Wastage and Stagnation

 WASTAGE

It refers to the phenomenon of under or non-utilisation of a product by the stakeholders for whom it was produced. Such under/non-utilisation eventually results in the appreciation/increase of the unit cost of Production. The resources employed for production gets wasted.

For eg:- A school is set-up with a capacity to enroll, let us say 250 children in I to VIII standards. All facilities are established for this purpose. There are 250 children of school-age, 6-14 yrs. If there is no full enrolment of children, to that extent there is Wastage. If after enrolment, children leave school midway before completing the specified no. of years of stay/study, again there is Wastage. Hence, non-enrolment and drop-out of children constitutes wastage in education.

Nearly 50% of total enrolment in general/higher education in India is in B.A. degree courses. There are both private and public expenditure on accessing this degree. However a large number of people with B.A. qualifications remain unemployed or engage in jobs for which senior secondary qualification is sufficient. To this extent, the expenditure, whether private or public or both, on acquiring a B.A. degree is a wastage. Proper and meaningful manpower planning and supply of educational facilities to produce this manpower would minimise the wastage to a large extent.


STAGNATION    

Stagnation refers to failures of students in a grade/class or grade repetition. The objective of a course is to make children learn and the time for learning is estimated and set for the specified course. If children do not learn and fail, it is either bad planning or students inability or constraints to learn. If most of the students learn and a few cannot learn it is bad management. Whether it is bad planning or bad management, the resources employed become wastage. Stagnation is thus another form of wastage.

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