Focus needed on tapping potential of human capital: VP

Educational and job opportunities for the youth were bound to increase with the country emerging as a major world player economically and measures were needed to tap the potential of the human capital, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu today said.

Each institution should look into its own functioning and identify areas that require reform and those requiring transformation "in consonance with the Prime Minister's call to reform, perform and transform," he said.

He was addressing the faculty and students of Pondicherry Central University here.

Naidu said "today we are living in interesting times. India is emerging as a major world player economically. Indian economy which is growing at more than seven per cent is poised to become the third largest economy in the coming ten to fifteen years. We are in a transformational, aspirational India."
Stressing the need to fully tap the potential of the human capital by ensuring they had the knowledge and skill required for the twenty-first century world, the vice- president said "we must ensure that there are enough opportunities for the youth to start new enterprises and generate new jobs."
Naidu also stressed there should be "gender sensitisation."