Train youth to make them industry ready: Deshpande

R V Deshpande, Minister for Large & Medium Industries, Government of Karnataka, has urged India Inc to  train the youth to make them industry ready

At the Operational Excellence and People Excellence Conference 2018 organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), he called on Industry to work with the government to ensure that the next generation will be industry ready with the right skill sets, as today we are faced with a situation where over 65% of engineering graduates are unemployable.

Vikram Kirloskar, Chairman, CII Southern Region said that India is on the path of becoming the hub for hi-tech manufacturing, where companies have either set up or are in process of setting up manufacturing plants in India, attracted by India's market of more than a billion consumers and increasing purchasing power.

According to him, in a world in which not only companies, but countries too, are rated on their competitiveness, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage will be a company's or country's ability to learn, change, and improve faster than any potential competition.