Category: Counter View

The pool of India's young talents below 40 years constituting over two-thirds of the working-age population gives the country a major advantage in the 21st century. Though apparently, we can boast about our young population, their employability in line with their “qualification” and overwhelming expectation sends out a worrying signal. The heavy turnout of youngsters from workplaces and unavailability of the right talent for meeting emerging business challenges are serious issues of human resources development. Be it micro or mega-size business, every one faces the challenge of right talent obtainability and its retain-ability. There are reasons to believe that the challenge has become more acute after the lockdown that has made many youngsters lazier. On one side when there is a m...

Sajikumar is Managing Editor of Ecostar Business and CMD of Akaarah MediatechTech Pvt Ltd. Many months-long lockdowns landed almost every business deeper into troubles. Therefore the sign of crisis going to ease is not seen anywhere near. Any round of bonanza may not bring quick relief. How can small businesses survive? The death rate of micro-enterprises in the days of the pandemic has been much higher than the number of Covid-19 victims’ death. Those who are on the brink of death deserve better care, not a set of wrong medicines. They need to be given a space for survival at every cost. I re-emphasize, small needs extra care and sympathetic attention, which, I am afraid, they don’t get nowadays. India is now passing through a terrific economic s...