The youth literacy rate in India is 86.1%. Not everyone gets a chance to go for higher education and get good jobs. India has only 4.69% workforce that is formally skilled & it is a very alarming situation for the country. We are estimating to create 50 to 70 million employment opportunities in our country and those would require some kind of vocational training. Do we have the right kind of workforce to take up those jobs?
All these facts and figures clearly explain the importance of skill development training in our country. We are all set to become the youngest nation of the world by 2020 with an average age of 29, but we might not be able to use this to our advantage and skill development gap will act as the biggest hurdle in our way. In the present era, it has become very important to include skills within our educational curriculum so that the youth becomes industry ready. This will also give employers an incentive to hire such individuals. 
Skill training will help students to be employable in the following ways:

They will have vast job opportunities ahead.
Learning skills indirectly teaches soft skills and confidence as well gives an edge to the student’s personality.
Students who don’t like studying or drop out of schools/colleges for various reasons will be able to see the importance of earning a livelihood and get a career boost.
Talent is getting wasted in the country and it can be nurtured through this initiative.
Our workforce will be skilled making us a competitive economy.

Skill development will empower the employees to ask for higher incomes, work under better labour conditions, have a secure job with access to better facilities. People in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities lose out on good employment opportunities due to the lack of exposure and distance they have from big industries. National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a government organization which provides licenses and grants to institutes to offer skill development courses. One such institute, centred in a Tier 2 city, Bhopal, is AISECT Org.
Through its 12 vocational training centres offering 150 high-quality undergraduates, postgraduate, certificate and diploma courses at low costs, it aims to skill 13 lakh youth by 2020. Its reach is spread out to remote corners of the country and has also set up 4 institutes of higher learning in states like MP, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand that has the potential but not the resources for a higher education ecosystem. Its schemes cover a huge list of services under various Government programs such as PMJDY, MUDRA Yojana, Skill India, and so many more. It is also providing skill training programs in higher secondary schools to reach out to the maximum number of students.
A collaborative effort of the employees and employers is required to bridge the huge gap between skills and jobs. Skill development training institutes such as above engaged in enhancing the skills and promoting entrepreneurship are huge assets for the country. Their mission is to convert youth of the country from a liability to an asset. They help carve out a clear way out of the chaotic situation.
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