Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, delivered the inaugural address for the National Youth Day at Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh via video-conferencing from Race Course Road.
- National Youth Day (Yuva Diwas or Swami Vivekananda Birthday) is celebrated with the great joy and enthusiasm in India every year on 12th of January to commemorate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda, maker of the modern India.
- First declared: By the Government of India in the year 1984 to celebrate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda as the National Youth Day.
About Swami Vivekananda:
- Swami Vivekananda was chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
- Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.
- After Ramakrishna’s death, Vivekananda travelled to the United States, representing India at the 1893 Parliament of the World Religions.
- In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint and his birthday is celebrated there as National Youth Day.
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