
Skilling India Needs Institutions, Not Just Interventions
India is producing more graduates than ever, yet nearly one in two struggles to find work. The gap is no longer access to education — it is access to relevant, industry-aligned skills, and to the confidence and networks that turn a degree into a career. For first-generation learners, that gap can decide a family’s future. At FUEL, we have spent nineteen years closing it. Beginning as a small career-counselling effort in Maharashtra, we have grown into a movement that has touched over 12 lakh young lives, trained more than 2.9 lakh youth in future skills, and mobilised ₹248 crore in CSR across 18 states — every rupee tracked, every outcome audited. But we learned something important along the way. Short-cycle








