New Delhi, July 17 – At the sixth BRICS Summit in Fortaleza, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need to let the youth of India, China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa lead in establishing “people-to-people contact”, suggesting a thrust on education to make it happen.
“BRICS should explore developing innovative mechanisms of youth engagement,” Modi said in his statement at the Plenary Session of the summit on Tuesday.
Here are the four suggestions Modi made for “youth engagement”:
1. An university: Setting up a BRICS University. “This would connect campuses in each of our countries; virtually, as well as through intensive student, faculty and research collaboration,” Modi said.
2. Langauge schools: Setting up of BRICS language schools offering language training in languages of the member countries. The official languages of the member countries are Hindi, Mandarin, Afrikaans, Portuguese and Russian.
3. MOOC: Establishing Massive Open Online Courses “for making quality education accessible to all”.
4. A forum for scientists: “Nurturing innovation” by establishing a BRICS Young Scientists’ Forum.
-INDIA TODAY
