Focus on options for Indian youth in UK, post-Brexit

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Jan 18, 2018, 11:20 IST

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Focus on options for Indian youth in UK, post-Brexit

HYDERABAD: What would Brexit mean for Indians in UK? It is all about opportunities for the youth to study and get jobs. Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha’s Telangana Jagruthi conducted an UK-India youth seminar in UK Parliament in London. UK parliamentarians, the deputy mayor of London, youth champions from various sectors, university students and other delegates attended the seminar on January 15.
The opportunities and challenges for youth in various sectors in UK and India were explored during the seminar.UK MPs Virendra Sharma, Bob Blackman, Seema Malhotra, deputy mayor of London for business Rajesh Agrawal, DP Singh, counsellor (public diplomacy) at Indian High Commission London spoke on various topics ranging from ‘Role of Youth in UK India Relations’ to ‘Youth & Brexit- Opportunities and Challenges’.
Uday Nagaraju, special advisor to Kavitha, explained about Global Jagruthi. Suman Rao Balmuri, president of Jagruthi UK, spoke about Jagruthi UK’s vision and activities.
Youth leaders Amy Longland, Lucia Jones, Abdi Duale, Sanam Arora, Lindsey Noakes, Rakesh Bokinala and Swetha Raghavan representing various national organisations in UK such as the United Nations Association UK, British Youth Council, National Indian Students’ Union, UK, spoke on diverse topics ranging from ‘Youth & Brexit – Challenges & opportunities’ to ‘Youth & Leadership – UK &India’. Some of these organisations also promote UKIndia Relations.

The UK MPs supported the re-introduction of poststudy work visa for students, which was stopped a few years ago. Post-study work visa allows students to work for two years after graduation at an UK university.
During the meet, it was informed that T Jagruthi’s skill development programme helped 15,080 youth in the state so far resulting in the placement of 8,494 youth.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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