‘Education and job satisfaction key to ensure tolerance’

Stating that Indians have always lived in harmony, top industry leader Ratan Tata on Sunday said education and job satisfaction will help weed out the growing instances of intolerance.

“Education, job satisfaction are issues that will help reduce or eliminate intolerance because it will be replaced by knowledge,” Tata told reporters here after announcing a tie-up with US-based online education non-profit Khan Academy.

“Our country has lived in harmony...we’ve to work together, we’ve to live together and continue do so, and not contribute to the intolerance that is growing in the world around us,” the former Chairman of Tata Group said.

The killing of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri over suspicion of eating beef in September, murders of rationalists like M M Kalburgi and other instances where voices have been stifled has led to a national debate on whether the levels of tolerance are going down in the country.