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New Draft National Youth Policy

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In News

  • The Government has prepared a new draft National Youth Policy (NYP) after reviewing the existing draft of National Youth Policy, 2014.

About the Policy

  • Ministry: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
  • Aim: The new draft NYP envisages a ten-year vision for youth development that India seeks to achieve by 2030.
  • The new draft NYP seeks to catalyse widespread action on youth development across five priority areas:
    • Education
    • Employment & entrepreneurship
    • Youth leadership & development
    • Health, fitness & sports
    • Social justice

Significance of the move

  • Youth development has been one of the primary agendas of the government: However, experts believe that a new policy dedicated to the youth might contribute to their overall development.
  • It is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and serves to unlock the potential of the youth to advance India.
  • Social inclusion: Each priority area is underpinned by the principle of social inclusion keeping in view the interests of the marginalised sections.  

National Youth Policy-2014

  • The vision of NYP-2014 is to empower youth to achieve their full potential, and through them enable India to find its rightful place in the community of nations.
  • For achieving this vision, the Policy identifies five well-defined objectives and 11 priority areas and suggests policy interventions in each priority area.
  • The priority areas are education, skill development and employment, entrepreneurship, health and healthy lifestyle, sports, promotion of social values, community engagement, participation in politics and governance, youth engagement, inclusion and social justice.
  • It would result in the development of an educated and healthy young population, who are not only economically productive, but are also socially responsible citizens contributing to the task of nation-building.
  • It will cover the entire country catering the needs of all youth in the age-group of 15-29 years, which constitutes 27.5 per cent of the population according to Census-2011, that is about 33 crore persons.
    • It will replace NYP-2003, to take care of developments since 2003 and future policy imperatives.

Source: AIR

 
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