India has attained progress in primary education with 1.5million schools and 250 million enrolments but it still lacks in higher education with just 20.7 million with only 24.3% of total enrolment. The current available capacity in industrial training is 4.3 million which is 201% less than the industrial requirement of 22 million skilled workforces annually in India. There is a large number of dropouts in education at an average age of 15 years especially female students along with poor literacy and many obsolete trainings provided which fails to provide jobs and industrial requirements. (Saini, 2015). In India, 90% of the jobs available are skill based but only 2% of the population (15-25 years) attain formal vocation training in comparison to 80% in the USA and 60% in South Asian countries. The overall estimation is to provide vocational training to 128 lakhs workforce but currently capacity available is only 31 Lakhs whereas India aims to provide vocational training to 50crs of workforce by 2022.

 To meet out some of the skill gap  in India, AADHAAR proposes to create a cadre of youths  enabled with required skills. The beneficiaries of the training would be mainly underprivileged youth coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and territories, including people with disabilities, with a focus on women/young girls. The training curriculum, pedagogy, modalities vary from one site/location to the other. Some courses proposed would be of short duration, others run for several months (3 to 6), some would focus on specific programming languages, others offer professional training pathways and on digital literacy. The overall objective of the intervention is to ensure access to work for youth facing the risk of exclusion, who are NEET (not in education, employment or training), or people struggling with long term unemployment.