By Ashapradeep Bureau:

In an effort to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, National Agenda Forum, a nation-wide youth campaign launched by the Indian Political Action Committee has garnered huge support from the students of various colleges in Balasore, including KKS Womens college and Orissa Academy of Social Science and Integrated Studies through an event organized by Part Time Associates of the forum. More than 250 students were present in the events and showed their unwavering support to the campaign. The professors of the college too supported the forum. The principal of the college along with women rights’ activist, Mrs. Rituparna Mohanty who has represented more than 20,000 women in the state stood next to the students and spoke about the National Agenda Forum and the initiative to resurrect Gandhian principles.

During the event, the students focused on unemployment as the most important issue, adding that the same needed to be considered as the most important agenda in the forum. 

Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) launched the National Agenda Forum (NAF) as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary year on 29th June 2018. NAF is a pan-India initiative to resurrect the conversation around Gandhiji’s 18-point Constructive Programme and use it to re-imagine and co-create India’s priorities to formulate an actionable agenda for contemporary India.

Till date–75,000+ youth associates from over 4,000 colleges, 273 distinguished personalities from 6 countries and 20 states, and 332 civil society organizations spread across 346 districts have joined the ever-growing NAF ecosystem.