We, as conscious, aware citizens, ought to ponder over the
multifaceted reasons for the debacle we find ourselves faced with, insofar as
India’s face in global economy. There exists a bold contrast between the
opportunities available for the skilled and the ones available for the
unskilled. The abject conditions faced by the marginalized youth, are the
result of several aspects, availability and usage of technology being a
prominent one.
Ensuring a fairly digitally well equipped lower section of the
societal pyramid, by means of inclusive growth and development,
might be the solution to bridging these gaps. And bridging these
gaps could engender more employment opportunities for all,
thus, ultimately improving the economy in the process. Employment and computer
education are intricately interwoven in today’s Information age. Technology has
compressed the world closer together. Computer is the most commonplace devise
today. Basic knowledge of computers is a must for almost all job profiles. It
thus, brings to the forefront, the importance of computer education.
Internet was born more than 2 decades ago. While most developed
countries have at least 70% of their population reaping the benefits of
Internet efficiency, whereas India is on 9.4% computer literacy rate,
with only 3% of Internet penetration (2011 Census-Communication in India).
Dearth of Internet users is just the tip of the iceberg, as, there are
multitudes who haven’t even heard of internet’s existence. We need to recognise
the imperativeness of reaching out to the regressive, unexposed classes and
facilitating technology for them.
The need of the day is a mass Computer Literacy Program to
propagate this need and to hopefully, bring about some welcome changes in the
situation. Vedanta Foundation hopes to break some ground and
revolutionize computer training by launching an e- campaign,
aptly named, ‘e-DUCATE’, on the 2nd of December 2012,
which happens to be the 11th World Computer Literacy
Day. Employment post training completion is the distinguished
feature of this campaign.
e-DUCATE will serve as an addendum to Vedanta’s consistent
efforts to generate mainstream opportunities for the underprivileged
youth through a initiative providing skills on computer literacy.
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