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New Delhi:It is incorrect to think that the government can solve all social and economic challenges, Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said Tuesday, prompting attacks from opposition leaders who asked the government to vacate its seat if it could not address the problem of unemployment...
In the normal world, it is the commercial sector that needs to do the hiring, Nageswaran said during his speech at the unveiling of the India Employment Report 2024: Youth Employment, Education and Skills, co-authored by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Institute for Human Development (IHD)...
Moreover, he said that there has been a higher enrollment of women in the education sector, adding that the report acknowledges the improvements on the positive developments that have taken place in the Indian labour market and also correctly credits many of the government initiatives for contributing to that improvement...
It understands the challenges that will come for employment generation from new technology developments and therefore it provides flexibility to the youth to kind of mix and match their skills in such a way that they dont become overly concentrated, in which case it is easy to replace them with machines, Nageswaran toldDD India...
They are conservative, we are sitting on a ticking bomb of joblessness, Kharge posted, adding that the CEA was protecting the dear leader by saying that the government cannot solve all social and economic problems.. Our Youth is bearing the brunt of Modi Govt's pathetic apathy, as ever-rising Unemployment has destroyed their future...
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