Q: To obtain full benefits of demographic dividend, what should India do?
a) Promoting skill development
b) Introducing more social security schemes
c) Reducing infant mortality rate
d) Privatization of higher education
Correct Answer: Option (a)
- Promoting skill development will create a workforce of skilled labour which could boost the economy and lift up their livelihood.
- Introducing more social security schemes will not provide any benefit of demographic dividend. Social security schemes can be used for providing security to nonworking population like old-age pension etc.
- Reducing Infant Mortality Rate is one of the Millennium Development Goal, but it does not provide any benefit of demographic dividend.
- Privatization of higher education can in fact have negative effect as it will make education costlier thus making it out of reach of a large section of eligible population.
- Hence, option (a) is correct.
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