• Dr. Bhawna Sethi

India is one of the youngest nations in the world with more than 50% of the total population below 25 years of age and more than 65% of the population is below the age of 35. India’s workforce is the second largest in the world after China. However, India’s formally skilled workforce is approximately 21.2% - which is dismally low compared to developed Nations like Japan (99.9%), U.S &Russia more than (96%) In India’s neighbourhood only Bhutan has lower proportion of skilled labour than India. In Nepal and Srilanka 40% of labour force is skilled,27.8%in Pakistan and 25.8%in Bangaladesh. Bhutan is 19.5% lower proportion than India. To say India is not capitalizing it’s highly acclaimed demographic dividend. The greatest natural resource of a nation is its human resource. Development of human resource is essential for any country for its sustainable development. The knowledge, skill, attitude and initiative of people can contribute greatly towards the economic development. Education is important for skill training of workers in future otherwise the demographic dividend that India is enjoying over most of the developed countries may turn out to be a big problem instead. Currently the 35 percent of the labour is not literate and by 2030 around 426 million youth will be looking for jobs in labour market. They all will require employable skills and at least secondary education. According to Sen.’s capability approach, education is one of the critical inputs in the conversion of commodities into functioning’s and well being of individual. Under this framework an attempt is made in the present paper to understand the linkages between education, skills and human resource development.

Education, human, resource, development, training.

"Skill Development and Education: Essentials for Human Resource Development", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.k412-k417, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206A57.pdf

"Skill Development and Education: Essentials for Human Resource Development", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppk412-k417, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206A57.pdf