ITANAGAR, Oct 28:  Junnu Pinggam and Lombi Dakpe of Arunachal represented India at the 5th BRICS Youth Summit held in Brasilia, Brazil from October 17-20. The duo were among the 15 Indian delegates who attended the youth summit.  Youths from the different BRICS nations except China gathered, to debate on youths of today and to discuss about the policies to promote entrepreneurship, education, skills, and building bridge to improve the relationship among BRICS nations.
Representing India, on the panel Junnu Pinggam, presented on the theme “Socio emotional skill- importance of soft skill” out of the five themes given at the event.
Stressing on the importance of acquiring communication skills in the current rapidly growing world, Junnu in her presentation outlined that due to lack of  ‘soft skill’ the unemployment rate is alarmingly increasing among the  millions of graduates. She also presented the reality of Indian youths in rural  and urban areas adding that due to lack of transportation, connectivity in Indigenous villages, many students have less chance of improving themselves.The respective BRICS nations have presented their presentation and recommendations on various topics. There were also discussions about free visa for Indians to Brazil  which has been recently granted.

BRICS is the group composed by the five major emerging countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The acronym BRICS was coined by Goldman Sachs in 2001 to indicate the emerging powers that would be, alongside the United States, the five largest economies of the world in the 21st century. ES Newsdesk 

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