Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 1: The philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and the ideals for which he lived and worked have always been a great source of inspiration for the Indian youth. So the present youth of our nation needs to take a leaf from Swamiji’s book to achieve success.
This was stated by the Principal Secretary to Government, Youth Services and Sports Department, Alok Kumar while inaugurating the Inter-District UT level Youth Festival in an impressive, colourful and well attended function at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium, here today.
The event, which in other words is a selection/preparation camp for the artistic youth to be picked for the National Youth Festival, being held at Puducherry from January 12 to 16.
Alok Kumar was the chief guest on the occasion, while Gazanfar Ali, Director Youth Services and Sports J&K presided over the function. Both the dignitaries along with other officers of the department concerned lighted the ceremonial lamp to officials declare the event open.
Young artists representing different districts presented a variety of cultural and other allied items. A total of 344 young artists, with 207 boys and 137 girls drawn from all 20 districts of the Union Territory are taking part in this mega event, excluding 48 contingent in-charges.
The chief guest threw light on the significance of the National Youth Festival and the National Youth Day as well. He said, the National Youth Day also known as Vivekanda Jayanti is celebrated from the year 1985, adding that the youth of the nation should be firm believers of Vivekananda’s saying-“Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is achieved”.
The Director Sports lavished praise on the conveners of various committees for making superb arrangements to hold the event in a befitting manner.
The proceedings of the programme were conducted by Mohammad Yousuf and Rajesh Sambyal, while prominent persons including Bashir Ahmed, Joint Director (K), Jatinder Mishra, Deputy Director Jammu and DYSSOs from various districts were present during the event.
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