budget 2021 expectations from Mrs. Vandana Luthra, Founder and Co-chairperson, VLCC Group.

Delhi : “The Covid pandemic has underscored the importance of healthy living and maintaining our physical and mental health. To encourage individuals and families to proactively invest in preventive healthcare, wellness programmes for people suffering from lifestyle related ailments should be brought under health insurance coverage. This will also help reduce the burden on the curative healthcare infrastructure in the country, which would be better served to addressing communicable and life threatening disease and ailments. Higher resource allocation for improving the Skill Development ecosystem in country would also be a welcome move. The fact is skilling / reskilling / upskilling of youth is a critical need given that over a third of the country’s population will be in the 10 to 34 age group in 2021 and as per some estimates over 300 million youth need to be given skills training for ensuring gainful employment for them.”