in india, students’ aspirations are misaligned with job market

Raj, India
With the development of India\'s economy, the expansion of cities and the rise of new industries, government officials and policy analysts are all trying to solve a key problem: Do Indians have the skills to build a new India?
By 2022, India is expected to lack more than 0. 103 billion skilled workers in the infrastructure sector, about 35 million in the automotive industry and about 33 million in the construction industry.
By contrast, the shortage in the technical sector is expected to be only 5 million per cent.
But with the rapid expansion of higher education to cities and villages across the country,
From 1991 to 2011, the number of university admissions has tripled.
Therefore, students have the desire to pursue white people.
It is widely regarded as the most respected profession: medicine, teaching, business management, software and electronic engineering.
The result, the researchers say, is a fast career goal.
More and more educated young Indian people have surpassed India\'s urgently needed skills in the economic transformation of the next decade.
This mismatch will only increase concerns that India\'s expanding youth population will reduce the favorable \"demographic dividend\", more of a demographic disaster.
Dilip Chenoy, head of the National Skills Development Company, said: \"Indian families tend to use university degrees as a tool for desire and growth . \"
It was founded by the government four years ago.
\"So what we have is a lot of people who have degrees but don\'t have relevant skills.
In Rajhedi, a large agricultural village in the northern state of Haryana, families are talking about skipping incremental farms --to-
Instead, they want their children to find office jobs that bring respect and social status.
Vanshika Srideva on the 12 th
The first-year student is the first student in her family to speak fluent English.
She rides a motorcycle, takes a smartphone and plays volleyball. Her parents —
Her father is a wheat farmer and her mother is the director of the village committee.
No study above grade 10.
But Vanshika prefers them in career choices.
\"My parents want me to be an electronics engineer and that\'s what I\'m going to study in college,\" she said . \".
Rajhedi is located in a small-and medium-
Scale industries including sugar mills, plywood and machinery
Parts manufacturing.
But Vanshika\'s parents choosing their daughter\'s course work is not based on research on the kind of work they do locally or elsewhere.
\"We need an engineer at home.
Van Shika\'s 38-Anita Srideva said: \"The degree in engineering has a higher statusyear-old mother.
But she doesn\'t want her daughter to be a civil engineer or a mechanical engineer.
She wants Vanshika to work on electronics because it will be a \"decent office job for women\", although wages may be similar in these engineering departments.
In a recent survey of more than 2,800 Indian students, the University of Pennsylvania India Advanced Research Center concluded that \"the desire of students is largely inconsistent with the needs of the Indian economy.
The company says the construction and automotive industry is expected to require the most skilled workers over the next decade, but \"only a small percentage\" of students want to work in these areas.
Megha Aggarwal, the lead author of the survey, said: \"There is a serious awareness gap between people about where job opportunities are,\" 84% of students said family elders gave guidance on education and career choices.
\"The local industry is not doing enough to train and communicate with students or make their work attractive.
\"In the next 20 years, 1 million Indians will enter the labor market every year.
More than half of India 1.
Population under 25 years of age 2 billion.
\"If we are not able to act in time and use them profitably, we will face huge social and political problems,\" said Chenoy . \".
In the face of this trend, the government has set an ambitious goal for itself to increase employment skills to about half.
Billion Indians by 2022
The government has begun upgrading hundreds of suffering vocational training institutions with new industries.
Set up specific skills courses and skills development centers in collaboration with businesses.
On February, the government announced that it would establish 300 in the United States. S. -
Community colleges that will provide short-term services
Customized courses
Manufactured for various industries.
Not far from Rajhedi, plush
Private engineering colleges have sprung up
There have been dozens in the past decade.
But the recent software boom in India has led to more student registration information --
The technical course is widely regarded as a ticket to the upward flow and modern way of life, rather than a less glamorous engineering course.
\"We all say that software engineering is the way to the future,
We all rushed in like we did in the group, \"said 23-year-old Meena Rani. year-
Old students in information technology.
\"Now I hear that there is an oversupply here and there is a great opportunity in the field of civil engineering.
\"Not only does it not match, but there are not enough jobs to keep up with the number of graduates looking for a job.
The unemployment rate for Indian graduates is 9%.
Degree holders who work in a shopping mall as sales reps are not uncommon to earn low wages.
The representative of the local industry said that educated young people only want to find jobs in big cities.
In all parts of India, the skilled blue --
Manpower of textile mill, as well as construction engineer and machine operator.
The company said that this led to excessive delays in the implementation of the project.
Arun Bhagat said: \"The project will be delayed, we will spend more money to train new recruits, we will set up specialized courses for the skills we need, A spokesman for a large Indian infrastructure company called GMR, which builds power plants, highways and airports.
\"It is difficult to find skilled engineers to build and operate our power plants, and it is also difficult to manage the construction of highways.
They had too little supply, so they flew away from the shelves.
Ravali Pothala, 21, is a new recruit who recognizes these opportunities.
She is in the final year of Civil Engineering Research at the GMR College in Rajam, a village in southern India, and she says she wants to build roads, factories and bridges.
\"Civil engineers have an average of 50 new job vacancies per day,\" said Pothala . \".
\"There is a high demand in India because India is growing and there is still a lot of infrastructure that has not yet been built.