PROGRAMMES :

The activities of Youth Clubs could be significant in organising such voluntary efforts. In India, a large number of Youth Clubs function at the grassroot level but tend to lack direction in their activities due to lack of guidance. This scheme, therefore, is an attempt at giving a positive direction to the Youth Club activities. The scheme specifically aims to:

a. Organise and channelise youth energy in character building activities,

b. Develop amongst youth a sense of pride in nationally accepted values like democracy, socialism, secularism,

c. Develop consciousness among youth against social evils such as dowry, untouchability, drug addiction, etc.,

d. Enable the youth to develop awareness of environment, culture, own-self,

e. Provide facilities for developing rural sports at grass-root level,

f. Organise activities for the preservation of cultural heritage especially of the rural areas,

g. Provide opportunity to the youth for participation in rural community development works through developmental schemes like TRYSEM, IRDP, etc. so as to enable the youth below poverty-line to be properly identified by such Youth Clubs and brought into the ambit of the developmental programmes, and

h. Provide an opportunity of training at village level leading to self-employment or better employment.