Role of Youth Resource Centre in Empowering Rural Youth: A Case Study

Youth is the unique period of life span characterized by high level of productivity which enables them to contribute positively to their own life and toward community. The aspirations and needs of this segment are different from other demographic segment of population. Empowerment and development of this section is most crucial for a country like India, where more than 42 percent of youth population. Even though a distinctive dividend, the problems, risk factors, opportunities and accessibility is having high level variation in accordance with the different sub groups like women youth, tribal youth, youth with disability, urban and rural youth. In Indian context rural youth deserve a high attention, as majority of the youth population belongs to the rural India. While comparing to the urban youth rural youth are deprived in the grounds of lack of accessibility in education, employment and participation. There are different policies and programs are formulated and implemented for the enhancement of this section of youth. The present study analyzes the programs and plans of action for developing youth and furthermore an in depth analysis of Youth Resource Centre, that has established to facilitate the holistic aspects of the youth. This study made a rural youth focused analysis of the project, where accessibility to different dimension of development taken as major variable. Primary information and Secondary data was made use for the present study. Case study method was adopted for the study by selecting a Youth Resource centre as a unit of study. The result shows the implication of Youth Resource Centre's in enhancing youth and how the unit provides the holistic needs and aspirations of the youth.