Big Yearning Among Youth To Change The Country: PM


New Delhi: There is "tremendous yearning" among Indian youth to transform the country and they are willing and prepared to participate in shaping polity and society in a way which responds to their aspirations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.

Singh said it was an extremely positive development as an aware and engaged youth is a force that can truly transform the country and enable it to get rid of poverty, disease, underdevelopment and ignorance. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Image courtesy PIB Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Addressing the annual National Cadet Corps rally, he urged people to follow the dictum of Mahatma Gandhi that 'we must become the change we want to see'.

"We are living in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected world. It is only natural therefore that there is tremendous yearning amongst our youth to transform our society for the better," he said.

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Source: PTI