Page 48 - Mann Ki Baat September 2022

Amith Amarnath
Founder, Youth for Parivarthan

Stop Complaining, Start Acting

Amith Amarnath's interview to Doordarshan on the important role of
youth in the transformation of the country.

“‘Youth for Parivarthan’ We believe some time
is a non-Governmental non- should be spent on the nation
profit youth organisation and society and that is how we
consisting of students and have done our work. So far, we
working professionals. The motto have undertaken more than 390
behind our organisation is ‘Stop spot fixes across the city in the
Complaining, Start Acting.’ In 2014, past eight years. At ‘Youth for
when Bengaluru city was hitting Parivarthan’, we don’t just believe
the headlines as the ‘Garbage in transforming spaces but also
City of India’, Youth for Parivarthan the mindset. When people dirty
was born to bring a change in the public spaces they think it’s the
situation. Starting by identifying Government’s property and is
the garbage-prone areas, thus their responsibility to clean it.
cleaning them up, painting them But we are trying to change this
and beautifying them, we began mindset and how people view
transforming the public places. public spaces.
I am an advocate and We have faced many
our team consists of doctors, challenges and the most
engineers, CAs, and people from challenging spots are those
diverse backgrounds, most of that even after cleaning tend to
whom are students. I would like to become dirty again. When we
take this opportunity to thank all clean up a spot, we try to keep
the members of our team who are track of the maintenance of that
also contributing tremendously spot and if we see it is getting
by investing their time in society. dirty again, we clean up again

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