Why Gen Z skips the ward sabha

The full distribution for “Why do you believe Gen Z significantly avoids physical public consultation meetings like ward sabhas?” (n = 399) is: They are entirely monopolized by older generations who disregard youth inputs — 47.1% (188); The physical meeting timings heavily conflict with our modern academic/corporate work shifts — 18.5% (74); Digital governance alternatives are simply faster and cleaner to use — 17.3% (69); They are overly politicized and hostile to independent youth voices — 17% (68).

The cohort is clearly concentrated on this question. A single option carries 47.1% of responses, so the headline figure is stable enough to plan against. The smallest recorded answer, they are overly politicized and hostile to independent youth voices, still represents 68 people — a group large enough to matter in programme design even at 17%.

The sample is a community-recruited cohort of 399 respondents surveyed between 21 May and 28 June 2026. Figures describe this cohort; they are not state-level prevalence estimates and should not be reported as such.

The composition of the sample also shapes the totals: 74.4% of respondents fall in the older student and early-career band, and 72.7% identify as male. Any reading by gender, district or occupation needs disaggregated fieldwork this instrument was not designed to deliver.

The instrument records one moment in time, so nothing here identifies a cause or a trend. Statements about mechanism in this brief are interpretive and flagged as such.