SHIMLA: Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu, appreciated the efforts of Himachal Pradesh government in the field of environment conservation and increasing green cover. He said that people of Himachal were honest in their approach and work and urged them to keep this tradition going. He said that we should not forget our mother, our mother land and mother tongue. He also urged the people to live with harmony with nature.
He was speaking during his inaugural address at the 9th Indian Youth Congress organised by Career Point University Hamirpur at NIT, Hamirpur on Saturday.

He said that dream of New India could only be visualised with new ideas and new ways of making them real through effective implementation. He said that New India would be a scientific India, it would be technological India.

He said that forums like Science Congress would enable the young minds to share knowledge, information and draw inspiration to come up with new ideas that would power the India of the future. He said that the students should be encouraged to ‘discover’ rather than be ‘told’ the answer.

Naidu said that science should be an integral component of the curriculum. Scientific approach that relies on evidence and raising relevant questions and seeking answers should be internalized. He said that the Conference would usher in greater progress and development by fostering scientific temper among out youth.

Himachal Pradesh Governor Acharya Devvrat said that India was land of knowledge since time immemorial and Vedic cosmology was the only one whose time scales corresponds to that of modern scientific cosmology. He said that it was the need of the hour to develop scientific approach by upholding the Indian traditional knowledge.