YUVA Scheme 

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• The Ministry of Education has launched “YUVA- Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors”. 

• YUVA is an Author Mentorship program that will train young and budding authors aged below 30 years in order to promote reading, writing and book culture in India. It will also project India and Indian writings worldwide. 

Key Highlights 

• YUVA stands for “Young, Upcoming and Versatile Authors”. 

• The scheme is in line with the PM's vision of encouraging young writers to write about India’s freedom struggle. 

• Call on the young generation to write about freedom fighters was taken in PM’s Mann ki Baat in January 2021. YUVA is a part of India@75 Project which seeks to bring perspectives of the young generation of writers on themes including Freedom Fighter, Unsung Heroes, Unknown and Forgotten Places etc. 

• The Scheme will be implemented by “National Book Trust of India” under the Ministry of Education. Books written under this scheme will be published by National Book Trust. Books will be translated into different languages to exchange culture and literature. 

• Under the YUVA scheme, a total of 75 authors will be selected by an All-India Contest and the winners will be announced on August 15, 2021. Young winning authors will be trained by eminent authors to prepare manuscripts. 

• The published books will be launched in January 2022 on the occasion of National Youth Day.