E2 - Education and Employment

India with a population of 1.38 billion people struggles with employment opportunities. The State of Employment in India ,  a report analysing the country’s employment situation in the country specifically from the lens of gender.In a bleak employment scenario, employment and its conditions is even worse when it comes to the women in the country both due to socio-cultural reasons and also government policies. Modi Government Failed to Create Jobs In its election manifesto in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) committed to an ambitious target of creating an additional 10 million jobs every year. In fact, it was what attracted many  young first time voter, perhaps also a first time job seeker, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi because he projected the aspirations of a rising India.Were the promised jobs created? Certainly No. Modi’s government has snatched away jobs, by neglecting the labour intensive sectors such as textiles, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. As demonetization and

India is a ginormous and second most populated country of the world with a population of 1.38 billion approx. Seventh largest country by land area. Education in India is provided by public schools(Controlled and funded by the government at three levels: central, state and local)and private schools (Controlled and funded by Private parties). Although their has not been any change in the education pattern since the National policy on Education (NPE),1986.  But now the ruling BJP government has reformed the education structure and replaced the thirty four year old National policy on education 1986 as  'National Education Policy 2020' and divided it into 5+3+3+4 (The old model was 10+2)which includes a foundational stage from age 3 to 8, three years of pre-primary education from age 8 to 11, a preparatory stage from age 11 to 14, while the secondary stage would comprise 14 to 18 years of age. The new system will have 12 years of schooling with 3 years of anganwadi / pre-schooling.