Youth Development

Unemployment- Indian perspective

Youth unemployment and underemployment is prevalent around the world because young people lack-

• skills,• work experience,• job search abilities • financial resources to find employment• poverty and • competitive pressures

• India has the largest youth population in the world with around 66 per cent of the total population under the age of 35. According to 2010 population figures, one in five young people in the world is an Indian.

• Self-employment and casual wage employment comprise a large majority of youth employment.

• Agriculture employment is more prevalent for women in the rural areas, though rural males are increasingly turning to the non-farm sector

• Urban areas they are largely in the services sector

• Among young women, social conditions and norms play an important role

• Policy interventions should promote a better quality education, on-the-job training, skill formation on the one hand and productive job creation on the other

• For those who are in self-employment, credit assistance and marketing assistance can be of enormous help

• In the Indian context, significant emphasis has been placed on skills development. In this regard, the National Skills Development Policy (2009) sets a target of training 500 million skilled individuals by 2022, which will be reached by expanding public institutions in rural areas; using innovative delivery models; using skill development centres in rural areas to provide training information, guidance and delivery; involving panchayats and local government in skill delivery; improving access to apprenticeships and raising female participation in training (Ministry of Labour and EmploymentILO DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India 14 2009).

• Moreover, the role of the Industrial Training Institutions (ITIs) is important in impartingtechnical skills to the youth and helping them access better sources of livelihood.

• Youth employment and unemployment: anIndian perspective- Arup Mitra and Sher Verick

March 2013

Youth UnrestIt can be defined as a restless mind or state of mental disturbances caused by the continued non – achievement of the expectation of youth.

Causes• Moral perplexity• Lack of ideal educators• Defective system of education• Psychological causes

Generation Gap• The differences found between members of different generations. More specifically, a generation gap can be used to describe the differences in actions, beliefs, tastes, etc. between members of younger generations when compared to members of older generations.

Drug Addiction• Drugs and Youth

Suicide among youth• A large proportion of adult suicide deaths were found to occur between the ages of 15 years and 29 years.

Causes• Pressure from the system of education

• Lack of enough facilities• Cost of education• Non availability of admission• Lack of job opportunities• Problems in employment• Friendships and relationships

Research and technical resource development

Compilation and collection of primary data & technical resource development

Building of database on adolescent youth

Enhance research capabilities study and document significance experiances.

Rajiv Gandhi national institute for youth development [RGNIYD] under the minisrty

Seminars & WorkshopsIssues connected with adolescents increasing

Funds for Sensitizing and capacity building seminars and workshops with active participation of youth

Career guidance• Level of competition has intensified• A sense of confusion• To provide career info- both inschool and out of school

• To diversify sizable segments of students at the senior secondary stage towards vocational edu or the world of work,including self emp and thus providing an alterntive to any who would otherwise be forced to pursue a line of higher edu in which they have no intr or purpose or otherwise remain unemployable

• Organizing career melas• Career guidance centres• Career literature generation and dissemination

CounsellingGeneral concerns areHealth related• Psycho-somatic ailments• General health• Physical exerciseFamilial • Understanding sharing & security within family

Financial• Cost of education• Health• Recreation

Psychological• Nervousness, lack of confidence, anxiety

Social• Friendship• Sharing relationship wid friends/ trs and coping with sexual drives

• Emotional ( anger/aggression, depression, lonliness, insecurity and feeling of guilt )

• Academic ( concentraion, time – management, exam phobia, memory, study habits

Objectives of counselling• Prevent disruptive deviations in behaviour

• Guide them to gain positive mental health

• To enable them to make realistic choices

• To overcome stresses and strains of everyday life

• To remove confusion• To develop personality

• Holding of seminar for tr & parents

• Organizing out reach pgms in schools.

• Setting up of counselling/ career guidance centres

• Online counselling service• Strengthening family life through family life education and offering counselling to parents

• Rural counsellors\setting up telephone help lines in cities and small towns.

Leadership dev programme

To develop • Leadership qualities• National character• Comradeship• Personality development