Can India export skilled labour force to the world?

Can India export skilled labour force to the world?

Highlighting the importance of labours for the successful realization of “Make in India” campaign PM Modi launched the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakaram. On the occasion he said that India can export skilled labours to the whole world. But, does India really have the capacity to become an exporter of skilled labour force. Let’s see:

Yes:

-India has a huge demographic dividend, and this dividend provides fertile ground for a large skilled labour force.

-Youth in the country is getting better education opportunity and can be easily trained to inculcate the required skills.

-Already Indians have shown their capabilities at global level in the sectors like Information Technology. If labour force is provided with the enough opportunities, nothing can stop them to work throughout the world.

-Birth rate in most of the developed countries is either stagnated or decreasing. So, in future this will create a huge demand for the labour force and India can easily fulfill this demand.

No:

-Though we have a large labour force but mostly it is unskilled and lacks the competency required at global level.

-Successive governments have launched innumerable schemes for skill enhancement of the labour force, but such efforts hardly yield the expected results.

-The labour force along with skills lacks communication skills in global languages like English without which it’s very difficult to work in foreign countries.

-Biggest problem is the unorganized nature of the labour force. Until organized, it is very difficult to impart skills to this force for global exposure.

Conclusion:

The thought of PM to turn India into a global exporter of labour is indeed visionary and has the capability to transform the face of Indian Labour sector. But actual implementation of this thought is not possible until the aforesaid hurdles are removed. In this regard, the newly launched scheme will set the stage for the speedy removal of these hurdles and will give workers a greater say in formulation of future policies.