Stressing that the country’s youth needs to be imparted with skills that will enable them to deal effectively with any…
M Venkaiah Naidu (Photo: Twitter)
Stressing that the country’s youth needs to be imparted with skills that will enable them to deal effectively with any situation, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said India’s education system needs to be “re-oriented”.
Addressing the National Seminar on Contemporary Challenges and Issues in Finance, Marketing and Taxation at Keshav Memorial College in Hyderabad, Naidu said turning out lakhs of students with degrees wasn’t enough.
“We have to provide them skills not only to earn livelihood but life skills that will enable them to deal effectively with any situation,” Naidu said.
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“The education system should be re-oriented to not only impart life skills to students, but also to ensure that youngsters remain committed to strong ethical and moral values,”he added.
“Whatever be the line of their professional pursuit, they all must remain wedded to India’s age-old cultural and syncretic values,”he said further.
Naidu said the expanding middle class will be the key driver of India’s economic growth in the coming years and the need of the hour is to take full advantage of this demographic numbers by creating adequate job opportunities for the youth.
However, he highlighted that development and welfare measures would suffer if governments do not get adequate revenues, every citizen must consider it his sacred duty to pay taxes.
“Every citizen must consider it as his sacred duty to pay taxes as development and welfare measures would suffer if governments do not get adequate revenues,” Naidu said.
“Tax evasion has to be dealt with sternly, it should be ensured that there is no unnecessary harassment of the tax payers by overzealous officials. Transparency in governance will ensure accountability and also improve remittances to the government,” he added.
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