Essay on Youth Power in India for Students : India's population is 121 crores and out of it 40% are young men and women in the age group of 15 and 30. They form a huge reservoir of energy and cream of the country. Wisdom and discretion are not the monopoly of the elders alone. The young men and women are also intelligent and wise and much of a nation’s progress and future depend upon them. According to Samuel Johnson, "Young men more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
Essay on Youth Power in India for Students
India's population is 121 crores and out of it 40% are young
men and women in the age group of 15 and 30. They form a huge reservoir of
energy and cream of the country. Wisdom and discretion are not the monopoly of
the elders alone.
The young men and women are also intelligent and wise and
much of a nation’s progress and future depend upon them. According to Samuel
Johnson, "Young men more virtue than old men; they have more generous
sentiments in every respect." And in the words of Lord Byron:
The days of our youth are the days of our glory; and the
myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all our laurels, though ever so
plenty.
Young people are full of abundant energy, courage, spirit
for adventure imagination, hope and ambition. These can be very well used in
the constructive and developmental activities of country. These should not be
allowed either to go waste or used for destructive purposes.
The young men and women of India should be fully involved in
creative work of nation-building and reconstruction. Younger generation, which
is more generous, flexible, sensitive and dynamic, can do wonders if properly
guided and motivated. It is with the help of the young men and women of China
that Mao Tsetung, the chairman of the People's Republic of China (1949-59) and
of the Chinese Communist Party affected the great Cultural Revolution which
transformed the whole look of china into one of the great and powers of the
world.
Mao was well aware of the great power exuberance,
spontaneity, plasticity, ebullience and unlimited energy to act found in the
youth and used these to a great advantage for himself and China. Besides China,
there are many other countries like France, Indonesia etc. where the youth has
helped in changing the course of the history in more than one’s ways.
It is easy to blame the youth of India for impatience,
indiscipline, and irrelevance for the elders, authority and social customs.
They are, also charged with laziness, recklessness, addiction to drugs and such
other mal-practices. But all these reflect one sidedness and lack of proper
understanding on the part of the elders and grown-ups. No doubt the youth of
modern India has its own limitations, problems etc. but these can be removed or
decreased to a great extent by sympathy, understanding and appreciation of the
young generation. If the youth of India have any short comings and faults, the
elder people are to blame because the former mirror the latter.
Proper orientation and positive steps are the need of the
hour to engage the youth of country in the nation building activities. Their
zeal, enthusiasm and energy need to be channelized in the developmental
activities and social reconstruction. The Indian youth, full of inexhaustible
power is always eager to do something positive, constructive and appreciable
for the society and nation.
In order to harness the youth-power of the country a
National Youth Policy has been framed to instill in the youth a deep awareness
of national ideals of secularism, non-violence, integration and our ancient
historical and cultural heritage. It also aims at developing in the youth
qualities of discipline, self-reliance, leadership, justice, fair play,
sporting spirit, and scientific temper so as to enable those combat
superstitions, obscurantism and other numerous social ills and evils.
With the above objectives in view adventure institutions,
cultural centers, Yuvak Kendras, sports centers etc. have been established at
various important cities and towns of the country. For example, Indian
Mountaineering Foundation, New Delhi and National Adventure Foundation are two
important institutions, for promotion of adventure.
These provide training facilities and financial assistance
for undertaking mountaineering, hiking, trekking, expeditions, explorations,
cycle tours etc. to promote a feeling of oneness and unity. The young men and
women of India exchange visits from one part of the country to the others. It
helps them familiarize with different environments, lifestyles and social
customs.
Then there is the National Service Scheme, (NCC). Its main
objective is to involve the college and +2 level, students on a voluntary and
selective basis in the program of social service and national development.
Started in 1969, now it is being implemented in all the states and union
territories and covers over 5,000 colleges.
Under this scheme rural and slum reconstruction, repair of
roads and school-buildings, village ponds, tanks, tree plantation, conservation
of environment, health and family welfare, adult and women education etc. are
undertaken. NCC students also help local authorities in implementing various
relief and rehabilitation programs. At times of natural calamities like floods,
droughts, famines and earthquakes NCC students and volunteers play a very
important positive and constructive role.
There are special schemes for the tribal youth to give them
vocational training and to update their skills to help them in self-employment.
There are youth hostels strewn all over the country to promote travel among
young men and women by providing cheaper accommodation when on educational
tours and excursions to historical and cultural places.
And the Nehru Yovak Kendras, about 446 in number and spread
all over the country, serve non-students and rural youth to improve their
personality and employment capability. Under the international scouting and
guiding movement the Bharat Scouts and Guides and All India Boys Scouts
Association are inculcating in the Indian youth a spirit of loyalty, patriotism
and thoughtfulness for others.
But still more and vigorous efforts are needed to solve the
problems of the youth. They are a frustrated lot for want of proper employment
opportunities. Our education system does not take note of their requirements
and so fails to prepare them well for red- Taoism, nepotism, cast
considerations and favoritism add further to their problems and frustration.
For want of proper leadership and ideals they suffer from lack of direction,
purpose and decisiveness.
The task of tackling these and other problems of the youth
is difficult, enormous and challenging but not impossible. It is the duty of
the government, voluntary agencies, corporate world and the society to see that
the youth-power is properly harnessed, that the young men and women are
properly educated and trained and subsequently satisfactorily employed. The
advanced and developed countries are so because they have had been investing
heavily for the last many decades in the schemes and programs related to the
training, education, orientation and welfare of their youth.
With the passage of time the number of young people in India
is likely to increase and so it becomes imperative that more effective ways and
means are found to use their vast energy in economical reconstruction and
social regeneration activities. Perhaps, one of the best ways can be the
greater involvement of in welfare schemes, community programs and nation
building activities so as to generate in them a sense of purpose, pride,
self-confidence and relevance.
It is only by such means and efforts that the young people
in India can be given the much needed self-confidence and a sense of
fulfillment and belonging. They can be inspired to work in the slums, villages
and hamlets in their spare time. They can be urged to adopt families, villages
or clusters of houses to improve sanitation, education, social awareness,
economic condition and skills of the people residing in them.
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