Yuva Sewa Sadan

In India youth must play a critical role in its rapid development through their energy, creativity and innovation driven by the spirit of service and volunteerism. Despite this huge demographic opportunity, youth in India lack a comprehensive platform to serve and their own self development.  

Global & India Youth Demographics 

  • 1.2 billion people aged 15–24 (16% of the world’s population). 
  • By 2030, the youth population will reach 1.3 billion (nearly 25% of global population). 

India’s Youth Statistics 

  • 50% of India’s population is under 25 years. 
  • 65% of India’s population is under 35 years. 

Youth Volunteering in India 

  • Only 20 million out of 350 million youth (6%) are actively involved in volunteering through various organizations and platforms. 

 

Working around the possibility of this untapped resource, Piramal Foundation has developed an innovative platform Yuva Sewa Sadan (YSS) to provide college students and community youth to voluntarily serve the nation and work on their own self development, which leads to strengthening democratic values in them and becoming responsible citizens. 

Yuva Sewa Sadan is an opportunity for motivated young individuals who are driven by idea of contributing to society, its people, and work towards Building Bharat. The selfless service to nation is a prerequisite value that will revolutionize the participation of young people to strengthen governance in India. YSS is striving to imbibe values of Sewa while exposing them to the grassroots realities. The idea of YSS is to involve youth in the process of strengthening public systems and hence make them dependable resources of sustenance for their communities and the government. 

Action 

Yuva Seva Sadan is youth parliament to be setup in Colleges and Universities where students can onboard themselves voluntarily to form youth parliament. The students who are the part of Yuva Sewa Sadan are YSS Parliamentarians and work in their own village and Panchayat (Village/Panchayat constituency) under the leadership of elected Sarpanch (Panchayat head). YSS parliamentarians work in their respective Panchayat and gather as parliament under the leadership of faculty members to discuss the interventions, leaning and action plans. The YSS parliamentarians regularly supported with capacity building activities/session and exposure to the communities, government system as well as market to improve effectiveness, employability skills and entrepreneurial mindset. 

The college level Yuva Sewa Sadan converges at District, State and National level to influence the policy decisions through innovative and creative ideas and sets larger nation agenda aligned with the vision of Building Bharat.  

Key objectives 

  • Setting up Yuva Sewa Sadan in 1000 colleges across India to engage more than 100,000 youth towards volunteer activities. There will be the youth parliaments at district, state and national level who will work on influencing policies through mutually agreed innovative solutions for problems at last mile. 
  • Yuva Sewa Sadan will lead change making networks of 1million youth and other stakeholders who will drive the Gram Panchayat led development indicators linked with Local Sustainable Development goals.   
  • Development of a universally accessible platform for college students and youth to volunteer towards organizational vision of Building Bharat as well as access to opportunities for self-development.  
  • Providing exposure and opportunities to communities, government system and market for contributing through innovative solutions for various problems, developing entrepreneurial mindset and awareness towards career prospects.  
  • Inculcating spirit of Sewa Bhav which leads to students becoming cadres of Building Bharat 

Key Achievements  

  • More than 100 colleges are aligned with the idea of setting up Yuva Sewa Sadan among which 70 colleges have officially onboarded.  
  • More than 5000 students are engaged in volunteer activities and working at last mile to influence development indicators.  
     

Notable cases: 

  • Students part of Yuva Sewa Sadan from Saraswati Social Work College in Wasim District, Maharashtra are engaged in driving students learning outcome in Government Elementary schools. 
  • Students of Yuva Sewa Sadan Darang, Assam are engaged in driving Gram Panchayat lead LSDGs in multiple Gram Panchayats.  
  • Students of Yuva Sewa Sadan Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh is actively engaged in assessing students’ learning outcomes in various government led elementary schools.  
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