It was largely an electoral setback that pushed the Centre to initiate job schemes in 2024. But the concerns became less urgent after the BJP’s electoral gains in the following years.
Physical joining in ongoing third pilot has crossed those recorded in the first and second rounds, govt informs Lok Sabha. Around 8,428 youth have also applied through MY Bharat.
Govt is widening pool of eligible companies after easing age limits, increasing stipends and reducing duration of internship under the flagship scheme.
Government is organising recruitment camps to boost grassroots enrolment under PMIS and connect young candidates with companies and internship opportunities.
ICAI plans to engage medium and large CA firms under the PMIS, with interns likely to start joining next month. The ICAI can later open it up for everyone.
Designed to provide internship opportunities to 1 crore youth over five years, the PMIS targets candidates from non-elite educational backgrounds in tier-2 and 3 towns.
At CII Annual Business Summit 2026, secretary for ministry of corporate affairs said scheme was designed to let industry shape future workforce while govt bore key costs.
Exclusive | Next round of PMIS, first launched in Oct 2024 with 12-month internship, will allow candidates aged 18-25 & cut internship duration to 6-9 months, it is learnt.
Jawan, kisan, vigyan, knowledge, new thinking—each word spoken from Red Fort offered an idea of what India might become. Dimagi Naxal is not an addition to that rich vocabulary. It is a subtraction.
India’s space start-up ecosystem has blasted off from one venture in 2022 to more than 400 in 2026, as the satellite communications industry targets an 8% share of GDP by 2033.
ThePrint has learnt that more than one women fighter pilots were involved in targeting military locations during the 87-hour conflict with Pakistan last year.
Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman
Well, you know, I am obsessed with pulling out 2014 campaign slogans like a broken jukebox that only plays one song. I grew up with “Garibi Hatao, Desh Bachao”. We achieved it in 2013. Garibi was gone. Desh was saved. We were #1 in the world but then 2014 turned it all upside down.
Uncle A is still measuring the entire Indian economy by 1980s factory headcount numbers. Completely blind to the massive surge in tech infrastructure, electronics manufacturing, digital economy, and millions brought into the formal workforce. But no… if it doesn’t fit his textbook definition from twenty years ago, it “doesn’t exist.”
Paper leaks are a serious administrative and legal failure that need to be crushed… but using them as an excuse to peddle old political talking points isn’t economic analysis… it’s just lazy doom-posting.
Bottom line is this… Uncle A’s economic vision is stuck in a 2014 time capsule… endless complaining, zero real-world context, and a desperate need to turn every single local problem into an apocalyptic lecture.
Education as a precursor to Employment. That promise of two crore jobs a year swept the election in 2014. Based on raising the share of manufacturing in GDP from 16 to 25%. Neither has been delivered.
Well, you know, I am obsessed with pulling out 2014 campaign slogans like a broken jukebox that only plays one song. I grew up with “Garibi Hatao, Desh Bachao”. We achieved it in 2013. Garibi was gone. Desh was saved. We were #1 in the world but then 2014 turned it all upside down.
Uncle A is still measuring the entire Indian economy by 1980s factory headcount numbers. Completely blind to the massive surge in tech infrastructure, electronics manufacturing, digital economy, and millions brought into the formal workforce. But no… if it doesn’t fit his textbook definition from twenty years ago, it “doesn’t exist.”
Paper leaks are a serious administrative and legal failure that need to be crushed… but using them as an excuse to peddle old political talking points isn’t economic analysis… it’s just lazy doom-posting.
Bottom line is this… Uncle A’s economic vision is stuck in a 2014 time capsule… endless complaining, zero real-world context, and a desperate need to turn every single local problem into an apocalyptic lecture.
Education as a precursor to Employment. That promise of two crore jobs a year swept the election in 2014. Based on raising the share of manufacturing in GDP from 16 to 25%. Neither has been delivered.