ONLY THREE CHOICE TO EARN

Food , Clothing and Roof for the family these three are the basic needs of life .When  common man with minimum skill think of income one normally thinks in three terms – 

·       With one’s acquired knowledge to do any job and earn  

·       To invest in anything or fix whatever money one has and earn interest from that and earn .

·       The last one, particularly for those people who neither have money nor have degree ,is to use their skill to do some work for the sake of earning .

In a nut shell one can earn by working for others or by self-employment or by investment.

In any income generating programme people acquire and upgrade vocational skills and enable themselves to earn. Thus prolonging the process of continuing educational programmes and ultimately contributing to the social as well as national growth. In such procedure the educated and efficient paid earners train the unskilled common people to achieve skill .Thus providing earning scope to both the top and the bottom achievers of the society. Both are earning and benefited from this teaching-learning process. If we look into this from a greater perspective then we can realise how such a process benefits all strata of any society by providing earning scope and serving the growth of a nation.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCE THE INCOME GENERATING PROJECTS

Various socio-economic cross currents decide different income generating plans.Levels of literacy vary from place to place according to the local demand. However, it is gradually improving as more efforts are being given to eradicate illiteracy .Various Non-formal educations are introduced along with the formal education. People have realised the need of education but there is a tendency of such educational courses which will generate more income .So when it is the question of continuing of education they look for courses which will open avenues of income to them . Realisation has come that literacy helps to achieve skill. This driving force gives birth to the aspiration for a better living standard through acquisition of different skills and abilities for the sake of earning more. If this target is achieved that will stop many social problems like migration to town and bring people above the poverty level .Thus a balance could be maintained between village and town. Industrial evolution could not meet the need of common people as that too has its own negative aspects .Development of an individual does not indicate any social growth. Common people if form self-help groups or co-operative and work together that will definitely give rise to a significant growth of rural society .

INTERESTS OF A CHILD IS VERY IMPORTANT TO DECIDE HIS LIVELIHOOD IN HIS FUTURE LIFE.

Earning is very important in life .It helps to build confidence and self-respect in an individual .What is most important from social perspective is the fact that it also helps to improve standard of living of the society as a whole .If we consider this fact then one must give importance to the different fields of individual interests and plan to start income generating projects from that. But it is seldom given importance when a child is still in any learning process. The guardians always give importance to education in the sense of achieving degrees and doing normal office work .At this point we must admit that it is not possible to get job to earn more and lead one’s dream life .Moreover jobs with high level of earning is limited and there is lot of competition too. Now the question comes - what a common individual should do to earn more and lead his dream quality of life so that one may maintain his standard of living as well as enhance the standard of the society as a whole.

To answer this one starts thinking from the basics. Indeed an individual must have basic education which will enable him/her to face his/her own pursuit of work for the sake of earning .Here we must admit the grave fact that half of the population of the world hardly cross the hurdle of primary education .We are not talking about the privileged but those who have received only the basic Primary education. These people when grow up create unemployment in any country. If their problems of livelihood earning is solved a society can grow in its normal course. Thrust must be given to the fields in which these large number of people take interest. It will ensure their earning and secure their future also. We must give importance to the different fields of interests of a child to open the path of his/her future income generating plans from the very beginning of childhood days.Interests of a child is very important to decide his livelihood in his future life.

'Higher the qualification more the income ' - Shall we agree ?

When we think we have to earn the first question that comes to us is- How to earn? Next we start calculating what skill does an individual have which s/he may utilise to start earning .Ultimately one counts on one’s educational qualification and tries to generate income from that according to their own capability.

Now the point comes – What type of educational qualification is needed to earn ? Does it require only the basics of literacy prgramme that removes illiteracy or it requires more that includes primary education or we can include even more that is minimum graduation from any university .Common logic says - higher the qualification more the income .But to my mind it is not necessarily true. An individual might have a greater income with simple Primary education if s/he has the ability to organise and execute one’s special skill in any particular field. We must not forget the Non-formal education which enables a large section of society to earn their livelihood with simple primary educational qualification.

WORK FROM HOME

One must work to earn livelihood,we all agree with it and working may start at home.One just need to excel in any skill to earn .It might be education in any field or any vocational training or one may even develop any particular field of interest to generate one's livelihood .Human resources have great strength to develop and explore its own power to generate income for the sake of living a normal life.