Miss. Shalini Chendel has done her PGDCA and MSc in Materials Science from Mangalore University. She currently works for ALIT as a software engineer.

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IT Education and Career Guidance

IT in India

For the past couple of years, India has drawn considerable attention from worldwide for its outstanding contribution to Information Technology (IT). The states like Karnataka and Andra Pradesh considered as IT states of India. The State government leaders are considering IT as "mantra" for global recognition and fast marching towards the strengthened technological development.

Can this IT be used in India to transform the country by providing a new vision to the youth of the country, enabling them to stand up, no longer feeling inferior to others in the world? The answer is obviously yes, certainly the IT will empower the county's economy.

The export of manpower was the major than developing of project in own motherland few years ago and now Indian techies are very well facilitated, since there are many s/w are grown up in India, instead transfer of manpower to the client place, projects is brought from the outsource, and same power was utilized here to bring the proud to the nation Starting with routine jobs, most companies graduated to more and more sophisticated tasks and India started getting recognized as having special talent for software development and management of software projects.

Export target for IT products and services crossed many billion of dollars a year, making India the number one IT design centre, and the number one provider of IT products, are indeed goals to cherish. 

IT education

Even though India's mass population with is main obstacle for its outstanding growth, this potential is used in the smart way- i.e. educating the youth, making affordable to anything best indeed this a difficult task since most people of the country can afford very little. This is one of the reasons why India is yet to be converted into a large internal market, in which Indian companies can learn and consolidate.

The Indian Institutes of Technology and deemed institutes and universities have indeed provided good training in these areas. The persons graduating from these institutes are recognized as amongst the best in the world. Similarly a large number of private engineering institutions and computer training centers have come up which train a very large number of personnel in the country. The process is continuing, and little needs to be done today to enhance this pace. The problem is that such training is often limited in scope and these institutions churn out what can be described as technician level people. Even though such training is useful, what is needed is a large body of middle-level people with good knowledge and skills. There is little effort in this direction and it is left for the persons to train themselves on the job to reach the next level, i.e. they are required to get updated themselves every time. This is largely inadequate.

IT the current scenario

So far, for India, USA was primary client, the slowdown in the US economy and the lay-off spree by tech majors may have shattered the dreams of Indian IT professionals and number of young aspirants in India. But there is hope still. A million more jobs are beckoning from within the European union and about half of them are the public sector, which is considered a safer proposition. Similarly others countries like Australia showing greatest on utilization of Indian professionals for their IT tech growth and these are places where language is going to a small barrier.

My words to Kulalities

We the kulalities, are making a minute fraction of the India's potential. Why can't we too grab new technologies to build our community into global knowledge group? Why can't we too be a vehicle for bringing national pride? Let us stop grumbling, no regrets, start taking the important step to march forward to addict to the best. My keen interest to guide the teenagers who are interested in taking up IT as career. Any queries regarding IT education and career guidance please contact me.