Youth and India

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Youth and India

• A Reckoner

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World Scenario and Youth

• The amount of money spent on arm manufacturing
  and armed conflicts across the world is four and
  half time more than what is spent on the youth
  world over.
• Latest reports on World human resources point out
  to a rather disturbing picture on the state of
  youth across the world.
• Of the 6.23 billion people across the globe, more
  than 52 per cent people are below the age of 35
  years, !
• Over 220 million people, live on less than 1 a
  day and another 515 million on less than 2 a
  day.
• Approximately 117 million youth are currently
  enrolled in University level education . Yet more
  than 134 million youth are illiterate. !
• Despite wider avenues of education and skill
  learning, youth unemployment at approximately 923
  million is the highest in West Asia, North Africa
  and Sub Saharan Africa.

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World scenario and youth 2

• HIV/AIDS is the first cause of mortality of youth
  followed 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
  in the 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 most
  illiterate, the most malnourished and the least
  gender sensitive region in the world with
  illiterate adults and over 40 of the worlds out
  of school children.
• It has the worlds lowest literacy rate at 49
• More than 48 South Asian primary school children
  drop our before reaching 3rd standard.
• South Asia has the worst teacher-pupil ratio in
  the world.

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Situation in India

• More than 20 ( nearly 250 million) of Indias
  1.2 billion population still lives below poverty
  line.
• India would add to 130 million workers in the
  global market in this decade.
• A major challenge would be to create jobs for
  additional 71 million people by 2013 who would be
  joining the work force.
• Over 58 per cent population of India is below
  the age of 24 years. That means the figure stands
  at 564 million people below the age of 24 years.
• That means the number of unemployed people by
  2012 in India would be twice the population of
  USA. !!

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India2

• The working population of India is going to be
  approx. 800 million 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
  from hunger, illiteracy and disease.
• More than 318 million people dont have access to
  safe drinking water.
• More than 250 million people do not have access
  to basic medical care.

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India3

• More than 630 million people dont have access to
  accepted sanitation facilities and children and
  women still defecate at public places.
• Nearly 51 per cent children in the age group of 5
  to 10 years remain undernourished.
• Around 52 primary schools have only one
  teacher for every two classes.
• Over 300 million people live hardly on Rs 454 per
  month as their earning and with no money for
  their clothing, schooling for their children,
  shelter and medical 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 the
  oldies because it finds them out of date and even
  hypocritical. There is a widening Gulf between
  the young and the Old in terms of perceptional as
  well as practical terms. They no longer find
  Oldies as exact idols and models of emulation.

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Core issues2

• No link between education and employment. Instead
  of igniting their minds and soul to do something
  spectacular, they have become an agency for
  distributing degrees which, in most cases are not
  even worth the paper they are printed on. By and
  large, there is a mismatch between the system of
  education and the requirements of the industries.
  

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Frustration and anger

• Today, the youth in India forms as one of the
  most vulnerable groups who, on the one hand are
  expected to be the leaders to determine the
  destiny of India and on the other hand .are
  exploited and confused group.
• Frustration and the anger against the system has
  made many youth to anti-social groups and become
  terrorists and take part in Naxal movement.

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Youth is stressed

• The biggest problem is faced by the youth in the
  age group of 18 -24 years. This part of youth
  invariably suffers from extreme restrictions
  which includes the suppression of thoughts,
  feelings and anxieties leading to repression.
• Most of the time, the problem of maladjustment is
  accompanied by factors like the family, social
  and educational background and their inability to
  catch up with the constructive aspects of
  modernism. This brings out conflicts of values
  and create frustration among the youth.

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Youth and stress

• In addition, illiterate parents, home and family
  crisis, problem related to finance, religious
  rigidity, poor economic conditions, remote
  village areas, and sex discrimination in
  traditional and orthodox community hinders even
  the educational foundation.
• Yet another trend is the large number of youth
  committing suicide because of failure in the
  exams, pressure for performance in schools and
  colleges and at times, wrong career decisions.

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Growing fear and frustration !

• A Bangalore based institution, working on the
  problems faced by the youth came out with
  frightening figures in terms of their extreme
  actions in the last 10 years.
• Accidental deaths and permanent handicaps in
  youth every year has been rising at the rate of 9
  .. On the average, there were 20,000 accidental
  death and 21, 500 plus permanent handicaps across
  the country by 2000.Now that figures has gone to
  26,700 and more than 28000 permanent handicaps !!
• In the same way, there were around 17,000
  suicidal deaths reported in 2001 apart from 16 to
  18 lakh attempted suicide cases for various
  reasons.
• By 2008, that figure went up to 23,000 and over
  two lakhs respectively. .

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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 927 women 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 the
  widespread termination of female fetuses,
  contributing to a rapidly declining girl to boy
  child ratio.
• Every 7 minutes a woman dies due to complications
  arising from pregnancy and child 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 children who 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 has the
  worlds largest sexually abused children. That
  is 53 per cent as per government figures.

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What needs to be done ??

• technical and skill oriented educational
  programmes should be initiated by public and
  private institutions in India.
• developing mechanism for improving
  accountability.
• The youth should be persuaded and encouraged to
  pursue careers in line with their vocational
  interest than being attracted to those careers
  which given them status and high income.
• The schools. Colleges and other institutions
  should have facilities for vocational and
  emotional counseling and voluntary organizations
  can play 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 4th amongst the most corrupt Nations
  in Asia
• It has failed in curbing corruption. Corruption
  drains resources from productive investment,
  distorts true cost of doing business, undermines
  efficiency 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.
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• 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 job
  opportunities at local and regional levels.
• 7.Need to upgrade national infrastructure
  hardware) and strengthen the national human
  capital( software) without which no country
  develops.