India occupies the first place in the world in terms of younger population. However, it is also true that not all the sections of the population are qualified to be the human resources. In order to mainstream this section, the Government has initied several efforts to mainstream them and to promote the employable skills and competencies so as to involve them in the economy. Inspite of these measures, the pace of the groeth of the country, involvement of the people in the work has not significant. In the above backdrop, a national seminar on Employability of the youth has been organized by involving experts in the area and brainstormed into the obstacles and successes in this sphere and an attempt has been made to formulate strategies to improve the wmployability of the youth.
The present compendium of the papers is a collection of ideas through brainstorming and will be useful to the functionaries working in the area to re-draft their programmes. The academics and researchers can take cues from this for suggesting national policymakers for restructuring of the programmes. There are 29 chapters in the areas of Vocational Training, Unemployment, Employability, Career Guidanve and Counselling units etc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D Uma Devi
Dr. D. Uma Devi was born in 1965. She took her B.Com., (1985), M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in Adult Education and M.A. (1996) in Sociology from S.V. University. At present she is in the Dept. of Adult Education, S.V. University, Tirupati. She has so far published 11 research papers in various reputed education, adult education and social science journals and presented nearly 18 research papers in National and International Seminars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P Adinarayana Reddy
Dr. P.A. Reddy, (b. 1957). He took his bachelor degree in Science (1978) and Education (1981) from Bangalore University, Post Graduation (1980) and Doctoral Degrees (1990) in Adult Education from S.V. University and M.Ed. (1984) from Anamalai University. He is at present with the Department of Adult Education in S.V. University Tirupati. He has undergone training in youth and Adult Education in Denmark and ad opportunities to study adult and non-formal education programmes in Denmark, Sweden and West Germany during visit to these countries. He has so far published 50 research papers in various reputed education, adult education and social science journals. He has also published six books viz., Adult Education in India, determinant of Instructor effectiveness, Reading Interests of Adults. Post-Literacy and continuing education, Total literacy campaign for children, Exposure of women to Mass Media, Health Consciousness among Women, Total Literacy campaign: Problem Perspectives, Education of Tribal Women.
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