‘Telangana Youthquake’ to be held in September

Hyderabad: A one-day State level programme ‘Telangana Youthquake – 2018’ with the theme ‘Questioning Present – Envisioning Future’ will be conducted for Students and Youth in the month of September 2018.

A declaration programme for this event was conducted at Birla Auditorium recently. Representatives of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) from across the State attended this declaration event. State president SIO Laeeq Ahmed Khan who unveiled the logo and released the poster lamented that it was a sad situation in our newly formed State that half a million children still do not go to school and about half a million State’s population remains illiterate. He said that even those who come under the sphere of literates lack the content of morality. “The heinous face of this scourge got exposed in the recent drug scandal which tarnished the image of Hyderabad as global city,” he added.

While referring to BSE - CMIE report, Laeeq said that Telangana has the third highest level of unemployed graduates in the country. He pointed out that rape cases have increased by six per cent, while the cases of bodily offences have shot up by 34 per cent, mostly crimes against women. “We call upon the youth to realise the gravity of the situation and their significance at this critical juncture. This programme will surely help demolish the unjust and unethical hollow establishments of poverty, inequality, illiteracy, immorality etc and will go down in a history as Telangana’s Youthquake,” he said.

It may be mentioned here that the word ‘Youthquake’ is defined as ‘a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people’. This word was chosen as the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year for 2017. This word gained popularity during June’s snap election in the United Kingdom in which Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party managed to engage large numbers of young people.