Young India Foundation

Young India Foundation
Logo of YIF
Motto Empowering young people from the Panchayat to the Parliament.
Founded 2017
Type NGO
Purpose Youth
Headquarters Gurugram, India
Region served
India
Staff
18
Volunteers
200
Website youngindia.foundation

The Young India Foundation is a nonpartisan national youth organization which primarily works on youth rights and their representation.[1][2] YIF's main concern deals with the large disenfranchised demographic.[3] India currently has over 600 million young people below the age of 25 in India. Almost 70% of the country's demographic is below the age of 30.[4][5]

While the organization focuses on electoral politics and awareness campaigns, it also provides opportunities for youth representatives from different areas of India to exchange ideas and experiences, to coordinate program plans, and to reach a better understanding of each other's problems due to differences in racial, religious and cultural backgrounds.[6][7]

Activities and Campaigns

YIF has two main tasks:

While YIF deals with all issues affecting youth in India on a national, regional, and local level, its primary motive is to help young people get elected in local and regional electoral positions in municipality and positions in the panchayati raj system.[8]

YIF organizes events in India to raise awareness for their age of candidacy campaign which focuses to lower the age when a MP or MLA can run for elections.[9] The campaign highlights how India has the youngest and largest demographic yet the oldest age of candidacy.

Aims[1]

  • Work to recruit and elect as many young people for electoral politics in India's local politics.
  • Raise awareness in India of over 600 million below the age of 25.
  • Help facilitate the collection of information about the needs and problems of youth.
  • Promote the interchange of ideas between youth all over India.
  • Assist in the development of youth activities and to promote the extension of the work of voluntary youth organizations.
  • Encourage participation of India's young men and women in the development process.
  • Promote the democratic participation of young people both in their own organisations and in the life of society as a whole.

Membership and Structure

There are three ways to involve yourself as stipulated by the Central Core Committee of YIF. These are: Central YIF, State YIF, and Univeristy branches.[10]

Central Core Committee

The Central Core Committee works as the main statutory decision-making body of YIF that governs the state, university and other programs.

Univeristy Branches and Campus Ambassadors

Since YIF focuses on young people, it aims to function and recruit people from universities all over India. YIF has a campus ambassadorship program that one applies to become the focal point of the youth right's movement on their campus.

State and City Branches

YIF has open membership in its state branches.[6] The following is the list of Young India Foundation branches in India.

State/City/UT YIF Branch Status Email Contact
Delhi YIF-Delhi Active and Recruiting delhi@youngindia.foundation
Bangalore YIF-Bengaluru Active and Recruiting bengaluru@youngindia.foundation
Gujarat YIF-Gujarat Active and Recruiting gujarat@youngindia.foundation
Haryana YIF-Haryana Active contact@youngindia.foundation
Kolkata YIF-Kolkata Active and Recruiting kolkata@youngindia.foundation

References

  1. 1 2 "Home". Young India Foundation. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  2. ↑ MUKHERJEE, JHUMPA; CHOUDHURY, SHOMA (2010). "Revisiting the National Youth Policy". Economic and Political Weekly. 45 (26/27): 32–34.
  3. ↑ Dutta, Mohan Jyoti (2017). Imagining India in Discourse: Meaning, Power, Structure. Springer. pp. 23–25. ISBN 9789811030512.
  4. ↑ Sultana, A. Shahin (2015). "A Critical Exploration of National Youth Policy of India- 2003 and 2014". Indian Journal of Sustainable Development. 1 (2). doi:10.21863/ijsd/2015.1.2.012. ISSN 2394-7675.
  5. ↑ "Blog | Cult Altered". Cult Altered | build change. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  6. 1 2 Government of India. "Profile of Indian Youth Organisations". Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. 1 – via JSTOR.
  7. ↑ JEFFREY, CRAIG (2010-07-14). "Timepass: Youth, class, and time among unemployed young men in India". American Ethnologist. 37 (3): 465–481. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01266.x. ISSN 0094-0496.
  8. ↑ "Comparative Youth Justice: Critical Issues Comparative youth justice: Critical issues". 2006. doi:10.4135/9781446212608.
  9. ↑ "Age of Candidacy". ageofcandidacy.in. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  10. ↑ Young India Foundation (Fall 2018). "Young India Foundation Constitution". Young India Foundation Constitution: 4–6.
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