India is a nation with large demographic dividend which has potential to contribute towards nation building, but realizing this potential requires overcoming prevalent challenges and creating an ecosystem to channelize this potential. What is Nation Building? Economic Prosperity: standard of living and availability of critical goods and services Political stability: at national, regional as well as local level is robustness of the democratic processes of the nation. Democratic processes in turn strengthen the institutional capital and governmental stability in a nation. Human Development: encompasses education as well the collective health of people. Development of citizens of a nation directly correlates to development of the nation itself. Social cohesion: society plays a key role aligning individual energies. Environmental Sustainability: direct bearing on all of nation’s entities. Need to strength Role of youth in Nation Building Energy and vitality that they bring: From constr...