The Challenges of Skill Development in India

Kajari Mukherjee and Siddhartha Rastogi
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Kajari Mukherjee: Indian Institute of Management Indore, India

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2018, issue 1, 61-66

Abstract: India’s demographic dividend has been a matter of anticipation, aspirations, and ridicule, all at the same time. The government of India has been trying hard for over a decade now to enhance the skill level of this demographic bulge. The present paper is an attempt to evaluate all such attempts critically. After taking stock of the skill situation of India, the paper asserts that skilling initiatives in India have more to do with the number of people trained rather than quality and relevance of training. The paper cites relevant data to prove that vocational skilling initiatives have failed to meet the objectives. The scope of this paper is limited to skill creation for wage employment

Keywords: Skill creation; Skill Development; National Skill Development Mission; Demographic Dividend; Policy Framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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