To give impetus to vocational education in India the government set up a separate ministry named as Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship. It also chose the National Skill Development Corporation ( NSDC) as its main vehicle to manage the skill development initiative. It is, of course, another matter that this agency very quickly morphed into a soft loan disbursement agency and no surprise that it kept no track whatsoever of how many youths were trained and placed in private sector organizations. Its much-touted STAR scheme became a scam by its own admission as many fly-by-night operators used the scheme to pocket the funding. But that is another issue. On this small note, I want to highlight the complete mismatch between the demand and supply aspects of vocational training. The ministry issued a press note highlighting that in 2015-16 over 10 million youth were trained under the Skill India mission which is 36.8 % higher than the previous year's data. Around the same time, the announcement was made the National Skill Development Corporation admitted that they were able to track only 5% of the youth trained by the agencies it funded through soft loans. Now here is the surprise. The Labor Bureau which is entrusted with the task of monitoring how many new jobs are created on quarter on quarter basis came up with the startling revelation that employment generation has actually fallen to a 6 year low of 1.35 lakh in 2015. It also highlighted that the steep fall in job creation is attributed to a decline in the labour-intensive sectors such as leather, automobiles, gems & jewellery, power looms and transport.....precisely those sectors where training partners are being funded to churn out more number of youth. The implications are not difficult to fathom. While the ministry will churn out more and more youth through its flagship training the actual jobs are nowhere to be seen. Thus we will have a huge army of unemployed and frustrated youth creating trouble everywhere. In recent times we have seen in other parts of the globe how frustrated youth have brought about chaos. one wishes that it does not happen in India. To ensure that we need to initiate several drastic measures. First, this has to be a major shift to the demand side of training. Secondly, serious research has to happen on the ROI of the vocational Training System. Countries like Korea, and Australia have already embarked on this. Finally, the industry has to actively take part and take the lead rather than being a passive spectator and looking for doles from NSDC and the like.