Need 100 mn jobs in next 10 yrs to gain from demographic dividend: Experts

Tertiary sector is not going to generate most of these 100 million jobs; focus should be on manufacturing and formal sector

The country needs 100 million jobs in the formal sector in the next ten years to take advantage of its demographic dividend and it should get into the global supply chain to generate many of those by negotiating trade deals effectively, industry players and experts have emphasised.

"We need something like 100 million jobs in the next 10 years which means that the non-agriculture sector has to generate 14 per cent job growth every year," said Aditya Ghosh, co-founder of Akasa Airlines, at the Global Economic Policy Summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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