Mintioneth Fancon

Group-based research activities underway in Pasyih, West Jaintia Hills. Learners and community members across age groups can be seen in the photo while doing the activity “The learners did the mapping very well. It is very important to do it and it is the first time such a mapping has happened in this village. More community members should see this work. We can put the map somewhere where a larger community audience can see it.

In policy circles, references to youth in North-East India typically evoke an ambivalent response – from an acknowledgement of the enduring legacy of conflict and high levels of unemployment, resultant outmigration to an untapped potential waiting to be uncovered and integrated into the upward ‘development’ trajectory of the country. ...