Jammu : LFO-BHF (NGO) hosted 1st ever 3 days long National Youth Exchange Programme (NYEP) in J&K, U.T on theme “Role of Youth in Nation Building By Raising Voice Against Drug Menance” & National Youth Excellence Award-2023 under the leadership of Mr. Vivek Parihar (Director & C.E.O) & Mr. Vishal Singh (Director & C.O.O) at P.S.P.S Govt. P.G COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, Gandhi Nagar which is Powered by Talla Jewellers.
On day 1st, Poster Making & Symposium Competition inaugurated by Chief Guest Former Cabinet Minister R.S Chib along with Guest Of Honour Jasvir Singh, DDC Pancheri Mongri, Udhampur, Special Guests were Tariq Ahmed Shera & Anirudh Raina under the theme, The winners of Poster Making were Meghana Goude (1st), Yeasmin Nahar (2nd) & Manisha Kumari (3rd) & the winners of Symposium were Arushi (1st), Geetika (2nd) & Shreya Kalla (3rd ) followed by Cultural Evening which was inaugurated by Chief Guest Sh. Rajinder Singh, Mayor of Jammu, Guest of Honour Ranjeet Kour, STO (JKAS) and Mala Bhasin, NSS Coordinator, CLUJ & Special Guest Nidhi Abrol.
On day 2nd, Sh. Chandan Kohli, SSP Jammu City inaugurated the awareness rally on Drugs Menance in which around 400 youth took part. The rally started from P.S.P.S Govt. College For Women, Gandhi Nagar to Dogra Chowk and back, also performed “Nukkad Natak” to aware the crowd and general public more about “Drugs & its abuse” and followed by cultural evening which was inaugurated by Chief Guest Kashish Gupta, CEO Talla Jewellers, Guest of Honour Tamanna Seth, STO (JKAS) and Special Guest Bharat Bhushan Langhar
On day 3rd , Chief Guest Padma Bhushan Jenab Ghulam Nabi Azad (Former C.M J&K & President DPAP) of the day along with Guest of Honour, Padma Shri Sh. Mohan Singh and various special guests including Ms. Kashish Gupta, (CEO Talla Jewellers), Tavinder Kour, Regional Director Sanfort School, Mala Bhasin, NSS Coordinator, CLUJ, Mr. Gorav Chopra, Mr. Salman Nizami & Mr. Vishal Chopra.
Worthy Chief Guest honoured 25 Social Workers namely Mohit Sharma, Kajal Yadav, Gaurav Arya, Dr. Nitika Singh Gaur (From U.P), Sachin Nandi, Saathi Foundation (From Jharkhand), Azar Sumaiya Riyaz Motiwale, Meghana Shantaram Bhalekar, Pradnya Kalpana Shahji Sawant, Shubham Shailesh Gupta (From Maharashtra), Hrishi Sardana (Delhi), Mohit Yadav (Rajasthan), Pramesh Vijaywar (Chhattisgarh), Patel Mayurkumar Hirabhai (Gujarat), Vijayanti (Chandigarh), Chandan Kumar Dubey (Bihar), Sanjaykumar Y Biradar (Karnataka), Davera Manoj Khanna (Telangana), Ankit Chourasiya (Madhya Pradesh), P. Venkata Chaitanya Narayana (Andhra Pradesh), Lovepreet Sharma (Punjab), Irfan Ahmed, Sahil Ali, Stuti Abrol & Afreen Barkat (From J&K)
More than 300 youth & students from 16 states participated in this 3 day long National Youth Exchange Programme & National Youth Excellence Award 2023.
Chief Guest of the 3rd day also launched the website of the organisation (www.lfobhf.com).
LFO-BHF also announced the best male and best female volunteer for session 2022-2023 i.e Abhishek Gupta & Navya Verma respectively.