12 Dec Allahabad, Dec.13,2014 - ‘To fetch fortunes of demographic dividend, let us identify opportunities within and outside India with reduced gap in demand and supply of manpower with increased return on training investment (ROTI),’ said Dr. Madan Mohan Goel, Professor of Economics & Former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences & Former Chairman, Dept. of Economics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He was addressing the participants of the international conference in Dept. of Economics, University of Allahabad today. Let demographic dividend be not converted in to demographic disaster. Let there be no data limitations on population which calls for minimum time log between the collection and publication of data, consistency in the concepts and definitions of important data and coordination between different data agencies. We need to strengthen the data base for future prediction to be more certain in India, said Professor Goel. To face challenges of urban population, the smart cities are necessary but not sufficient. To make them sufficient, we need manpower planning, good governance and inflation targeting in India. Let bearing and rearing child be made costly as a measure of population control. Let birth certificate be suitably price and linked with inflation rate. We need to reconstitute the National Population Commission and its regular meetings be conducted more than rituals for continuous monitoring of the dependency load of the population with reference to consumption for implementation of National Food Security Act 2013,said Professor Goel We need to work seriously on recruitment policy with great care and concern. To put right person at the right place is the only solution for matching the demand to supply which work wonders. He told that India’s working-age population is growing faster than China’s. The working-age population (aged 15-64) has increased in China and India since the 1980s, contributing to strong economic growth. The share of the working-age population will continue rising in India owing to its young and growing population, and is estimated to reach 67.0% of the population by 2020, compared to 71.6% in China.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:22:33 +0000
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