Skill development and entrepreneurship efforts across the country have been highly fragmented so far. As opposed to developed countries, where the percentage of skilled workforce is between 60% and 90% of the total workforce, India records a low 5% of workforce (20-24 years) with formal vocational skills. There is a need for speedy reorganization of the ecosystem of skill development and entrepreneurship promotion in the country to suit the needs of the industry and enable decent quality of life to its population.

A number of other initiatives such as collaborating with other nations to adopt international best practices, revamping the vocational education framework in the country, partnering with corporate, leveraging public infrastructure for skilling, creating a pipeline of quality trainers and leveraging technology for skill training, are being pursued by the Ministry.

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