Contribution of the Youth in Rural Development: A Survey
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31150/ajshr.v3i10.1670Keywords:
Young People, Development, Youth, Populations, TechnologiesAbstract
Youth are the young people that are skilled, possess efficient knowledge and capabilities and overall they possess the enthusiasm to work and accomplish something good. The youth who are involved in rural development, have adopted this area as their field and all the areas in rural development such as construction, education, employment generation, industries, agriculture, skill development, electricity, energy, water, require development and youth have been effectively involved. The present study has been carried out to know about the role of youth in the rural development. Researcher has selected only 200 respondents (youth) from each household of the selected villages of Mawana District, Meerut. Researcher has taken primary data from the respondents with the help of specific research techniques like; Interview, observation, Interview Schedule and personal records. Researcher has prepared mixed structured interview schedule where both open ended and close ended question was designed to elicit necessary information from the respondent. While secondary data has been collected from different journals, articles, books, magazines and others government and non-government records regarding youth and rural development. First, data has been collected from the study area then it was scrutinized, and prepared in table form for analysis with the help of different charts, bars and other statistical diagrams. It has been indicated that around less than half (45.5%) of the respondents admitted that sometimes they participated or involved in development process within their village especially in some government programmes and schemes.
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