Youth India - Untapped Power

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Youth UNESCO Definition:

Best understand as a period of transition from the dependence on childhood to adulthood's independence and awareness of our independence as a member of a community. Youth is a more fluid category rather than a fixed age group.

Youth being enthusiastic, vibrant, innovative and dynamic in nature is the most important section of the population. They are the most valuable segment of the population and are not a ready laboratory to test the finished products of the state apparatus. Rather, they are the variables that should be utilized for creating new opportunities based on the skills of contemporary relevance. The youth of the nation are the trustees of prosperity. Youth force is dynamic in nature as most skills and orientations are acquired in this age.

The youth can act ideally as a bridge between two generations. It is an age cohort that, if explained properly, can understand the need of flexibility in order to smoothen its own growth and development. This section of the population needs to be harnessed, motivated, skilled and streamlined properly to bring rapid progress.

With the array of social, political or civil movements, the youth have been at the center of activities. It offers tremendous opportunities for youth to show their strengths as a self-organizing force with the potential for innovation and for embracing change.

The youth today understands that absoluteness or autonomy alone will not offer solutions to all the problems. They are no longer rigid in matter of inter-dining and inter-community marriage. They are questioning the derogatory and insensitive approach to follow humans without basing on the lines of caste, class, race and gender.

One of the most crucial factors that help youth in finding roots is the use of, and emphasis on technology. Technology is emerging as an effective option in all efforts to address the issue of economics.
Technology has helped mankind achieve seemingly impossible feats and we look at conquering new milestone each day. Technology has also been used for the betterment of lives more so in the developing nations. Digital environment leads to faster communication, quicker learning and also links two geographically distant places on a common platform. At the touch of a button, we can share ideas, consult, collaborate and articulate the thoughts and actions.
Technology has enabled equal opportunities; at least in matters of accessibility and it is again to the credit of youth that they have been at the forefront of learning and adaptation of new technology options.

The biggest achievement of the youth and technology co-option can be said to be a risk-taking spirit and the rise of startups. The sheer grit of youth, coupled with technology has made entrepreneurship universally accessible.

There is an urgent need to recognize, accept and appreciate the working of a young mind. This recognition has to be substantially different from the strict and rigid mindset of expectations from the youth. Rather the concern is to bring out variables that are considered important for the youth by means of dialogue and other initiatives.

Youth has always been of vital concern of the Government of India. Various youth development programmes undertaken by the Union Government after Independence, like National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Service Scheme (NSS), Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) and the schemes for financial assistance to NGOs [Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (Focused on developing long term strategies for good citizenship and youth leadership at the grass root level) now aims to provide a more holistic and overall development as it now operates in an interdisciplinary approach rather than a compartmentalized one] engaged in youth development bear ample testimony to this fact.

Some of the important initiatives of the government are mentioned below:

  1. Nation Youth Policy, 2014: To empower the youth of the country to achieve their full potential, and through them enable India to find its rightful place in the community of nations
  2. Skill up graduation Training Program (SUTP): Vocational training.
  3. Life Skill Training for Adolescents: Empowerment of adolescents.
    • Tribal Youth Exchange Program (TYEP)
    • The North-East Youth Exchange Program

ARISE! AWAKE! AND STOP NOT UNTIL-THE-GOAL-IS-ACHIEVED
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

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