Technology has empowered youth but they should develop wisdom to use it says youth leader Raghav Chadha
Chandigarh University
organizes National Youth Summit “EVOKE-2021” on the eve of National Youth Day
“We can rightly term Gen-Z as Technology Generation as we
have been surrounded by modern day’s gadgets and social media which gives us an
illusion of making our lives easier” says young politician Raghav Chadha.
National Spokesperson of AAP and MLA from Delhi, Raghav Chadha was speaking
during the panel discussion organized by Chandigarh University. The panel
discussion was organized on the eve of National Youth Day which is celebrated
in India to mark the birth anniversary of philosopher and social reformer Swami
Vivekananda. Eminent and youth panelists from different fields of politics,
film & entertainment industry, entrepreneur, literature, and social work
took part in the national youth summit and deliberated on the topic “Gen Z: The
Changemakers of New India”.
While participating in the discussion, Raghav
Chadha said, “Although technology has empowered today’s youth with knowledge
and freedom of speech but they should also develop the wisdom to use it for
their own advantage and for the betterment of society”. The young politician
laid emphasis that educated youth from diversified fields should join politics
and contribute towards nation building by utilizing their knowledge and
experience. Raghav further added that, “India has the biggest asset of being
the youngest nation with more than 65 percentage of the total population less
than 35 years of age while on the other hand our nation has one of the lowest
number of youth in parliament which currently accounts for 12% of the total
strength of Member Parliament”.
International motivational speaker and young author,
Priya Kumar said, “Technology in the form social-media offers both positive and
negative aspects to today’s youth. On one hand it offers an open platform to
reach-out to millions of people while on the other hand it opens-up a whole new
pandora of problems like mis-information, being trolled and curtailing of
personal space”. While delivering his thoughts on the topic, social activist
from Dehradun, Anurag Chauhan said, “We have seen the true power of social
media during lockdown where various digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter
were used to reach-out to people and garner support for the needy people”.
During the current pandemic situation we all understood that there is a new way
of helping others known as Digital Help where one can offer support without
being physically present with the support of technology, Anurag added.
Pollywood actress Nikeet Dhillon said, “Technology or
social media provides an archive or a connection to our roots, traditions and
rituals. Today’s Youth is exposed to different cultures which makes them a
symbol or protagonist of national integrity”. Speaking on the occasion, youth
filmmaker from Punjab, Harry Bhatti said, “Digital media platforms opens-up new
opportunity to promote one’s creativity and work which might helps you in being
a successful artist or a professional in your domain, but it is important to
understand the rules and boundaries to harness the positive aspects of
technology. We have to understand that technology is for our usage but what we
see today is that technology is using us and making us its slave”.
Youth model and entrepreneur, Mia Lakra said, “Online
platforms throws-up new challenges like excessive competition which increases
the pressure & stress to perform best in every situation but it also offers
many positive aspects like sharing of ideas, multiplication of efforts to find
solutions to the current problems and understanding the pros & cons of
every opportunity”.