QUESTION 2
GS3
12.5 marks
While we flaunt India’s demographic dividend, we ignore dropping rates of employability. What are we missing? Where will the jobs that India desperately needs come from? Explain.
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9 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Explain what India misses on employability and where the needed jobs can come from.
ExplainMake clear how and why it happens: causes, process, and an example for each point.
Demand-wise check
- 1What we miss: poor learning outcomes, mismatch between education and industry needs, low vocational training, low female participation, soft skills≈35 words
- 2Job sources: labour-intensive manufacturing (textiles, footwear, electronics assembly), construction, tourism, care economy, food processing, MSMEs, green jobs≈35 words
- 3Enablers: apprenticeships, labour codes, ease of doing business for MSMEs, urbanisation≈35 words
- 4Risk: demographic dividend turning into demographic disaster≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Dividend contextEmployability gapJob sourcesEnabling policiesConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Only listing schemes without explaining causes of low employability
- Ignoring women's labour force participation
Draw this
- Pie chart: share of youth with formal vocational training
Value addition
- DataEconomic Survey 2023-24 estimated India needs to generate about 78.5 lakh non-farm jobs every year until 2030.Economic Survey 2023-24
- DataEconomic Survey 2023-24 noted only about half (51.25%) of youth are deemed employable.Economic Survey 2023-24, citing India Skills Report
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- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 26 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 23 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Mayank Purohit · AIR 33 · Page 3 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Mayank Purohit · AIR 33 · Page 13 ↗Same syllabus reference
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