Varanasi: The UP minister Neelkanth Tiwari laid the foundation stone of a Youth Welfare Centre near Hyderabad Gate of Banaras Hindu University on Wednesday.
The centre is being established by the Varanasi centre of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in collaboration with a voluntary organisation —UMEED Foundation to facilitate the potential of youth in a culture of care and positivity to empower them to bring out their potential and make sustainable contributions to the society at large.
The director of UMEED Foundation and an alumnus of IIT-BHU Sandeep Kumar said regular workshops will be conducted to make the youth intellectually competent, technically skilled and most importantly pure in character. The four-storied centre will have seminar halls, kitchen for sharing free meals, multi-purpose halls for cultural events, counselling facilities, recording studio for online courses, conference rooms for value education classes and mental and physical health, and meditation room.
ISKCON Varanasi chairman Achyut Mohan Das said that the centre is a part of the Samskara Project for Youth Empowerment. This Youth Welfare Centre aims to offer services like nutritious meals to over 250 youths everyday, free education to 120 youths, 60 scholarships to promising students, training 100 youths in employment skills, in-depth meditation to over 40 youths, incubation centre for facilitating 10 start-ups annually, 500 hours of online education videos creation, anti-addiction training to over 150 youths and value education course to 225 teenagers.