National Youth Parliament Scheme (NYPS) 2.0 – Comprehensive Study Notes

Chain of official communication spans $5$ pages (dated between $24^{th}\,May\,2024$ and $2^{nd}\,July\,2025$ ).
Core ministries & departments involved:
- Ministry of Education (Department of Higher Education – CDN Section).
- Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA).
Key file / letter numbers (chronological):
- $M.11012/02/2024\text{-}CDN$ (MoE covering letter, $02\,July\,2025$ ).
- $NYPS/1/2024\text{-}YP$ (MoPA D.O., $03\,June\,2025$ ).
- $NYPS/1/2024\text{-}YP\text{-}II$ (MoPA D.O., $24^{th}\,May\,2024$ ).
- Earlier references: $6/5/2018\text{-}YP$ (dated $28\,Nov\,2019$ ) and $6/1/2019\text{-}YP\text{-}Part\,(2)$ (dated $30\,Mar\,2022$ ).
Addressees include Directors of IITs, NITs, IIITs, IISERs, SPAs, other CFTIs, Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities, and NIEPA, alongside Secretaries of the Department of Higher Education.

Initiated in $1966$ to:
- Strengthen democratic roots among youth.
- Inculcate discipline & respect for parliamentary procedures.
- Develop tolerance for divergent viewpoints.
- Familiarise students with actual functioning of Parliament.
Consistently praised by parliamentarians, academicians, bureaucrats, and administrators for its civic-education value.

Web-portal-based National Youth Parliament Scheme (NYPS) first launched on $26\,Nov\,2019$ in Central Hall, Parliament House by the Hon’ble President of India, in presence of the Hon’ble Prime Minister and Members of both Houses.
Upgrade to NYPS $2.0$ (link: https://nyps.mpa.gov.in/) announced; removes restriction to recognised institutions—now open to every citizen.
Current cycle: $4^{th}$ Edition registration in progress.

Institution Participation
- All recognised educational institutions eligible.
- Sub-categories:
- “Kishore Sabha” → students of Classes $VI$ – $XII$ .
- “Tarun Sabha” → Undergraduate & Post-graduate students.
- Institutions can conduct multiple sittings via separate registrations for different student batches.
Group Participation
- Any group of citizens may organise Youth Parliament sittings following portal guidelines.
Individual Participation
- Solo citizens attempt an online quiz on the theme “Bharatiya Democracy in Action.”

Entire registration & administration workflow online; institutions self-register.
Embedded E-training modules, videos, photographs, scripts for self-learning.
Post-event digital credentials:
- Each participating student → Digital “Certificate of Participation.”
- Teacher-in-charge & Head of Institution → “Certificate of Appreciation.”

Ministries urge all Bureau Heads, Boards, and institutions to:
- Issue necessary instructions to maximise participation on a regular basis.
- Encourage Boards to treat NYPS as an extra-curricular activity / project work.
- Provide MoPA with database of institution names & email IDs for direct outreach.
Letters emphasise inclusion of “hitherto untouched sections & corners of the country.”

Prior D.O. letters (Nov $2019$ & Mar $2022$ ) already advocated expansion of NYPS coverage.
Steady elevation from traditional in-person competitions to hybrid digital-portal model.

Promotes participatory democracy & active citizenship from school level onwards.
Reinforces constitutional values: dialogue, debate, tolerance, accountability.
Digital certificates & open access democratise civic education, reducing logistical barriers.

MoPA Secretariat address: G- $62$ , Sansad Bhavan, New Delhi- $110001$ .
Secretary (MoPA): Shri Umang Narula | Tel. $011\text{--}23083855,\,23083856$ | Fax $011\text{--}23017663$ | Email: secympa@nic.in
MoE (Higher Education) contact in covering letter: Shri Ramesh Kumar Sharma, Under Secretary | Office: $535C$ -Wing, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi.