TIL Desk/National/Chhindwara/ President Pranab Mukherjee today said that government and industry should work together to provide jobs to youth to avoid unrest and disturbances. “India’s population is 130 crore. Half of this population is below 25 years of age, and in working age group of 15-59 years, this population is 62 per cent. If you keep these numbers in mind and think for a while what would happen if such magnitude of people do not have their vocation and opportunity of maintaining their livelihood in a decent way,” Mukherjee said.
The President was speaking at annual day celebration of CII’s skill training centre here. He said that the agriculture sector is over saturated now and it can support very low number of people. “These workforce is going to be an asset to us … but if we cannot provide job to them what will happen. There will be unrest, there will be frustration. There will be difficulties, disturbances,” Mukherjee said.
He said that there are 36,000 colleges producing graduates but a large number of passouts are unemployable. It is estimated by the World Economic Forum that two-thirds of children who now enter a school will work in jobs that cannot be imagined right now. Mukherjee said India will have the scope for employment generation but lacks skilled workforce.
