Dharmendra Pradhan was forced to resign as India's education minister last month after angry Gen-Z protesters took to the streets over repeated entrance exam paper leaks. Non-farm jobs have not been growing and real wages have stagnated," Santosh Mehrotra, a veteran economist and author of a new book India Out of Work: Rethinking India's Growth Story, told the BBC. And our education system is so poor, that it is unable to supply new labour that is employable." But the upheaval of the last month may finally push them to confront the crisis in education and the challenge of youth unemployment, say experts. The "unprecedented growth in India's welfare state", particularly direct cash transfers, is an indication, Mehrotra says, that at least privately the government has recognised the problem.