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Building a Future-Ready India: High-Skill Reskilling in the Viksit Bharat@2047 Framework

Author(s) Abhijith A K
Country India
Abstract India’s reimagined skilling architecture for Viksit Bharat@2047, outlined by NITI Aayog, has been reinforced by an unprecedented 62 percent increase in the Union Budget 2026-27 allocation to the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, confirming that skilling now sits at the centre of the Central Government’s growth strategy [1], [4]. Even so, the Government’s own diagnostic instruments point to a specific and persisting challenge: the Economic Survey 2024-25 records that only 8.25 percent of graduates are employed in roles aligned with their qualifications, while the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 estimates that 63 of every 100 Indian workers will require training by 2030, with more than 70 million potentially unable to access it in time [2], [8]. This paper argues that closing this specific high-skill reskilling gap, concentrated among India’s National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) Level 3 and 4 workforce, is the natural next step in an already decisive Central Government reform agenda that includes the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) scheme and new Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comic (AVGC) Content Creator Labs [4], [5]. Drawing on NITI Aayog’s (2026) Reimagining Skilling for Viksit Bharat@2047 report, successive Economic Surveys, the Union Budget 2026-27, and global labour-market evidence, the paper maps the reimagined architecture’s nine reforms and enablers against their relevance to high-skill reskilling and proposes a complementary sixth pillar, ‘Advanced Reskilling Corridors’, designed to run on infrastructure the Government is already funding. The paper concludes that, under the Centre’s sustained fiscal commitment and policy direction, this refinement can help India fully realise the Viksit Bharat@2047 vision.
Keywords High-Skill Reskilling, Viksit Bharat; NITI Aayog, Union Budget, PM-SETU, Reskilling
Field Arts
Published In Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-09-16
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i05.87885

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