Youth in India constitutes more than 50% of India's total population making it one of the youngest country in the world. But do each and everyone constituting to form 50% population share are getting education and employment opportunities? Do everyone is equally carrying the responsibility and future of the nation on their shoulders?
From common citizens to politicians everyone keeps on bragging about youth and their potential to bring change, that they are going be the future of this nation. But while they speak of youth they only think of the youth who is living in the urban areas, who is able into proper school which has all the types of facilities which may cater the students in their overall development, who is easily getting higher education in his or her city and don't even think for once of the large proportion of youth who resides in the rural India where he or she is not even having proper primary schools. By ignoring the rural population of youth we are not only neglecting the talent and human resource their but also are overburdening the urban section of the youth. To explain in simplest terms, the work of development which could have been equally on the shoulders of 50% of the youth population will be now only on 20% of urban youth resulting in inefficiency, ineffectiveness, corruption, slower growth and development, cutthroat competition, etc.
"अब दिल्ली दूर नहीं" is the tagline used by politicians while they inaugurate an expressway or a new train on the Delhi route, but no one talks of developing that particular town or city in a way that it competes with Delhi or basically competes with other metropolises in the country. Numerous incidents have time and again showed how people suffer because of the lack of facilities in their respective states.
India's youth population is greater than the whole of the population of some countries. Which means that India has the largest workforce in the world, a workforce so huge which can take the nation to such heights where other countries may take a century to reach. But the problem faced by the young population is the lack of opportunities and resources or to be particular the problem of regional disparity very much prevalent in the nation since time and memorial.
The regional disparity increases the burden on some of the targeted developed areas or cities and gives rise to the problem of internal migration in the country. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan accounted for 50% of India's total interstate migration mainly in search of employment and education. Delhi and Mumbai have been considered the migrant magnets, migrants numbered 9.9 million in both the cities which is almost one-third of the combined total population of these two metropolises.
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| Migrant workers boarding for the train to reach their respective states. |
From common citizens to politicians everyone keeps on bragging about youth and their potential to bring change, that they are going be the future of this nation. But while they speak of youth they only think of the youth who is living in the urban areas, who is able into proper school which has all the types of facilities which may cater the students in their overall development, who is easily getting higher education in his or her city and don't even think for once of the large proportion of youth who resides in the rural India where he or she is not even having proper primary schools. By ignoring the rural population of youth we are not only neglecting the talent and human resource their but also are overburdening the urban section of the youth. To explain in simplest terms, the work of development which could have been equally on the shoulders of 50% of the youth population will be now only on 20% of urban youth resulting in inefficiency, ineffectiveness, corruption, slower growth and development, cutthroat competition, etc.
"अब दिल्ली दूर नहीं" is the tagline used by politicians while they inaugurate an expressway or a new train on the Delhi route, but no one talks of developing that particular town or city in a way that it competes with Delhi or basically competes with other metropolises in the country. Numerous incidents have time and again showed how people suffer because of the lack of facilities in their respective states.
- Encephalitis outbreak Muzaffarpur, Bihar
- Gorakhpur Hospital Death 2017
- Encephalitis outbreak Jharkhand 2017
These medical tragedies were some of the most heartbreaking incidents that the country has ever witnessed because I believe nothing can be more horrifying than seeing over 300 dead bodies of children lying all over not only showing the failure of the government but the failure of humanity. The journey of life ended before even starting for those children just because the government was busy spending crores and crores of taxpayers money in renaming cities, in their election campaigns, in building statues, in spreading propaganda through Whatsapp University precisely and other social media platform as well.
Its high time when thousands of innocents have lost their lives due to the failure of governance when lakhs and crores of people have left their home and migrated to the metropolises in search of education, employment and a better standard of living. We can't really feel the pain people undergo who have lost their beloved because of lack of medical facilities in their homeland we neither can understand the pain of those who stay away from their home their family for months because of work or education. If you are a college student look around in your college, what's the ratio of students who are a domicile of the city and the students who have come from distant places to that particular city in search of quality education. The numbers said it all didn't it?
This unsung section of the population has been unheard for a long time and as a part of the society, the least we can do for them is be their voices and make the government aware of their problems because regional disparity cant be single-handedly removed us as a part of the society have to participate and raise our voices for ourselves and for the preferably unheard because
when the whole world becomes silent even one voice becomes powerful enough to leave significance on the masses.
