How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joblessness in India?
To compound the issue, what is truly baffling is the idea of ‘gainful employment’ for 460 million Indian workers that focuses on improved quality of work and the income derived from it. Government schemes like ‘Skill India’, ‘Make in India’, ‘Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme’, ‘Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana’, and ‘Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana’ aimed at more fulfilling, more rewarding, and more productive work for our workforce, are significant, but there have been no green shoots yet. And it’s worrisome as apparently 90 percent of India’s labour force – primarily low-skilled or unskilled – are employed in the nation’s informal economy. Worrisome still is the UNESCO report stating that India will achieve universal primary education by 2050, universal lower secondary education in 2060, and universal upper secondary education in 2085.
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