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Indian CEOs Win Laurels
Glory becomes the destiny of those who believes in struggle. Talent and
intelligence has no boundaries. This statement is proven valid for 43
years old Indian Sundar Pichai, who has been recently appointed the new
CEO of one of the biggest conglomerate, Google. In case you are
wondering what made him qualify for this prestigious post is his
dedication for Google. It took him 11 years to transform Chrome into the
most influential browser, managing the company’s Android division and
served as Product Chief.
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Born to an electrical engineer father, Mr. Sundar Pichai shared two room
apartments with his family. His passion for technology encouraged him to
study in best institutions of the world. Pichai’s success story is
similar to other Indian origin business titans who were from modest
backgrounds and studied at India’s best school before escalating their
career in USA.
Apart from Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, Master Card, Adobe, and Harmon all
of these big giants have one thing in common – Indian CEOs.
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The question arises how come poverty stricken India can produce IT
professionals of this sort? The answer lies in their effective Indian
Education System. India possesses one of the largest higher education
systems with 1.4 million schools and more than 35000 higher education
institutes. According to a report by India Brand Equity Foundation,
India’s technology and BPM sector is estimated to have generated US$ 146
billion revenue during FY15 compared to US$ 118 billion in FY14,
implying a growth rate of 23.72 per cent. India is currently classified
as world's largest sourcing destination for the information technology
(IT) industry that accounts for approximately 52 per cent of the US$
124-130 billion market.
Considering the facts stated above, Indians truly have the potential
talent that has the ability to astonish world.
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India /Pakistan – the rivalry
continues
Both arch rival nations have been known for their conflicts since the
time of partition. For longer period of time, Indians failed to even
recognize Pakistan as an independent state. This mentality has led to 4
wars in which both states have claimed victories on their side. But are
we only comparable in terms of war statistics? No! There are more
grounds we need to focus on. Both countries gained independence together
but unfortunately, Pakistan failed to match the pace of India’s economic
growth. Indians cashed their established education system beautifully by
investing money and improving their standards. Pakistan on the contrary
failed to rebuild the educational infrastructure and failed to establish
quality education standards in the country. We failed to establish
international level engineering universities and IT institutes, where as
India has over 82 engineering & technology universities and institutes.
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Pakistani Education System
Considering the lack of proper education system in Pakistan, we failed
to produce technology experts that can benefit the country and the
world. Previously Pakistani education system lacked due to proper
planning, social constraints, gender gap, cost of education, war on
terror, funds for education, lack of provision for technical education
are some of the major issues that made our education system suffer.
It seems like government has realized that in order to make our presence
noticeable in the world, we need to focus on rebuilding the education
system. The year 2015 is significant in this regard. The government
focuses on achieving MDGs of education, Vision 2030 of Planning
Commission of Pakistan to promote thinking mind.
Verdict
There is an urgent need for implementation of national education policy
and vision 2030 education goals. Corruption in education system is one
big factor for the poor literacy rate of Pakistan; a monitoring system
is required to identify and punish the black sheep in the system. The
government should make sincere efforts to get school buildings vacated
which were occupied by feudal lords. Steps should be taken to make
policies for Technical and professional education in Pakistan. |