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February 24, 2020

India's youth can be a clear advantage when five decade-long demographic opportunity can be leveraged with suitable policies and programmes. Critically Analyse. (200 Words)

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IAS Parliament 4 years

KEY POINTS

A demographic dividend, said to have commenced around 2004-05, is available for close to five decades. This is an extraordinary opportunity.

Key cautions

·        India’s population heterogeneity ensures that this window of demographic dividend becomes available at different times in different States.

·        Harnessing the demographic dividend will depend upon the employability of the working age population, their health, education, vocational training and skills, besides appropriate land and labour policies, as well as good governance.

Need for skills

·        The Economic Survey 2019 calls for additional jobs to keep pace with the projected annual increases in working age population. We need a workforce that is well educated, and appropriately skilled.

·        Irrespective of rural or urban setting, the public school system must ensure that every child completes high school education, and is pushed into appropriate skilling, training and vocational education in line with market demand.

·        With massive open online courses (MOOCS) to help prepare this huge work force for next-generation jobs. Investing in open digital universities would further help yield a higher educated workforce.

Helping women

·        Flexible entry and exit policies for women into virtual classrooms, and into modules for open digital training, and vocational education would help them access contemporary vocations.

·        A mushrooming of job portals and organisations are providing employment for trained women, even from home. Equal pay for women will make it worth their while to stay longer in the workforce.

On health care

·        The National Sample Survey Office data on health (75th round, 2018), shows that a deep-rooted downturn in the rural economy is making quality health-care unaffordable.

·        We need to assign 70% of health sector budgets to integrate and strengthen primary and integrated public health-care services and implement in ‘mission mode’ the Report of the High Level Group, 2019, submitted to the XV Finance Commission.

 

Priya 4 years

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IAS Parliament 4 years

Good attempt. Try to underline key points. Keep Writing.

Raj 4 years

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IAS Parliament 4 years

Try to include some of government schemes. Keep Writing.

Raj 4 years

Sure. Thanks.

Shivangi 4 years

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IAS Parliament 4 years

Good attempt. Keep Writing.

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