<h1>Youth empowerment programme implementation faces flagged delays and calls for urgent corrective action on outreach, disaster volunteerism, and women hostels.</h1> Parliamentary review finds delays and implementation gaps in the national youth empowerment scheme, calling for urgent Ministry action. Key operative measures include converting NYKS centres into District Youth Resource Centres with secured funding, integrating NYKS volunteers into mandatory disaster management committees and district Disaster Risk Reduction Teams, improving coordination with disaster authorities, enhancing outreach and inclusion for rural and marginalised students, linking skilling to employment through labour ministry collaboration, creating dedicated women-only youth hostels with security and digital amenities, and improving budgetary transparency and expenditure tracking under youth programmes.