Need manufacturing boost to address job creation challenge: Anand Sharma

By admin March 14, 2013 1:56 pm IST

Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles, said that the National Manufacturing Policy is one of the key instruments to address the challenge of job creation. Mr Sharma was speaking at a special CII Interactive Session titled ‘Transforming India: Role of Youth’ at the St. Xavier College in Mumbai.
Mr Sharma admitted that creation of jobs was a major challenge; therefore, it was necessary to go back to high rate of economic growth of around 9 per cent per annum. He briefed the students about the National Skill Development Mission which has set an ambitious target of imparting job skills to 500 million people by 2022.
Underlining the seriousness of the government in making India a major manufacturing hub, Mr Sharma said that the government was in the process of establishing 12 stand alone, world-class industrial townships across the country. Emphasising the importance of technology, he said, “The world is changing, and technology is leading the change.”