The situation of adolescents has improved impressively on multiple fronts in the last decade. They are healthier, more urbanised, better educated, and better connected with the globalised world than earlier generations, and they marry and have children later than in the past. Yet, many adolescents are unprepared to meet the needs of a globalising world. Few complete high school, considerable numbers receive poor quality education, many lack livelihood skills and employment opportunities, the health of many is compromised, deep-rooted gender inequities prevail, and the socially and economically excluded adolescents remain excluded from the fruits of development. This project synthesizes available evidence pertaining to their current status, and progress made in improving the situation of adolescents and supporting them to realise their rights in India.