Youth and India

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Youth and India

A Reckoner


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World scenario and youth 2

HIV/AIDS is the first cause of mortality of youthfollowed by violence and injuries of various

kinds. More than 1,215 million people currently live with

AIDS , mostly in Africa and Asia.

Over 1.3 million people under the age of 18 years

are participating in armed struggle in Africa. WHO report in 2007 says that armed violence is

resulting in the death of 35 persons every hour inthe age group of 15 to 40 years across the world


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Youth and South Asia

South Asia has emerged as the poorest, the mostilliterate, the most malnourished and the least

gender sensitive region in the world with illiterateadults and over 40% of the worlds out of schoolchildren.

It has the worlds lowest literacy rate at 49%

More than 48% South Asian primary schoolchildren drop our before reaching 3rd standard.

South Asia has the worst teacher-pupil ratio inthe world.


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Situation in India

More than 20% ( nearly 250 million) of Indias 1.2 billionpopulation still lives below poverty line.

India would add to 130 million workers in the global marketin this decade.

A major challenge would be to create jobs for additional 71million people by 2013 who would be joining the workforce.

Over 58 per cent population of India is below the age of 24years. That means the figure stands at 564 million peoplebelow the age of 24 years.

That means the number of unemployed people by 2012in India would be twice the population of USA. !!


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The working population of India is going to be approx. 800million people by 2016.. posing an enormous challenge for

providing adequate education and employment. Near 170 million children in rural areas dont have access

to schools.

More than 300 million children dont have freedom fromhunger, illiteracy and disease.

More than 318 million people dont have access to safedrinking water.

More than 250 million people do not have access to basicmedical care.


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India4core issues

. A major chunk of todays youth is stressed,

distressed and even confused in choosing the

right path. Younger lot is revolting against theoldies because it finds them out of date and evenhypocritical. There is a widening Gulf betweenthe young and the Old in terms of perceptional

as well as practical terms. They no longer findOldies as exact idols and models of emulation.


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Today, the youth in India forms as one of themost vulnerable groups who, on the one hand

are expected to be the leaders to determine thedestiny of India and on the other hand .areexploited and confused group.

Frustration and the anger against the system has

made many youth to anti-social groups andbecome terrorists and take part in Naxalmovement.

Frustration and anger


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Youth is stressed

The biggest problem is faced by the youth in theage group of 18 -24 years. This part of youth

invariably suffers from extreme restrictionswhich includes the suppression of thoughts,feelings and anxieties leading to repression.

Most of the time, the problem of maladjustmentis accompanied by factors like the family, socialand educational background and their inability tocatch up with the constructive aspects ofmodernism. This brings out conflicts of valuesand create frustration among the youth.


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Youth and stress

In addition, illiterate parents, home and familycrisis, problem related to finance, religious

rigidity, poor economic conditions, remotevillage areas, and sex discrimination intraditional and orthodox community hinderseven the educational foundation.

Yet another trend is the large number of youthcommitting suicide because of failure in theexams, pressure for performance in schools andcolleges and at times, wrong career decisions.


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Health hazard More than 350 million youth even today do not have ready made access to health

care. More than that an alarming decline in the male-female ratio. There are only 927women against 1000 men in at least 5 states including UP ,Haryana, Punjab,Rajasthan , Bihar and the ration is tilting more against the girl child.

Misuse of advanced pre natal diagnostic techniques has led to sex selection with thewidespread termination of female fetuses, contributing to a rapidly declining girl toboy child ratio.

Every 7 minutes a woman dies due to complications arising from pregnancy andchild birth in our country. This transcends to 301 deaths for every 10000 deliveries.

Infant mortality rate in India is still 60/1000 live births per year.

Out of every 100 children, 19 continue to be out of school and of every 100 childrenwho enroll, 70 drop out by the time they reach the secondary level.

India is also home to the highest number of child labourers in the world and it hasthe worlds largest sexually abused children. That is 53 per cent as per governmentfigures.


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What needs to be done ??

technical and skill oriented educational programmes should beinitiated by public and private institutions in India.

developing mechanism for improving accountability.

The youth should be persuaded and encouraged to pursue careers inline with their vocational interest than being attracted to those careerswhich given them status and high income.

The schools. Colleges and other institutions should have facilities forvocational and emotional counseling and voluntary organizations canplay an important role in offering such services.

keeping in view the socio economic conditions of the country,competitions and opportunities available, the youth should set up

realities goals and priorities- The youth should be engaged in social services and encouraged to

develop a feeling of pride in our country.


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Corruption is the scourge !

India ranks 4thamongst the most corrupt Nationsin Asia

It has failed in curbing corruption. Corruptiondrains resources from productive investment,distorts true cost of doing business, underminesefficiency and rewards influence rather than

performance. India faces the danger of running the race of

globalization with our ankles tied together


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For a better future !!

Effective poverty alleviation schemes

Over population needs to be curbed by iron hand. !

Growing unemployment needs to be arrested. Politicization of development has to be avoided

Need to ensure transparency and fair play

Curb demographic imbalance and create jobopportunities at local and regional levels.

7.Need to upgrade national infrastructure hardware)and strengthen the national human capital( software)without which no country develops.

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