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Indian youth: from job ever medal tally in decade.
seekers to job creators its history in Tokyo • 1.60 crore people skilled
• PM Modi is changing Olympics 2020 and Paris under PM Kaushal
societal mindset Paralympics 2024. Vikas Yojana, improving
and creating wider • Long-term planning employment prospects.
acceptance for risk since 2014 led to this • 8.59 crore new EPFO
takers. record success. subscribers added
• Self-employment and • Extensive support to between September 2017
entrepreneurship are sportspersons through and February 2025 - each
becoming popular TOPS programme. is one formal job!
occupational choices. • Khelo India is making • 1.09 crore new EPFO
• Various schemes sports a mass accounts added in
are aimed at giving movement and building 2021-22, despite the
institutional support to a sporting culture across pandemic.
entrepreneurs. India. • Most surveys
indicate robust hiring
Fit India Movement – Ensuring jobs for young sentiment and lesser
Fitness is Freedom India unemployment than
• Nationwide campaign • Robust economic policies pre-pandemic years!
inspiring citizens to are creating lakhs • MUDRA Yojana
adopt healthier lifestyles of new employment supported crores of
through regular exercise, opportunities annually. new entrepreneurs and
balanced diets, and active • India’s total exports created jobs.
routines to promote reached a record USD • 4.8 lakh+ direct jobs
physical and mental well- 824.9 billion in 2024–25. created by DPIIT
being. This marks a significant recognised tech start-ups
leap from USD 466.22 in 2017-24.
Remarkable Achievements billion in 2013–14,
in Indian sports reflecting sustained * * *
• India won the highest growth over the past

Did you know?
Direct Job Indicators
• Over 3.45 crore youth between ages of 18-28 years added to EPFO since
April 2020.
• Naukri Job Speak Index - a key barometer of white-collar hiring - stood at
2,878 points in April 2025, registering 39% growth from April 2021.
• Promoting skilling, re-skilling, and upskilling in Capital Goods sector by
creating 40 Qualification packs (QPs) for skill levels 6 and above by the
Sector Skill Council.
• CEFC under WRI Trichy has trained a total of 8,143 individuals till date in
various welding technologies through its training centres at Trichy, Ranipet,
Haridwar, Bhopal, Jhansi and Varanasi.
Indirect Job Indicators
• India’s total exports reached a record USD 824.9 billion in 2024–25.
• Engineering exports increased From $73 Billion in 2014-15 to $117 billion
in FY 2024-25.
• Exports in Readymade garments of all textiles showed a growth of 10%
in 2024-25.

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