‘Three Idiots’, Is there any one who has not watched the movie? Life is all about listening to your heart and chasing your dreams. Is that all? Don’t we require people whose dreams encompass larger good of the society and nation?
I would like to be straight forward and ask the Christian community who solely encourages their children to become doctors, engineers, managers, MBA, teachers. We do require them. But here is my question, how many of us encourage our children to become IAS officers, or inspire them to appear for the civil services examinations such as GPSC, UPSC, IPS, IFS etc? If we see percentage wise then its not even 1% that we have our people in the first or second class civil services offices.
It is fact that our youth is not equal to the task of clearing the civil services examinations. We usually attribute this failure to the Government policy. Oh! The exams papers are so tough. My observation has led me to the conclusion that our youth lack motivation, self-confidence, expression, proper planning, and habits of reading and hard work. They have also lacked professional guidance and encouragement either from parents or teachers.
By the time our youth acquire graduate degree, they still remain weak in having mastery over Gujarati or English languages. They remain devoid of reading habits and logical thinking. Hence they fall short of required standard of achievement at the civil services examination.
We have unintentionally fulfilled their materialistic demands and eroded self-confidence, abilities and potentialities. Right from the moment the children enter the school, we cajole them to be engineers or doctors as though that these professions only bring social prestige.
What is needed for smooth sailing is planning one’s selections of subjects at the graduate level and cultivating reading habit at the earlier stage. If one is able to master at least two or three subjects by the end of ones degree, then it will not be hard of offering same for civil services examinations. Both at school and college, youngsters must be encourage and trained to participate in debates and public speaking and reading news papers and magazines with critical mind, which will provide them a wide spectrum of world of knowledge and learning. Their reading habit and getting familiar with the current affairs should be so aroused that automatically they become veracious readers and hard workers – leading to a quick grasp of the subjects. This will not only help them acquiring their own dreams but potential and capable to face any matter that call on to them.
I have not come across parents who trying to encourage children to take up such examinations. We have to provide a solid foundation so that our presence is felt at international spectrum. And in the bargain even if we deviate or fail, the capacity and sustained efforts will lead to healthy habits of studiousness, reading habit with interest and retention with ease.
Today christen youth is called to take up this challenges of preparing one self for the civil services. Thus serving society for its good and giving committed and trusted government servants for the larger good.
