Skilling-to-Employment Push: Bridging India's Workforce Gap
· Business · Business Standard
Business Standard's editorial highlights the persistent gap between India's skilling programmes and actual job creation. The piece argues that despite expanding vocational training schemes, a large share of trained candidates remain unemployed or underemployed due to weak industry linkages. It calls for tighter alignment between curriculum design, employer demand, and apprenticeship pathways. The editorial urges state governments and the private sector to jointly fund demand-driven training models rather than supply-led certificate drives. It also flags the need for credible certification and wage data to track outcomes over time.
Why it matters
For India's millions of young job seekers, the failure to convert skilling into employment means public training spend delivers poor returns and youth frustration continues to rise. Without reform, state skilling missions risk producing more certificates than careers.
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