Students' contribution to Social Causes

• Among all the major countries of the world India is the one with
maximum young population with the oldest leaders. Out of its 1.2
billion population, more than 600 million people are less than 25
years of age.
• In our country we often come across many students activities in
college and university campuses which can be defined as student's
initiative for the betterment of the society.
• All the 3 major political parties in India have their individual students
wings viz. Indian Youth Congress, Democratic Youth Federation of
India and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
Role of youth in society

• For the betterment of the society the first and foremost thing every
student needs to do is to gather wisdom and knowledge and pass in
on to the less privileged members of the society.
• For instance a child can always choose to devote a few hours every
week in teaching the poor kids of his locality. They can also help
promote the social and environmental causes by keeping his
neighbourhood clean and by planting a few trees from time to time.
Youth participation in social causes in the last
decade
• Today we often find students hitting the streets protesting government policies,
creating awareness about the environment, or collecting aid for the destitute.
• It is not uncommon to find students of Jawaharlal Nehru College (Delhi) or Delhi
University barricading the road and protesting against the tyrannies of the
government.
• . When the worst earthquake hit Nepal earlier, we have seen students from all
over the country getting on the streets and collecting food, money, clothing and
medication for the survivors. Even during the tsunami in Andaman and Nicobar
we found the youth of our country engaging in similar social activities
• . When a young girl was brutally raped and murdered in Delhi, the whole country
witnessed how students in all the cities of the country hit the streets demanding
capital punishment for the offenders
India against Corruption Movement

• The majority of the protestors during the "India against Corruption"

movement which swept Delhi, comprised of college students.
• The major weapon used by the students in this battle against
corruption was new tools of communication like Facebook and
Twitter. The India against Corruption movement unleashed the
disenchantment of the students against the political leaders of all
colors
• Though the movement was headed by Anna Hazare a septuagenarian
Gandhian, the movement was essential a student's movement at
heart.
• The best part of a student’s movement is that they generally tend to
operate outside the channels of political parties.
• Moreover, Youth movement these days transcends the barriers of
community and are becoming more and more transnational. It is not
uncommon to see Indian students collecting aid for earthquake
victims of Nepal or Spanish students launching a protest the Israeli
occupation of Gaza.
• Youth of the 21'st century prefer to organize their principles in a way
which would enable them to enact their movement in a broader
context