India will account for 20 per cent of the worlds global workforce in 2020s. The average age of Indian workforce will be 29 years as compared to 37 for the US and China and 45 years for Europe. A need for skill development and skill up gradation among the labour force as a result of challenges that globalization and changing job patterns posed came in the form of increased emphasis on understandings to be developed with respect to 1. Which skills are to be developed? 2. What are the strategies adopted of skill development of rural populace? 3. Has the supply driven strategies been...