Jobs on Automation Mode

This refers to your article on automation ( Going, Going, Gone, June 18). It has brought out the subject at right time by touching all the angles from industrial perspective with clear statistics. It is quite alarming that four out of 10 jobs will be lost globally due to automation by 2021. And by 2030, we will have more youth, ahead of China and Japan. So, we have to read the government plan to raise the GDP contribution from manufacturing – from 14 per cent to 25 per cent, through the Make-in-India initiatives. But in the light of automation, will it be possible to have a positive indicator, even if the sector grows by contributing 25 per cent of the GDP as planned? With the core points highlighted byAndreas Wolf of Bosch, the automation-replaced jobs can be absorbed. But are we really prepared for that? Only time will tell. Venugopalan Chullery, Kannur