Academia must step outside its ivory towers and find creative solutions for issues M Muneer: Feb 16, 2022, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/academia-must-step-outside-its-ivory-towers-and-find-creative-solutions-for-issues/articleshow/89624621.cms
India needs to go beyond the traditional school college route to provide meaningful emplyment for its youth. There will Technology can make a difference today with free training and education and even a college degree. The New education Policy must provide avenues to facilitate this....
Academic must step outside its ivory towers and find creative solutions for issues that communities face. Students can easily be trained for hotel and hostel sectors, the home dlivery system, and collection of test samples.. Partnering local establishments in co-creating knowledge..
Innovation based on research will be needed to address emerging economic, social and environmental issues...
Comment: The article stops short of talking about using technology to create locally independent businesses to counter the centralised Tech based monopolies, where workers are reduce to robot attached to their portable devices.. Premium jobs are possible if policy permits. COVID has taught us that local shops, services like clothing, tailoring, home delivery, household food supply and even sharing are possible if local youth are provided community spaces and bandwidth and servers each fathered by Housing cooperative societies/residential associations in urban areas, or Panchayat or SHGs in rural areas.
This basically addresses the issue that a lot of resources and wealth is actually moving our of local communities into the hands of corporates and dividend ..