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1. 71% or 742 million people are below 35 years of age. Indians are young 2. 29 million people are born every year,10 million die per year, population increase 1.8% 3. 94% drop out rate of children between kindergarten and 10+2 4. 6% or the ones that cross the 10+2 stage, ( Educational “Line of Control”) which is our so called educated youth, go in for a regular college degree which may not be very relevant in today’s context for the sake of employment generation and National GDP enhancement 5. 72% of all graduates from colleges are Arts graduates. Balance 28% in Science, Commerce, Engineering, I. T., Medical, Law, Management and special subjects 6. While 95% of the world youth between 15 to 35 years of age learn a vocation, a skill or a trade, with a choice of 3000 vocational education & training (VET) programs in 15,000 modules. In India we have only identified about 51 trades, after 57 years of Independence and hardly 2% of the population goes for formal VET training! 7. We can ...