Media Release
Mangalurur, Aug 24: Young Indians (Yi) is a movement for Indian youth to converge, lead, co-create, and influence India’s future. As an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Young Indians is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led, and industry-managed organization playing a proactive role in India’s development process. Formed in 2002, Yi has created a platform for young Indians to work towards realizing the dream of a developed nation.
Through thousands of impactful projects and activities, primarily divided into three areas Youth leadership, Nation building, and Thought leadership. Yi aims to emerge as the premier Indian youth organization, having a voice on relevant platforms that address India’s challenges.
Yi grooms its members for positions of significance and empowers Indian youth to create using an expanding digitally enabled network. Under Youth leadership, Yi effectively promotes leadership skills among its members through programmes in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Young Indians Mangaluru (Yi Mangaluru) is a dynamic and forward-thinking chapter that thrives under the capable leadership of M Athmika Amin as chair and CA Salome Lobo Pereira as co-chair. This passionate team of young professionals is dedicated to harnessing the potential of Mangaluru's youth and driving positive change in the region. With an impressive lineup of stakeholders and a diverse range of initiatives, Yi Mangaluru is making significant strides in various sectors.
One of the key initiatives under Young Indians is the road safety initiative, headed by Aajeeth Kumar. We have been working towards educating and creating awareness among young minds, such as school children, through the project 'Chota Cop', which also has a direct impact on parents. We witness numerous accidents, and due to a lack of awareness and empathy, people often do not receive the necessary help in times of need. To reduce and eradicate such situations, Young Indians have also launched the ‘Farishthey’ first responder training programme for civilians in collaboration with GVK – EMRI.
The chapter has completed eight sessions in the span of four days: seven sessions for college students at AJ Institute of Management, Sahyadri Institute of technology, Yenepoya Institute, and St Agnes College at their respective campuses, and one session for Young Indians Mangaluru members, CREDAI Women’s Wing members, and Kanara Chamber of commerce and industry members at CREDAI Hall, Mangaluru.
Najma Farooqi, assistant commissioner of police – traffic, Mangaluru, graced the session at CREDAI Hall and provided insights into the relevance and importance of civilians coming forward to collaborate with the police department to prevent and mitigate accidents. She emphasized the importance of acquiring basic life-saving skills. We appreciate her support and look forward to collaborating to make Mangaluru a region with the highest number of first responders (Farishthey’s). All in all, we have trained 442 stakeholders.
Yi Mangaluru humbly requests any organizations, institutions, universities, and private entities interested in organizing this session at their premises to please get in touch with them so they can facilitate the same.