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What young Indians want

As India holds elections, getting decent jobs is top of the agenda for most young voters.

As India holds elections, getting decent jobs is top of the agenda for most young voters, as the 成人快手's Rahul Tandon discovers.

Most Indians still live in rural areas, and on a trip to the village of Burul just outside Kolkata, Rahul hears the fears of students at a local high school at their lack of meaningful career prospects. Employment could be a key factor in deciding whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds onto power when the election results are announced on 23 May.

One reason for the paucity of jobs could be the difficulty entrepreneurs face creating them in the first place - that's the view of Srikumar Mishra, who founded the dairy business Milk Mantra in Odisha in southeast India. Meanwhile 16-year-old Taneesha Dutta expresses her frustration at the lack of autonomy people her age are permitted, both by their government and by their parents.

(Picture: Students in Burul high school interviewed by Rahul Tandon)

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