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Indian Youth: Aspirations and Vision for the Future

- by Lokniti-CSDS & KAS-India Office

Indian Youth: Aspirations and Vision for the Future is a collaborative study of Lokniti, a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the India Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). Young people aged between 15 to 34 years account for a little over one-third of the Indian population. Such a large young population is an asset for any nation as these young people have the potential to play an active role in shaping the socio-economic and political development of the country. But today, young Indians are grappling with multiple challenges such as financial difficulties for pursuing their education, lack of employment opportunities and issues of mental health. Some of these issues have been discussed in the previous rounds of the youth studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in partnership with the India Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). This report is based on the fourth round of youth study, which aims to analyse if there have been changes in the attitudes and behaviour of the youth, their levels of anxieties and their emerging aspirations. Lokniti-CSDS and the India Office of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, organised an event to release the report and conduct a Panel Discussion, on the 15th of December 2021, at The Imperial, Janpath, Connaught Place, Delhi – 110001, between 1930 – 2030 (IST)

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Key Takeaways:

  • ​​​​​Mr. Peter Rimmele remarked that this concentration of youth studies becomes all the more significant in the Indian context considering the comparative enormously high percentage of youth as 15-34 years old account for almost 35% of the Indian population, that is more than one-third.
  • Prof. Sanjay Kumar remarked that the study tries to map the youth’s opinions, attitudes, changes across the following themes – social ties, friendships, families and society, religious practices and engagements, attitude towards marriage and marriage preferences, career choices among Indian youth, livelihoods, opportunities and challenges.
  • Mr. Bhupendra Chaubey noted that this is first such attempt that has been made where CSDS & KAS tried to delink the electoral processes. Usually, we end up looking at all surveys through the prism of pure politics.
  • Prof. Divya Vaid remarked that this series of reports is important because it provides a temporal look at key demographic changes as well as youth aspirations and attitudes and the hurdles and opportunities that the youth face according to different socio-economic criteria and location.
  • Mr. Ansh Singh Luthra noted that a lot of issues highlighted in the report are interrelated such as employment, skill development, financial wellbeing, mental wellbeing and that all of us face these issues on a day-to-day basis. He talked about a skill-based force development where private entities are roped in and are regulated by the government as a possible solution.
  • Ms. Kanika Sinha talked about how nation building, volunteering are what young people are expected of but when it comes to decision making, we tend to see the experienced middle aged/senior people in power.

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