Jagriti Yatra, a nationwide annual train
journey conducted by a UP-based NGO to promote a vision of “building India
through enterprise”, reached the Brahmapur railway station on December 31.
This train takes 450 highly-motivated and
carefully-selected candidates, both at national and international levels, on a
15-day national odyssey introducing the talents to the unsung heroes of India.
The aim of the journey is to expose the youths to both social and economic
institutions that are developing unique solutions to India’s developmental
challenges, said executive director of the journey Asutosh.
The journey commences each year on
Christmas-eve. It creates awareness through extended campaigns spanning seven
segments of media, print, posters, web, radio, television partnerships and
alumni network, he told the media, While 20 per cent of the Yatris who are
youths from Australia, the USA and the UK, the other 80 per cent are from the
different parts of India including 10 per cent from Odisha.
The Yatra began on December 24 from Mumbai with
18 bogies carrying the youths of the age group of 20-27 years tp cover 7,500
km. Between the years of 2008 and 2013, over 2,200 youths have travelled in
this train, out of which only 200 succeeded in the intelligence test conducted
during the Yatra in the domain of education and agriculture.
Out of the 12 selected locations in Odisha, the
train has stopped only at Brahmapur city where 450 youths visited Gram Vikas at
Mohuda in the city and interacted with its founder Joe Madiath and well-known
social activist of Odisha SN Subba Rao. Source: The Pioneer
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