120+ organizations come together at ‘PRAYAAS’ to commit towards collective action for India’s youth

New Delhi, February 01, 2023: With the target to unlock the potential of India’s youth, Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) organized ‘Prayaas – Young Minds, New Possibilities’ an invite-only convention held on January 31 in New Delhi. Prayaas aimed to stimulate a cohesive and collective understanding of the present points and instil a way of urgency towards constructing new pathways for the youth of our nation. The occasion was supported by YuWaah and Amazon.

Some leaders together with Mekin Maheshwari, Founder, of Udhyam Learning Foundation; Priya Agarwal, Co-Founder & Director, of Antarang Foundation; Akshay Saxena, Co-Founder, of Avanti Fellows; Raj Gilda, Co-Founder, of Lend A Hand India, and Aakash Sethi CEO, Quest Alliance addressed the media. Attending the occasion have been change-makers, practitioners, and leaders from over 120 of India’s prime organizations together with The Nudge Institute, Magic Bus, J-PAL, Tech Mahindra Foundation, STIR schooling, Nalanda Way, India Literacy Project, Dream-A-Dream, Kshamtalaya, Aflatoun, ACT grants, IndusAction, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar, Veddis, Urban Company, Harappa, Sattva, Commutiny, LabourNet, Dalberg, Meghshala, Amazon, Head Held High, The Education Alliance, Reap Benefit, Kaivalya Education Foundation, StateStreet, Delhi authorities faculty college students, lecturers and different unbiased individuals enthusiastic about youth.

Speaking at the occasion, Hon. Shri. Manish Sisodia, Education Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi stated, “Indian youth holds the important thing to the nation’s development. Youth have to be impressed and supplied with alternatives to grow to be life-long learners. Hear them and belief them as they’ll grow to be the innovators who will change the world sooner or later. We as enablers, want to be extra experimental in our strategy and maintain testing new fashions for academic transformation and produce them to scale for our nation at massive. Education wants to be a precedence for coverage, authorities and political leaders.”

“Prayaas is an effort to unite like-minded individuals and organizations who care deeply concerning the lack of alternatives and pathways for India’s youth to understand their potential. The objective is to construct a thriving and supportive ecosystem, the place each particular person feels empowered to outline their very own path. At this occasion, we got here together to reframe the problems relating to schooling, skilling, and employment and commit to creating alternatives for our younger individuals collectively,” stated Mr. Mekin Maheshwari, Founder, Udhyam Learning Foundation.” More than ever, we want to speed up change at scale: impacting 20-30% of India’s youth, and do it NOW, earlier than our demographic dividend goes away and turns right into a demographic catastrophe,” he added.