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“Youth comes but once in a lifetime” Youth is the strength of a nation and an organization too. As a professional organization IEEE is proud of its youth wing - the student members - in their strength as well in their profound activities in moulding the global enhancement in its history. The former President of India, Abdul Kalam is always optimistic and confident in the youth of our nation. He used to say, ‘I see the youth development has multiple dimensions: The youth working hard improving his knowledge with a career goal, can serve the family, can serve the society, can serve the nation to which he or she belongs and can serve the humanity as a whole. All are uniquely connected.’ As a fact, the youth are our ‘hope for the future’, and they are the present too. It is the significance of youth. Besides, ‘we can only be young once. But we can always be immature’. The youth is, ‘after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that we always carry in our heart.’ It is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. The surest way to correct a youth is ‘to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently’. So we can ‘create a modern mindset in the youth to develop emotional, moral and social values that will make a person self-reliant of high character, patriotic and possessing a social conscience in addition to the technical competency in his field’. This is what contains in Abdul Kalam’s message which states: ‘I would like to put forth that the ignited mind of the youth is the most powerful resource on the earth, above the earth and under the earth. I am convinced that the youth power, if properly directed and controlled, could bring about transformational changes in humanity for its progress, meeting its challenges and bring peace and prosperity.’ Of course, youth is the natural resource of an economy. We have powerful potentiality in our youth. Many developed countries experience a demographic deficit of talented youth. At the same time the present situation of our nation is entirely different. We have ample wealth of powerful youth. Most of them are excellently skilled personnel.
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Kerala Section
April-June 2011