National Youth Parliament 2019 ( Source PIB)

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• Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has launched the National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 beginning the celebration of the National Youth Day 2019.

National Youth Parliament

1. Aim: To provide a chance to the youth to brainstorm about new India and to find ways and chalk out plans to realize our resolves before 2022.
2. The Ministry has proposed to take the Youth Festival to each district of the country and celebrate it as the “National Youth Parliament Festival”.
3. Organising District Youth Parliaments and taking the festival to the doorsteps of the youth would provide an opportunity to large number of youth of this country to participate.
4. National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 is organised on the theme of “Be The Voice of New India” and “Find solutions and contribute to policy”.
5. Youth in the age bracket of 18-25 years are invited to participate in the District Youth Parliaments.

National Youth Parliament Festival 2019

1. It will be conducted at three levels:

• District Youth Parliament (DYP) at the district level. The participants for DYP would be selected through two screening processes i.e. Digital and Walk-in screenings in Nodal Institution in each district.
• State Youth Parliament (SYP) at the State Level.
• National Youth Parliament (NYP) at the National Level.

2. A maximum of 50 best speakers from the Digital screening and 50 best speakers from Walk-in process, shortlisted by the Screening Committee in each district, will participate in the DYPs.
3. The best three speakers selected by a Jury from each District Youth Parliament will participate at the State Youth Parliament.
4. Similarly, the two best speakers selected from each State Youth Parliament will participate as speakers in the National Youth Parliament.
5. The highest scorer from each District in the District Youth Parliament (DYP) will participate in the National Youth Parliament (NYP) as a delegate.
6. The best three speakers at the National Youth Parliament will be awarded Rs. 2 Lakhs, Rs. 1.50 Lakhs and Rs. 1 Lakh respectively by the Prime Minister.

Why such move?

1. This is done in order to hear the voice of youth in this age bracket who are allowed to vote but cannot contest in elections.
2. It will also encourage the youth to engage with public issues, understand the common man’s point of view, form their opinion and express these in an articulate manner.
3. Relevant and effective voices on the vision of New India would be captured and documented to make these available to policy makers and implementors to take it forward.

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