New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The Union labour ministry on Wednesday released a draft national labour and employment policy that stresses green and technology-driven career opportunities to ramp up earnings amid a widely reckoned view that job creation has not kept pace with the rate of economic expansion.

The draft, titled Shram Shakti Niti 2025, aims to foster skilled workers ready for newer work profiles in a "future world" that will be driven by technological changes, including generative and other types of artificial intelligence (AI), the draft states.

Creating enough "quality jobs" is a key challenge for the Modi government, which has envisaged spending nearly Rs.2 lakh crore over five years to boost local manufacturing jobs. Quality jobs...