Education Level Determines Achievements In Science And Technology Of A Country: Narayan Murthy

While stressing on education the leader said, education helps in understanding the rights and responsibilities, choosing the best leader, gives the opportunity to travel abroad and learn from other countries' achievements.

Narayan Murthy (FILE PIC/AFP)

New Delhi: In an insightful conversation with students of VIDYA, a non-profit organisation, in a webinar series Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy emphasised on the need to control the population of India and the need to provide children with the right education and help them become an extraordinary citizen. While visualizing India in the 21st century, the leader said, “India should become a happy, peaceful, tolerant and a respected country in which children irrespective of their religion, caste, gender, region or social class must have enough to eat, read, stay healthy and get the education besides having a decent shelter and even confidence in the fairness of the society. The responsibility lies on the elders to teach them to work hard and they attain good values and must teach how to have a desire for solving problems around them.  Besides they should also help the less fortunate children, added the leader. On the role of education in society, he said, “Higher the education level in the country, the higher are the achievements in science and technology, richer and healthier is such a country.” He also stressed on the education of the girl child which can make a family better educated and in turn make the country richer, healthier, and powerful. In the Knowledge Series of the NGO, Murthy, in conversation with professor Ashok Misra, former Director, IIT Bombay, brought to the core the need to nurture the future generation.

Children should accept competition in a positive way and the child should prepare a timetable and study accordingly besides a willingness to learn from others.  Most importantly, education helps in solving problems and consequently educated people can earn better. It helps them understand the rights and responsibilities, choosing the best leader, gives them the opportunity to travel abroad and learn from other countries' achievements. He advised children that the only thing that stands between their goals and them is hard work, discipline, and high aspirations. The leader spoke about the entrepreneurial quest and how to capitalise on those traits. Several students from VIDYA got the rare opportunity to interact and present their creativity with the visionary who had created Infosys and put India on the global software map. When asked whether India’s population can be turned into an asset, the Infosys founder said, “If we have a small number of family members then the amount of money accessible by each member is better compared to a larger family. Hence, there is a need to check control the population.” "Children should be able to find solutions to every problem instead of pulling down other students." VIDYA has also been able to digitise its education during the Covid-19 crises and further aims to revamp its curriculum.  “As we re-imagine and reinvent VIDYA post-Covid , we will work towards revamping the curriculum,” added Dilruba Kalsi, Executive Director VIDYA.