Mr. Maheshwer Peri’s Talk on Demographic Dividend

Mr. Maheshwer Peri delivered an invited talk to the delegates of the 4th International Conference on “Economic Growth and Sustainable Development: Emerging Trends” on November 23, 2018. He dealt with the education system in India coupled with demographic dividends and threw light on the alarming growth rate of the cost of higher education in India against the much lower growth rate of jobs over time. Furthermore, he spoke about the tacit change in the rate of increase in the number of universities in the recent decade, both public and private. He further spoke on how the private institutes were controlling the education system in India.