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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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