Indian industry is facing a huge mismatch between the jobs it can offer and skills available among the country's job seeking young population.

Almost 80 per cent of the jobs available in the country need vocational training, while 90 per cent of the graduates that come of the educational institutions lack these skillsets resulting in a big demand and supply gap.

According to V Krishnamurthy, Chairman, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, the country presently occupies 1 per cent of the global trade and if it wants to increase its share to 10 per cent by 2015 as well as achieve 8-10 per cent GDP growth annually, there is a need to have 500 million vocational jobs. There is a need for at least 250 million people with skills, while presently only 700,000 are available.

The time has come to think and plan for the coming years in terms of preparing the Indian industry to achieve highest quality in their production.


Source: Business Standard

Yes from herin the need arises for colleges promoting vocational courses or even at the school level. if one starts working on their interests right from the start it makes them experts in the field at a very yound age thereby solving the above problem.