The rising economy of India needs a continuous supply of skilled manpower. India has a large number of educated people without a job, and on the other, various industries are desperately short of skilled professionals. India’s 62 percent of the population is below 35 years of age and 70 percent of the population will be of working age by 2025. Around 51 percent of the workforce is engaged in Agriculture which adds only 17 percent to India GDP while 22 percent of the total workforce is involved in manufacturing sector which adds to 26 percent of the GDP of India. There is huge skill gap of Industrial demand for skilled labor and available skilled labor force in our country.

Vocational training and skill development have not been given due status by the mainstream education system. The transformed demographic profile of the country, with nearly 60 percent of the population under 25 years of age, the growing ambitions of our youth seeking substantial, well-paid jobs, the growing necessities of industry for an efficient, well-trained workforce, have contributed to a focus on skill development. The India Skill Report 2018 apprises us that employability across all educational domains stands at 54.4 percent. This clearly shows skill deficit crippling the nation’s workforce. If India seeks to be a global player, it has to adjust its growth with the need of industry-ready workforce. There is a new accent on upholding vocational training and skill development in partnership with various stakeholders and ministries to rationalize skill development initiatives. Unorganized and unskilled labor like construction workers from village and slum areas in cities with little or no education need special consideration from Government providing them basic skill increasing their employability of the work force, resulting in a deficiency of skilled workers at the countrywide level.