new delhi india might have supplied skilled workforce globally but lack of skillbased and quality education is one of the major problems plaguing the indian education system today said experts at the education times eduvision on friday at least 25 of the engineers graduating every year remain unemployable pointed out many experts present at the seminar which was organized by the institute of management technology to mark the 13th anniversary of education timesdr nalin jena senior education specialist at the world bank shared figures that showed indias economic growth has been jobpoor according to the data from 1983 to 2004 the gdp growth rate averaged 6 per year but the job growth was only 2 that too mostly in the service and unorganized sectors and in micro small and medium enterprises said jenadr arun mohan sherry director chairman of the joint admission committee at the imtcentre for distance learning echoed jenas views india ranks third in the output of graduates after the us and china but in terms of quality we still lag behind the seminar brought together experts from across the education sector who deliberated on diversifying the learning needs for the next generation and providing them with skills to make them industryready skillbased and quality education is also essential to improve the gross enrolment ratio ger of the youth most of them pointed out unless formal education is linked with skill development the relevance of the subject will not be understood there is an urgent need to focus on skill development in higher education said rajshekharan pillai vicechancellor of ignouthere was enthusiastic participation from students present at the seminar the experts also dwelt on the extent of use of technology in modernday education abha sahgal principal of sanskriti school stressed that technology is an enabler but it cannot replace a real classroom some other speakers at the seminar were manish sabharwal member of the prime ministers council on skills development dr dilip k bandopadhyay vicechancellor of guru gobind singh indraprastha university and m sajid registrar jamia millia islamia