Indian youth emerge as role models: T Ramasami

Tirupati, Mar 8 (UNI) The Indian youth will emerge as role models for the leaders of tomorrow and bring extraordinary values of good citizenry, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Secretary T Ramasami said here.

Delivering the tenth convocation address of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidya Peetha (RSVP) today, Mr Ramasami said youth would be the most influential people of the world.

For centuries, Indians believed education to be a process of preparation of mind whereas the Western cultures proposed it as a theory of anomie, which pre-supposed that world was primarily lawless and education made people law abiding. Indian culture treated man as a perfect creation of God, whose perfection was revealed by education, he added.

This difference in culture made Indian youth the dominant player of tomorrow.

It was truly bewildering that Indian youth between age group of 16 and 21 formed the most dominant ethnic variety of the peer group of the world as they occupied a pre-eminent position. Nearly three-fourths of the people of the world in this age group would carry the Indian gene pool, Mr Ramasami said.

Indians, were children of enslaved Indians who spent their childhood fighting for political freedom without a concrete plan for economic freedom. The people, who were born soon after August 1947, did not have to fight for political freedom, but suffered during their childhood from lack of economic freedom.

The world was increasingly using knowledge in wealth creation and development of economies. The Indian youth who had learnt to link knowledge to applications as well as solutions to important problems would be in a special position to contribute to the world economy, he added.

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