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Building Capabilities for Rural Employability
Harsh Manglik, Chairman - IndiaGeography & Country Managing Director Accenture
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India is poised to become a global economic power
World’s biggest economies in 2025 by GDP
Source: EIU
(Real GDP at 1996 prices and at PPP)
1.1%Italy12
5.2%Indonesia11
4.0%South Korea10
2.0%France9
3.2%Russia8
3.3%Brazil7
2.4%UK6
1.9%Germany5
1.0%Japan4
6.1%India3
2.7%US2
6.1%China1
CAGR (2005-2025)
Source EIU
2.8%592339Australia
4.1%914413South Korea
2.7%945560Spain
3.4%1,045539Canada
2.9%1,139648Mexico
1.7%1,168836Italy
2.0%1,374917France
3.4%1,465757Brazil
1.2%1,5121,180Germany
2.4%1,7071,058United Kingdom
1.3%2,2911,780Japan
6.2%2,489749Russia
4.1%4,2641,924India
2.7%12,5127,335United States
8.0%14,5273,088China
CAGR20252005
Total private consumption at 1996 prices and at PPP*, US$ billion
*Purchasing power parity, 2005 estimate
Top 15 Consumer Markets in 2025
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...but India is a country full of contradictions
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India’s key asset is it’s young and large population. Education and Capability Building hold the key to deciding whether India will enjoy a Demographic Dividend or suffer a Demographic Deficit.
Sources: Aspen Institute, IndiaStat; Press
• India has 17% of the world population, but only 1,7% of world GDP
• India has a workforce of over 500 mn, with 94% working in the unorganized sector
• India has 600 mn illiterate people
• 240 mn live below the Government of India’s poverty line
• There are almost 3 mn graduates each year.
• Population with median age of about 23.
• Between the ages of six and sixteen there are today 325 million young people, two thirds in rural areas.
Opportunities Challenges
Population Pyramid in India
80 60 40 20 0 20 40 60 80
0-4
20-24
40-44
60-64
80-84
100+
80 60 40 20 0 20 40 60 80
0-4
15-19yrs
30-34
45-49
60-64
75-79
90-94
Female Millions
Source: US Census Bureau
Female Millions 2005
2025
India has 325 million youths aged between 6 and 15. In ten years these individuals will be aged 16-25 and looking for jobs. In the next 5 years alone, 75 million young people will be entering the workforce.
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India’s Capability Attainment Pyramid
The scale of India’s skills problem is such that a layered view of capabilities is required.
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ICT has already proven its power through a variety of initiatives:
Improved access to educationImproved access to healthcareImproved access to informationImproved employment and
business opportunities Improved access to commercial
products and servicesGreater accountability of
government and local bodiesImproved access to media and
entertainment
Key Characteristics of ICT-based solutions:
Replicable
Scalable
Cost-efficient
Consistency in quality
Reach across difficult terrain and
long distances
Responsive to a diversity of
cultures
Catalytic impact creating a
multiplier effect across industries
Information & Communication Technologies are key enablers for the inclusion of 600,000 villages into India’s growth story
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The government has initiated important programmes
Government of India Infrastructure
initiativesState Wide Area Network (SWAN):
SWANs are intended to extend data connectivity of two mega bits per second up to the block level in all States in the country. This will be further connected to all villages by wireless technology.
Common Service Centres (CSCs): The government plans to establish over 100,000 CSCs to provide all government services to citizens in rural areas and provide “government at your doorstep.”
The government is also making efforts to make digitized information available in India’s many languages
E-Governance Initiative
The Government of India’s National
E-Governance Plan seeks to create
Core Infrastructure and Policies
required for growth of e-Government
Services and implement a number
of Mission Mode Projects to bring
about a citizen-centric and business-
centric environment.
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Dr. Reddys Foundation - Livelihood Advancement Business Schools
LABS is a B school exclusively for marginalized youth. It promotes tailor made programs targeted at youth and women in the age group of 18 -35 years from economically weak sections and enables them to gain access to opportunities for sustainable livelihoods. LABS livelihood programs are designed and executed in such a way that they can be easily replicated through a viable and sustainable model.
NASSCOM Knowledge Network (NKN)
The NKN is a network of knowledge centres across 10 states of India. The Centres provide public access to (value-added) ICT for educational, personal, social and economic development. The centres would provide multi-purpose services to communities such as education, health, e-governance and other services by facilitating access to information and essential services, providing opportunities through capacity building and training tools using ICT as outreach platform.
NASSCOM’s BiG Tech and BiG
BiG Tech assists non-governmental organisations and charities by offering access to the software donation programs of our donor partners. The broader BiG programme is aimed at building capacities of partner organizations by extensive training of personnel managing knowledge centres
QUEST ALLIANCE (Quality Education and Skills Training)
The Quest Alliance aims to develop and expand quality education and job training programs that bridge the gap between education and employment and strengthen employment opportunities for marginalized youth. Specific programs include Promoting IT Skills Training for Vulnerable Youth, Using Cell Phones for Teacher Training, Using ICTs to Promote Education and Employment, Scaling a Life Skills Program with ICTs.
PRATHAM Focused on education. They also have a skills training program, providing skill sets to unemployed youth. For example, their Computer Assisted Learning program has 55,000 children in computer labs in 7 states.Other programmes include Skills Education (2,000 youth trained in skills/ vocational education), Teacher Training (350,000+ government teachers trained), Read India (National program aimed at reading, writing and maths for 60 million children)
ICT-based programmes targeting Employability are emerging
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Accenture‘s experience in Africa shows how ICT can make a difference
With Kenya’s current shortage of nursing instructors, training 22,000 nurses would take 100 years; by leveraging Accenture’s innovative e-learning solutions, they are targeting to train 22,000 in 5 years at 5% of the cost.
• A feasible e-Learning solution designed and tested to upgrade Kenyan nurses’ skills
• Increased number of trained and qualified nurses able to deliver essential health services throughout Kenya
• Overall time to up skill nurses reduced
• An enriched learning experience using the computer
• Model developed for replication in other African countries, who are also experiencing a chronic shortage of qualified health workers
• AMREF capacity built to develop, implement and monitor effective e-Learning on a sustained basis
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We have the opportunity to set minds and hearts on fire!
……the desire of reward is one of the
strongest incentives of human conduct;
or that the best security for the fidelity
of mankind is to make their interests
coincide with their duty.
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers 1788