SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today felicitated Young achievers with the ‘Kashmir Young Leadership Award’ during the Kashmir Leadership Summit here at SKICC.
Speaking on the occasion, the Lt Governor congratulated young achievers who received the award for their outstanding work in different fields and lauded their contribution for bringing positive changes in society. “Young leaders facilitate creation of a prosperous society that did not exist before. The young leaders, young minds can alone solve the entire world’s great problems and generate more ideas and resources to confront the future challenges”, noted the Lt Governor while felicitating the achievers.
The Lt Governor said that there is no better source of growth for a country than the power of youth. With the help of technology and benefits of globalization, the young population is the true maker of an advance and equal society, he added. Youth has great powers and it has to be exercised with responsibility, values, morality, and ethics for further progression of humanity, the Lt Governor said. Under the guidance of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, J&K is moving ahead on the path of progress and development keeping in mind the expectations and aspirations of the youth.
Our achievement in different fields is a sign of progress made in empowering youth, said the Lt Governor. He observed that Youth are the focal point of UT governments’ developmental agenda and several reformative measures are being undertaken by the administration to address the concerning issues of the youth and tapping their full potential for developing a peaceful and progressive Jammu Kashmir.
The Lt Governor observed that during the course of his regular interactions with the youth in the last 13 months, he has noted that the youth of J&K have five important priorities today- first, they should get jobs according to their qualifications; secondly, they should get ample opportunities and handholding to become entrepreneurs; third, access to modern education in consonance with market requirements and dynamically changing skillsets; fourth, implementation of good governance practices and elimination of corruption completely from the system and their fifth priority is to have the opportunity to lead a healthy, peaceful, and secure life.
