UP CM Yogi Adityanath will award Vivekananda Youth Awards and inaugurate sports halls and rural stadiums on National Youth Day in Lucknow.

Lucknow: The CM Yogi Adityanath will commemorate Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary, known as National Youth Day, with a big state-level ceremony. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will award the Vivekananda Youth Awards (2024-25) at the main event, which will take place on Monday at the Jupiter Hall, Indira Gandhi Pratishthan. Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Girish Chandra Yadav will also attend the event.

The Chief Minister will open five multipurpose halls, two in Lucknow and one each in Hardoi, Kannauj, and Saharanpur, built at a cost of ₹21 crore under the Khelo India Khelo project. At the same location, he will lay the groundwork for three rural stadiums in Sultanpur, Kasganj, and Fatehpur, costing ₹26 crore.

Ajat Shatru Shahi, Deputy Director of the Youth Welfare Department, stated that the state-level Vivekananda Youth Award will be given to ten young achievers in the individual category, as well as to selected youth and women’s groups in the Mangal Dal category. Individual category winners will get ₹50,000, a souvenir, shawl, and a certificate of appreciation. The youth and women’s groups will each receive a first prize of ₹1 lakh, including a trophy, memento, shawl, and certificate. More than 1,500 Mangal Dal youth will attend the Vivekananda Youth Award ceremony in Lucknow.

The Chief Minister will recognize these young individuals at the state level in the individual category:

1- Abhineet Kumar Maurya, Hardoi.

2- Mahika Khanna, Shahjahanpur

3. Martand Ram Tripathi – Gorakhpur

4. Abhishek Pandey – Mau

5. Sanjana Singh – Bareilly

6. Pranav Dwivedi – Gorakhpur

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7. Sakshi Jha – Ghaziabad

8. Sachin Gauri Verma – Gorakhpur

9. Divyansh Tandon – Meerut

10. Shikha Sehlot – Ghaziabad

Selected Youth Welfare Groups

1- Rizwan Munir, President of the Sant Kabir Nagar – Semariyawan Gram Panchayat

2- Ghanshyam Singh (President, Bijnor-Shahadpur Gulal Gram Panchayat)

3- Indrajeet Lodhi (President) of Shahjahanpur’s Chaudhera Gram Panchayat

Women’s Welfare Groups

1- Bijnor- Nahtaur Development Block – Basera Khurd Gram Panchayat – Jyoti (President)

2- Firozabad – Aran Development Block – Akbarpur Sarai Gram Panchayat, Shivani Chandel (President)

3- Sant Kabir Nagar, Santha Development Block, Pasai Gram Panchayat, Suman Kumari (President)