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Indian youth: from job record success. • 4.78 crore new EPFO
seekers to job creators • Extensive support to subscribers added
• PM Modi is changing sportspersons through between 2017 and January
societal mindset TOPS programme. 2023 – each is one formal
and creating wider • Khelo India is making job!
acceptance for risk sports a mass movement • 1.2 crore new EPFO
takers. and building a sporting accounts added in
• Self-employment and culture across India. 2021-22, despite the
entrepreneurship are pandemic.
becoming popular Ensuring jobs for young • Most surveys
occupational choices. India indicate robust hiring
• Various schemes • Robust economic policies sentiment and lesser
are aimed at giving are creating lakhs of new unemployment than
institutional support to employment opportunities pre-pandemic years!
entrepreneurs. annually. • MUDRA Yojana
• Record goods exports supported crores of new

2021: A remarkable year for of over $448 billion in entrepreneurs and created
Indian sports 2022-23, of which massive jobs.
• India won the highest engineering exports were • Tech start-ups created
ever medal tally in its a part. 23 lakh direct and
history in Tokyo Olympics • 1.37 crore people skilled indirect jobs in the year
and Paralympics. under PM Kaushal 2017-2021 (NASSCOM)
• Long-term planning Vikas Yojana, improving
since 2014 led to this employment prospects. * * *

Did you know?

Direct Job Indicators
• Over 2.09 crore youth between the ages of 18-28 years added to
EPFO since April 2020
• The Naukri Job Speak Index saw an impressive 41% rise from 1,925 in
January 2021 to 2,716 in January 2022
• Promoting skilling, re-skilling, and upskilling in Capital Goods sector
by creation of 46 Qualification packages (QPs) for skill levels 6 and
above by the Skill Councils
• WRI Trichy under Capital Goods Scheme Phase – II is setting up
infrastructure across India to train 5000 youths in latest welding
technologies
Indirect Job Indicators
• India’s goods exports hit a record $448 billion in 2022-23
• Engineering exports in Jan 2023 were 55.54% more than Jan 2022
• Apparel exports in 2021-22 showed a 30% growth. It is estimated that
each additional $1billion of apparel exports creates 1.5 lakh jobs!

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