15 July: World Youth Skills Day

• 16 Jul 2021

• The World Youth Skills Day is observed on 15 July every year to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.
• The theme of World Youth Skills Day 2021 is “Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic”.
• In India, among other schemes, the Government has launched Skills India Mission in order to train over 40 crore Indians in different industry-related jobs. The vision is to create an empowered workforce by 2022 with the help of various schemes and training courses.