Bengaluru: We need to do away with our sub-optimal performance in education if we are to avoid becoming irrelevant in the fast-changing landscape of the jobs market, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday.

Addressing the students and faculty here at the CMR University, Naidu said: "We need to make good on the demographic dividend of being one of the younger nations on earth, starting with investing in children at the primary education level.