Most development exercises are aimed at the skilled and educated of a State, but there is a population segment that is either unskilled or not-so-educated who are left in the lurch down the ages.

• How fair is it to orient development towards the better off?
• Make a few suggestions to bridge this development divide.

Orienting all development exercises towards the whole population mix is a Herculean task. This does not mean that policy makers can ignore those who are unskilled and undereducated. This is unfair, and there are ways to fix this issue.

All development initiatives need to help the whole population directly or indirectly. This is a democratic requirement and the same is mandatory for the uniform development of any polity. The fact being so, there is a little concern when the better of happen to reap all the benefits of upcoming development exercises. This further deepens several social anomalies.

For example, governments across the world allocate huge sums from tax payer’s pocket for IT enabled development exercise. Obviously, employment opportunities generated thereof are cut mostly for the skilled and IT educated. This unilateral distribution of possibilities is undemocratic and asocial.

How can governments bridge this divide? Firstly, I think democratic distribution of funds for the uplift of the unskilled and not-so-educated will go a long way in making uniform representation of development exercises possible. Secondly, along with development exercises, there should be enough political will to observe that all children go to school and they get either skilled or qualified to partake of all the development exercises in the long run.

In short, population diaspora in terms of skilled, educated, not skilled and not-so-educated is a hard nut to crack. However, it is unfair to ignore the fact that there is a section that goes neglected all the time. Anyway, the suggestions I have made are of some significance in this respect.

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