Twenty lakh students will be skilled in five years: Finance Minister Sitharaman

New Delhi, Jul 23 (KNN) In a significant move aimed at enhancing India's workforce capabilities, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today unveiled plans to skill 20 million students over the next five years.

This announcement came as part of her presentation of the new national budget to Parliament.

"Twenty lakh students will be skilled in five years," Sitharaman stated. This initiative represents a major commitment to human resource development and is likely to have far-reaching implications for the country's labour market and economic growth.

The skilling program, while ambitious in scale, aligns with the government's ongoing efforts to address the skills gap in various sectors of the economy.

It is expected to cover a wide range of industries and skill sets, though specific details of the program's implementation and focus areas were not immediately provided.

(KNN Bureau)