Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched ‘Viksit Bharat @2047: Voice of Youth’ via Video conferencing. The workshop will provide a platform to the youth of the country to contribute ideas to the vision to make India a developed nation by 2047, the 100th year of independence, in line with the PM Modi’s vision to actively involve the youth of the country in the formulation of national plans, priorities and goals of the country.

The workshops will be a key step towards initiating the process of engaging youth to share their ideas and suggestions on various aspects of development, including economic growth, social progress, environmental sustainability, and good governance for Viksit Bharat @2047, the Prime Minister’s Office said.

The inauguration program was attended by Vice Chancellors of Universities, Heads of Institutes and faculty members in workshops organized at Raj Bhavans across the country. In Nagaland too, the live screening of the program was held at Raj Bhavan, Kohima which was attended by Governor La Ganesan and by heads of various universities in the State.

In his address, PM Modi said emphasized that the next 25 years are going to be decisive for the careers of the youth in colleges and universities of today. “Youth power is both the agent of change and also the beneficiaries of change”, he said as he noted that the India is going to be the leader in terms of the working-age population for the coming 25-30 years.

PM Modi also noted that it is the youth who are going to create new families and a new society in the future and therefore it is they who have the right to decide how a developed India should be. With this spirit, the Prime Minister added, the government wants to connect every youth of the country with the action plan of a developed India.

He stressed on moulding the voice of the country’s youth into the policy strategy for building a developed India and highlighted the role of educational institutions that maintain maximum contact with the youth. PM Modi highlighted the role of educational institutions in the personality development of an individual and said that a nation becomes developed only with the development of its people. He emphasized that teachers and universities ponder about finding ways to make India a developed country at a faster pace and also identify specific sectors for improvement towards becoming a developed nation.

Modi underlined the need to channel the energy of the students and the youth of every university towards achieving the common goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’. He urged everyone to go beyond their limits to contribute to the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047 and suggested running special campaigns in every college and university in the country to connect more and more youth with this campaign. The Prime Minister mentioned the launch of Ideas Portal related to Viksit Bharat.