When young speak, politics must listen
high as 17.2 per cent in 2025, up from 15 per cent in 2024. Unemployment amongst women with advanced education was as high as 21 per cent in 2024. How we slid from potential demographic dividend to lost generations is a story for economists to tell, but neither the Union nor state administrations can evade responsibility, certainly not a government in its third term.
- ▪high as 17.2 per cent in 2025, up from 15 per cent in 2024.
- ▪Unemployment amongst women with advanced education was as high as 21 per cent in 2024.
- ▪How we slid from potential demographic dividend to lost generations is a story for economists to tell, but neither the Union nor state administrations can evade responsibility, certainly not a government in its third term.
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Advertisement high as 17.2 per cent in 2025, up from 15 per cent in 2024. Unemployment amongst women with advanced education was as high as 21 per cent in 2024. How we slid from potential demographic dividend to lost generations is a story for economists to tell, but neither the Union nor state administrations can evade responsibility, certainly not a government in its third term. Instead of consulting our myriad educationists on how to fix the problem of educational rot — are nationally conducted examinations even desirable or feasible in a country of our physical and demographic size? — this administration resorted to the heavy-handed law-and-order approach that has become all too familiar.
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