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Cover Story Amrit Yatra of New India

India youngest Amrit Year

country in the 65% of India's population is below

35 years of age and more than
world: Immense 50% of the population is below

possibilities 25 years of age. The average age of
the people of India is 29 years.

India is the youngest country in the
world with very exceptional human
resource capabilities. While the elderly n Ideas, innovation, passion to take risks, and the
population is increasing in Western determination to accomplish any task, is the true
and European countries India has a identity of the youth today.
very promising demography of a high n Through start-ups, the youth of the country is becoming
young population. The aspirations job givers instead of job seekers and investment in
of youth and their determination to startups is increasing continuously.
secure a bright future for the country n India is now moving rapidly from start-up to unicorn.
are guiding New India's progress Significantly, Unicorns are those entities whose
which will make the ambitions for the valuation is more than 1 billion dollars i.e. about 7
Golden year in 2047 come true. thousand crore rupees. Earlier there used to be 1-2
unicorns in India, but now its number has crossed 70.
n In the last 10 months of the Covid period, a new unicorn
In India, the word start-up was not very was launched every 10 days.
popular. But in the last seven years,
there is a boom of start-ups and today n India won one gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals in
more than Tokyo Olympics. This is the best performance by Indian
players in Olympic Games so far. India's best ever
50 thousand performance in Paralympic Games this time, winning 5

start-ups are running in India. gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals, finished 24th.

from taps.
WITH PM MODI'S MANTRA OF SKILL, Providing nutrition to every poor person in the
RE-SKILL, AND UPSKILL, INDIAN YOUTH country is also the priority of the government.

IS NOW BECOMING SELF-RELIANT. Malnutrition and lack of essential nutrients
in poor women and children become major
Ayushman Bharat cards, 100% eligible persons obstacles in their development and growth.
have a Ujjwala scheme and facility of gas In view of this, the government has taken the
connection. Be it the government's insurance initiative to provide nutritious rice to the poor.
scheme, pension scheme, housing scheme, The country has also taken a pledge to fortify
every person who is entitled to it must get its the rice available through each social safety net
benefit. Even the roadside vendors are being scheme by the year 2024. So far, more than 75
linked to the banking system through the thousand health-wellness centers have been
Svanidhi scheme. Today, the country is working set up. Now work is being done exclusively on
fast for the Har Ghar Jal Mission. In just two- developing a robust network of good hospitals
and-a-half years of Jal Jeevan Mission, more and modern labs at the block level. Thousands
than 5 crore families have started getting water of hospitals in the country are also getting

24 New India Samachar January 1-15, 2022