Describe the objectives of National Youth Policy launched by Government of India.


The objectives:

(i)The National Youth Policy of Government of India, launched in 2003, stresses on an all round improvement of the youth and adolescents enabling them to shoulder responsibility towards constructive development of the country.

(ii)It also aims at reinforcing the qualities of patriotism and responsible citizenship.

(iii)The thrust of this policy is youth empowerment in terms of their effective participation in decision making and carrying the responsibility of an able leader.

(iv)Special emphasis was given in empowering women and girl child to bring parity in the male-female status.

(v)Moreover, deliberate efforts were made to look into youth health, sports and recreation, creativity and awareness about new innovations in the spheres of science and technology.
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Describe some of the challenges for the society as far adolescents are concerned.


There are many challenges for the society as far as these adolescents are concerned, some of which are lower age at marriage, illiteracy – particularly female illiteracy, school dropouts, low intake of nutrients, high rate of maternal mortality of adolescent mothers, high rates of HIV/AIDS infections, physical and mental disability or retardedness, drug abuse and alcoholism, juvenile delinquency and committance of crimes, etc.
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Define growth of population. Name its two component. 


Growth of population is the change in the number of people living in a particular area between two points of time. Its rate is expressed in percentage.

Population growth has two components namely;

(i)natural 

(ii)induced

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Describe physical factors as factor for distribution of population.


Physical factors: 

(i)As far as the physical factors are concerned, it is clear that climate along with terrain and availability of water largely determines the pattern of the population distribution.

(ii)Consequently, we observe that the North Indian Plains, deltas and Coastal Plains have higher proportion of population than the interior districts of southern and central Indian States, Himalayas, some of the north eastern and the western states.

(iii)However, development of irrigation (Rajasthan), availability of mineral and energy resources (Jharkhand) and development of transport network (Peninsular States) have resulted in moderate to high proportion of population in areas which were previously very thinly populated.

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Name any four most populous states of the country.


Most populous states are: 

(i)Uttar Pradesh

(ii)Maharashtra,

(iii)Bihar

(iv)West Bengal. 

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