SChief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan urged youth to make meaningful efforts setting big targets. He said that the youth should come forward to eliminate terrorism, for poverty eradication, women’s empowerment, encouragement to talent, addiction-free world and for environmental balance.
Chouhan was addressing the inaugural session of Indo-ASEAN Youth Summit on Monday. The summit was organised under the auspices of Union Ministry for External Affairs, Madhya Pradesh Government and India Foundation. Chief of India Foundation Ram Madhav was present on the occasion.
Chouhan stated that youth must come forward to tackle the prime challenges of present era. Efforts to eliminate terrorism mentality are must to finish terrorism.
Besides, devotional activities are needed to eradicate poverty considering poor as lord. Chouhan said that works on Poor Welfare Agenda are being undertaken in the leadership of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Union Minister of State VK Singh said that the youth leaders are the builders of the future policy. The experiences of the summit will inspire youth on innovations and their implementation. It will lighten up their path to realise dreams of their future. He said that the beliefs, destiny and past of the Indo-ASEAN countries strongly connect them to each other. He said that the Indo-ASEAN area’s population is young which will be the basis of our power in the world in future.
Secretary in External Affairs Ministry Priti Saran threw light on the efforts to strengthen mutual ties between Indo-ASEAN countries. She said that study and training programmes for parliamentarian and diplomats are also organised during political security, economic, social, cultural support programmes. She said that the experiences of the participants and their conclusions will decide the region’s governance and policy making in future.
Well-known film actor Anupam Kher has said that India was a slave for a long time but we always remained happy and continued to remain so. As a result of the capacity for tolerating the bad times and maintaining our inner joy, we have been able to keep our culture and traditions alive. Kher was having an inspiring dialogue with youths from different countries taking part in the Indo-ASEAN Youth Summit.
Kher said that the representatives have come here from different countries but their culture, traditions and sensitivities remain the same. The objective of the summit is to express and strengthen this solidarity prevalent in these countries. He spoke to the representatives of Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Croatia, Maos, Indonesia, Singapore and Philippines.