189 - Livelihoods For Bharat | Rameesh Kailasam | Munish Chawla | Policy | Bharatvaarta

We often hear of the demographic dividend, that we have 800 million people or so under the age of 35 years. But that also poses a huge challenge in terms of skilling, development, education and employment. And the nature of work and employment itself has changed, especially post-covid. So how do we think about jobs and more generally creating work opportunities for our country?  To discuss this we have Rameesh Kailasam, who is the President & CEO of IndiaTech.org, a think tank and industry group. Joining him is Munish Chawla is the Co-Founder of Jeevitam, a platform that is redefining the way people seek work, find work and get hired. Munish is also an industry veteran with 3 decades of work at various corporate organizations.  In this episode, our experts tackle topics such as the statistics of employment data in India, designing new job seeking opportunities for the new generation, the policymaking direction being taken by the government for jobs, and more.