The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the establishment of an autonomous body ‘Mera Yuva Bharat’ (MY Bharat) to serve as an overarching enabling mechanism powered by technology for youth development and youth led development and provide equitable access to youth.
The primary objective of Mera Yuva Bharat (MY Bharat) is to make it a platform for youth development, according to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
The Ministry further said that under the new arrangement, with access to resources and connection to opportunities, youth would become community change agents and nation builders allowing them to act as the Yuva Setu between the Government and the citizens. It seeks to harness the immense youth energy for nation-building.
Mera Yuva Bharat (MY Bharat), an autonomous body will benefit the youth in the age group of 15-29 years, in line with the definition of ‘Youth’ in the National Youth Policy, it added.
In the case of programme components specifically meant for adolescents, the beneficiaries will be in the age group of 10-19 years.
The ministry further said that the establishment of Mera Yuva Bharat (MY Bharat) would lead to leadership development in the youth, and will improve leadership skills through experiential learning by shifting from isolated physical interaction to programmatic skills.
It will also lead to investing more in youth to make them social innovators, and leaders in the communities.
“It will lead to setting the focus of the Government on Youth Led development and to make the Youth “active drivers” of development and not merely “passive recipients” and better alignment between youth aspirations and community needs,” the ministry said.
It is notable that with a view to engaging youth and their empowerment guided by the principles of the ‘whole of government approach’, in a rapidly changing world, which has an environment of high-velocity communications, social media, new digital opportunities and emergent technologies the Government has decided to establish an overarching enabling mechanism in a form of a new Autonomous Body, namely Mera Yuva Bharat (MY Bharat).
Meanwhile, addressing a press conference after the meeting of the Union cabinet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 10, interacted with medal winners and athletes who returned after the Asian Games, achieving India’s highest medal tally in the continental event. “It has been decided to form an institution called MY Bharat – Mera Yuva Bhara,” he said. The minister said the primary objective of Mera Yuva Bharat is to make it a whole of Government platform for youth development.
He said that under the new arrangement, youth would become community change agents and nation builders allowing them to act as the ‘Yuva Setu’ between the Government and the citizens.
“It seeks to harness the immense youth energy for nation-building,” Thakur said.
Mera Yuva Bharat will benefit the youth in the age group of 15-29 years, in line with the definition of ‘Youth’ in the National Youth Policy. In the case of programme components specifically meant for adolescents, the beneficiaries will be in the age group of 10-19 years.
(with inputs from ANI)
