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Youth Empowerment through Skill Development: A Study on Skill Development Initiatives

Dr Pailla Surender

Volume: 15 Special Issue: 5 2025

Abstract:

India has a distinct advantage over advanced economies in having a larger percentage of a young workforce. However, the developed and the developing economies show a similar trend in the declining percentage of youth joining the workforce. For a large chunk of the youth, the lack of basic skills needed for employment after completing school or graduation does not present a rosy scenario. Some of the reasons could be a very dismal connection between formal and vocational education, meagre training facilities, under-qualified trainers and lack of infrastructural facilities. For countries like India sustained efforts have to be made by the successive Governmental and other agencies in the field of basic education and Skill development to provide basic education and enhance the skills of the un-employed youth. 'Skill' is the ability to do something well, and the current situation calls for a quick reorganization of the skill development ecosystem. It will act as a defining element in India's growth story by becoming an essential ingredient for future economic growth if India is to transform into a diversified and internationally-competitive economy. To improve Skill development ecosystem, Government of India has launched a programme ‘Skill India’ in 2015. ‘Skill India’ on par with ‘Make in India’ is a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The main focus of this study is to analyze the skills required by the individuals for making themselves employable and training them on those skills to meet the requirements of the companies in various sectors. The paper also focuses on the various Skill Development initiatives taken by the Government of the India.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v15i05.015

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