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Abstract
Adolescents are the age group among 10-19 years. It is the age where various stages of psychological, physical, physiological development occur towards teenage years to legal adulthood. If we consider in the world more than 1.2 Billions of adolescents exists and more than 21% of the Indian population is adolescents. The adolescent is considered as the second decade of life and they have to face so many situations which they never faced before. We can consider this age group is a very dangerous period because they have very poor knowledge and does not have the awareness about physiological, psychological, physical changes that develop during the period of an adolescent. In India, recent year’s young people are spending maximum time in school than earlier. Much more issues involved in adolescent age group like sexual reproductive health, nutrition, child labour, child sexual abuse, education etc. All these issues need to consider for the adolescent age group. Continuous monitoring required for the development of the adolescent. In this article, we try to highlight various gaps and challenges that are faced by the adolescent age group. The diverse measures taken by the Indian government in all the states of this country with its statistical data are articulated in this paper.