WITT 2025: Expert panel says there is a need for skill development in India’s Viksit Bharat vision | Edu News

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The WITT 2025 Global Summit highlighted the crucial synergy between education and skill development for India’s Viksit Bharat aspirations. The summit underscores the necessity of bridging the gap between academic learning and practical skills to prepare India for the future.

WITT 2025 Skilling Education Preparing India for Viksit Bharat

New Delhi: As India moves forward with its aspirations for Viksit Bharat, synergy between education and skill development becomes paramount. The third edition of TV9 Network’s What India Thinks Today (WITT) Global Summit held on March 29 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, highlighted that intersection. The ‘Skilling & Education: Preparing India for Viksit Bharat’ stands as one of the interactive sessions that highlighted the gap between traditional education and practical skills.

The session featured esteemed speakers including Pankaj Bansal, Founder of Caret Capital & Taggd; Kartik Narayan, CEO of Staffing at Teamlease Services; Jonas Marggraf, Managing Director of Fintiba; Dr Rajesh Shukla, Managing Director and CEO of People Research on India’s Consumer Economy; Jaspreet Singh, GCC Leader of Advisory Services at Grant Thornton Bharat; and EJ James, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Karunya University. The session is moderated by Swetha Kothari, News9 Senior Editor.

Impact of AI on the job industry

According to the Economic Survey 2023-24, only 51 per cent of people are eligible for employment and 49 per cent are not getting a job based on their degree, which means that the skills mismatch is a concern and this is an issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible to achieve our Viksit Bharat goals.

India needs at least 1 million AI-skilled workforce by 2047. How far is this achievement from a dream? Answering this question, Karthik Narayan, said that AI is not going to replace everything basically. People who are knowledgeable in AI will excel a little in their careers. Therefore, it is difficult to answer this complex problem.

How difficult it is to find and retain a job if you are not skilled yourself. Jaspreet Singh said that AI will have a huge impact on jobs and reskilling is a must. When we talk about AI, it is not just limited to information technology (IT) and services. The future of jobs is always about adaptability. Job aspirants need to understand technologies well.

“Last year, 22 per cent of jobs in non-IT companies were replaced by AI. The AI is going to have an impact on us in the job industry. In the next two years, we are going to see big changes,” said Pankaj Bansal.

When asked about the responsibility of teaching organisations, EJ James, said, “There should be a change in the teaching mechanism which is popular in this country. People who study AI will never apply it in any field. We must move from degree-based to skill-driven.”

Although the new education policy mandates more practical learning experience, it has not really been implemented. Dr Mohit Verma, Director, Amity Education, said, “NEP 2020 could be a game changer, which is not happening at present. The Centre should prescribe a uniform credit framework for states and union territories (UTs) to follow, which is not happening. The policy should be robust. For example, China has introduced AI in primary schools from December 2024. By focusing on school education, we can definitely reduce the skill gap. On the other hand, CBSE introduced AI curriculum in 2019. But for this, schools can only teach AI courses where there is a computer lab with a minimum bandwidth of 50 Mbps.”

While answering a question about what skills Indian students lack by the time they graduate compared to German students, Jonas Marggraf said that Indians have a cultural mindset and they are not individualistic and self-reliant.

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