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The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in India, Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA) and Action/2015 are convinced that India’s young population and their spirit of volunteerism can help overcome poverty and achieve the sustainable development agenda. They are therefore constantly exploring possibilities to mobilize and engage volunteers and to give voice to the youth of the country.
As part of these efforts, they organized the first so-called YKA Debate, a new interactive format that is designed to cover themes especially relevant to Indian youth and that simultaneously reaches out to young people from all around the world by live-streaming the debate online. The first such debate, which saw the participation of politically conscious students from across Delhi, was held on 12 October 2015.
At Lodhi Estate’s WWF Auditorium, six competitively selected university students from Delhi engaged in what is called a 3×3 parliamentary debate. This means two teams of three students, representing a hypothetical government and opposition, are to debate over a topic that is given to them only shortly before the discussion takes place.
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