BITAC, BCSIR, FBCCI, NGOs and related agencies can open and operate a national network of QC centres, attached to the technical vocational centres, for creating awareness. These certificates would have market value, for the incumbents and the products.

The agricultural sector has created some roots so that the farmers are aware where to go to seek technical advice (see BTV programme, but the other trades are not covered). Our motor vehicle mechanical repair workshops are neglected in the informal sector, with hardly any regulatory presence, although some of the skilled mechanics are good without formal training.

Our huge human resources can produce thousands of skilled and semiskilled work force for employment at home and abroad (our seamen have earned some international recognition as a source of recruitment). We can export motor vehicle drivers if properly organised and trained. At present the driving skills of the majority of drivers is poor, due to lack of self-improvement courses (one week is enough for the basics).

We need a technical human resources independent agency to plan and operate enhancement schemes to compete in the market, first in the domestic market, then abroad (the training of personnel for restaurants and hotel and tourism industries have been taken up recently). The body for over-all coordination of the policies in the various sectors is missing, (hello, Manpower Division?)

Our greatest asset is human resources (male and female), but we are paranoid about control of population (due to pressure from the donors located in the developed countries where the population growth rate is alarmingly low) The millions of masses will control themselves once they are made aware of their potentialities. We cannot say produce quality-controlled babies, but can ensure quality employment opportunities to those born. That is the central idea of all development goals.