District Youth Convention Programmes

District Youth Convention Programmes

• District Youth Convention Programme is one of the core programs organized by Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS). It is a one day program in which 100 youth leaders from Youth Clubs participate. Issues of social and national importance are highlighted. Resource Persons provide orientation to youth leaders in addressing local and contemporary issues. Youth leaders also share experience/best practices. Youth Leaders, in turn, disseminate the acquired inputs among members of their respective youth clubs.
• Rs. 30,000/- per convention per district per year is allocated to each of the districts Nehru Yuva Kendras for the conduct of the District Youth Convention Programme.

About Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan

• Nehru Yuva Kendras were established in the year 1972 to provide rural youth avenues to take part in the process of nation-building as well as provide opportunities for the development of their personality and skills.
• In the year 1987-88, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) was set up as an autonomous organization under the Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, to oversee the working of these Kendras. NYKS is the largest grassroots level youth organization; one of its kind in the world. It channelizes the power of youth on the principles of voluntarism, self-help and community participation.
• At present, there are Nehru Yuva Kendras functions in as many as 623 districts of the country. Further, to manage, administer and run the 623 district-based Nehru Yuva Kendras, Zonal Offices in 29 States of India have been established by NYKS. The NYKS has its head office in New Delhi.

Objectives

Objectives of NYKS are two-fold:-

• To involve the rural youth in nation-building activities.
• To develop such skills and values in them with which they become responsible and productive citizens of a modern, secular and technological nation.

Programs and schemes of NYKS

Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan has been working on various fronts of youth development with a variety of youth programs of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and certain special programs in coordination and cooperation of other ministries. The main focus has been on developing values of good citizenship, thinking and behaving in secular ways, skill development and helping youth to adopt a productive and organized behavior

Source: PIB