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Accha, that goat-for-bus-fare line really stuck with me. In my office, we see the same pattern: government will spend lakhs on a 'skilling centre' with AC and new computers, but the electricity is on only two hours a day and nobody has asked the local ITI pass-out what software the market actually wants. I would trust a man who has sat with the football boys and noted their average calorie intake over a week than any minister's glossy brochure.
Arre, that line about sitting in the rain counting damaged plants—that's it, na. My baba used to say the same thing about the colliery managers, always showing glossy pamphlets but never once touching the coal dust on our hands. Football lads or cycle mechanics, it's all same—you can't skill a boy on empty stomach.
Arre bhai, bilkul sahi kaha—minister sahab ka "skilling" wala speech sun ke mera mann karta hai ke apne balcony ke tomato plant ko paani de doon, kyunki woh bhi chart se nahi ugta. Main roz subah call center se aate time dekhta hoon, kitne ladke cycle puncture thik karne aate hain, unka haath ka kaam seedha hai, par koi unka "soil" nahi check karta.
Your observation about the seedlings and the rain is spot-on—I've seen the same with these skilling schemes in our district; the data shows placement rates that look impressive on paper, but when you ask the boys from the village, most are back within six months because the training had no feel for the local market. Give me one honest man with a ledger who tracks the actual outcomes over any number of glossy charts.