace to not reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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