Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) is an Institute of National Importance by the Act of Parliament No.35/2012, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India.
The Institute is located at Sriperumbudur, nearly 40 kilometers south of Chennai city, the commercial and cultural capital and a buoyant metropolis of Tamilnadu ,the third most industrialized States in India.
RGNIYD endeavors to facilitate our nation’s youth with a conducive environment and tools that will enable them to make the most of their natural potential to realize their aspirations. RGNIYD functions as vital resource center coordinating training, orientation, research, extension and outreach initiatives for State, Central Governments and National Level youth organizations.
VISION STATEMENT
Molding young facilitators of CHANGE
As a rapidly developing nation of 1.2 billion people, our greatest human resource is our youth. The diverse actions of individuals belonging to this larger populace affect his or her society, communities, commerce and culture. From social transformations to cultural revolutions, from changing national borders to the high-speed digital evolution we are all inextricably part of at some level. It is the responsibility of the Social Sciences to maintain a record of these societal changes and upheavals, and to develop the necessary tools for studying, observing and documenting the day to day socio-economic events that affect people and communities from a national to a global level. The RGNIYD mandate is to provide the implements, skills training, knowledge, infrastructure and facilities needed by its students to graduate as potential nation builders who can perform in professional capacities, right from our grassroots communities to our urban societies.
RGNIYD is a national university that offers the most comprehensive and diverse post graduate programmes in one of the most progressive social science disciplines of today–