The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.

Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.