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There is a growing chasm between India Inc's hiring strategy and aspirations of India's workers

In 2015, over 30% of India's youth was neither employed nor in education nor training, one of the highest percentages in the world

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Where will the jobs come from? In India, where per capita income is roughly a 10th of US, more than 10 mn/year are leaving countryside and pouring into urban areas, and they often can't find work even as chaiwalas, much less as computer programmers

Orlanda Ruthven | The Wire

Last Updated : Sep 14 2017 | 10:09 AM IST

The new skill development minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, has a strong track record in digital schemes to deliver subsidised gas to needy households. But he is in for a challenge in the vocational training sector, less amenable to scale economies, woefully dependent on private industry and saddled with the burden of expectations set, first by the outlandish targets declared by the UPA in 2010 (of 40 crore workers by 2022) and then by the marketing hype of the NDA’s Skill India.

In 2015, over 30% of India’s youth was neither employed nor in education nor training, one of the highest percentages

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