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| Rural youth fail to compete with urban counterpart courtesy lack of information | | | Jammu, Jan 23 : It is official now that the rural youth of the state have comparatively lesser access to information, educational and career opportunities and training facilities thus failing to comptete with their urban counterparts as this was revealed in the National Youth Policy (NYP) draft prepared by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The policy said the rural youth find it difficult to compete with urban youth in terms of opportunities for jobs and higher education because of tough competition. It added that full information about state policies and programmes is often not available to them. "The government has many programmes like MGNREGA, Total Sanitation, NRHM etc. about which the youth of rural areas of various districts of the state have little information and therefore the benefits of these state sponsored schemes are not known to them", the policy claimed. NYP claims that many young people belonging to tribal communities are facing problems of unemployment and displacement which has disrupted their life. It maintained that Poor connectivity in their habitat was an impediment to development reaching them and further alienates the Tribal Youth. The policy also defined the categories of youth people who are particularly at risk. These included unemployed university graduates; young people who have migrated from rural to urban areas; tribal
youth; young people who have been victims of discrimination or injustices or youth who have been misguided by concerted propaganda by perpetrators of separatism and militancy. |
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