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International Journal of Political Science

Volume  3, Issue 1, Jan-June 2017, Pages 19-23
 

Original Article

Education and Skill Development for Youth in India: An Analytical Study

Reena Kushwaha

Assistant Professor, Post Graduate Government College for Girls, (PGGCG)­11,Chandigarh – 160011 Punjab.

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DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijpos.2454.9371.3117.3

Abstract

 Bharat, now is in a unique position in the world its demographic dividend is that she will stand as the world’s most populous nation by 2025 and have a large proportion of those in the earning age category. It is estimated that by 2022 India will need 700 million her skilled workers to meet our economic growth needs. India’s fantastic demographic dividend needs to be harnessed by creating jobs and meeting people aspiration. Therefore, Government of India has been launching several skill programmes to bridge the gap between education and job. For example Nation skill mission (2010) Skill development (2015) Start up India(2016) and so on . Besides it, under Make in India it tries to promote private sector at large scale and create manufacturing hub . Its mission is to manufacture in India and sell the product world­ wide. In order to bridge the industry academia gap , National Skill development has developed a special model to integrate skill based training into the academic cycle of the universities. These are based on National occupational standards set by industry through sector skill councils. National skill development council is working with 21 universities , UGC and AICTE catering to more than 1200 colleges and 400 community colleges across the country. According to economic survey 2015, the present skilled workforce in India is only 2% which is much lower than other developing countries. Though the present government is working step by step and in order to make it effective; encourage the people’s participation. Working methodology is also good. But it would see that how citizens of India are considering it . This paper basically highlights the all the skill programmes formulated and launched by Government of India recently and examine and estimate how these would be result­oriented? or just become part of controversy and discussion in media and seminars.

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Corresponding Author : Reena Kushwaha