One fourth of India's population is in the age group of 10 - 14 years. This population has not been given adequate attention in the past through public delivered programs either education or women and child development department or for that matter even health and family welfare department. Hitherto all the national as well as state health programs have bypassed this important population group. Perhaps this could be the one of the reasons for unsatisfactory level of reproductive and child health indicators in the country.

Adolescents are exposed to many risk behaviour events, malnutrition, teenage pregnancy and problems related to sexual behaviour. We have the expertise to take up adolescent education through schools particularly to bring awareness of issues related to physiological development, nutrition, family life, conception and contraception, empowerment etc. We have developed a model, which can be replicated in any part of the country to bring the adolescent population into the main stream of nation building.