Can Narendra Modi's government work the median age of 28 in India to the country's advantage? Shashi Tharoor, MP, who has held the HRD portfolio in the outgoing UPA government thinks the solution is to keep this workforce employed. He made this statement at the recently held ET HR Conclave, with TimesJobs.com as knowledge partner.By 2020, India will have a 116 million strong working population. The median age of the working Indian by then will be 20-24, while it will be 40 in US and 46 in Europe. "We could become the people suppliers of the world," added Tharoor.Can the Modi government just rest on these statistics? There are far more frightening statistics out there. Currently, less than 20 per cent of the Indian workforce is formally or non-formally skilled, the rest is unskilled. Is the lack of skills hampering job creation, or is it the other way around? Will skilling create jobs or will creating jobs encourage investment in formal skilling?"My plea to the next government is do not necessarily reinvent the wheel when it comes to vision and diagnosis of the HR policies that India needs. Take advantage of the work done in this sphere and continue it, strengthen it with industry partnerships and enforce the policies. This is where the UPA government probably did not get it right," Tharoor said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his election agenda has promised that his government will create one crore jobs. The fact, however, is that the government will have to create one crore jobs every year, for the next 30 years, to truly make India the talent powerhouse that it has the potential to be.However, he throws a caveat for the present government, "This advantage can quickly become a nightmare if the growing aspirations of young Indians are not met by job creation and then strengthened by skilling, as has been proved in some states where the young have taken up guns. The same youth of the nation will be a national security issue if not leveraged and deployed."— Neha Sharma, TimesJobs.com Bureau