Jagriti team visits Sri City, interacts with CEOs

Tirupati: Participants of the Jagriti Yatra, an ambitious train journey of discovery and transformation that takes hundreds of highly motivated youth, especially those from smaller towns and villages of the country, on a 15-day, 8000 km national odyssey to meet role models, social and business entrepreneurs of the country, arrived at Sri City on Saturday. 

On the arrival of a large contingent of 500 youngsters of which half were women, Sri City authorities extended a warm welcome and took them around the Integrated Business City. 

The yatra facilitates interaction with some of the role models in social and business entrepreneurship across the country. 

Besides interacting with the Chairman of Sri City Srini Raju, who was selected as a role model by Jagriti Sewa Sansthan, they had the opportunity of meeting the CEOs of some of the units. 

Addressing them, Srini Raju said that this was their third consecutive visit to Sri City. 

The Yatra has a meaningful purpose, based on the idea of enterprise-led development. He advised the youngsters to ‘think big and achieve the set goals’ and utilise the available opportunities by drawing carefully a proper roadmap. 

Thanking management of Sri City and other industrial units for giving the opportunity, the Executive Director of Jagriti Yatra, Ashutosh has explained about the mission and said that it aims to inspire youth of the country to become job creators and develop enterprise solutions for their districts, with the spirit which Sri City captured perfectly.  

Jagriti Yatra, which was launched in 2008, as a journey of social awakening, was being continued every year, and this year's yatra is the 11th consecutive one. 

It commenced at Mumbai on December 25th and will cover 12 cities/towns/villages of India. During the journey, yatris will be exposed to an entrepreneurial ecosystem, comprising of 4-axes of learning: Panel discussions, role-model visits, Yatri interactions, and Biz Gyan Tree.