vision
At the heart of Meghalaya’s youth development strategy is the belief that youth engagement, aspiration-building and self-efficacy nurtured through personal development and talent recognition interventions are indispensable to the State’s efforts in significantly improving youth potential and employability.
While the vision of the government is to nurture a skill and talent for all youth and ensure that every youth has access to livelihood opportunities, it is important that we first identify their innate capabilities so we can align their aspirations with skilling opportunities that are relevant. The foundational soft skills and talent recognition modules under Aspire Meghalaya will lay the groundwork for further endeavours by the State Government to support the skilling needs of our youth communities across Districts. The programmes are expected to help them explore career paths for themselves and identify the skills they need to access these careers. The modules are carefully curated to equip young adults across the State with the skillsets they need to build wholesome lives and to transform their innate talents into career-worthy assets.
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Shri Conrad K Sangma
Hon'ble Chief Minister
Government of Meghalaya
be heard
To provide a platform for Meghalayan youth to express their aspirations and sentiments across diverse themes through digital and offline surveys.
be prepared
To enrol 10,000 students in select campuses across Districts in high-impact Life Skills & Soft Skills training programmes.
be seen
To encourage youth to choose an aspirational career path through modules that build a broad awareness of career domains linked to personal strengths and aptitude.
the goals
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MEGHALAYA YOUTH SURVEYS
Capturing the voices and sentiments of youth in the 14 to 22 year age bracket, covering approximately 15% of the target population.
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30,000+ Youth
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200+ Campuses
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12 Districts
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9 Thematic Areas
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SOFT SKILLS & LIFE SKILLS TRAINING
Capacity-building and training for Life Preparedness covering basic soft skills, communication skills and career aspirations for adolescents and young adults.
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10,000 Youth
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60 Campuses
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12 Districts
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20 Hours per Participant
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TALENT DISCOVERY EVENTS
Facilitating mini-talent discovery events on campuses and funnelling promising talent to selection committees aimed at identifying emerging talents across the State.
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10 State Talents
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240 District Talents
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Multi-campus Events
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State Level Summit
the interventions
2022
be heard
Meghalaya youth survey
Meghalaya’s largest ever youth survey will be conducted across 12 districts for over 30,000 youths within the age group of
14 - 22 years, to express their aspirations and sentiments across diverse themes through offline and digital surveys. The objective is to capture high-quality, honest, and transparent data insights into the pulse of our youth.
Culture & Tradition
Education &
Skills Development
Sports
Career Aspiration
Gender Equality
Quality of Life
Health & Wellbeing
Cyber Citizenship
Environment
The Meghalaya youth survey 2022
be prepared
soft skills & life skills training
The Youth Survey will culminate in the identification, selection and enrolment of 10,000 youths across 60 campuses in 12 districts of the state for high-impact Soft Skills training and Personal Growth interventions. The objective of this phase is to equip young adults with the common minimum skills needed to thrive in life in any domain. The modules are designed to instil Confidence, Communication Skills, Human Values, Critical Thinking, Talent Recognition and Emotional Wellbeing.
Basic career exploration modules are curated to encourage youth to choose career paths linked to personal strengths and aptitude. This will in turn lead to the emergence of demand-driven skilling requirements and provide the government with much-needed insights to formulate skilling interventions and mentorship opportunities that are driven by the aspirations of our youth, governed by the grassroot narrative.
Confidence
Communication
Human Values
Talent Recognition
Critical Thinking
Emotional Wellbeing
be seen
aspire Meghalaya stars
Mini talent demonstration events will be hosted at each partner campus with the objective of identifying top talents across
10 talent categories. Talent selection committees will be nominated to shortlist 240 District Talents who will vie for top honours at a State-level Summit, marking the culmination of a year-long effort. The event will recognise and honour the contributions of all stakeholders and crown the State’s Top 10 Talents that have emerged from the programme.
Art & Craft
Indigenous Performances
Contemporary Performance
Musical Instruments
Dance
Poetry
Sustainable Innovation
Singing
Public Speaking
Visual Story Telling
stakeholders
Sponsored by
Department of Sports & Youth Affairs
Government of Meghalaya
Supported by
Dept. of School Education & Literacy,
Government of Meghalaya
State Implementation Agency