Guwahati, Feb 8 : The three-day inception meeting of the Youth20 engagement group concluded here with the launch of a white paper on five core themes of Y20 under India’s presidency.
Union minister for youth affairs and sports Anurag Singh Thakur launched the white paper on the five key themes – “Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation and 21st century”; “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability as a Way of Life”; “Peace Building and Reconciliation: Ushering in an Era of No War”; “Shared Future: Youth in Democracy and Governance” and “Health, Wellbeing and Sports: Agenda for Youth”.
The Union minister said the themes have been carefully chosen to be deliberated upon for a shared future for the global community. “These five themes present an extraordinary opportunity for the youth to create, contribute and collaborate to the development agenda of G20,” he said.
Thakur further said that the Y20 India Summit this year would exemplify youth-centric efforts and showcase progressive policy measures ideated by the youth and for the youth across the globe.
In his remarks on the event here, Thakur said that the three-days saw invigorating ideation and spirited dialogues and deliberations on some of the most crucial issues faced by humanity.
“The peace process has started in Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir in the past eight years. Insurgency incidents have come down in the Northeast. Several initiatives have been taken by the Union government for the development of Northeast and to maintain the peace process in the region,” he added.
The Union minister also applauded the efforts of the Assam government for organising Y20 awareness drives across the state. “It is a very appreciable effort by the Government of Assam that every higher education institution in Assam organised awareness drives in 10 neighboring schools to sensitise school children about G20 groupings and functioning,” he said.
The Minister urged the youth who are busy pursuing new skills, writing software and building start-ups, to take up a sport and connect to the spiritual side for a soulful life to find relief from work pressures and mental health issues.
Attending the event, Assam education minister Ranoj Pegu delivered a presentation on research papers by students and academicians of Assam on the five themes of Y20.