Youth in Indian politics

Many initiatives were taken in many schools to develop the interest among students to enter Indian politics. The Field of politics is usually a perception that it is not suited to Educated People[1] and this perception is being changed by many school students who take up the idea of politics as their career and help promoting the cause.

Independence Day in TVSMHSS, during which the cause of youth in Indian Politics was strongly stressed with means of a Skit.

Importance of Youth in Indian politics


In 2004, 50% of the Indian population was aged 30 years or younger; however, only 35 out of 543 Lok Sabha members (6%) were aged under 35.[1] Nevertheless, the World Values Survey showed that the proportion of people aged 18–24 who identified themselves as "very" or "rather" interested in politics was around 50, an increase of 15% since 1990.[2]

All major political parties have youth and student wings, such as Indian Youth Congress, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, and Democratic Youth Federation of India

A campaign by Young India Foundation has been raising awareness on the importance of youth rights and the essential representation they need in a country with over 670 million people below the age of 25. YIF is also leading in the Age of Candidacy campaign which is working on decreasing the age of candidacy in India from 25 to something lower.[3]

Use of Social Media

As per a report by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), of the approximately Rs 4,000-5,000 Crore total advertisement and publicity spend in 2014 Indian Parliament elections, the digital platforms can expect to garner at least Rs 4000-5000

Crore. The target audience are predictably the youth, many of them first-time voters.[4]

Notes
  1. Gupte 2004
  2. "More Indian Youth Interested in Politics" 2006
  3. https://ageofcandidacy.in. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Dutta, Medha (17 April 2014). "Election 2014 is all about social media". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
gollark: Well, the under-18 one here, and apparently most run on similar principles.
gollark: You get a bunch of facts you have to memorize, which are never wrong™.
gollark: The education system as currently extant doesn't really teach critical thinking though.
gollark: It selects for it because it's a working strategy, and politicians who say vague meaningless emotive things do better than hypothetical ones who try and just say facts.
gollark: Politicians can just go around spouting meaningless slogans and people vote for them. The system selects for it.

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