A long wait

The government has set itself the target of skilling more than 400 million Indians by 2022. Some ministers are surely hoping the country reaches the target a little earlier. Emphasising how there was an acute shortage of skilled labour in every sector of the country, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told a gathering recently that even as a minister he found it difficult to find a carpenter or an electrician when he needed one. One was routinely wait-listed before one got to avail of their services, he said.