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LYSA: South Asia Youth Summit 2008 - Towards Democracy, Peace and Open
Borders
SCC partnered with Liberal Youth South Asia (LYSA) to conduct the South
Asia Youth Summit (SAYS) at the Constitution Club, New Delhi on the 24
and 25 November 2008. The Summit provided a platform for youth in the
age group of 18-30 from various South Asian countries to interact, debate
and understand the common issues confronting the region from a liberal
perspective.
School Choice Campaign team conducted a 90 minute panel discussion on
Quality Education for All: Choice and Competition. Professor P. V. Indiresan,
Former Director of IIT Madras, chaired the session while Dr. Jishnu Das,
noted economist with the World Bank and Dr Parth J Shah, President of
Centre for Civil Society were the speakers. The session was well received
and witnessed extensive participation of the delegates.
Over the two-day event, 106 delegates were exposed to a variety of discussions
and debates culminating in the Summit Declaration and Plan of Action for
next year, which included advocating Right to Education of Choice in the
South Asian countries.
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