YOUTH WING

Youth In India
Youth being enthusiastic, vibrant, innovative and dynamic in nature is the most important section of the population. Youth shows strong passion, motivation and will power which also make them the most valuable human resource for fostering economic, cultural and political development of a nation. A country’s ability and potential for growth is determined by the size of its youth population. Their role in building defence capability of a nation is unquestionably prima one. The energy and passion of the youth if utilised properly, can bring huge positive change to the society and progress to the nation. Youth are the creative digital innovators in their communities and participate as active citizens, eager to positively contribute to sustainable development. This section of the population need to be harnessed, motivated, skilled and streamlined properly to bring rapid progress for a country.

Youth Concepts & Definition –India and the World

Conventionally, period from adolescence to middle age is termed as youth. Age constitute thedetermining characteristics in the definition of Youth by various agencies. UN adopted the age group 15 to 24 for defining youth. The National Youth Policy initially (in 2003) defined the youth as in the age group 13-35. However, National Youth Policy, 2014 modified it and defined ‘youth’ as persons in the age-group of 15-29 years. In the present report, we have adopted 15-34 years as youth as adopted in the earlier report in order to show trend andchanges over long period of time.