| dc.description.abstract | One of the paradoxes of the Indian growth story
must surely be that the growth of GDP by more
than seven per cent per annum over the last decade and
a half was achieved when the proportion of the
workforce which was formally skilled continued to be
very small. The National Sample Survey (NSS) 61st
Round (2004-05) showed that in the age group 15-29,
only about 2 per cent had received formal vocational
training while about 8 per cent had received non-formal
vocational training.46 This implies that most of those
entering the workforce did so without any kind of formal
vocational training, and that on-the-job training, or
learning on the job, has been the preferred mode of training.
So, is the strident policy rhetoric about the need for
skilling the workforce and for closing an assumed skillgap
warranted? | |
