Women, youth power will make India leader of world: Governor Anandiben Patel

PRAYAGRAJ: Governor Anandiben Patel said here on Saturday that India will become a world leader with the power of women and youth, adding that the policies of the government are such that even women power is now contributing to the progress of the country, which is vital as unless women power is not channelized and used up to its potential, the country cannot develop.
She was speaking after inaugurating the “Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav”, organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-associated Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan at Jwala Devi Inter College, Civil Lines.
The Governor said that Vidya Bharati was working on developing character in youths, due to which India is moving towards becoming a world guru.
“Earlier, women who used to oppose education of girls are themselves today supporting and aiding educating daughters,” she added.
The governor said that children should be taught yoga and given knowledge of culture along with good manners from the primary school level itself. “Every child has some or the other talent. Through different programmes, the hidden talents of children can be discovered and further enhanced,” she said while maintaining that the new National Education Policy-2020 is going to lay the foundation of 21st century India. Its foremost feature is the promotion of a strong research culture, she added.
Presiding over the event, mayor Abhilasha Gupta Nandi said that Vidya Bharti is building a new generation through education and culture in a real sense. Earlier, president of Vidya Bharti Sanskriti Shiksha Sansthan, Lalit Bihari Goswami said that the institute is running a campaign of spreading knowledge about cultural rituals in the country. Vidya Bharti’s National co-organization secretary Yatindra Sharma said that while preserving India’s ancient knowledge tradition, Vidya Bharti is carrying out the responsibility of strengthening and ideologically enriching the students with knowledge of modern science. Director of Sanskriti Shiksha Sansthan, Kurukshetra, Ramendra Singh introduced the guests. Programme coordinator Ramji Singh proposed the vote of thanks.
Those present included MLAs Harshvardhan Bajpai, Sidharth Nath Singh, Piyush Ranjan Nishad, vice-chancellor of Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University Prof Seema Singh, vice-chancellor of Dr Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Prof Akhilesh Singh. UP Governor Anandiben Patel also said that the denizens of Prayagraj are fortunate that they have the privilege of living at a place which has the confluence of the two mighty rivers of the country, Ganga and Yamuna along with the mythical Saraswati. “But drying up of rivers is a matter of concern. We have to try to save water and environment from today itself for the future of our children. We have to take a pledge that we will not allow water to be wasted and also make others aware about it,” she said.