Importance of Technical Education: Shaping India’s Economic Growth and Future Prospects
Notes: Meaning-its importance-the need for technical education in India-prospect before a technical student.
Technical education means the training in some particular branch of applied science, such as engineering, agriculture, weaving, spinning, etc. It includes both the theoretical and practical training. It is opposed to liberal education which aims at giving a general knowledge of arts and science.
The importance of technical education is immense in modern times. The industrial progress of a country is now the measure of her national prosperity. The more advanced a country is industrially, the more prosperous it is. Now the industrial development which holds the key to national prosperity rests on technical knowledge. That is why in the developed countries of today, greater stress is laid on technical education than on the liberal.
The need for technical education in India is very great. Since independence the Central Government has taken bold steps to develop heavy industries. Persons trained in technical education are required to man different industrial units. Moreover, both the central and state governments have undertaken the construction of dams, canals, bridges, roads to improve the system of irrigation and communications. The success of these development programs depends on the availability of technical hands. Technical education presents good prospect before a student. He can be an engineer, or a draughtsman or an overseer or an electrician. Now-a-days an engineering graduate finds a job more easily than a science or arts graduate. However needful and prospective technical education is, it need not be encouraged at the cost of the liberal.
