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DYFI for youth policy

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The 8th all-India conference of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) on Wednesday urged the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to evolve a comprehensive national youth policy to solve the problems faced by the youth.

Essential

K.N. Balagopal and Tapas Sinha, president and general secretary of the DYFI told reporters at the conference venue here that preparing a policy framework became essential in view of the ill effects of globalisation adopted by successive Central Governments during the last 15 years.

``Rising unemployment both in industrial and agricultural sectors, increasing prices and withdrawal of social subsidy have affected the youth of the country most,'' the resolution on ``national youth policy," said.

The DYFI launched a signature campaign to highlight the demand for evolving the youth policy and brought the issue to the notice of the Prime Minister during the silver jubilee of the organisation, it added.

The spirit of anti-imperialist struggle should be the ideological basis of the national youth policy, it said, adding that it should cover issues such as making right to work a Constitutional right, imparting free and compulsory education up to the secondary level, providing unemployment allowance for the jobless, providing guidance in sports activities and taking serious measures to fight social backwardness, casteist ideologies and various forms of superstitions.

The resolution on Kashmir said the Government should come forward to ensure peace in the State by taking up development projects and providing employment, without treating it as a mere law and order problem. The conference decided to launch democratic struggles for finding a political solution to the issue to fulfil the genuine aspirations of the people of the State.

The conference also adopted a resolution on the unemployment problem, which had been ``growing beyond control.'' It flayed the UPA Government for not addressing the issue of employment generation. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme should be extended to urban areas also in all the districts. Allocation of Rs.700 crore for the scheme was meagre, it said.

The shrinkage of employment in public sector and the absence of reservation in private sector had been affecting the already limited job opportunities available for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

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