The measures before the house is intended to remove some grave deficiencies in our arrangements for the training of technical personnel. At any time, in any country it would be a matter of very great importance that our the functioning of its industries there should be technical personnel of satisfactory quality and in adequate numbers. For India, at this stage of her economic development, when the country is making the maximum effort for rapid industrialisation with a view to achieving what we call self-sustaining progress, there is nothing more important among the requisites for the success of our plans, than this one factor of the availability of suitably trained personnel in sufficient numbers. This deficiency has persisted for some time. It has been brought to our notice by several committees that we should try to persuade the employers to make arrangements for the training of apprentices. The committee, of course, touched the question of institutional training also. Defects are to be removed in the case of both kinds of training, viz, institutional training and apprentice training. Regarding institutional training, in the course of past ten years we have succeeded in making adequate arrangements. We had the experiences, in the course of the tenth plan and also, I should say, the second plan of shortage of technical personnel of various grades for certain industries. Therefore, we set up institutions and training centers in order to make up that deficiency and now we are in a happier situation. I am just concluding by saying that the Government owes it to the nation. They should have given the indications to the new Government that will come after long four months. The people are suffering every hour. They cannot wait any more. The Government should have taken up more provision for job creation without caring for fiscal deficit more allocation for rural development more allocation for ICDS more allocation for the social sector; more allocation for the small and medium industries.
