Scant training and an aversion to manual labour because of the caste system mean that India only has 3.5 million workers undergoing skills courses a year, compared with 90 million in China despite its demographically younger population - AFP Photo.
MUMBAI: In a classroom of construction firm Larsen & Toubro's training centre outside the Indian city of Mumbai, an instructor lifts up a tool and shows it to his students: "Clawhandle," he tells them.
"Clawhandle," chant back the young men, gathered under a picture of Vishwakarma, the Hindu god for craftsmen.
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