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Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
NEW DELHI: Fostering the spirit of international cooperation, 10 youth delegates from India would this year be representing the country at the 18th "Ship for World Youth Programme" being organised by the Government of Japan to promote friendship and mutual understanding between the youth of Japan and various other countries. Selected by the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Indian team will reach Japan on Tuesday and stay there up to January 19. During the stay, all the 150 delegates drawn from 12 countries will have an audience with the Crown Prince and Princess, pay a courtesy call on the Prime Minister, undertake excursions to different prefectures, short stay with Japanese host families and a pre-departure training course for sailing. On January 19, they will board the chartered ship "Nippon Maru" specially designed for the purpose, and cruise around Singapore, Chennai, Mombassa and Port Louis before returning on March 2 to Tokyo where all the participants would disembark. The programme was first introduced in 1967 commemorate the centennial of the Meiji Restoration and was designated as the Japanese youth goodwill Cruise Programme. In 1988, it was re-designated as "Ship for World Youth Programme" and has since then been held every year. In the upcoming 18th chapter of the programme, 120 youths from Japan and nearly 150 from 12 other countries would share life together on board the ship for 44 days. As such, this programme will provide the youth an opportunity to study and discuss issues of common interest from a global viewpoint through lectures, cultural exchanges, sports, seminars and club activities. The Indian delegates will be led by Sunil Kumar Basumatary, the Youth Officer of the Ministry, while the youth participants will include two teachers, Sachchidananda Roy and Prem Shanker Bhatt; agriculturist Godati Babanrao Kale; executive secretary of youth development from Sikkim, Mani Kumar Gurung; social workers Kalinga Shekhar Rendla and Shamsher Singh Malik; and students Shabeena Shaikh, Shikha Swami and Sajani Roy.
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