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Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have all fallen The National Youth Policy (NYP–2014) during 2001-2011 compared to 1991-2001, launched in February 2014 proposes a holistic the fall being the lowest for Andhra Pradesh (3.5% percentage points) and highest for ‘vision’ for the youth of India, which is “To empower the youth of the country to achieve Maharashtra (6.7 percentage points). Tamil their full potential, and through them enable Nadu (3.9 percentage points) and Puducherry India to find its rightful place in the community (7.1 percentage points) have registered some increase during 2001-2011 over the previous of nations”. The NYP–2014 has defined decade. ‘youth’as persons in the age group of 15–29 years. The Government of India also formulated the National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in 2015 to provide an Takethepopulationgrowthdataofthedistricts/selecteumbrella framework to all skilling activities districtsofyourrespectivestatefortotalmaleandfemale population and represent them with the help of being carried out within the country, and to CompositeBarGraph. align these to common standards and link skilling with demand centres. It appears from the above discussion that An important aspect of population growth the growth rate of population is widely variant in India is the growth of its adolescents. At present the share of adolescents i.e., up to the over space and time in the country and also age group of 10-19 years is about 20.9 per cent highlights various social problems related to the growth of population. However, in order (2011), among which male adolescents to have a better insight into the growth pattern constitute52.7 percentandfemaleadolescents constitute 47.3 per cent. The adolescent of population it is also necessary to look into population, though, regarded as the youthful the social composition of population. population having high potentials, but at the Population Composition sametimetheyarequitevulnerableifnotguided Population composition is a distinct field of and channelised properly. There are many challenges for the society as far as these study within population geography with a vast adolescents are concerned, some of which are coverage of analysis of age and sex, place of residence, ethnic characteristics, tribes, lower age at marriage, illiteracy – particularly language, religion, marital status, literacy and female illiteracy, school dropouts, low intake of nutrients, high rate of maternal mortality of education, occupational characteristics, etc. adolescent mothers, high rate of HIV and AIDS In this section, the composition of Indian infections, physical and mental disability or population with respect to their rural-urban retardedness,drugabuseandalcoholism,juvenile characteristics, language, religion and pattern delinquencyandcommitenceofcrimes,etc. of occupation will be discussed. In view of these, the Government of India has undertaken certain policies to impart Rural – Urban Composition proper education to the adolescent groups so Composition of population by their respective that their talents are better channelised and places of residence is an important indicator of properly utilised. The National Youth Policy is socialandeconomiccharacteristics.Thisbecomes one example which has been designed to look even more significant for a country where about into the overall development of our large youth 68.8percentofitstotalpopulationlives invillage and adolescent population. (2011). 8 India : People and Economy Reprint 2026-27