EMERGING PERSPECTIVES
xvi+254pp
Today, India is a young nation with 605 million people below the age of 25 which means that for the coming 40 years India will have a youthful, dynamic and productive workforce when the rest of the world, including USA, Japan, and China would be aging. By 2020, India will have 116 million workers in age bracket of 20 to 24 years, as compared to China's 94 million. The next four decades will mark development in the country by using full potential of the youth in India.
This volume includes select papers by experts in their field of Youth Development, on broad themes covering Education, Skill Development, Health and Healthy Life Style, engagement in Community Participation, Governance and Social Justice. And it may be useful for students, educators, policy makers, researchers and practitioners in the field of youth development and empowerment.
Dr. Udaya Mahadevan was the Head of the Post-Graduate Training and Research Department of Social Work at Loyola College, Chennai. She was awarded the UGC Emeritus Fellowship in Social Work 2011-13. Currently, she is Consultant and Adjunct Faculty, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development.
Dr. J. Henry Rozario is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department at the Post Graduate & Research Department of Social Work, Sacred Heart College, (Autonomous), Vellore Dt, Tamil Nadu. He is an international expert on Youth Affairs and Development.
Dr. K Gireesan is the Faculty Head, Department of Local Governance at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development. As a national evaluator, he has been involved in carrying out monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment studies for the Government of India.
Rambabu Botcha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Youth Empowerment and Social Engineering at the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development. He has eighteen publications in national and international journals.
Foreword
Preface
1. Addressing Attitudinal Gap as Precedence to Bridging Skill Gap: 1 Moving Forward to Enhance Employability of Indian Youth
Koteswara Raju Penmetsa
2. Youth Action in the Vanishing Cultural Space: A Journey of 8 Retrogressions and Realizations
Vinod Nambiar
3. Youth Unemployment in India: Challenges and Solutions
Bairagari Suresh
4. How Far Skill Development Education and Training become
the Veritable Tool for Youth Empowerment
M. Satyanarayana, K. Satish Kumar and M.V.V. Ramanjaneyulu
5. Youth Programmes in India: A Critical Review
Malaya Pradhan and Rita Mishra
6. Employment Opportunities for Youth through Rural Self-
Employment Training Institute: Nandurbar District,
Maharashtra
Sachin Ghansham Borase and Nitin Wasudeo Tayade
7. Effectiveness of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation Scheme in Preparing Young Learners for School-to-Work Transition: An Analysis
Nidhi Srivastava
8. Social Skills on Perceived Employability among Rural Youth: Coimbatore District
A. Velayudhan and V. Palanisamy
9. Lack of Motivation for Higher Education Among Girls/
Adolescents from Underprivileged Sections of Society:
The Perceived Causal Factors
Satyananda
. Creating a Productive Youth Workforce: The Hurdles
K. Suneetha, R. Prasad and Ch. Durga Bhavani
. Prevention of Youth Suicide Attempts at High Risk Group:
Social Support and Social Work Intervention
A. Kusuma
12. Sexual Harassment Against Female Youth: Vissakoderu Block, 93 Andhra Pradesh
Ch. Hymavathi and N. Sreerama Murty
13. Menstrual Hygiene Practices among Rural and Urban
Adolescent School Girls: Tiruppatur, Vellore District,
Tamil Nadu
Latha Munuswamy and Sangeetha Balasubramaniam
14. Cricket for Peace: An Effort by Youth: Reducing Hatred and Bringing Harmony in Halol, Gujarat
Rita Mishra
15. The Rich Exploits of a Demographic Dividend: Way Forward
for a Youth Centric Nation Building
Rambabu Botcha
16. Community Based Organizations and Community Engagement
of Youth: Jalgaon District, North Maharastra
Bharat Dasharath Khandagale
17. Youth Volunteering Strategy (YVS) for Promotion of Social
Values and Community Engagement through National Service Scheme
Anitha A.
18. Youth in Panchayat Decision Making: A Case from Odisha
Janmejay Sahu
19. State of the Adivasi Youth of Insurrection in Central and
Eastern India: Implications for the Empowerment of Youth
Nayakara Veeresha
20. Youth Empowerment through NSS Programme: Kongu Arts
and Science College, Erode
P. Annadurai
21. Youth Alliance: Inculcating Transformational Leadership
Prakhar Bhartiya and Shefali Bajpai
22. The Way Forward for Youth Development in India—Equality
as Love: An Experiential Learning at Prantakatha
Bappaditya Mukherjee
23. Caste as Anxiety and a Source of Frustration Amongst the
Youth: Reflecting on another Paradox in an already
Paradoxical Situation
Kavya Nirman
24. Reframing Slums through Young People: A Key to Community Development
Praveen Varghese Thomas and Sonny Jose
25. Empowerment of Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Youth in India: The RGNIYD’s Initiatives
S. Lalitha
26. Deep Self Awareness and Self-Development: A Way Forward to Promote Youth Entrepreneurship
Ajay Pandit
27. Mobile Learning: The Future of Young Learners
M. Suresh Kumar
28. Kap Study on Functionaries of ICDs Involved in the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls
(SABLA): Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Sindhu K.K. and Joseph Thiyagarajan
Contributors
Index