No more computerisation in India - Mulayam
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 14:59 IST   |    54 Comments
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No more computerisation in India - Mulayam
Lucknow: Reiterating his party's election promise to curb the use of computers, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said Monday, "Let us put an end to any further computerization in this country". "India is a country with millions of unemployed hands and if we go on computerizing everything, we will soon have a bigger army of unemployed youth," Mulayam Singh told reporters. Unmindful of the flak his election manifesto had drawn on account of the anti-computer and anti-English stance, he said: "Nothing should be allowed to go beyond certain limits. We have seen enough of computerization and any further move in that direction would be detrimental to the overall growth of the nation." "Even proliferation of management courses seemed to have only resulted in producing more and more unemployed MBAs." "I have always been in favour of discouraging the use of machine in jobs that could be carried out easily by the human hand and mind." Citing from Mahatma Gandhi's writings he said, "Even Gandhiji emphasised on the need to promote agriculture, as the livelihood of more than 65 percent of our population was dependent on tiling of the soil." Sticking to his guns on the issue of use of English, the Samajwadi Party chief said, "What is stated in the manifesto is nothing new. Even though I am not against the idea of learning English language, I am opposed to making it compulsory." "Inclusion of English language as a compulsory subject in the curriculum tends to deprive the larger chunk of the population. We need to give greater encouragement to use of our regional languages instead of promoting and pushing the use of English."
Source: IANS
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