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- About 600 million people, more than half India’s population, are under 25 years old; no country has more young people.
- The sheer number of young people has yet to become an asset: only 2.3% of the Indian workforce has had formal training
- India would need to build at least 1,000 universities in the next 10 years and nearly 50 times as many technical colleges.
- Youth is one of the vulnerable groups with 33% share of total police recorded suicide cases (data 18-30 yrs only).
- Sex ratio in youth population is consistently decreasing from 1991 onwards. The reduction in sex ratio of youth is found to be much more than that of the overall population. It has come down to 939 in 2011 as compared to 961 in 1971 and is projected to decline further to 904 in 2021.
- With 430 million Indians owning a smartphone, half a billion using the Internet, and more than 300 million using various social-media networks, this election will be fought both on the ground and online.