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World Youth Skills Day: Bal Raksha Bharat Expands its YIAL Program Nationwide Helps Youth from Karnataka & Bihar Set up Sustainable Businesses through Clean Energy Products 15th July New Delhi/ Bihar, India – With an aim to leverage and catalyze the entrepreneurial potential of Indian youth, particularly in the realm of women-led social and green enterprises, Bal Raksha Bharat, India’s leading independent child rights NGO, is excited to announce the expansion of Youth Innovation and Action Lab (YIAL), a catalyst to create LOCAL-entrePRENEURS. YIAL is a unique incubation and accelerator programme that brings together a cohort of youth and adolescents to identify problems faced by them, and their communities to develop and pilot ingenious solutions. This transformative initiative aims to empower marginalised youth in India, to become catalysts for change in their communities through entrepreneurship and innovation. After a successful roll-out in Delhi, its expansion across small towns in Bihar is now enabling over 200+ youth develop nine entrepreneurial propositions covering sectors like Farming, Goat Rearing, Mushroom Cultivation, Stitching Centre, Broom making and Food Cart etc,. The YIAL initiative will flag off in other states like Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal and Maharashtra phase-wise. This large-scale initiative will target both urban and rural areas, ensuring that marginalized youth have the support they need to overcome socio-economic barriers and realize their full potential Various studies reflect on India being home to the world's largest youth population, with ~66% of its total populace under 35 years of age. The country's youth workforce is projected to reach 1.08 billion by 2050. 20% of households face disproportionate barriers to education, employment and skilling opportunities. 23.22% youth were estimated to be unemployed in India in 2022. 27.2% of India's youth, (nearly 175 million) are not engaged in education, employment, or training.