India will lose its demographic "dividend" to a demographic "explosion" if it does not train its youth in the skills required to operate in the future world, President Pranab Mukherjee said in Ahmedabad on Sunday. While interacting with the students of 'Bapu Gujarat Knowledge Village and Samarpan Education and Research Campus', he urged students to work hard and "contribute" towards the advancement of the society, to which they belong and come from. Mukherjee asked students to become the "agents of change" and work diligently as he said education was the basis of an advanced society. The President said it was a matter of concern that no Indian institution of higher learning figures in the top 200 universities when global rankings are done. Mukherjee also expressed confidence in the capabilities of the Indian youth, saying the country's young talent does not "carry any baggage" and the world belongs to them.

Source: dna October 23, 2016 17:15 UTC