YOGESH THORAT

After a long quest, time has come to reap the benefits of earlier investment in education and continue to develop the skills needed for the productive livelihood. It is great challenge for anybody to transit from student life to labour market. This transition phase is also very crucial because most learning occurs at the beginning of the work life, initial experiences can have long lasting effects. Almost all our friends may have left school earlier than us and entered in a new stage of life- some to begin wage work, some to engage in family business, some to form household and raise families & some to do combination of these activities. But we are enough lucky to get opportunity to study in reputed institutes and to learn a lot. Hence we should be ready to face the transition phase of new life. Now we should pray like a Chinese student mentioned in the World Development Report 2007: Development and Next Generation – “I am positive for my future. I am sure I will find a job s

Recently Rahul Gandhi delivered a lecture to the farmers’ son studying at PDKV, Akola and understood the real problem of the farming community. Opposition may say it a political stunt and INC people will take it as a “feel good” factor but really such kinds of events are much beyond that. Rahul Gandhi’s speech and interaction with the students reflect not only his dream to build a powerful India but also good citizens in the country. His message was clear that young generation should come forward with answers to the local problems to prosper the nation in social, economical and political aspects and this should be the reason for them to join politics. He said that at national level, policies are in favour of the agricultural sector but only the schemes and packages without corruption can help the farmers. Decentralization of the development from cities to villages is one of the solutions for poverty alleviation. Such kind of interactions of the national leadership with young gene

Dr.DuvvuriSubbarao, Governor, Reserve Bank of India delivered C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at Council for Social Development, Hyderabad on August 5,2010. He raised five question and shown that how crisis has possibly thrown new answers. Q. 1. Have emerging market economies (EMEs) decoupled from the advanced economies? Pre-Crisis-An Increasingly Assertive ‘YES’ Post Crisis- Q uite Nuanced Q.2.Should central banks persist with pure inflation targeting? · Pre-crisis- An Increasingly Confident ‘YES’ · Post-Crisis- An Increasingly Qualified ‘YES’. Q.3.Should financial stability be an explicit mandate of central banks? · Pre-Crisis- No Answer · Post Crisis- Mostly ‘YES’ Q.4.Are controls an appropriate mechanism for managing the capital account? · Pre-Crisis-Largely ‘NO’ · Post Crisis- Qualified ‘YES’ Q.5.Has fiscal dominance of monetary policy ended? · Pre crisis-‘Hopefully’ · Post Crisis-‘Ho

Reforms in Agriculture Education? India is the agrarian country. About 58% population of the country depends on the agriculture. Agriculture is the largest private sector business of the country. It contributes about 17% in the GDP. Hence Agriculture education is the very important aspect in the development of the agriculture. India is the only country in the world having largest agriculture scientists. The need of the agriculture education was identified by the British Government. Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, the noted thinker, social reformer and agriculturist of Pune appealed to the British Government to set institutions for agricultural education and research in India. This led to the opening of a branch for teaching agriculture in the College of Science at Pune in 1879 that was subsequently developed into a separate College of Agriculture in 1907. Initially three year diploma of the Bombay University was offered. In 1899 a