Estimating the skill gap on a realistic basis for 2022
The window of opportunity called the Demographic Dividend is available to India only till 2040. Realizing the demographic dividend brings to the fore the serious challenge of skilling the labour force. But before devising the skill development strategy for these coming years, a task of greater importance is to estimate the magnitude of the challenge and to assess the skill gap. Against this backdrop, this paper tries to estimate the skilling requirements, sector-wise, in different scenarios to arrive at a realistic and desirable target.