Every year, 15 July is marked as World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) to recognize the strategic promotion of equipping young people with the required skills. The particular day aims to promote the abilities and skills of today’s youth. It is an opportunity to realize the importance of skilled youth in tackling current and future global challenges.
Table of Contents:
- Youth are the heartbeat of the country.
- What is the theme of World Youth Skills Day 2021?
- Youth must be protected from intoxicants.
- Let us make the foundation stronger with healthy and fit youth.
- Education quenches the thirst of youth for realizing their potentials.
- Today’s Youth are Tomorrow’s Leaders.
- Know about someone who took a remarkable step to attract youth.
- Connecting youth to their roots.
- Boosting willpower in youth.
Youth are the heartbeat of the country.
Youngsters occupy the majority of a country’s population, thus they play a vital role in the nation’s growth and development. They are the people with new thoughts and ideas, thereby shaping the culture with reasoning and creativity. They are the foundations of a country’s economic and social growth. They have the energy and eagerness to learn, act, and accomplish with their potentials. Thus Youth engagement becomes crucial for achieving any potential goals of prosperity, stability, development, and security. They are social actors capable of introducing revolutionary changes and improvements in society.
If moulded right, they prove to be valuable tools for bringing about positive change in society and country.
What is the theme of World Youth Skills Day 2021?
The theme for World Youth Skill Day 2021 is Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic. As we all know the pandemic has affected the youth worldwide and has disrupted the education system of various nations, thus the day this year highlights significant ways to impart necessary skills to the youth and make them ready for various challenges.
“The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent our youth will be.”- Narendra Modi.

Youth must be protected from intoxicants.
When the youth of a country is entrapped in intoxicants, the nation will surely spiral downwards. The youth becomes physically unfit and unproductive because of drug abuse. Drug Abuse and intoxicants affect decision making, judgment, memory, corrode willpower, and bring mood disorders.
Many organizations worldwide are helping people to quit drugs and spreading awareness about the same. Dera Sacha Sauda is a renowned Drug Rehabilitation Centre where millions of young people have quit drug abuse with the power of meditation. The organization is working at every level to eradicate the drug menace from society.
“Youngsters are the heartbeat of the country, but don’t let intoxicants be yours “
~ Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan.
Let us make the foundation stronger with healthy and fit youth.
The youth must be motivated to healthier lifestyles through various games and sports. Sports channel energy in the right direction and contribute to character and intellect. Under the initiative, “Health Delight” Dera Sacha Sauda focuses on the upliftment of youth through sports and keep them away from drugs. The educational institutions set up by Dera Sacha Sauda discover and polish the raw young talents. These institutions have also produced about 99 International Sports-persons for India who have brought laurels to India in 14 well-known Olympic and Common Wealth sports and other international matches.
There is a sports Village in Dera Sacha Sauda especially created to provide world-class grounds and equipment to the young players to nurture their talent.
Education quenches the thirst of youth for realizing their potentials.
Education is very important for the realization of one’s strength, innate self, and potentials. The youth of a country should be provided with the best possible education and facilitated with favorable conditions to attain the skills to utilize the knowledge. With better education, youth can be an asset to the community and thus contribute actively to the development of the country. Under the initiative “Bud Of Knowledge”, Dera Sacha Sauda has set up various educational institutions in urban and rural areas to promote and facilitate education. Needy children especially girls are provided educational services free of cost. Dera Sacha Sauda also organizes timely free sessions to provide career counseling to school/college-going youth so that they can utilize their skills and choose the appropriate career according to their capabilities.
Today’s Youth are Tomorrow’s Leaders.
A nation can be better if the youth actively participates in community development. The youth can reform society with new thoughts and can help to eradicate social evils. A better healthy society can be built when youth is involved in humanitarian and welfare works. Dera Sacha Sauda is a humanitarian organization that comprises people from all age groups with the most youth. These people work towards the betterment of society with 134 welfare works. These youngsters plant trees, distribute food to the needy, construct free houses for the needy, become an aid to the disabled, and actively participate in disaster management volunteer works. Dera Sacha Sauda has connected youth from all spheres to work together towards societal reformation.
Know about someone who took a remarkable step to attract youth.

Youth and spirituality are different concepts in today’s times. Youngsters consider spirituality as illogical and boring. Religious values are long forgotten and disrespected.
To attract youth to spirituality, the chief of Dera Sacha Sauda introduced the concept of musical nights. Saint Dr. MSG used collaborated modern music with classical music and composed spiritual songs. These spiritual musical nights worked as a magnet and attracted millions of youth to learn spirituality and humanity. As it was the need of the hour, Saint Dr. MSG launched movies to make people aware of social evils and connected most youngsters towards religion and spirituality.
Connecting youth to their roots.
Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan is famous as the “Youth Icon of the Nation”. Guruji not only taught religious values to youngsters but also made them live happy and meaningful life. Guruji revived the rich culture of India by inculcating traditional values in youngsters. Youngsters started touching their parent’s feet, started respecting them, got attracted to their traditional folk dances, and thus got connected to the roots.
Boosting the willpower in youth
Saint Dr. MSG Insan taught the method of meditation to youngsters to protect them from negativity. Negativity lowers the door ductility level and ruins the happy moments. This method of mediation helps to enhance willpower that ultimately boosts confidence and productivity.
“Keep your emotions positive. Negative feelings overpower positivity. One can generate positivity by participating in welfare acts, attending satsangs, and of course, regular meditation. Make a routine to meditate with Pranayama every morning and evening. It will help you to gain physical and mental fitness and you will get rid of negative thoughts.”
~ Saint Dr. MSG
Writing credits: Lovepreet Arora





