A 7-km-long ‘Human chain and Candle light Vigil’ would be created in the City Beautiful during the International Youth Peace Festival-2014 (IYPF-2014).
The 7-km-long ‘Human chain and Candle light Vigil’ will be created by thousands of NSS volunteers along with international delegates of IYPF 2014 who will participate on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2.The human chain to promote ‘Rights & Dignity of Girls & Women’, will start from main gate of PGIMER and will go up to Press Chowk and cover all sides of Sector 17.
IYPF is an amalgam of a week of inspirational peace-talks, creative workshops, cooperative-games, action based activities, volunteer action, building cross-cultural relationships, cultural festivities and neigbourhood walks which starts every year on September 27 and culminates on Gandhi Jayanti i.e. October 2.
Five distinguished teachers of the tricity will also be honoured with this year’s ‘Peace Awards’ by the Union Minister of State for Sports, Youth, Skill Development& Entrepreneurship, Sarbananda Sonowal on World Tourism Day celebrated on September 27. The Minister will reach the city to attend 9th International Youth Peace Fest-IYPF 2014. Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher will preside over the event.
The programme will be organised at KB DAV-7, by Yuvsatta, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development and KB DAV Sr Sec Public School.