Abstract

This article focuses attention on the problems of human resource development in district Shopian of Jammu and Kashmir. The broad objective of this paper is to examine the levels of human resource development in education sector. The aim of this paper is to analyse the conditions necessary for human resource development in the study area. The notion of human resource development includes not only education, vocational training, nutrition but also health and access to the sources of self-determination. The human resource development is a process to enhance the knowledge, develop the skills and modify the hidden abilities within an individual in a society. The process of human resource development open the doors of opportunities to push the region towards the modernization. The development of human resource is vital for any organisation that is dynamic and growth oriented in nature. Human resource development is an organized activities based on experience and learning, conducted within a specialized time and designed to produce behavioural change. It plays an important role to eradicate the poverty and inequality in a region. The Indian country, bestowed with vast amount of natural resources but remained backward over the decades as the resources are not properly developed in the form of a human capital. Also the natural resources of Jammu and Kashmir are not properly managed and developed in the form of human capital to enhance the socio-economic development. The development of human resource enables all individuals to modify and improve their skills in a sustainable manner to invest the human capital for the betterment of quality of life. Development is a continuous and systematic learning process which never ends.