National Youth Policy-2072, Youth Vision-2025 fail to come into effect

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Kathmandu / July 14: Although a year has elapsed since the government approved the National Youth Policy-2072 and the Youth Vision-2025, both youth-oriented programmes have failed to come into effect owing to various reasons.

Presenting a working paper, the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) admitted in a programme that these strategic programmes introduced to ensure overall development of the youth in the country could not come into effect due to political instability and lack of commitment from political parties.

The participants at the programme wondered why the demands of the youths from rural areas and of the youths belonging to sexual and gender minority were not incorporated.

Stating that above-mentioned programmes were introduced after the Council’s relentless effort and pressure, National Youth Council Vice-President Madhav Dhungel pressed for quality education for youths for he identified that lack of quality education was the key reason behind brain drain.

Similarly, Joint-Secretary at the MoYS, Giriraj Pandey shared that coordination was underway with various 10 ministries to make the 10-year-long Youth Vision programme effective.

Likewise, presenting a working paper on National Youth Policy-2072, Under-Secretary at the MoYS, Mahendra Poudel, confessed that the programmes could not be implemented effectively and failed to reach to the targeted section of the population for lack of adequate budget.

The Policy and Programme stress on compulsory and free education up to class 12 as well as employment, health, social security, leadership development, sports and entertainment for youth.

Citizens between 16-40 years area identified as youth and they occupy 42 per cent of the total population of the country as per the latest census. RSS