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NEW HOPE
NEW DAWN YOUNG INDIA

HOW OLD IS INDIA

per cent or more of the
population is under 25 years
of age

per cent or more population is
under 35 years of age
YOUNGEST COUNTRY WITH AN AVERAGE AGE OF 29 YEARS

THE YOUNG AVERAGE AGE OF 29 YEARS IS THE GREATEST 62 per cent of the
population is
STRENGTH. THROUGH THIS POWER OF YOUTH ONLY, between the age

INDIA'S GROWTH RATE CAN INCREASE UPTO 2 PER CENT group of
15 and 59 years
(work force)

A NEW APPROACH TOWARDS YOUTH

l Starting from providing good education to the expedite decision making across sectors to
youth to ensuring that they get multiple options achieve skilling with speed and standards
for shaping their future, the Government l National Skill Development Mission (NSDM)
has come up with a range of schemes and was launched in July 2015, to provide a
programmes for them strong institutional framework to implement
l Startup India was launched to catalyse the and scale up skill development efforts across
startup culture in the country. It has helped in the country and to impart training to one Crore
building a strong and inclusive ecosystem for youth every year. For 2019-20, Rs 1,749.22
innovation and entrepreneurship Crore was allocated for the scheme
l National Education Policy (NEP) was formed l The Government has launched YuWaah
to create a young India with confidence, – a multi-stakeholder platform to make
conviction and character. It has been ensured young people career ready. Under this, the
that the poorest of the poor get the right to young people will be given entrepreneurship
better education according to their needs and classes (online and offline) with successful
convenience entrepreneurs and experts, towards
l To help the poor youth belonging to the establishing entrepreneurial mindset among
general category, 10 per cent reservation was young people
given for the economically weaker section in l National Career Service (NCS) was launched
education and government services to offer jobs. As of December 2020, the portal
l Skill India Mission was launched to create has 1,02,74,899 active job seekers. A total
convergence across sectors and States in of 81,158 employees were offered 71,024
terms of skill training activities. It seeks to vacancies till December 2020
provide the institutional capacity to train a l Make in India was launched to facilitate
minimum 40 Crore skilled individuals by investment, foster innovation, enhance skill
2022. Further to achieve the vision of Skilled development, protect intellectual property
India, the Mission would not only consolidate and build best in class manufacturing
but would also coordinate skilling efforts to infrastructure

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