NEW DELHI: Advocating social entrepreneurship as a means to bring about positive social changes, Union Minister Jitendra Singh today said India needs employability and not employment because no country in the world can provide jobs to all.
“What India today requires is employability not employment. It is wrong to say that the government is not providing employment. We have failed to understand that no country in the world can ever, through Government sectors, provide jobs to all and that should not be the consideration of a visionary Government. We have to provide employability,” Singh said.
Speaking at a programme organised by School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) India, supported by PwC India and British Council India, Singh presented the graduation address at the event and congratulated 16 social entrepreneurs, working in diverse fields like healthcare and livelihood generation, who completed the SSE India Fellowship programme.
He said that in the last few years, the demography and priorities in education are changing.
“Earlier, most of the civil servants were from Bihar, Tamil Nadu, now you have from Haryana, Punjab where you thought there were more farming. India of the second decade of 21st century is quite different from what it was,” the MoS PMO said.
The minister said that the education system in Indian society was governed by lot of illusions and misconceptions. (AGENCIES)
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