From skills to sustainable livelihoods

The process of creating aspiration and putting youths on a skilling path has to be designed and executed in new formats

This article has been modified to rectify an error in an earlier version.

The debate over the poor numbers reported by the country’s skills mission and our inability to provide real jobs to tens of millions of youth emerging from colleges and training institutes often ignores some real issues. Are we attacking the right problem? Do we know what it takes to build an environment of sustainable livelihood creation in the country which can support better “agency” building in youth and empower them to chart their own destiny with skills as a by-product of this journey?

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