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State Youth festival begins at Sri Venkateswara University campus

October19, 2005
Tirupati

The State Youth Festival began on a grand note on Sri Venkateswara University campus on Wednesday. The Department of Youth Affairs divided the State level programme event wise and was holding seven of the 18 events in Tirupati while the rest were being conducted in Vizianagaram and Warangal. At the Inaugural function organized at SVU Srinivasa auditorium, Commissioner of Youth Affairs GN Rao spoke of the immense potential available in the form of trained young hands. The collective power of youth, if properly utilized, would help the country surge ahead in a big way. District Collector Shamsher Singh Rawat said that the Leather Industries Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh had agreed to fund a programme on manufacture of leather products with an outlay of Rs.25 lakhs per district