IT’S SO DISHEARTENING seeing the ever growing number of unemployed and the unskilled youth. While university graduates cry for lack of jobs, the unskilled are drowning deeper and deeper in despair. Although technical/vocational education has been used by several developed countries as an instrument of development, and it’s what we badly need here, we still don’t have enough of schools for this. It is also absurd that some people still view vocational/technical schools in a negative lens as something for those who are not academically endowed yet in actual sense the skills from such schools are very crucial. One with such skills can find a job even before the person armed with a university degree. The government needs to increase the number of technical /vocation schools for training and capacity building for both men and women. Emphasis in this field, in which trainees are offered skills aimed at rural development like farm related skills and knowledge, establishment and sustenance of small and medium enterprises directly related to rural needs and demands can go along way in curbing issues like rural-urban migration. This way, individuals would have skills to keep them occupied without having to flock to the city.