- Skill Gap: Paucity of highly trained workforce.
- Non-employability of large sections of conventionally educated youth.
- Lack of job skills.
- Employment Generation: Not enough well-paid jobs created for unskilled labor.
- Over 90% of workers in informal economy with low productivity.
- Sectoral Imbalance: Economy jumped to services, ignoring manufacturing.
- Manufacturing needs to create jobs for low-skilled workers.
- Regional Heterogeneity: Divide between peninsular and hinterland states in demographic profile.
- Aging Population: Share of elderly population is rising, requiring attention.
- If not leveraged, demographic dividend can become a “demographic nightmare” of unemployment.