The Madhya Pradesh government is organizing a two-day Youth Mahapanchayat for the first time at the state level in memory of martyr Chandrashekhar Azad on his 116th birth anniversary.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the Youth Mahapanchayat on July 23 at 11.30 am at Ravindra Bhawan in Bhopal. Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Anurag Thakur and former UNEP ED Eric Solheim will be special guests. Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia will preside over the programme.
The two-day Youth Mahapanchayat will have 6 parallel sessions for brainstorming on various topics. Eric Solheim, former ED of UNEP will be the main speaker on the first session on the first day on July 23 on the topic ‘Youth for Environment: Youth’s Responsibility for a Sustainable Future’.
Group Commander NCC Bhopal, Brigadier Sanjay Ghosh, Center for Climate Studies, IIFM Professor Bhaskar Sinha and RJ Radio Bundelkhand Sushri Varsha Rakwar will be the panelists. Shailesh Singhal, Founder, Youth of India Foundation will be the moderator in this session.
Prafulla Billore, Founder, MBA Chai Wala, will be the keynote speaker at the second session of the Youth Mahapanchayat on “Youth Enabling Next Gen Start-up :Thinking Beyond Convention”. Panelists will be Ronald Fernandes, CEO, AIC-RNTU Foundation, Founder of Kabadi Wala and Anurag Asati, Founder of KhaDigi Umang Sridhar. Abhishek Bardia, Head, MP Start-up Center will be the moderator of the session. In the evening, there will be a pplay will be staged on the life of Chandrashekhar Azad followed by folk dance by Ahan Shiksha Sanskriti Samiti.
The Youth Mahapanchayat will have 4 sessions on the second day. In the first session, Padma Shree painter Bhajju Shyam will be the keynote speaker on the topic ‘Mera MP, Mera Gaurav: Contribution in Rejuvenating Pride of MP’. Indian Air Force Pilot Avani Chaturvedi, Mountaineers Bhavna Deharia and Ratnesh Pandey and Chai Sutta Bar Founder Anubhav Dubey will be the panelists. Journalist Akash Soni will join the session as moderator.