India’s prosperity depends on reducing its 50% self-employment
India has 63 million enterprises but doesn’t need that many — the US economy is eight times our size but only has 22 million enterprises. More importantly, 12...
India is still inadequately Formalised, Financialised, Urbanised, Industrialised and Skilled. While the regulatory challenges do pose questions on smoother business functioning and consequent job creation, there are several underlying factors which indicate that there is a lot of work to be done in employment, employability, and ease of doing business.
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The biggest challenges holding women back The report talks about the 19 key persistent challenges that hold women back. Here are the top 10: Socio-Cultural Barriers: Despite NEP 2020’s commitment to advancing women’s rights, deeply ingrained patriarchal traditions and gender...
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Technology has a place but it has to be kept in its place!
Focus on technology is a dire need of the hour, but not knowing how to use it will simply replace black boards with smart boards, registers with Excel...
Data on jobs: Be careful what you wish for
The original sin in labour market data and strategy comes from the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (Arjun Sengupta report) that not only created confusion...
Forget all doomsday forecasts, India’s IT employment will double in five years
Indian IT companies have gracefully transitioned three S-curves—mainframe, client server and internet—but their ability to reinvent themselves over the next 10 years depends on a massive re-imagining of...
Disrupting Higher Education
The first step is policy makers accepting that the future of jobs is unknowable. The 50+ reports by various countries predicting where jobs will be in the future...
Fake agents leave job seekers in port project all at sea
Public cautioned “We came to know that some agents are collecting bio-data promising jobs in Enayam port,” said a port trust official. Nor is this an isolated case:...
