JAGRITI YATRA REACHES BERHAMPUR CITY WITH 450 YOUTHS

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