'Connect With Your Roots' Scheme for NRI Youth approved by Punjab Cabinet
The Punjab Cabinet has approved the Captain Amarinder Singh government’s "Connect with Your Roots” (CYR) programme to reach out to youngsters of Punjabi origin settled in other countries. The programme, aimed at young boys and girls of Punjabi origin, whose parents, grandparents or great grandparents are settled abroad in various countries across the globe, will seek to connect them with their ancestral roots and glorious cultural heritage of Punjab. The scheme would be open to young boys and girls in the age group of 16-22, and facilitate their learning of their family background and the culture to which they belong, and also to build an emotional bonding with the country of their roots. The first group of such youngsters is expected around January 9, 2018, to coincide with the NRI Day and each group would comprise 15 youth. The Chief Minister had further promised that he and his colleagues would personally welcome such youngsters in Punjab and the state government would allow them to move around freely wherever they wanted. The programme would provide the youngsters with an opportunity to visit their native place or the town where their parents or grandparents were born, or the place where spent their childhood. It will also give them a chance to learn and speak their native language, and see historical places. -PTC News
