Developing Knowledge Society in India : Issues & Challenges

This paper provides a conceptual overview of the knowledge society and examines issues and challenges in the way of developing knowledge society in India. It seems that the approach, action plan and model of developing knowledge society in the country are fundamentally flawed. The idea of ‘knowledge society’ in contemporary parlance has certainly caught the attention of the urban elite but failed to excite the masses who are still struggling for their basic needs of food, shelter, drinking water, toilets, electricity and healthcare even after six decades of independence and in spite of a plethora of schemes for welfare, well-being and empowerment of the poor in villages and cities. Author of this paper has advocated a community-based approach to roll out an inclusive knowledge society as an alternative to state-sponsored knowledge society project