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organization which includes the responsibilities of Marketing: The action or business of promoting
staffi ng, employee compensation and benefi ts and and selling products or services, including market
defi ning/designing work research and advertising
Human resources: The personnel of a business or an Materialistic: Money-oriented possessions
organisation, regarded as a signifi cant asset in terms Matrimonial: Relating to marriage or married people
of skills and abilities
Metropolitan: Relating to or denoting a metropolis or
I large city
Impactful: Having a major impact or eff ect N
Impart: Make information known
National Sample Survey Offi ce: The organization
Inhabitant: A person or animal that lives in or occupies under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme
a place
Implementation of the Government of India which
Initiative: An act or strategy intended to resolve a conducts socioeconomic surveys on various subjects
diffi culty or improve a situation like employment, consumer expenditure, health,
Intervention: The action or process of intervening unemployment and medical services
Investment: A thing that is worth buying because it National Skill Development Corporation: A public-
may be profi table or useful in the future private partnership that supports the skills
IT: The study or use of systems (especially computers development ecosystem in India and funds eff ective
and telecommunications) for storing, retrieving and private sector skills training initiatives
sending information
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Optimum: Most conducive to a favourable outcome
Leverage: Use something to maximum advantage
Literacy rate: The total percent of population who can P
read and write Packager: A person that puts products into containers
Literacy: The ability to read and write so that they can be sold
Lure: Tempt a person or animal to do something or Population density: The number of people living in
to go somewhere, especially by off ering some form each unit of area
of reward
Precision: The quality, condition, or fact of being
M exact and accurate
Productivity: A measure of the effi ciency of a person,
Maid: A female domestic servant
machine, factory, system or any other organisation in
Make in India: A type of Swadeshi movement covering
converting inputs into useful outputs
25 sectors of the Indian economy, which was launched
Proximity: Nearness in space, time, or relationship
by the Government of India on 25 September 2014 to
encourage companies to manufacture their products R
in India and to promote dedicated investments into
Race: Each of the major divisions of humankind,
manufacturing
having distinct physical characteristics
Manpower: The number of people working or
Rampant: Unrestrained in action or performance
available for work or service
Relief features: The features which are relatable to the
Manual labour: Physical work done by people, most
landscape of particular areas
literally work done with the hands, and, by fi gurative
extension, it is work done with any of the muscles Remedial: Giving or intended as a remedy or cure
and bones of the body, most especially in contrast to Resourceful: Having the ability to fi nd quick and
that done by machines, and by working animals clever ways to overcome diffi culties
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