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Aligning Education and Skill Ecosystems in India: Evaluating the Role of Institutional Policy Frameworks in Human Capital Formation and Economic Transformation

Author(s) Vikas Kumar Sharma, Dr. Anuj Kumar
Country India
Abstract The demographic dividend in India is an urgent threat to economic transformation, depending on the ability to match education and ecosystem skill sets successfully. Even with several policy interventions such as the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, Skill India Mission, there has been systemic fragmentation between the formal education systems and the vocational training systems. This paper is a critical review on institutional policy frameworks on education and skill development in India and how the Indian institutional frameworks contribute to building human capital. Based on a qualitative doctrinal and policy analysis technique complemented with secondary data sources, including government reports, international agencies, and new scholarly publications (202025), the paper determines structural gaps, governance obstacles, and policy inconsistency. The paper also suggests a combined model to promote synergy among schools, industry needs, and skill eco system thus leading to inclusive economic change. The results underscore the necessity of institutional convergence, competency-based model of education, and coherence in the policy to mitigate the education-employment gap.
Keywords Human capital, NEP 2020, Skill India, institutional structures, economic change, education policy, employability.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2025
Published On 2025-01-17

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