Youth Programmes in India The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports adopted the National Youth Policy in . The National Service Scheme (NSS) aims at involving college level students in programmes of social service and national development like construction and repair of roads, school buildings, village ponds, tanks, activities related to environmental and ecological improvement like tree plantation, removal of weeds from lakes, digging pits, activities related to hygiene and sanitation, family welfare, child-care, mass immunisation, vocational training in craft, tailoring, knitting, and organising co-operatives. NSS students also render assistance to local authorities for implementing of various relief and rehabilitation programmes to meet the needs of the economically and socially weaker sections of the community. The National Service Volunteer Scheme provides opportunities to students (who have completed their first degree) to involve themselves, on a whole-time basis for a short period of one or two years, in programmes of national development mainly through Nehru Yuva Kendras .
They are involved in programmes of adult education, establishment of youth clubs, organisation of work camps, youth leadership training programmes, vocational training, promotion of rural sports and games, etc. The Nehru Yuvak Kendras also aim to enable the non-student youth of the rural areas to contribute to development in the rural areas. Through the various activities the Kendras aim to popularise nationally accepted objectives such as self-reliance, secularism, socialism, democracy, national integration and development of scientific temper. Some such activities are non-formal education, social service camps, development of sports activities for young people, cultural and recreational programmes, vocational training, youth leadership training camps and promotion and establishment of youth clubs.
These activities are organised for the purpose of helping the non-student youth acquire literacy and numeracy skills for self-reliance, upgrade their functional capabilities, and make them aware of possibilities of their development, thus making the youth functionally efficient, economically productive and socially useful. Promotion of Adventure: Many youth clubs and voluntary organisations organise activities like mountaineering, trekking, hiking, exploration for collection of data, study of flora and fauna in the mountains, forests, deserts and sea, canoeing, coastal sailing, raft-exhibitions, swimming, cycling, etc.,