Let’s establish a new religion today

touching 500 million lives in India

The Three Religions of India

1st Religion

Cricket2nd Religion

Bollywood

3rd Religion

Skilling!

Demographic Dividend or Demographic Disaster

India’s will be one of the most populous and the youngest nation at the same time

“Differentiating” Education in India

d/dx f[Education]

= f [Theory]

+ f [Knowledge]

+ f [Soft Skills]

+ f [Core Skills]

Education is all about Theory. Little about skill development

Current Parental Mindset in India

Graduation is the passport for matrimony and a job

Restructure Education

1

mCourse = Theory + Core Skills + Soft Skills

f[Education] = ∑ [Skill Courses] + ∑ [Experience]

Sigma of short term skill development courses coupled with experience should be the life time

learning and earning ‘tool’

Think Creatively…One Possibility

• Target : >50% may not be able to read or write. But mobile enabled!

• They can communicate in their local language. 29 States in India

• Create India’s Skill Cloud (similar to ‘LinkedIn’) consisting of:

• SkillPedia (Knowledge), Labour Management System (Supply/Demand)

• Access through ‘iStree’ (voice enabled ‘Cyber Mother’ search engine)

• Voice-to-text local language conversion to English and vice-versa

• Synergise skill ecosystem through a pan-India Call Centre

• Kaushal Bharat, Kushal Bharat

• India can become the Biggest Exporter of Skilled Resource

Views welcome! Write to ‘atuljaya@yahoo.com’

Atul Bhatnagar is quintessentially a banker, with over twodecades of experience in global banking business. He hasworked in 3 major international banks - Citibank in India,HSBC in Dubai and Barclays in Kenya. He is a MechanicalEngineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He did his MBA in Marketing & Finance from theIndian Institute of Management, Calcutta. During his stint inBarclays Kenya, Atul won the ‘Male Diversity Champion’award picked from among 1,500 nominees from the bank’sglobal pool. He also bagged an award for the ‘Best COO inAfrica’. He helped his bank bag the ‘Best IT Bank’ awardgiven by Business Journal Africa, which also featured him onthe cover of their July 2011 issue. After spending nearly adecade and half outside India, Atul found his ‘home calling’when the opportunity to work in the National SkillDevelopment Corporation (NSDC) came up in March of2013. He continues to be involved in skill developmentefforts even after leaving NSDC in Nov 2015.