Mission Blue Foundation in association with Tourism department is organizing Youth Assembly at Audrey House, Ranchi. This programme will be organised from Feburary 21 to 23. Youth assembly aims at to transform Jharkhand into a participative democracy.

“Generally there are more focus given on sports, arts and culture. But if any student wants to get into active politics there is no way. So we are giving them open platform where they discuss on a bill and learn the procedure. This three day program will be headed by a jury who will keep an eye on the functioning. This event is an effort to bridge the gap between policy makers of today with those of tomorrow,” said Pankaj soni, Chairperson of Mission Blue foundation.

Youth assembly will start from a workshop on February 21, which is open to all and the participants too. The house will have an assembly sitting for two days on 22nd and 23rd February. Registration will be done through online and offline methods. The link for online registration is shared on their facebook page. Registration will close on 6th of February.

“There will be total 81 participants that are from 81 constituency of state. Selected candidates will be participate in question hour, zero hour, debate on bills, all party meeting and end with panel discussion on 23rd February. At the end of the event we plan to search five best speakers and distribute prize money worth Rs One lakh along with memento to the winners.

 Other than this all participant will be given Certificate of participation. The committee will sponsor the fooding and lodging of the selected candidates,” said Akash Pandey, member of the organizing committee.

Further this event will also be joined by Nusrat Jahan, Member of Parliament from Basirhat and Anurag Thakur from Hamirpur.

The youth in the age group of 18-25 years will only be eligible for this programme., he added.

This event will act as a platform for the youth to speak up, create an impact and change the agenda; to take on the policy makers and highlight the need of innovative thinking that will take the country forward. The platform will inspire the youth to express their views in an organized way.