Govt targets 50 cr skilled manpower in 10 yrs

Updated on: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the country targets to create 50 crore skilled manpower by 2020 to become an economic superpower.

"We are focussing at skill development to get demographic dividend from our huge young population. In the next 10 years a 50 crore skilled workforce will be created," he said at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Scholar School in Bagnan here in Howrah district.
Two-thirds of India's population is under 35, which has the potential to make the country the world's human resource kitty.
 
The government has entrusted the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), a PPP initiative, to develop the skills of 15 crore workers in 21 sectors by 2022.

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