Investing in Youth: Strategy for Viksit Bharat @2047

Abstract- Higher education Institutes (HEIs) play a vital role in a country by providing access to education, providing skill manpower and entrepreneurs, generating knowledge and contributing to the economy. Today when most of the youth is unemployed in India wasting their most valuable time and energy in unproductive activities HEIs can play a vital role in developing these students according to the needs of the country by imparting them market/industry demanded and future ready skills and traits and developing personal qualities like courage, self-reliance, adaptability with problem solving approach. These institutes can help in developing the youth as innovators, creators, inventors who can confront with coming generation challenges and find sustainable solutions for all the problems. Hence objective of this paper is to find out the strategies how investment in youth through higher education can bring a catalyst change and help India in becoming a Viksit Bharat by 2047 from a developing country of now.

Keywords: Higher Education; Higher Education Institutes (HEIs); India; Viksit Bharat; Youth