Accenture survey finds that companies and organizations in China and India stand to capture a global competitive advantage on the strength of young workers and students, who are the world’s most intensive users of corporate information technology.
Yahoo India news article titled “Giving young India a foothold into the future”. The leading companies in India have joined hands with the central government to improve the career prospects of bright young people from rural India.
Study overseas, acquiring new skills, and travel have emerged as the most sought after career attributes for urban Indian students, says the study done by TCS. Nearly one out of 10 people on the planet are under 25 years old and living in India. Hence, what this Gen YRI does, thinks and aspires for, gives insights to all those who aim to engage them.
Publishing boom in India has opened the floodgates for English writers from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh according to the article “Written by Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, but made in India” in Calcutta News Net. With rising middle class, India offers a large and growing market for authors from neighboring countries.
English is the lingua-franca for globalization. If India has to clock 9% annual growth in its GDP, English needs to be central in education of Gen YRI. There will be an increasing demand for multi-lingual speakers by corporate India according to Times of India article “English for Progress”.