Bhatia Leena; International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology © 2018, www.IJARIIT.com All Rights Reserved Page | 992 ISSN: 2454-132X Impact factor: 4.295 (Volume 4, Issue 2) Available online at: www.ijariit.com A Study about Skill, Scale, and Speed in India Leena Bhatia leenabhatia82@rediffmail.com K. L Mehta Dayanand College for Women, Faridabad, Haryana ABSTRACT With the combination of these three words skill, scale and speed a lot of development can be achieved. A developing country can attain the developed position. As in present scenario, India is also heading toward attaining this objective. For any country like India where we are looking for development, the first thing we need is "skill" and education and human capital would be the only way for India to really benefit from the fact that “65% of the population is under the age of 35”. The demographic dividend depended on skill development. India today is struggling to educate its people even though it had historically been an exporter of teachers to the rest of the world. Then comes "scale" by scale, we mean the need for India to “think big” and end its tendency to “think very small”. We like to think express trains rather than bullet trains. When most people spoke of “infrastructure”, they tended to think of physical infrastructure, but it also had to be about handling data. Recently Mr. Modi said developing both “highways and I-ways”. To take India on the path of the developed nation "make in India" is a great initiative by Mr. Modi but still, there are challenges that need to be resolved. To become a manufacturing nation, India has to quickly move beyond rhetoric to create a clear strategy and favorable policy environment for manufacturing to take off. A close dialogue and partnership between government and the private sector are critical. And to overcome these challenges India would need to work on “skill, scale, and speed” if it hoped to compete with its northern neighbor. Keywords: Skill, Scale, Speed. 1. INTRODUCTION People can be your biggest asset or your liability why some individuals, organizations or countries are more successful than others. The success of an organization, individual or country depends on their people. Now the question arises, that how they can be made skilled? Developing skills means converting a liability into an asset that is if we convert an unskilled person of the society into a skilled person who can contribute to reaching the scale and enhancing the speed of the growth of a country. Now, what do we mean by skill, a skill in simply terms means the abilities that one is having. Or skill is the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given period of time, energy or both. It means sometimes a person possesses those abilities and sometimes it acquires those skill through learning. If we talk about the hierarchy of skills it is as follow: Student – acquiring basic knowledge Apprentice- motivational use of knowledge Specialist- purposeful use of knowledge Expert – creative use of skills to resolve problems Craftsman- creating new knowledge, skills, products, service, and leadership