The key objectives of the National Youth Parliament Scheme (NYPS) 2.0 is to strengthen the roots of democracy, inculcate healthy habits of discipline, and tolerance of the views of others and to enable the student community to know about practices and procedures of the Parliament and to enhance their knowledge of the functioning of the Government, Constitutional values and for living their life in a democratic way.

The web-portal of NYPS 2.0 enables all the citizens of the country to participate in the Youth Parliament programme of the Ministry through 3 different ways:

                                (i)            Institution Participation: All educational institution can participate in this category by organizing the Youth Parliament sittings as per the guidelines available on the portal. The students from classes VI to XII may be selected for the “Kishore Sabha” sub-category and Under Graduate and Post Graduate level students may be selected for the “Tarun Sabha” sub-category.

                                (ii)           Group Participation: A group of citizens can participate in this category by organizing the Youth Parliament sittings as per the guidelines available on the portal.

                                (iii)          Individual Participation: An individual citizen can participate in this category by attempting a quiz on the theme of ‘Bhartiya Democracy in Action’.

The e-training material viz. Literature on Youth Parliament, Model Debate, Model Questions, Model List of Business, Model Scripts, Video Tutorials, etc. are available as training resources on the web-portal of NYPS 2.0.

This information was provided by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information &  Broadcasting ,Dr. L. Murugan  in a written reply to Rajya Sabha yesterday.

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