Rural Youth Participation in Developmental Programmes

Youth work is a vital tool of youth empowerment as well as community building. It is realized that youth need to address societal concerns in a scientific and productive way. Their intervention at both micro and macro levels is likely to effect sustainable development. It is felt that a new paradigm for development where youth can and should play a significant role has to be conceived. Such a paradigm combines to meet two critical needs of the world community: the need to improve the condition for rural youth and all youth. The work is divided into nine chapters. Chapter-I introduces the problem and contains exposition of the concepts of youth and youth work. Chapter -II presents a critical survey of relevant literature. Chapter-III provides a profile of the Nehru Yuva Kendra. Chapter-IV explains the methodology. Chapter-V gives a detailed account of the profile of the respondents while chapter VI displays the profile of male youth associations and chapter-VII focuses on the profile of female youth associations. Chapter VIII records the opinions of the NGOs, NYK functionaries and youth associations. Chapter IX concludes the entire work.

Dr. Paragati Venkateswarlu currently working as an Assistant Professor and Head of the department of Social Work, and designated as Dean for Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajah Rajah Narendra Nagar, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, who hailed from (UG, PG and PhD) the background of Social Work Education.