Maharashtra team arrives on exposure tour to state
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, February 27 2023: IIIT Manipur team on Monday welcomed 50 students, three faculties and four student volunteers from Nagpur of Maharashtra who are on a week-long exposure tour to Manipur under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (EBSB), a pilot initiative of Government of India.

The team, which arrived here on a flight and will stay in the state till March 3, will be given a multi-dimensional exposure in five broad areas - tourism, traditions, development, technology, and people-to-people connect.

The team was given a warm welcome in a reception function held at IIIT-Manipur campus, Mantripukhri.

"This ideal initiative of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to boost nationalism and national integration", said chairman of Loktak Development Authority (LDA) M Asnikumar Singh, who attended the reception ceremony as chief guest.

The innovative programme of the Prime Minister will help youth to know the different cultures, traditions and historical background of the various states of the country through person to person contact and dialogue, he added.

The LDA chairman also presented a brief account of the more than 2000 years old history of Manipur to enlighten the visiting students.

Nodal officer of IIT Nagpur Dr Kriti S Dorshetwar, while expressing gratitude for the warm welcome, said; "We, Maharashtrian team, are here in Imphal to make friendship with you".

She also thanked the Prime Minister of India for this "beautiful" platform for the youth of the country to know each other through direct meeting and interaction.

Speaking on the occasion, IIIT Manipur director Prof Krishnan Baskar highlighted that the northeast region is not like it was in the past along with informing that there has been a lot of development in the region in the last around nine years under the present government.

The government of India, conceptualised 'Yuva Sangam' under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (EBSB) to strengthen people-to-people connect and build empathy between youth of the North-Eastern states and other states of the country.

This programme is being organised by the Union ministry of education in collaboration with various other ministries and departments such as culture, tourism, railways, information & broadcasting, youth affairs & sports, home affairs, department for development of north-east region (DoNER) and IRCTC.

Around 1000 youths of the country are expected to participate in the Yuva Sangam with full funding from the government of India.

The Maharashtra team arrived here to reciprocate the recent visit of Manipuri students to Maharashtra.

As a first initiative in the country, chief minister N Biren Singh in the presence of the Union minister of state for education & external affairs Dr RK Ranjan Singh, education minister Th Basanta Kumar Singh, HIT director Prof Krishnan Baskar and other dignitaries had flagged-off the first batch of 30 students from the state with three faculty members under EBSB-Yuva Sangam to visit Nagpur, Maharashtra for one week on February 20.The Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Mantripukhri is the coordinating institution for Maharashtra.

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