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Keshav Agarwal, President of the Educators Federation, believes what is unfolding at Jantar Mantar is the country’s employability debate playing out in real time. “The education system is evolving with employer needs, but only partially and unevenly,” he says. He points to the India Skills Report 2026, which shows employability has risen from 54.81 per cent to 56.35 per cent over the past year. On paper, that appears encouraging. But a closer look tells a more troubling story. “The Economic Survey shows that more than half of graduates and over one-third of postgraduates are working in jobs below their qualification. Youth unemployment stands at 9.9 per cent, more than three times the national average, and rises to 13.6 per cent in urban India. Meanwhile, only 5 per cent of Indian youth have received formal vocational training. We are producing degrees at scale. We are not producing employability at the same scale. That gap, not a lack of ambition among young Indians, is the real story.”