Umang 2024 – Berhampur University

ABOUT THE EVENT

East Zone Youth Festival 2023-2024

Youth Festivals and Youth Leadership Camps play a significant role in engaging the students of the University and its affiliated colleges in creative, artistic and cultural activities. While participating in Zonal, Inter-zonal and National Youth Festivals, students get an opportunity to show their talent and interact with their contemporary students in other states, thus promoting the spirit of peace, tolerance, national integration, communal harmony and humanism. Each individual participant act as a cultural embassy /ambassador of their university in presenting their native state of art culture before their counterparts of other states.
37th Inter University East zone youth festival convenes all the 115 participating Universities of the East Zone, which would be including the participants from their affiliated colleges to take part in different Music, Dance, Theatre, Literary and Fine art competitions to be hosted by Berhampur University from 16th to 20th February 2024 under the aegis of Association of Indian Universities (AIU). The youth festival named as “UMANG-2024” is aimed at promoting cultural ethos, value-based living, social engineering to make students the smart citizens of a smart India.

MESSAGE FROM VICE CHANCELLOR

Greetings from Berhampur University !

At present, India has the largest youth population in the World. According to United Nation Population Fund (UNPF) projections, India will continue to have one of the youngest populations in the world till 2030. India is experiencing a demographic window of opportunity, a “youth bulge” that will last till 2025. Every third person in an Indian city is in the age group of 21-30. Time has arrived, the young population is to be inspired, motivated and empowered to break age-old stereotypes, myths, outdated customs and conventions. Now time is to initiate the youth to steer the nation into the era of awareness, equality, spirit of tolerance, modern entrepreneurship, collective policymaking, connected societies, ethical politics and honest ways of living. National policy missions such as ‘Skill India’