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For youth:Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai addressing students of Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering College, near Namakkal, on Saturday. Namakkal: While the country stands tall with the highest density of youth population in the world there is lack of skills among them that could be a major setback for the country, felt Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Chairman of its Distance Education Council Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai. Despite ample manpower through a cross section of the workforce there is a deficit in skills, he added. Prof. Pillai was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the newly-constructed auditorium at Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering College in Erumapatty near here on Saturday. Only 10 per cent of the country's populace aged between 16 to 23 years (the university education age group) has an opportunity to join collegiate education, he said. According to him this was much less than the 80 per cent in the same category in developed countries, 50 per cent in developing countries and ironically only a third of the global average of 30 per cent. On the other hand only five per cent of the country's working class (from the lowest worker level to white collar jobs) had got any certificate from a recognised college or university against the 80 per cent in developed countries. “Only 12 out of every hundred students who join elementary school complete their 10 {+t} {+h} standard”, he said and added that “it is learnt that a major share of the drop out is witnessed from standard 8 to 10 primarily due to financial constraints that force them to go for a job at the cost of their education.” The government is taking strides to provide education and skills to 500 million youth in this category by the year 2022, to commemorate with the country's 75 {+t} {+h} year of Independence. He made it clear that innovation in education and skill building are inevitably necessary to make India a developed nation. At this juncture he felt that colleges and higher education institutes could play a key role in extending their functioning timings to reach out to school and college dropouts. The Vice-Chancellor noted that college students and graduates could also help in achieving this goal by rendering their services to their locality. “You can innovate technology to suit an ordinary clientele or teach school drop outs and illiterates on accessing latest communication and information technologies like the Internet,” he told the students. He also advised them to equip themselves with multiple skill sets and not to constraint with their area of study. College chairman M. Mani, chairperson P. Swarnalatha and Principal Dr. K. Palaniswamy were also present during the event.
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