22nd National Youth Day

22nd National Youth Festival 2018

Question: Where are the ’22th National Youth Festival’ organized in the middle of January 12, 2018?
(a) Bhopal
(b) Raipur
(c) Greater Noida
(d) Gandhinagar
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:

  • From 12th-16th January 2018, the ’22nd National Youth Festival’ was organized in Gautam Buddha University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Greater Noida (UP).
  • This was being organizing first time in the National Capital Region (NCR).
  • The theme of this five-day festival is ‘Siddha from Sankalp’.
  • This is being organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
  • 5000 volunteers from the National Service Scheme and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sanghatana across the country are participated in this festival with local youth.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the festival on January 12, 2018 through video conferencing.
  • This festival is the largest youth festival of its kind in the country, which was first organized in 1995 in Bhopal (MP).
  • India is that the 21st National Youth Festival was organized in Rohtak, Haryana whose theme was ‘Youth for Digital India’.

Reference:
http://www.ddinews.gov.in/people/national-youth-day-being-celebrated-today
http://newsonair.nic.in/full_news.asp?type=bulletins&id=112