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In response to the �challenge and an opportunity that the Indian government sees in its booming youth population, the Indian government is attempting to ramp up VET. The National Skills Development Policy in 2009 set the target of upskilling 500 million workers by 2022 to meet the impending skills gap; it is worth noting, however, that the government currently estimates training capacity to be 7 million per year. A more recent estimate from the Institute of Applied Manpower Research argues that 291 million additional workers are needed for the same period. This is particularly pertinent to the building, construction and real estate industry, the auto and auto components industry, and the textiles and clothing industry. The lack of skills supply is characterised by the government as a key issue for the economy: �The country presently faces a dual challenge of severe paucity of highly-trained, quality labor, as well as non-employability of large sections of the educated workforce that possess little or no job skills