Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore hosted the G20 Young Ambassador Summit 2023 on Monday (20.3.23) on the theme Fuelling the Future of Global Youth.

R.N.Ravi, Governor of Tamil Nadu was the Chief Guest, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, L.Murugan and G20 Sherpa - Government of India Amitabh Kant were the Guest of Honor.

S.Malarvizhi, Managing Trustee, Sri Krishna Institutions and K.Adithya,Trustee, Sri Krishna Institutions made the inauguration along with the guests. Various accomplished entrepreneurs, academicians, and students from various Educational Institutions took part in the event.

Welcoming the gathering, S.Malarvizhi, Chairperson, Sri Krishna Institutions (SKI) said that SKI is fortunate to have successful leaders from different fields like Information Technology, Management, Medical, Arts, Music etc. attending this event to empower the youth with their wisdom.

She added that SKI is proud to host this summit and be an integral part of G20s efforts to empower the young leaders worldwide. Addressing the students, she said the students should use this opportunity to represent the voice of global youth and advocate their dreams, wants and aspirations. She expressed confidence that this G20 summit will serve as a platform for meaningful discussion, collaboration, knowledge sharing and perspective building.

Addressing the gathering Minister L.Murugan said that the Young Ambassador Summit 2023 holds a special place among all the programs of G20 events. He said India with its G20 Presidency is focused on finding global solution for the well-being of all. The world is facing many challenges like climate change, poverty, destruction of biodiversity, food and under nourishment, health; and India can offer a ray of hope to address many of these issues, Minister Murugan said.

As more than 60% of India population are under the age 35, our youngsters serve as a great asset for India. He urged the youth to see the challenges as opportunities to work for global cause.

Addressing the gathering, Governor of Tamil R.N.Ravi asked the youths at the event "Do you want a future that is given to you...in which you will have limited space?", and said "You must create this space because you have to live in this."

He said all the youth, especially the ones taking part in the summit are not future leaders but leaders in the making today. Hence they all have to play significant roles to make their future better, starting today.

He wanted them to come up with recommendations that can fulfil their dreams, and present it before G20, and influence the leaders of this great body to make their recommendations come true, so that the future can be a better world that is safe for living and a place where they can dreams and aspirations can be fulfilled.

" The G20 is a powerful group. It can change the destiny of the world... G20 has far more potential to transform than other body in the world," Governor Ravi said.

He highlighted the system that India has created and deployed on itself. This system is Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (meaning The World is One Family). He said the PM of India Narendra Modi sees India as not different geographies but one family. The various welfare schemes that were rolled out in the last 9 years, like the Ayushman Bharat scheme, were for all.

He said the policies that the Indian Government under PM Modi rolled out was for the whole nation's development. Prior to this regime, India had just around 500 startups whereas now it is almost heading to reach 1,00,000 startups.

He added that India's way of seeing the country as one family will be invaluable in its G20 Presidency. While many powerful nations developed covid vaccines and followed 'Vaccine Nationalism', India took care of the vaccine needs of several countries, as it sees the world as one family.

G20 Sherpa of India Amitabh Kant shared the massive transformation that India under PM Modi has done in the last 9 years. India has been able to digitise its economy in a big way. Over a billion people have digital identity today. Between 2015-17, 500 million bank accounts were created. It was ensured that 900 million + mobile phones do fast mobile payments.

In 8 years, India has built about 30 million houses. 110 million toilets provided to people. 243 million got access to Pipe water, laid 55,000 kms of roads. We have vaccines to all the citizens 2 billion+ doses via a paperless/ digital way. 500 million people in India are provided health insurance.

All these are massive transformations that would have normally taken 50 years for India to do but done in 8 years, according to the Bank of International Settlement. This is due to the digital transformation we have done. This is the developmental and political narrative that we set, he said.

Meanwhile, there are 4 billion people around the world who don't have digital identity, 2.5 billion people do not have bank accounts, 135 countries don't have fast payment facility, therefore they will have great difficulty to have digital education, digital agriculture, digital health.

Hence the Indian model needs to be taken to the world, he opined.

K.Adithya, Trustee, Sri Krishna Institutions proposed the Vote of Thanks.