18 million people turn 18 each year in India and we have over a 100 million people surplus in agriculture. Unless we create 20 million new jobs each year, India’s dream of a demographic dividend could easily turn into a nightmare!  This is the title of the 20 million jobs project that Sridhar Krishna has been driving. He is a Senior Scholar at the Takshashila Institution and leads the 20 Million Jobs project. He graduated from BITS, Pilani and has an MBA from SP Jain, Mumbai. He works with startups helping them scale and with a civil society organisation on judicial reform. Till recently, he was a Managing Director at Accenture where he worked on analytics and AI.

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Timecodes
00:00 - Introduction & context
01:18 - Cities Vs. Villages
07:02  - Where are the jobs?
13:29 - Lets get Gurmeet a job
21:10 - Comparative advantages
24:40 - AI and Job losses
31:49 - Green jobs
34:23 - Size matters
37:10 - The Government
44:00 - Politics of the city
46:50 - 2 to 20 million
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Profile of Sridhar Krishna -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharkrishna/
Link to the Takshashila page of the 20 million jobs project and associated resources - https://takshashila.org.in/20mj
World Bank article on Career Impact bonds - https://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/career-impact-bonds-financing-upskilling-fill-worlds-vacancies 
Karnataka Skill Development Corporation and its activities - https://kaushalkar.karnataka.gov.in/english 
Anupam Manur on overqualified gig workers - https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/the-many-messages-from-ncaers-report-on-food-delivery-gig-workers-11305271.html
Economist article on the Manufacturing Delusion - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/07/13/the-world-is-in-the-grip-of-a-manufacturing-delusion
Nitin Pai on building new cities - https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-the-relocation-of-state-capitals-could-boost-india-s-economy-1557490355813.html 
World Economic Forum Future of jobs report 2023 - https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/
Low trust economy podcast with Surya Prakash BS of Daksh - https://youtu.be/2GHTwWPlkB0 
City and municipal finance podcast with Srikanth Vishwanathan of Janaagraha - https://youtu.be/fIMKPW59jqM 
MSME 45 days payment rule - https://msme.gov.in/faqs/q33-what-are-guidelines-delayed-payment-dues-mse-borrowers
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