I trying to look at you guys but I can’t
I can’t see anyone I’d like to start off
just asking a few questions actually one
question how do you define you does
anyone have any answers I’m sorry what
energy energy all right any other
guesses what about specifically age
groups like what is the age you would
consider a used to be twenty anything
else come on I need more I did if I go
press this button I need answers to
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thank you for teammate okay so if I cry
atiim answers according to the United
Nations the the standard definition that
they use as a youth it’s fifteen to
twenty four that’s what the United
Nations uses as their standards
basically age that it used is considered
so all their policy that’s enacted is
for you involves the the age group
between those two ages now here’s some
really interesting fast specifically
that the Indian government considers
youth is fifteen to twenty nine so when
you’re fifteen years old and all the way
until you’re twenty nine you’re
considered a youth in India which is
different from the international system
but I think that’s specifically for our
cultures and our customs now within that
youth age bracket it passed almost
twenty seven point five percent of
India’s population so 15 to 20
ninety-eight do between 90s makes up
twenty seven to five percent of that age
group now according to the 2011 census I
think the 2016 isn’t out yet
the to 2011 census had 563 million
people hundreds of between the ages of
twenty to thirty five so roughly with
the front end up to about thirty five
that’s almost five hundred and fifty
million
people that somewhere another would be
considered a youth now that’s a huge
demographic where when practically using
legislative policies it’s very hard
because someone when they’re 15 years
old or someone when they’re dirty or 29
it’s very hard to enact those policies
that cater to them now according to the
Commonwealth Youth Program which is
basically what it says that youth
program for Commonwealth nations India’s
youth development in debt the most
recent one is that 0.58 and what they
basically consider is use policy towards
the towards in that specific country how
much are they catering to the youth
what are they use doing etc all these
variations of variables at that point
five eight which is which comes under
150 or so countries 170 pitches so down
this being all this information that’s
you and I’ll be honest at this point if
I could get this working what so what’s
our story trying to say seeing ageism
right facing the backlash against age
whether it being a youth whether it’s
trying to be heard great stories about
founders and entrepreneurs that at a
very young age whether ears in India or
abroad are trying to face this ageism
guy now at this point I don’t have
anything prepared so I thought like what
could I actually talk about and then
what I’d normally do is talk about
myself so I was born and raised in the
United States and I would split my time
from here in New Delhi and in some areas
of priam and constantly I was in the
minority because in the United States
I was this brown Indian dude living in
the middle of Bible Belt Alabama trying
to talk about how American I was and
then here in India I was this poor kid
who had a really funny walk and couldn’t
speak to me properly so I was always in
the minority in because I was in the
minority I always had I see the biases
against me they’re all
ranging from whether I was racially in
the same group whether I was
linguistically in the same group but I
truly think that the biggest issue that
I’ve always faced is the bias against my
age when I was who in 2013 a freshman in
high school in college I decided that I
would start a quality initiative a
nonprofit that sent teachers to students
in rural Haryana Rajasthan and basically
the idea is we’re trying to do community
based organization so we’re trying to
take away the the more deals that get in
the way of providing education and while
I was doing this and I have these big
thoughts and big ideas like everyone
here
I always encountered problems in terms
of HIV yeah yeah or things like you know
like it’s a phenomenal idea but can you
handle it it’s and then the second
answer that out of it when I would go to
seed butters is like I’m the father of
enough of pH so these repetitive
questions and that they would always end
in a no thankfully I encountered someone
at Clinton Global Initiative who seed
funded this idea and now we have
multiple teachers going out to almost 36
different locations but that’s the idea
is is that I had to face these issues
faces biases against people just because
of my age not because of the will not
because of the capability not because of
the potential that I had because of my
age so I learned that there are
incredible challenges that you have to
face and I kinda want to help people
that want to face those challenges so
what we’re creating one second
the center of youth effect so the idea
is is that all these challenges that
exist whether it’s the group policy or
center policy that interacts with
stakeholders whether it’s actual youth
involvement and organization structured
for you we’re trying to create a center
that deals with these end and a pro bono
basis consult with the agencies whether
that’s the Ministry of Youth Affairs or
whether that’s private companies to help
on youth policy within this Center for
Youth Affairs what we’re trying to do is
we’re trying to create a community to
work on issues so a productive workforce
contributing the India’s economic
development a strong and healthy
generation promoting social values and
community services and we’re also trying
to facilitate participation and civic
engagement and we’re also trying to
support used at risk and create
equitable opportunities for all the
disadvantaged and marginalized youth and
our priority areas are best but we’re
working on that in education employment
and skill development entrepreneurship
helps sports decision in politics
inclusion and social justice so the idea
is is that finally there are there’s a
way that we can get more involved
whether that’s not that whether it’s in
politics whether there’s an
entrepreneurship and hopefully be
facilitated by the government and that’s
what we’re trying to work on and the
idea behind it again was people like me
and and in – L facing all these biases
against us and what we did what we
thought of it what we came to the
conclusion is that we’ve always had low
expectations from ourselves from not
ourselves but from the people that we’re
dealing with because of our age and at
this point we will gladly accept those
low expectations that people have based
on our age and hopefully accept them and
deliver on them with things that we do thank you so much