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Skill, re-skill, up-skill to stay relevant: PM Modi tells India's youth

Coronavirus pandemic has changed the workplace, says Modi on fifth anniversary of Skill India Mission

PM Narendra Modi addressing nation at World Youth Skills Day.
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PM Narendra Modi speaks to a digital conclave on World Youth Skills Day on July 15, 2020.

BS Web Team New Delhi
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the workplace and people have to "skill, re-skill and up-skill" themselves to stay relevant for employment, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday

"It is always a challenge to stay relevant as markets changing--more so in today's disruptive times,” said Modi in a televised speech on the fifth anniversary’s Skill India Mission, a plan to train 400 million Indians by 2022.

Skill is learning a way to add value to something; re-skilling is looking to innovate or improvise; and up-skilling is upping your abilities to produce better in sync with the requirements, he said.

“Covid-19