Youth as a component of national manpower is highly significant in a country like India. In this volume the demographic and socio-economic profile of the youth power is outlined. In 1981, there were 128 million youth (15-24 years) in India of which only 47.2 percent were employed. 62.2 percent of the females never attended school. Case studies on the changing life style, risk-taking and hazardous behaviour of the present day youth are discussed. The importance of youth in the health and population education is also stressed with a framework for imparting population education among out-of-school youth. Further, the positive role played by family, kinship, caste and other social structural variables in moulding youth is discussed. Finally, an integrated national youth policy has been explained.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Faujdar Ram
Dr. Faujdar Ram (b. 1950) received his M.Sc. (Statistics) degree from the Banaras Hindu University and demographic training including Ph.D. drom the IIPS, Bombay in 1984. He is currently working as a Lecturer in IIPS, Bombay. His area of interest is Fertility and he has nine papers to his credit published in leading professional journals in India. He is a member of the IASP.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Murali Dhar Vemuri
Dr. Muralidhar Vemuri (b. 1950) received his M.A. (Economics) degree from Thammasat University, Bangkok; M.S. and Ph.D. in Population Planning from the University of Michigan in 1983. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor (Demography) in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has published eight papers so far in professional journals/books in India. He is a member of the Indian Association for the Study of Population.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.S. Nair
Dr. P.S. Nair (b. 1945) received his M.A. (Economics) and M.Sc. (Demography) degrees from the University of Kerala and Ph.D. with distinction in Sociology-Demography from the Iner-University Programme in Demography, Vrije University Brussel, Belgium in 1981. Currently, he is the Additional Director, Population Research Centre, the University of Kerala. His areas of professional interest are Fertility and Migration. Apart from contributing fifty research papers in professional journals in India and six in International journals, he edited a book Widowhood in India. He is member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and a founding life member of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP). Further, he is a member / office bearer of several national level committees.
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