Budget 2025 Expectations Live Updates: The need for balanced approach to technical, soft skills in India's future workforce

Union Budget 2025 Expectations Live: India Budget: In a world with significant and constant technological disruption, business and academia are both struggling to define a clear agenda for what will constitute future ready skills. Most industries are going through almost continuous shifts in technology which creates a situation where, as a recent research report pointed out, the half life of a skill has dropped to less than 5 years. In effect the job of training an individual on a particular skill may be relevant to that individual for only a very short period of time. As technology continues to evolve, over time this period of relevance for a skill will only come down.