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KATRA: North India Student Parliament (NISP), a non-political platform for sensitising the youth for nation building was inaugurated by Dr. Jitendra Singh, MoS PMO here at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University on Sunday. The two-day event witnessed participation of more than 100 outstation participants from as far North East as Dibrugarh. Dr. Jitendra highlighted in his speech the role of NISP as an internship of a responsible citizenship and values of democracy. The parliamentary model that our country adopted after independence is though in its infancy stage, if compared to the history of polity yet it has proved its worth and acceptability for last 70 years. “The success of the parliamentary model has compensated various pitfalls that one may point out. We often compare the success or failure of a governance type with the age of mortal human beings and find it easy to blame the government but one must remember that in case of a country, a civilization, histories are written in centuries. The most remarkable feature of Indian democracy is that the common man in India has grown much wiser than the politicians. The old tricks of politicians, the politics of caste, creed, religion and the politics of disruption are failing now. A voter today does not approve of the politics of disruption. Growth and development is the main chord, not the opportunistic politics. In a country like India where the demography is dominated by youth, the guidelines of development should be youth-centric, rather the entire future road-map should be youth-centric”, he asserted. Dr. Sanjeev Jain, Vice ChancellorSMVDU highlighted the need to understand and strengthen the democratic values among the younger generation which is more techno-centric and he also emphasized the fact that SMVDU has already taken initiative in this regard by introducing a platform like NISP. Prof. V. K. Bhat Registrar, Dr. Yugal Khajuria Dean of Students and Dr. T. R. Raina, Guest of Honour shared the dais. Dr. V. K. Tripathi, President BCA presented welcome address and Chandan Maurya student coordinator presented the vote of thanks.
Prof. S. K. Sharma, former State Information Commissioner elaborately presented to the students the history of Jammu and Kashmir and its Constitution. Dr. Ashutosh Vashishtha spoke on the present economic scenario of the country and the challenges for the youth.
