Unemployment is a major hurdle in India’s growth. The Government had decided to give a better platform for the Indian youth so that they can polish their professional skills with initiatives like ‘Make in India’ which aims to generate employability and increase the GDP.
Platforms like Youth4work, which are not directly involved with this mission, are playing a major role in skilling people and providing employability. Rachit Jain, CEO of Youth4work says: “The challenge is big — skilling Indian youth and making them more efficient as per the industry requirements which are diverse and to focus on specific skills without the assurance of placements is even tougher.”
Skill training is a bigger problem than uneducated, untrained people looking for jobs. “There are about 20,000 NSDC users with the availability of 80,000 jobs on our platform,” Jain says. The training is not aligned to the demand, which means lot of people are there in certain job roles but there is no demand for these trained people. They have managed to help the potential youth and gave them a platform to prove their competencies and improve them to level up with global standards.