Unskilled future generation would be a challenge, not an opportunity: Narendra Modi

Matching job creation with industry demand is the key to end unemployment, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Skill India Programme on the occasion of the World Youth Skill Day.

Here are the highlights of his speech: • Every poor Indian is my soldier. I have to win the war of over poverty with them.

• Skills not only put money in your pocket, it give you self-confidence.

• This mission is for those people who are left behind. And who are these people? People with money aren't left behind, these are the poor.

• This initiative is not merely to fill pockets but to bring a sense of self-confidence among the poor.

• 65 per cent of the Indian population is under the age of 35. And if they don't have skill, they will become a challenge for us rather than an opportunity.

• Through this mission we want to fulfil dreams of people and we want to do it in a structured way, taking states together.

• We have to create structures and mechanisms to nurture youngsters, enabling them to find employment.

• We want that a person should be capable of multiple activities (skills).

• We have not restricted ourselves to skill development, we've focused on entrepreneurship.

• We want to give opportunities to apprentices who want to become entrepreneurs.

• We have to make all our training institutions dynamic. Technology is changing so rapidly that it is necessary to be dynamic to remain relevant.

• We have to map the strategy for the next 10 years of development.

• We have to have a futuristic vision; need to think what technology will be there in the next 10 years.

• I congratulate Rajiv Pratap Rudy and his team for the manner in which they've taken this ahead.

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