New Delhi: Happiness is a state of mind. The CNN-IBN-Hindustan Times survey findings show that the state of the mind of the Indian urban youth is fairly robust.
Less than 5 per cent of young Indians consider themselves unhappy.
Indian youth want to be happy and rich
About three quarters, 74.6 per cent are happy and another 20.7 per cent of them are neither happy nor unhappy. The proportions of happy youth are more or less invariant across age, gender and occupation status.
People in Jaipur seem to be the happiest. 91 per cent of the people in Jaipur claim to be very happy. Mumbai comes second where 89.5 per cent Mumbaikars claim to be very happy. Guwahati fares the worst where only 43.5 per cent of the people claim to be happy.
However, there was significant town wise variation on the happiness quotient:
- Very happy towns (where 85 per cent of the people said they were very happy): Mumbai, Jaipur, Ludhiana
- Happy towns (60-85 per cent of the people said they were very happy): Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Indore, Lucknow, Patna, Pune, Ranchi
- Unhappy towns/neutral towns: 40 per cent to 60 per cent of the people said they were very happy): Bhuwaneshwar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kochi
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