The India we are proud of

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The India we are proud of
Worlds biggest democracy
Worlds 4th largest economy (by PPP) and a
software powerhouse
Worlds most exotic travel destination
World class academic institutions
Worlds second largest film industry
Noticeable performance is World sports and a
great Cricket team
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Get Real
Our Economy GDP in 2008 according to IMF
India 121,000 crores and Spain 161,000 crores
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
_GDP_(nominal) Spain has 3.93 of Indias
population but produces 30 more Per Capita
Gross National Income in 2007 according to the
World Bank India 950 and Singapore 32,470
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
_GNI_(nominal)_per_capita Every Singaporean
on average earns 34 times more than every
Indian Our Software Industry 2008 Industry
Revenue of IT BPO as per NASSCOM Global gt
160,000 crores and India lt 7,170 crores
http//www.nasscom.org/Nasscom/templates/NormalPag
e.aspx?id56966 With gt 30 of IT BPO
headcount we have lt 5 of revenues 2008
Revenue of top 13 Global Technology companies (in
crores) Total 85,787 USA 48,976 Japan
30,696 Finland 6,141 India 0
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_g
lobal_technology_companies Nokia of
Finland alone is almost as large as total Indian
IT-BPO industry
Our Size 2009 Population Estimate of UN
India 117 crores and World 678 crores
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_by_populati
on We are 17 of the World Our Politics
In 2009 of the 543 newly elected MPs in India
153 had criminal cases pending against them with
74 having serious criminal charges
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_by_populati
on 28 of our legislators are law
offenders
Our Academic Performance 2008 All time Nobel
Prizes tally India 8 and Germany 102
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureat
es_by_country Compared to German schools
our great schools are pure hype Our Sports
Performance 2008 All time Olympic Games medal
tally India 20 and Hungary 465
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Game
s_medal_table Hungary with a population lt
Delhis has 23 times more medals 2007 Cricket
World Cups tally India 1 and Australia 4
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_world_cup
Australia is better in Cricket plus has won
438 Olympic medals
Our Tourism Industry 2007 International
tourist arrivals as per UNWTO India 50 lakhs
and Austria 208 lakhs http//en.wikipedia.org/w
iki/World_Tourism_rankings Austria is
smaller than Arunachal Pradesh but attracts 4
times more tourists than all of India Our Film
Industry 2007 All time best foreign language
film Oscar award tally India 0 awards and 3
nominations, Sweden 3 awards and 14 nominations
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Be
st_Foreign_Language_FilmAwards_by_nation
Sweden produces only 20 films per year which are
of far better quality than Bollywood films
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Who can change this
63.84 crore (99.75) not so Highly Gifted
working Indians?
34 i.e. 5 lakh were born too poor to go to
school

• These people struggle to survive, they
• grow up to become menial labourers
• are exploited by the rich
• are ignored and marginalised by the educated
• are manipulated by the politicians
• actively vote and significantly influence polls
  

An IQ score of 145 is considered Highly
Gifted http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_reference_c
hart On average, 1 in 400 (0.25) has an IQ
score gt 145 http//www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtab
le.aspx
53 crore non working Indians (45)?
Note Mostly engineers (not scientists), managers
(not entrepreneurs), and civil servants (not
politicians)
10 i.e. 1 lakh became top engineers, doctors,
bureaucrats, accountants, managers, etc.

• These people prosper with clerk mentality, they
• compete only with fellow Indians
• lose zeal once they have a house, car and spouse
  
• are eager to settle abroad
• ignore the 34 possibility of being born poor
• talk intellectually about politics but do not
  even vote

Everyday for 15 years, they spent 10 hours
at school cramming subjects 03 hours doing
homework 02 hours with friends 02 hours
at home being compared to others 07 hours
relaxing for the next day After this, they
decided their career 70 wanted to become
Engineers 15 wanted to become Doctors 07
wanted to become Accountants 05 wanted to get
into some other profession 03 i.e. 35,000
were undecided The decided students spent
next 6 years studying almost 16 hours per day.
However, not even 100 of the 10.65 lakh could
write 15 sentences about their chosen
profession. Common reasons amongst students to
choose a career are My father wants me to be
an engineer and my sibling to be a doctor My
father is an engineer / doctor and I want to
follow his footsteps All my classmates want
to be engineers My cousin sister is an
engineer, she is very successful
Note Mostly software developers, field sales
managers, bank officers, government officials
90 i.e. 10 lakh tried one exam after another -
to finally accept whatever life offered

• These people survive with clerk mentality, they
• are completely bogged down by competition
• struggle to think independently
• make their workplace a political play ground
• keep their children under continuous peer
  pressure
• crib about everything but are unable to do
  anything

Our education system systematically destructs
independent thinking . . . Proof even the highly
gifted future citizens of India (who were
fortunate to go to school) were not independent
when taking the most important decision of their
own life!
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Possible Solutions
Send everyone to School

• India has 40 crore illiterates (34). If, we have
  classes of 50 students and 5 teachers in every
  class, we would need 4 crore teachers.
• If we pay every teacher INR 5,000 per month we
  would need INR 240,000 crores every year
• Total education expenditure in Union Budget for
  200809 was INR 39,000 crore
• India is a poor country. Even if our Government
  wanted to, it cannot afford 100 literacy.
  Obviously no Non Government effort can help
  either.

Our Goal Make every kid (who is fortunate to go
to school) an independent thinker, a world class
professional and a compassionate human being who
contributes back to India.
Change the education system

• We run great professional institutes at the cost
  of primary education leaving 34 of our
  population illiterate
• Another 59 (90 of those who are fortunate to go
  to school) spend most of their youth trying to
  get into our great professional institutes
• The remaining 7 elite who do study at our great
  professional institutes are still clerks great
  followers but neither leaders nor independent
  thinkers
• Proof Count the number of post 1947 leaders or
  visionaries who are comparable to Mahatma Gandhi,
  Subhash Chandra Bose, Swami Vivekananda
• Do you think it is by chance that this has been
  happening since 1947? India will surely gain if
  we stop producing clerks, but who will lose?

Inspire Parents

• 34 parents are illiterate and very poor still
  most of them do whatever they can to send their
  kids to school they cannot be expected to do
  much more
• 59 parents survive with clerk mentality they
  send their kids to the costliest school they can
  afford struggling to make ends meet, they are
  very difficult to change
• 07 parents are elites they send their kids to
  elite schools however they also do not think
  independently even if they changed, they are too
  few in number
• All parents rely on schools to provide their
  kids with a vision trying to change schools is
  far more effective than trying to change parents!
  

Motivate Teachers

• Every teacher wants his/her students to rise and
  shine. They are our best hope. Now, the question
  is What can teachers do?
• Without a change in the education system they
  cannot do much to make their students true
  independent thinkers. However, they can
• Start with a more achievable goal Motivate
  students to be independent when choosing their
  career, which is the most important decision of
  their life.
• The challenge is that career guidance options in
  India are limited to a few books, newspapers and
  a handful of trained counsellors
• We cannot stop at creating awareness, we need to
  provide a quality solution which can be scaled to
  a country as big as ours.

Today every career is so complex that no book,
newspaper or counsellor can present it fully
working professionals know most and latest
about their career Project Lakshya connects
school students with working professionals Project
Lakshya targets students in Classes IX to XII.
In Phase 1 we use the internet and in Phase 2 we
will start physical meetings Project Lakshya is
helping young Indians find their aimTheir
Lakshya!To do this all we need is your passion
and your time.