A great piece by Jibu Elias (link in comments), talking about the need for multi-disciplinary education for coders.
India has been through an interesting journey, where, due to various factors including English being commonly spoken, a great set of IT colleges and massive red tape when it comes to manufacturing, we transitioned from agrarian to a services economy, skipping manufacturing to a large extent across 1990-2010.
Ironically, from 2010 onwards, we've put a high emphasis on manufacturing, as we were caught in a low skill trap (not even middle income yet).
Our services have largely been related to bodies being thrown at problems, literally body-shops, ranging from call centers, 'capability centers' which are essentially back offices for global firms, and business process outsourcing (BPO), also low value tasks.
Thanks to this, we've produced a large swathe of 'literate' coders, capable of writing code but not much beyond. Case in point here is that entry-level salaries at TCS, HCL etc have barely risen year-on-year, with salaries for freshers hovering around ?4 lakhs (~$4,700) per year.
Jibu's proposal is to introduce industry-specific training, which I think would change the game for employment, and more importantly for #india !
Imagine, an engineer who deeply understands manufacturing (and doesn't end up going into banking!). An engineer who understands the cotton supply chain.
Folks who can build use-case specific solutions, with an end to end understanding of the problems.
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