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11/03/23 08:56 AM IST

NATIONAL YOUTH CONCLAVE 2023

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  • India’s biggest youth summit- ‘National Youth Conclave’ is being organized by the Smart Cities Mission, MoHUA, Department of Youth Affairs and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA).
About Youth20
  • Youth20 (Y20) engagement group, with its first Y20 conference held in 2010, provides a platform that allows youth to express their vision and ideas on the G20 priorities and comes up with a series of recommendations which are submitted to the G20 Leaders.
  • The Y20 India summit in 2023 would exemplify India’s youth- centric efforts and provide an opportunity to showcase its values and policy measures so that India’s leadership of this summit can stand out among the youth cohort.
Priority areas of Y20 are
  • Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation, & 21st Century Skills
  • Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability a Way of Life
  • Peace building and Reconciliation: Ushering in an Era of No War
  • Shared Future: Youth in Democracy and Governance
  • Health, Wellbeing & Sports: Agenda for Youth
AboutUrban20
  • Urban 20 (U20), an Engagement Group under the G20, brings together mayors from major G20 cities to inform the discussions of national leaders at the G20, and establishes a platform for cities to collectively inform G20 negotiations.
  • U20 dialogue this year will emphasize on the need for changing the urban sector to achieve long-term beneficial results for the globe and set the way for coordinated city-level activities.
Priority Areas of U20 are
  • Encouraging Environmentally Responsible Behaviours
  • Ensuring Water Security
  • Accelerating Climate Finance
  • Championing ‘Local’ Identity
  • Reinventing Frameworks for Urban Governance and Planning
  • Catalyzing Digital Urban Futures
Source- PIB

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