New Delhi: On Saturday i.e.February 20, 2010, a study has stated that youth from several Indian states are not educated enough for employment to meet the market demand. Further, the findings also indicated that most youth were neither adequately educated nor equipped with vocational skills. The study was carried out by Population Council, Delhi, and International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The study titled 'Youth in India: Situation and Needs' evaluated the situation of youth in six states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu - between 2006 and 2008, involving over 58,000 youths in the age group of 15-29 years. Also, as per the study 44-52 % of men and 36-48 % of women in Maharashtra and the southern states of Andra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu had completed 10 or more years of education, compared to 30-38 percent of men and 13-18 percent of women from the other states. Moreover, around 56 percent of men and 68 percent of women surveyed were interested in acquiring vocational skills to help employability.
According to the study, just two in every five young men (40 percent) and one in every three young women (33 percent) had completed secondary education (and) one in every 12 young men and one in four young women had never been to school at all in the country. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the release of the report said that basic education can be very important in helping people to get jobs and gainful employment. This connection, while always present, is particularly critical in a rapidly globalizing world, in which quality control and production according to strict specification can be crucial.
