Eleventh Five Year Plan

Youth Affairs and Sports and Art and Culture 43country and channelize their energy towards socioeconomicdevelopment and growth of the nation.To achieve the goals of empowering and enablingthe youth to become effective and productive participantsin the socio-economic changes, a de novo lookat the existing policies, instruments and institutions,initiation of innovative policies, efficient and effectiveinstruments, and creative ways to rejuvenate institutionswould be taken up. Synergy and convergence ofefforts will be ensured. Evaluation of existing schemes/programmes, through an independent agency, wouldbe mandatory and restructuring of schemes underZero Based Budgeting (ZBB) will be a regular annualbudgetary exercise.Programmes for the Eleventh Plan(i) NEHRU YUVA KENDRA SANGATHAN (NYKS)2.1.10 The thrust of the NYKS would be on a consolidating,expanding, and energizing the youth clubmovement. There would be a paradigm shift in themanner of its functioning and implementation.The services of NYKS would be utilized for fosteringsecular values, national unity, and against extremismin the country through a number of existing and newprogrammes. A flexible approach would be adoptedto register active clubs. The youth clubs would beregrouped into three categories ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ as pertheir performance and activeness. Focus would be onencouraging the clubs to move up the ladder andbecome active and self-sustaining/self-reliant. Thereach of NYKS would be extended to all 609 districtsin the country. Female membership would be increasedBox 2.1.1Objectives of the Eleventh Plan— Youth Affairs• Holistic adolescent development through convergenceof schemes;• Overall personality development of youth and provisionof life skills;• Youth empowerment through restructuring andexpansion of youth programmes;• Greater female participation in youth developmentprogrammes;• Special focus on engaging rural youths in nationbuildingactivities transcending beyond social,economic, religious, and linguistic boundaries.through special campaigns. Computerized ManagementInformation System (MIS) would be introducedfor monitoring purposes. The selection procedurefor filling up the posts would be reviewed. NYKSwould involve State Governments in implementationof various programme activities.(ii) NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)2.1.11 NSS would be strengthened and expandedfrom 2.60 million to 5.10 million volunteers and mademore effective through qualitative improvements inthe programme activities. NSS would be extended touncovered universities, colleges, technical institutes,and senior secondary schools. The feasibility of extendingNSS to class IX will be examined separately. Thefunding pattern would be revised from the existing70:50 to 75:25, at par with National Cadet Corps, fornormal States and 90:10 in the case of NE States.(iii) RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOUTHDEVELOPMENT (RGNIYD)2.1.12 RGNIYD would be developed as the apex institutionwith the status of Deemed National YouthUniversity in the country. The Institute would providespecial focus on youth leaders from PRIs and will bedeveloped as an International Centre of Excellence onyouth development. The collaboration of RGNIYDwith the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP)Asia Centre, Chandigarh, would be strengthened toenable a higher level of international participation.(iv) YOUTH HOSTELS2.1.13 To encourage youth travel, youth hostels areenvisaged at historical, cultural, and tourist places inthe country as a joint venture between the Centraland the State Governments. The construction andmaintenance and operations could be taken up in aself-sustaining manner in the PPP/franchising mode.Some portion of the hostels could also be earmarkedwith differential tariff and facilities so as to generateadditional resource to meet maintenance and up keepof the campus.(v) NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR YOUTH ANDADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT2.1.14 The programmes/schemes being fundedthrough grant-in-aid/financial assistance under ‘Yuva