| | DECEMBER 20198Consultants Reviewevelopment hap-pens through jobs. They allow fami-lies to escape pov-erty, individuals to develop skills, and excluded groups such as women & youth to gain economic independence. India's Youth population estimated 25 per-cent of the total population which is 1,266,883,598. The demographic dividend shows that more than 30 percent of India's youth are seeking jobs and only 5.04 percent of them are gaining employment. This trend is particularly worrisome as the country has one of the world's big-gest youth population.I strongly believe that there has been a significant lapse in the entire ecosystem of education highlight-ing deplorable level of employability skills. The frequent claims of many institutes in the county to prioritise the creation of work-ready graduates usually come across as hollow clichés, as there is little or no material im-pact on what they deliver to students on practical grounds. India's eco-nomic growth in the second quarter (July-September) is 6.3 percent even after the best of projective claim to be 7.7 percent. The Skill India Programme was launched on July 15, 2015, for Young India to create opportunities, space and scope for the development of the talents of Indian Youth. Since then, the anticipation of the ecosystem has been improved with great syn-ergies and procedures across all departments and organisations. The consequential question arises here is: Can Skill India Programme pro-vide enough jobs to even 20 percent of the total population who demands jobs? Can India become the Skill Capital of the world as promised? Holding the basic degrees, mil-lions of job seekers enter the market every year. Still, it is not sufficient to get employment. The availability of the workforce in India is much more than in any country. Empowering women, up skilling youth, decreas-ing workforce in the agriculture Headquartered in Delhi, Youth4work is one of India's leading assessment & skill-based people training company with proven excellence across Talent Community, Jobs & HR, Career, Competitive Exams, Custom Assessments, Talent Acquisition, and Skill Development services.By Rachit Jain, Founder & CEO, Youth4workINDIA HAS TO BECOME THE SKILL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, OR WILL COLLAPSEDIN MY OPINION
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