ISAS Insights

The Indian G overnment’s target of s killing and employing productively 500 million workers by 2022 does not afford it the luxury of time. Nor can the inherited legacy of decades of planned development be done away with overnight. With a young population and favourable demographic profile, India has a short window of opportunity to avail itself of the ‘demographic dividend’. While it may be premature to assess the overall effectiveness of the policy framework, there are early indications about the response to policy as well as how legacy issues are addressed . The challenges can be classified as social, structural and those resulting from policy distortions