Government of Nepal Country Resources Child and Youth General Policies, Laws, Strategies & Plans, Service Standards Nepal 6 October 2015 Policy document

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Youth power is an invaluable asset of the nation. Youths are the pioneers and change agents of political, economic, social, and cultural transformation. Youths remain as the chief heritage of the nation due to courage, creativity, learning competence, and a high degree of self-confidence which is also considered to be the major source of nation-building. The total population of the people belonging to the 16 to 40 years age group constitutes 40.3 percent of the total population in Nepal. The youths being the backbone of the nation from a qualitative and quantitative viewpoint, it is essential to make overall development of the youths and to bring their competence in the mainstream of national development. National Youth Policy, 2066(2009) has been promulgated with a view to promoting basic norms and values like youths' allegiance to the nation, nationality, and the people, fulfillment of the basic needs of the youths, the policy of equality and equitable distribution, constitutional supremacy, personal liberty, the principle of universal human rights, democratic norms and values, world peace, coexistence and protection and promotion of basic norms and values like caste, language, culture and environmental heritage. As directed by the Policy, the National Youth Policy, 2072(2015) has been formulated following a review made after five years.

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