Letter to BS: Educational qualifications more theoretical than practical

A person with greater literary skills will be a misfit in a technical profession just as an engineer need not have the skills of a doctor

This refers to the article “Deconstructing self employment” (April 9); it is true that the government has been propagating the need for self employment rather than job dependence. However, it is also relevant to note that a large percentage of the self-employed have opted for it out of necessity due to non-availability of jobs. It is a small percentage of the self employed who are capable of developing their skills adequately to make a steady growth from agriculture and village industry to agro- or small- and medium industry. The World Bank has, given the prevailing circumstances,