Overview
- An official release says Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the final session of the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue at Bharat Mandapam around 4:30 pm, engaging roughly 3,000 delegates including diaspora youth as teams present proposals across ten thematic tracks.
- Educational institutions, youth organisations, NSS and NCC units, and Ramakrishna Mission branches held talks, workshops and cultural programs under ministry-backed National Youth Week.
- Leaders across parties posted tributes, with messages from the Prime Minister and President Droupadi Murmu and posts by Congress figures including Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi.
- States reported large-scale participation, including Odisha’s mass Vande Mataram singing by over 21 lakh students across more than 16,000 institutions, according to an official note.
- In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed a youth program and presented Swami Vivekananda Youth Awards to individual achievers and community groups.