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Instil values in youth: Barnala

Staff Reporter

Governor launches Sathya Sai young adults healthcare programme

CHENNAI: Religious organisations should guide youngsters on the right path and teach them values, said Governor Surjit Singh Barnala, who launched the Sathya Sai young adults healthcare programme in two villages in Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram district here on Wednesday.

"One out of four persons in the country is a youth in the 12-24 age group and vulnerable. Religious organisations must guide them in the right path," he said lauding the rural youth project initiative of the Sathya Sai Trust.

Mr. Barnala, who released DVDs and CDs of bhajans of the Trust, was participating in the silver jubilee celebrations of `Sundaram,' a Sathya Sai service centre in Chennai.

An obscure village 30 years ago, Puttaparthi, the headquarters of Sathya Saibaba, now drew visitors from all over the globe.

Ajit Prakash Shah, Chief Justice of Madras High Court, said Sri Saibaba's initiative had brought clean drinking water to Bellary in Karnataka and Kurnool, Cudappah and Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, which for centuries had suffered drought. He said the Trust's water project was the largest undertaken anywhere in the world.

He praised the services of the Trust in the field of education and medical care that had helped the poor.

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