What kind of innovations are there in vocational training today?
Are we sticking with carpentry and weaving? Vocational training is a serious issue. In South Korea, 96 per cent of the young people between 18 to 24 years who enter the labour market have some vocational training. In America and Europe it is between 75 to 80 per cent. Youngsters have some skill or the other. The important thing is that you should have marketable skills. If the market wants masons, then you should have masonry skills. In India, for people entering the labour market aged 18 to 24 years, less than 6 per cent have marketable skills. This is why jobs cannot be created. And this situation cannot be changed overnight. People have not invested enough on human capital. These young people can only break stones or pull a rickshaw. Can corporates help in capacity building? Corporates can treat this as social responsibility. There are some who are contributing. But primarily they would like to have what they require. There is a need for public-private partnership. Skills can defini
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