Cashing in on our human capital

The author wonders what can be done to improve human capital in Indian villages

Every time I return to Mirzapur, I like to spend time in Project Mala, the NGO which provides the area’s best educational facilities free of cost to rural children. This time, I met three students who got me thinking that we have so much untapped human capital in Indian villages — but what’s the best way to cash it?

Like most students at Project Mala, Roshni, Manish Kumar and Karan Kumar are first generation learners. They live in the school hostel with no external educational aids to rely upon. Yet, the trio has managed to clear the annual engineering college entrance