Trainees study during a mathematics lesson at L & T Construction Skills Training Institute in Panvel, India, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Building companies including Larsen & Toubro Ltd., India’s biggest engineering company, say that while India has millions of unskilled workers, it doesn’t have enough trained masons, carpenters and machine operators needed to build the roads, railways and ports it needs. Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Electric mechanics work at an electronics market in Kolkata, India, on March 23, 2025. (Photo by Sudipta Das/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A worker solders a refurbished cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor at a workshop in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, June 18, 2015. The rupee climbed 0.8 percent in the five days ended June 19, its best week in three months, while the 2024 debt completed its biggest weekly advance since it was first issued in July. Photographer: Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A trainee learns carpentry at L & T Construction Skills Training Institute in Panvel, India, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Building companies including Larsen & Toubro Ltd., India’s biggest engineering company, say that while India has millions of unskilled workers, it doesn’t have enough trained masons, carpenters and machine operators needed to build the roads, railways and ports it needs. Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A cheerful young man is fully immersed in the excitement of the arcade racing game, gripping the handlebars with a big smile as he speeds through virtual tracks.
NEW DELHI, INDIA – 2021/05/31: Helper working lathe machine workshop at Anand Parbat Industrial Area during the unlocking process, as construction activities and factories resume in the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown by order of Delhi Government.
Today National Statistics Office (NSO) has released the provisional full-year Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data for fiscal year 2020-21 India reported a 7.3 per cent contraction in its GDP for FY21,. (Photo by Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
PATNA,BIHAR, INDIA-NOVEMBER 11, 2017: A participant in the Young Women Leadership Program explains software to another participant, building leadership and positive teamwork skills. Jointly run by Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT) and Izad, this program empowers women from poor urban communities by enabling them to access and use technology, and provides education on social issues, giving them the confidence and tools to break gender, class, and religion-based stereotypes. (Paula Bronstein/The Verbatim Agency/Getty Images)
A man works on computer parts at Aurelec, a section of Auroville devoted to computer maintenance and research.
High angle view of female workers showing printed garment to inspector at textile factory and representing women empowerment
The hands of Tibetan wood carver, Tashi, as he works on a design.
An instructor, center, speaks with students during a computer and information technology class at an IACM Smart Learn Ltd. learning center in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. By 2026, 64 percent of Indians are expected to be in the working age group of 15-59 years, making it home to the largest workforce in the world. Yet the government’s much-touted goal of providing skills training to 400 million people by 2022 is unlikely to be met, increasing the already significant unemployment burden in a country where 69 percent of jobs are under threat from automation. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images
This photo taken on May 22, 2019, shows Indian youths at a class for a three-month course on computer hardware at a training centre run by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in New Delhi. – Asad Ahmed diligently scribbled notes at a computer class in New Delhi but he already fears that his hard work will probably come to nothing. While nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a new five-year term promising to step up his campaign for a “new India”, the 18-year-old Ahmed is pessimistic about getting a new job. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP) (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)
Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the
Indian woman carrying water from the lake. Collecting and carrying water are women’s responsibilities in India. Rajasthani women often walk long distances through the desert to bring back jugs of water that they carry on their heads.
Factory employees doing their separate tasks and going about their regular day at work. One man grinding down the edges of metal, the other ensuring he is prepared, another holding up his own grinder waiting for his shift.
BANGALORE, INDIA – JULY 10: Indian workers man the phones in this photo taken on May 24, 2005, in one of the growing number of call centres located in the Indian city of Bangalore. Western firms continue to take advantage of comparatively cheap labour rates and the high skill level of the region to outsource much of their communications work. (Photo by Michael Crabtree/Getty Images)
medium group of people working in textile industry
Women on a solar workshop, learning how to make solar lanters at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Many of the women are iliterate or semi literate. They are trained from countries all over the world, so that they can take their skills back and cascade the
Border Security Force Jawans with camels showing their skills during the tattoo show on the eve of Rajasthan day celebration in Jaipur , Rajasthan , India on 28 March,2017. (Photo by Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
