Narendra Modi unveils bid to make India the 'HR capital of the world’

Prime minister plans to provide skills training to more than 400 million people to tackle workforce shortages

India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, launched a programme on Wednesday aimed at imparting skill training to more than 400 million Indians over the next seven years "to make India the world's human resource capital".

Indian corporations and industry have often cited unskilled manpower as a big hurdle to filling existing jobs.