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@article{185500,
        author = {MR. V. THAMARAI SELVAN and Dr.A. Bharathy},
        title = {HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT OF POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS VIKSIT BHARAT 2047},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {1622-1632},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=185500},
        abstract = {As India turns towards 100 years of its independence it would be contributing about 24.3% to the global workforce. Its direct impact on our economic growth and development cannot be underestimated.  This much acclaimed demographic boom of young people with a median age of 28.4 years (average age of working group population) can enhance our competitive advantage locally and globally. In order to successfully exploit this advantage and to build a better morale among the next generation is essential and imminent of positive youth development. Studies conducted in this field also emphasize the need to address the problems of the growing youth population like cross-cultural challenges, gender-based violence and drug abuse that derail the productivity of the future generation.  It is here that this study would be a novel attempt to focus not just on building a cognitive or skill-based talent force but a holistic youth. This calls for not only grooming skill-based talent among the youth but building holistic youth through focussing on psychological wellbeing powered by spiritual intelligence.
Psychological wellbeing can lead to positive mental states, such as happiness or satisfaction and our young people should possess them in abundance. Also, youth is the best time to develop positive emotions and training skills, because youth are seeking to find their identity and their future personality during this period. Again, this can be powered by cultivating spiritual intelligence that is associated with deep understanding of the inner self and the feeling of connectedness with a supreme self. This research paper is thus a holistic assessment of positive youth development based on the two different but related constructs of psychological and spiritual knowledge to build strong youth rather than merely looking upon it as an economic dividend. The paper also dwells on the growing need for mindfulness in steering positive youth development as India prepares for a Viksit Bharat.},
        keywords = {positive youth development, psychological well-being, spiritual intelligence, mindfulness},
        month = {October},
        }