How Should Management Education Go In The NEP Regime?

Abstract

We often display our proud feeling of being a citizen of a country that already has played a constructive role in the many aspects of human life – be it ethics – values–morality, social obligations, nature worship, and respect, belief in co-existence, and more so our traditional educational system. Little seems to be visible now in practice; reasons are many. However, the most affected happens to be our educational system, of which we have been a part, that almost is turning up into a disaster because we have a substantial population which is young and zealous, which is devoid of opportunities against their expectations, which is not skilled and trained as the modern work set-up needs, obviously without compromising on ethics, values or morality. Independent India, as we know that post-1947 is almost seven decades and a half old, and still struggling to find a place in World-class education! We have realized quite late that a country's education must suit its own environment and requirements. We borrowed all ideas from the West, did not understand if it would result in the desired output, and implemented it blindly. The other part is more troublesome – the infrastructure being discussed here. Land of Nalanda and Takshshila is bruised on the education front. No major difference exists in Management education. Here too, objectives have been defeated; instead of producing entrepreneurs, we have batch production of managerial 'clerks', a brigade that could not make our Industries self-reliant. Instead, MNCs/TNCs captured the cream for their betterment. This paper tries to identify the incongruence of management education with the emerging corporate or entrepreneurial business requirements and suggests measures that could be undertaken in general and under the light of the draft of the National Education Policy likely to be implemented from 2022 across educational verticals.