Can India educate its vast workforce?

When narendra modigdp , India’s prime minister, last week, he did so as the leader of one of the world’s fastest-growing big economies. India is expanding at an annual rate of 6% and its ranks fifth in the global pecking order. Its tech industry is flourishing and green firms are laying solar panels like carpets. Many multinationals are drawn there: this week Goldman Sachs held a board meeting in India.As the rich world and China , India’s huge youth bulge—some 500m of its people are under 20—should be an additional propellant. Yet as we report, although India’s brainy elite hoovers up qualifications, education for most Indians is . Unskilled, jobless youngsters risk bringing India’s economic development to a premature stop.