India’s employable youth up from 33.9% in 2014 to 51.3% in 2024: DEA
skilling into education curriculum and upskilling a large chunk of the existing workforce into future-relevant skills on the back of a transformative journey in skill development in India in the last decade.
According to the report, released on Monday, the push to mass skilling since 2014 has begun to pay dividends. «The employable percentage of final-year and pre-final-year students increased from 33.9% in 2014 to 51.3% in 2024,» it said citing the findings of the online Wheebox National Employability Test.
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“Combined with the rising enrolment in higher education (from 3.2 crore in 2013-14 to 4.1 crore in 2020-21), rising employability implies that India’s young workforce is both expanding and becoming increasingly employable,” it said.
According to the report, India has 50.2% of men and 41% of women with ten or more years of schooling in the 15-49 age group.
“There is an opportunity to make the education-skill continuum the greatest weapon in the Indian Miracle by reaching out to each of these youth who only need to attend finishing schools for employability,” it said.
Under the National Education Policy, 2020, there is a special focus on vocational education and skill development. “Integration of vocational education with general education and mainstreaming
