The Obscure Wing

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?

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.

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.

Power of Youth

 "Youth and Politics are the most hardest and compulsory thing to change in India. And anyone of them changes another surely changes."

The march of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad ABVP.

Dynamic, enthusiastic, rebellious, optimistic and full of high spirit these are the traits which define the Youth of India. For a youth, nothing is actually impossible that's why their participation in nation-building through politics is the most accepted change in the socio-political sphere. 

It was the young blood who came up with high spirited ideas and played a significant role in the freedom fight when the nation was struggling hard to overcome the atrocities of the British Raj.

The youth played a tremendous role in awakening people's instinct to fight for freedom and spreading awareness among Indians about the true face of British Raj and the revolution they were about to bring to attain freedom from the atrocious British government.

Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sukhdev Thapar, Shivram Rajguru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Ashfaqullah Khan were some of the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives at a very young age for the nation.

Today's youth has the potential to change the current political scenario of India. Youth have enormous untapped strength, ideas, innovation and innocence that could totally refresh the politics and build a vibrant India with fearless actions and youthful ideas. 

But the reality is that youth is alienated and they are becoming increasingly disengaged, the youth feel disconnected from current events due to lack of assistance and guidance, lack of experience, and lack of adequate knowledge, which causes them to be less likely to get involved in politics, which creates a trend that the youth is least interested in politics, which causes politicians to ignore almost 35% share of the youth of India's total population in their political campaigns.

This untapped strength of the Youth is often exploited by the chaotic elements of society. Most of the time when the nation faces bandh's/shutdown or riots the fuel for such incidents is the exploited and ignorant youth who was ignored by the society, who's ideas and innovations were crushed down just because of the arrogance of having an experience of a lifetime in politics. The condition of Youth in Kashmir is not hidden from anyone, the separatist leaders exploited the young minds enough to carry out stone pelting on the armed forces in the valley.

Stone pelting in Kashmir

But people should not forget that it was the youth who fueled the revolutionary politics to attain freedom from the Britishers. It was the young freedom fighters who played the role being in front and not bowing down without a fight. The youth when wants something or decides to bring change it becomes an unstoppable and inevitable force. In the Jessica Lal murder case it was the youth who decided to bring justice to her, who voiced their opinions through protests and marches and boosted the judicial process.

• The Assam movement, 1979-1985
• Anti Mandal Commission protests, 1990
• Anti Reservation Protests, 2006
• Nirbhaya movement, 2012
• Pro Jallikattu movement, 2014
• FTII Agitation, 2015
• Rohit Vemula Case 2016

Apart from the Jessica Lal Murder case, these are some of the movements nation remembers which were lead by the youth successfully and displayed the strength of the youngsters.

Chhavi Rajwat India's first female sarpanch of village Soda, Rajasthan.

Chhavi Rajwat is an example of youth being part of change and politics. She despite having an MBA degree and a corporate job left the city life and went back to her village for developing rural India.

So if you have the strength to fight and courage to win with honesty in your heart you need to get rid of your reluctance of joining politics as the country needs you and as they say, 

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.