Indian students depend on parents everytime

I guess it depends on the student. One of my students used to work as a waiter in a restaurant during the evening hours to support his BA education. He proceeded to do his MBA and is, I believe, doing extremely well now. Many students worked at their parents businesses. Of course, they received no pay, but ample support from their parents. I know students who have done their best to earn pocket money writing for papers or doing summer jobs. So young Indians do work very hard; so hard that they hardly have time for their own families now.

Good discusion started by you dear ar2sun. It is the main drawback with our indian style of academic or professional carries every indians must to rely with their parents until unless CASTE BASED scholarships must to be stopped. So that meritorious gets first preference with sharing of scholarships then let them be to the poorer people in need to study. It is an big waste of money tactic by the government towards eradicating the poverty scheme as naamke vaasthe. Every scholarship must to be awarded according to merit list first irrespect of caste and income based one.

Yes, in India students do work to get money for their education, but those are the poor student whose parents can't afford the costly education. Mostly students in India don't do job and the reason is because their parents have enough money to pay for their education. Instead they concentrate completely on their education and work and sometimes extra curricular activities. Yeah they do voluntary job but they don't work for money, most of the time. So working while studying is not a sign of being developed or matter of concern. I would say that people who are also in a financially tough situation in North American go to work, otherwise most of them do voluntary job like I did!

Well I started giving my children chores and paying them at the age of 6. They know the value of money. They have to earn before spending it on toyes etc. \ Working gives children a sense of responsibility and real world experience. And in US it is needed to get admission in good colleges too since they don't like the lazy children I guess. I agree in India parents are overprotective of their children and spoil them and working for money is an insult to them... I know it because I have neices and nephews in India and they don't do anything even doing their own laundry forget about working for money.

hmmm., kinda not and kinda yes, you see it really depends on the person if he wants to be independent or not, yes, some do work for their studies, maybe because they're not that rich or maybe they just want to be independent. Some are really rich, and do depend on their parents in every aspect.