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Young India has clear advantage over ageing China, US: Tharoor
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS): In another seven years, India will overtake China
with the youngest workforce in the 20-24 age bracket, positioning its
demography as its strongest competitive advantage over developed nations,
Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said Tuesday.
Speaking at a CII-sponsored event, Tharoor said the youth is India's "key
national resource" and their importance should be recognised.
"By 2020, India will have a 116 million strong workforce in the bracket of
20-24 years, while for China it will be just about 94 million at the same
time. This could be the strongest competitive advantage India will have in
the years to come.
"What is also striking is that within two decades, the average age in US
will be 40, it will be 46 in Japan, 47 in Europe and almost 50 in China, but
we will still be at 29," Tharoor said at the national conference on
secondary education titled "Is Secondary Education on Track?' at the Indian
Habitat Centre here.
He emphasized that the country should translate the demographic advantage to
yield productive results.
"Our youth are obviously our key national resource It needs to be cherished,
nurtured and developed with vision, determination and engagement. And to
achieve all this we need to get our education right."
"At the time when our neighbours China, Japan are facing demographic squeeze
we have 516 million individuals under 25 years of age, 225 million between
the ages of 10-19, and today the average age is 28 years to China's 38; so
we will have a more youthful, dynamic workforce, when the rest of the world
is ageing," the minister added.
The former UN diplomat however cautioned that if the youth are not equipped
with skills that 21st century offers, the results would be "horrendous" to
contemplate.
"We all know mobs, Maoists and insurrections are full of frustrated
unemployed young men who feel they have no stake in society."
Tharoor said that higher education holds the key to the country's bright
future for creating a knowledge-based society.
Expressing worry at the high drop out rates at secondary education level,
Tharoor noted that as the classes became senior, the drop out rates became
greater.
The minister said the government expenditure for education increased in last
nine years of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) from three per cent of
GDP in 2002 to 4.8 percent currently.
"Our education system caters to about 600 million people, it is one of the
highly capitalized sectors in India with an annual government spending of $
30 billion, and an annual private spending of $43.2 billion."
He sought more Private-Public Partnership (PPP) in education.
Vijay Thadani, chairman CII national committee on school education, said
that drop out rates at the secondary level can be tackled by introducing
more vocational courses, partnerships and greater engagement with NGOs. | b********s
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: Young India has clear advantage over ageing China, US: Tharoor
: New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS): In another seven years, India will overtake China
: with the youngest workforce in the 20-24 age bracket, positioning its
: demography as its strongest competitive advantage over developed nations,
: Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said Tuesday.
: Speaking at a CII-sponsored event, Tharoor said the youth is India's "key
: national resource" and their importance should be recognised.
: "By 2020, India will have a 116 million strong workforce in the bracket of
: 20-24 years, while for China it will be just about 94 million at the same
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