Ganta Srinivasa Rao to release Young Lives India report at seminar hall in Andhra University Platinum Jubilee Guest House

Visakhapatnam: Minister for HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao will release Young Lives India report on ‘Findings on growth, nutrition, poverty and intergenerational change, education and youth employment, transition covering the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, said  S Galab,  director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS).

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Galab said that Minister for HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao will release the report, along with Chairman of CESS, R Radhakrishna, G Nageswara Rao, Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, R Sudarshana Rao, Vice-Chancellor of Vikrama Simhapuri University, Nellore, and Renu Singh, Country, Director of Young Lives India, on Sunday at seminar hall in Andhra University Platinum Jubilee Guest House.

Galab said following life course perspective and covering various stages of development infancy, adolescence and transition into adulthood among the two states youth. 

The longitudinal study allows us to examine how the lives of children, living in different circumstances and in diverse contexts, change over time.

Renu Singh, Country Director of Young Lives India said that they  followed two cohorts of children since 2002 and has been collecting household and child level data from 3,000 households in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. 

“We at Young Lives India would be sharing results from all the five rounds on growth and nutrition, poverty and intergenerational change, education and youth employment  at both Telugu speaking states, drawing on longitudinal research conducted from 2002 to 2016-17.