Youth and Sports Minister Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today released the India Youth Development Index and Report 2017 in New Delhi. The Index enables recognizing the high and low performing states, identifies the weak domains and informs the policy makers the priority areas of intervention for youth development in the states. An official release said, the objective of constructing the index is to track the trends in youth development across the States.<br/><br/> The Ministry said, constructing Youth Development Index for the year 2017 was done using the latest definition of youth as used in National Youth Policy-2014 and World Youth Development Report of Commonwealth as well as using the Commonwealth Indicators in order to facilitate Global comparison. <br/>The Index will enable the policy makers track the national and the regional progress as well setbacks in youth development policies, planning, priority identification and implementation strategies. <br/>The Ministry said, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu has come out with Youth Development Index and Report 2017. It said, this is a pioneering attempt made by the Institute in 2010 which it followed up with the India Youth Development Index in 2017.