Recognising this potential, the Government of India launched the Youth Engagement and Empowerment Program to help unemployed youth become self-reliant and reduce joblessness. A satellite heifer-rearing unit, complete with subsidy support for shed construction and rearing costs, is another avenue open to young entrepreneurs. Free-range poultry units, which require only the provision of night shelters, are similarly eligible for subsidy support under IPDP and HADP. When these come together, they strengthen the entrepreneurial capacities of rural youth in tangible ways. In the final analysis, the Youth Engagement and Empowerment Program represents more than a set of subsidies — it is a structural shift in how rural India thinks about employment.