A very good morning to honorable judges and my dear friends.
I am Prakash along with my team Suprav and Gurupdesh.
Today we are going to present on the topic, India’s Skill Development Challenges: Devising a PPP model.
“On that beautiful night, when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru announced India’s famous tryst with destiny, not only a country was born but along with it born million hopes and billion beliefs.”
We have trudged along so far 65 years through this journey, but still these hopes have not transcended into actions.
India, is still grappling with great malaises and hope is still the poor man’s bread.
But, the fact that the real problem has always been hidden from the real people is something which is pertinent.
When we talk about India’s problems at large, corruption and poverty take the cynosure.
If we dig further, people will talk about inherent social stigma or probably the incompetence of politicians.
But, very few know that India is struggling with a challenge of skill development. The challenge so beautifully powerful that it can make or even break this country.
Today, we are going to talk on this challenge head-on.
Slide 2
Let’s talk about our one bounce over the rope agenda for the today.
So, without wasting much of your time, we will start off.
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India – A Curtain Raiser
India, a country that once used to contribute more than 60% of the world’s income pre-colonialism, apparently shrunk itself to embarrassingly contribute about 2% to the world’s income till independence.
However, by virtue of its geographic dividend, India lifted itself from the clutches of stagnancy and started off to follow the growth trajectory post-independence.
Post liberalization, India started to grow rapidly, partly because of the opened economy and partly because of its demographic dividend.
Now, the world is on the brink of taking a paradigm shift again, India has evidently become the blue eyed nation of the world and