Youth unsatisfied: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman

He said poverty estimates were just theoretical exercise, without much practical relevance to policy-making

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar says the Gujarat election has sent out a message that youth is unsatisfied, as what is being achieved is probably not in sync with their aspirations.

“I am not saying they are unemployed or else they wouldn’t have come out in such large numbers on motorcycles to election rallies. But, clearly, they are not satisfied as their aspirations might have grown,” Kumar told Business Standard.

He said the government should anticipate future skill requirements, which existing strategies were not capable of doing, and greater focus should be placed on apprenticeship. “There is a 1962 Act which mandates