India’s belated skilling revolution: According to a 2012 paper “ Comparative Study of Agriculture in India, China and USA” written by Dr. S. Vijay kumar, Head & Associate professor of Economics at the Kakatiya Government (UG&PG) College, Hanamkonda (Andhra Pradesh), citing data relating to circa (about) 2003-05. The great sin of sustained neglect of primary, secondary and higher education in post-independence India has been compounded by continuous neglect of vocational education and training. But a quiet skills revolution is gathering momentum countrywide. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY India’s dysfunctional education system, defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade teaching, massive dropouts, truant teachers and abysmal learning outcomes, is the most damning indictment of Soviet-style central planning adopted as the official development dogma of free India, after political independence was wrested from imperial Britain by Mahatma Gandhi and leaders of the ...