Manufacturing: No skills, no scale
· Business · Business Standard
India's manufacturing sector faces a critical dual challenge of inadequate workforce skills and insufficient industrial scale. The sector struggles to achieve global competitiveness due to structural gaps in vocational training and educational readiness. Policymakers and industry leaders emphasize that structural reforms must address skill deficits to absorb a growing labor force. Without expanding manufacturing scale, job creation in the formal economy remains severely constrained.
Why it matters
The persistent skill and scale deficit in manufacturing directly impacts India's employment generation and long-term economic growth.
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