India, Feb. 2 -- The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved financing to revamp India's network of skills training institutes to better align with labor market needs and open up more job opportunities for the millions of graduates entering the workforce.Jobs are central to India's growth trajectory, competitiveness, and meeting its ambitions of becoming Viksit Bharat. India's youth account for roughly 72 percent of the unemployed, and there is a persistent skills mismatch-between what young people are trained for and what firms need-which continues to constrain productivity, firm growth, and earnings. While the country's system of Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) play a significant role in skilling youth, the institutes ...