Changing Youngsters: Changing India

                         

Ravi Shankar Kumar (Roll No:- 09PT2- 080)

India is among the countries those have highest number of young population.  In last couple of year there are so many focus on involvement of young blood in different field like politics, business, leadership have been observed. Between 2010-2030, India will add 230 Million people in working-age population. It means the children who are currently in study will come in that group. Similarly, Brazil will add around 20 million people during the same time. Statically, approx 50% of Indians comprise youngsters, hence we can presume the figure to be around 55 crores. It will be better if we identify the contribution of this age group in different category on the basis of current involvement/Earnings/Jobs/Business etc.

Group One: - These peoples come under poor categories. The routine of these people is earned to survive because per day earning of these people is approx Rs. 25. In India approx 40% of young population comes from this category. Instead having majority they are not able to influence the government.  Those with empty stomach and unclothed bodies can vote for only those who pay them for votes. They don’t belong to any party, any religion or caste. Here the need is to take reformation for this group or for that population who will enter in this group. There is requirement to make plan to increase the contribution in development from this group.

Group Two: - These young people are getting best education, healthy food and cloth. Most of the time they inherit the family business or profession.   This group of young belongs to either political or business family. These people are having interest in development but politics is out of choice as a career or need to further business interests.

Group Three: - These are the ones who actually have the time and inclination to read, compare, express, analyze and change the face of the nation. This category consists of students, employed, unemployed but most of them are focused and can not be taken lightly.

Some of the recent incident reflects my above statements

Delhi University Student Union Election 2010: Delhi University Students Union elections were held. DUSU has been in control of congress‘s NSUI for the last 12 yrs. . It was rumoring that this time the candidates were handpicked by Rahul Gandhi so there will no issue to win congress’s NSUI. But this election has been won by ABVP that is supported by BJP. Congress lost this election even they are in government in Central as well as in Delhi assembly. Congress may want to underplay this defeat but it may be a setback, especially when congress is on students membership drive. Delhi students have expressed their anger and sent a strong message about inflation, corruption in CWG. Inflation, corruption, governance are issues with students and they can express anger.

Bihar Assembly Election 2010:- As per the previous election vote in Bihar use to cast on the basis of caste, religions etc. But this time it did on the basis on development that people of Bihar seen in last 5 year. Government   lead by Nitish Kumar has won the election with 85 percent of total seat in Bihar assembly. Youth population of Bihar participated in this election fairly.

Few week back Chairman Planning commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia was in Kolkata addressing students. One would have expected students to interact with him on serious issues. What turned out was an anti climax. Students were angry about inflation and perhaps could not get a satisfactory reply from him. Rotten eggs and tomatoes were thrown at him and he had to be whisked away by security staff. WHY? Well more reason than one—as chairman of planning commission, for the last 15 months, he has been predicting various dates for inflation to come down, which hasn’t happened and the other reason being his closeness to PM. So, inflation, governance, accountability are issues with the students and they can express with anger.

In the coming years, it is the group three youngsters, opinion formers, educated, prospective leaders, who will decide the fate and face of this nation as they don’t need sermons’, caste divide, region divide and religion fuel. They will bridge the gap between India and Bharat.

Hope changing India will help build India of tomorrow.