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| Empowerment of career advancement urgent for youth Written by Ashok Raina | | | | Empowerment of career advancement urgent for youth
Written by Ashok Raina
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To alternate means of career advancement imperative for youth empowerment, the visionary enlightenment of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given big impetus to entrepreneurship besides drawing a roadmap for providing a million jobs during one year.
“Apart from making a good living in a business proposition, entrepreneurs can draw satisfaction in generating jobs for skilled and unskilled workforce”, That entrepreneurship could be a viable option, not only for self-sustenance and growth, but for generating jobs as well. It is better to be a job provider than a job seeker, to drive an initiative among youth in establishing profit generating units could be the answer to burgeoning unemployment. Entrepreneurship assumes immense significance in an era when the aspiring youth have a lot of opportunities to grow in the future.
Given the numerical strength and energy of the young people, there is the need to conceive a policy to empower and involve the youth in productive economic activities. Youth empowerment involves exposure to and upgrading of relevant skills in order to increase their competency and efficiency. The study examines the relationship between youth empowerment and productivity. Our objective is to investigate if youth empowerment and productivity has any impact on economic development in India
The Least Square and co integration analyses were applied on a time series data over a period of 23 years. The results show a weak positive causal relationship between productivity and the independent variables
(Empowerment). The independent variables have a negative and unstable impact on productivity and economic development. We recommend that more deliberate investment be made in capacity building and skills acquisition. Financial and intellectual capital should be provided to the youths. These would enhance their productivity and their contribution to national development.
The youth no doubt represents human capital resources that could propel a nation to a higher and enviable economic height in the comity of nations if efficiently employed and deployed in the task of nation building. Youth empowerment and productivity remains an important input in the development matrix because growth through innovation and factor efficiency is largely a function of human capital and values which need to be transferred from the passing generation to the new generation. The youthful stage is the highest period of „energy‟ in the human life cycle to make a gainful contribution to meaningful productivity of a country like India, which when directed and utilized effectively determines the extent of success achieved during the remainder of the life cycle. Youths are middle men between the young and old generations. They are agents of change, carriers of information
Youth empowerment, beyond formal education, will involve exposure to, and up-grading of relevant skills, instilling core values, increasing competence and efficiency and creating an environment for the implementation and sustainability of acquired skills, amongst other things. Youth empowerment is one of the forces which could create economic development and impact on productivity. The introduction of microelectronics, telecommunication equipment, internet and computers into modern offices has in recent years called for training and development of competent youths who are equipped with the various skills needed by the market. The result of such action can be seen in the Nigerian youth who are gainfully employed and as such increases the productivity of India through various training by Government or individual’s .The significance of this huge size of the youth population underlies the need to integrate and tap these human resources for economic growth and development. It is in recognition of the youths as a veritable tool in development that government around the world are
Making it a point of duty to adopt and make youth’s empowerment a cardinal agenda in their responsibility.
WITH WARM REGARDS FROM
ASHOK RAINA EDITOR OF DAILY NORTHERN TIMES | | | | |
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