As media coverage increases and the opposition makes a lot more noise about it, unemployment will become a much larger issue going forward. In particular, the large number of engineering graduates who are likely to be unemployed over the next two years. In the meanwhile, the government can only hope that the economic recovery is complete and many more jobs are created to hire this bulging group of unemployed Indians. The World Economic Forum ranked India at 65 out of 130 countries in its development of ‘skill for your future’ index. The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), that has been tasked with skilling 150 million youth in partnership with the private sector, has so far skilled a little over 5.1 million people and has managed to get just over 1.5 million placed. According to official data, NSDC trained 557,000 people in 2016-17 under the flagship programme, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, but managed to place only 63,000. ...
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