Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to emphasise on demand supply skill gap of human resources in India which would help generate reasons for the same and the necessary steps to be taken to improve the situation and bridge the skill gap helping maximum number of the students becoming employable. It will put an impact on various stakeholders about the steps to be taken in bridging the gap in India.
Design/methodology/approach
A review of available literature was done in order to understand the reasons behind the increasing skill gap despite a vibrant and abundance of young population.
Findings
The findings of the paper implicitly point out that a vast skill gap is prevailing in the Indian labour market and there is a dearth of human intellectual capital in India. Also it emphasises on the role of various stakeholders in bridging the skill gap by investing in workforce of today for a better tomorrow.
Originality/value
Based on literature review, the paper makes specific recommendations to various stakeholders (industry, academia, and government) in bridging the skill gap and would serve as a roadmap for companies guiding them to follow certain strategies to improve skills of future workers by investing in them and growing their own talent pool; and is an attempt to highlight the fact that India’s jobless growth is not going to reap the demographic dividend and certainly the increasing skill gap needs to be bridged ASAP.
Nutrigenomics has an undoubtedly immeasurable potential for revamping human health. It has become an important regimen due to its consequential role in medical and nutritional sciences. It is an interdisciplinary science that amalgamates the information from physiology, pathology, genetics, molecular biology, and nutrition to establish the effects of ingested nutrients on expression and regulation of genes. The ultimate aim of nutrigenomics is to ascertain the nutritional requirement of an individual in accordance with genetic makeup. Moreover, it aims to purvey treatment in the management of certain ailments having a dietary role based on individual’s genomic profile. Therefore, vast research in the field of nutritional genomics is a dire need to make people aware regarding their health and diet relationship. Here, we have given an overview of nutrigenomics coupled with novel technologies to produce utilitarian information for health professionals and researchers by divulging certain properties that interfere with the genomic machinery.
Nutraceuticals have been successfully applied as sustainable alternatives for the control and prevention of large number of diseases. In day to day life Nutraceuticals have received considerable attention because they are harmless, efficient and have potential nutritional value as well as therapeutic effects. Among natural dietary supplements, vegetables being low in calories are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals. They play an important role in the human diet and are rich sources of biologically active compounds which are very essential for human beings. Phyto-nutraceuticals include lycopene from tomato, curcumin from turmeric, carotenoids from carrot etc are very popular. Number of studies has proved that vegetables contain more health givin g ingredients as sugars, amino acids and vitamins have long been recognized for their health benefits to humans. As technology and research techniques are improving, other substances in vegetables that were previously ignored are getting the spotlight. Another active nutraceutical ingredients in vegetables are flavonoids. They can act as potent antioxidants and metal chelators. They also have long been recognized to possess anti inflammatory, antiallergic, hepatoprotective, antithrombotic, antiviral, and anti carcinogenic activities. Antibacterial activity has been displayed by a number of flavonoids. Flavonoids, especially quercetin, has been reported to possess antidiabetic activity. The potential great number of phytochemicals including some of the vitamins, flavonoids, terpenoids, carotenoids, phenolics, phytoestrogens, minerals and antioxidants in vegetables are used as alternative preservative agents for controlling postharvest physiological disorders or microbial pathogen injuries of vegetables in the food industry. Moreover, these natural compounds have become interesting candidates not only for plant protection but also human and animal health protection from fungal and bacterial diseases because of their lower toxicity or absence of toxicity. The present review will focus on Nutraceutical value of vegetables.
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