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The job market paradox
More education has not translated into more working women in India
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Job market squeeze: Education loan defaults rise 30% in Uttar Pradesh
The NPAs during 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 stood at Rs 1.42 bn, Rs 2.25 bn and Rs 2.51 bn respectively
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Letters: Tune into the job market
With reference to the report, "New technology making employees obsolete: Naik" (July 5) by Shivani Shinde Nadhe and Sheetal Agarwal, the poor quality of education in India neither satisfies the belly nor the soul.Two recent surveys revealed that 80 per cent of engineering graduates and 93 per cent of B-school graduates are unemployable. It seems the government and the educational institutes are yet to realise that by not imparting practical skills required by employers they are making the situation worse.All hopes of innovation, entrepreneurship and the much-vaunted demographic dividend will come to naught if the education gained after spending so much money is useless and does not give students the confidence to face the world and achieve something.On the other hand, there is the threat of redundancy of workers due to automation and loss or lack of skill development. While the first problem is supposedly being addressed by retraining, at least by software companies, what about the sec
