Governance
education skills
by Urmila Rao
The intention and
attention to skilling India is welcome. However, the ‘Skill India’ initiative
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out on July 15 with a Rs. 5,040-crore
budget is old wine in a new bottle. The new strategies to impart skill training
to youth are but a revamp of the old approaches; equally ambitious and, well,
elusive in the face of existing anomalies. Scaling down the Congress
government’s goal of skilling 500 million youth by 2022, the BJP has revised
the target to 402 million people. “We have strategically opened a war against
poverty, and we must win this fight,” declared Prime Minister Modi during the
‘Skill India’ launch as he laid emphasis on youth skills’ training to
make children from poor and middle class families “stand on their
feet”.
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