27/08/2026
8.7 crore young Indians are currently neither studying, working, nor training.
That NITI Aayog number stopped feeling like a statistic today — because I spent the morning in a government school in Paharganj, sitting on the floor with 200+ girls, asking them one simple question: *"Kitne log yahan business start karna chahte hain?"*
The silence in that room told me everything the report already knew.
This was a NEEV session — our effort to bring entrepreneurship into government school classrooms, not as a distant career option, but as a mindset these girls can build from Class 9 itself. NITI Aayog's own recommendation — employability and entrepreneurship skills from Class 6, vocational tracks from Class 9 — isn't a policy line to us. It's exactly what we tried to do in that hall today.
We didn't talk about business plans or funding. We talked about noticing problems nobody else sees, about failure being data and not defeat, about the fact that entrepreneurship doesn't require permission — it requires attention.
By the end, hands were up. Girls were writing down ideas. One asked me to write my number in her notebook.
The real test of any national skilling policy isn't in the report — it's in rooms exactly like this one. Whether a girl in a government school in Paharganj believes entrepreneurship is something she gets to do too.
That's the gap Vyomini works to close, one classroom at a time.
