Jalandhar,15.02.20.: India’s largest four-day global open fest ‘Youth Vibe 2020’ commenced at Lovely Professional University, with basket of events. Near 6500 students of 150+ Institutions from across the country and globe are competing in 11 categories, especially scheduled this year, including Life-Style, Management, Literary, Media, Mega-Technical, Social, Arts & Craft, Dance, Music, Theatre and Sports. Many gainful workshops; extravagant fete; and, more are also there to make students’ learning and entertaining experience the best at the fest. Theme of the four-day fest to last up to 16th February 2020 is ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity’ to provide students a broad platform for propagating global power of brotherhood and oneness. LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal inaugurated the fest, where song of the fest to inspire students for both struggles and wins was also launched.

Fest is an international platform for students to compete in a spectrum of events for further nurturing their skills and talent. This time community service is also included as it is important for holistic development of the youth. In this regard, a social summit was organized in the initiation, where five heads of different social organizations mesmerized the students Social Activist Sudhir Ahluwalia talked about plants and Ayurveda and asked students to save 5000 types of useful medicinal plants, and so the environment. Shoaib awakened students on social entrepreneurship for solving social problems intelligently. Ms Shruti of ‘Kilkari’ NGO informed about feminism, gender equality by having same rules for all genders. ‘Datri organization professed stem cell donation; and, Jeev Animal Welfare Society talked against artificial insemination of cows and other animals.

In addition, sports competitions for Kabbadi, Basketball, Chess and Badminton were also held, as per fixtures, on the inaugural day. In the evening, Folk Orchestra team of LPU, which won First Runner-Up Trophy at AIU National Competition, displayed the best of rhythmic team work and spirit. Along with, famous and unique ‘Chirmi’ dance of Rajasthan was also performed by LPU students. Side by side students enjoyed amazing Bike-Stunts, Monster Nite, Langori Band and the Lost Story.

On the first day of the competitions, students competed for Nritya Natraj (Solo): Classical Dance and Virasat Live & Recorded: Folk Group Dance under Dance category; in Music for Voice of Youth Vibe (Solo/Group): Western singing and Rap songs for Rapstar; for Life Style in YV Paridhan: The Fashion Parade and Mr & Miss Youth Vibe Round 1; in Theatre competition was for Stage plays; for Management students competed under the Boards Room and Ad-Mad Show; for Literary category competition was for YV Ultimate Spokes Person (Hindi/English) and Words Role - Game of words (English); for Media were Foto-Fever YV Reporting, Short Film Making Reporting and Photo Story Reporting; and, in Mega Technical group competitions were for Codzilla/Code Crusher and RC Plane (Sky High).

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The second day of global open fest ‘Youth Vibe-2020’ witnessed massive number of competitions at different venues of Lovely Professional University.

Jalandhar15.02.20-: The second day of global open fest ‘Youth Vibe-2020’ witnessed massive number of competitions at different venues of Lovely Professional University. In addition, famous South India’s Lagori Band enthralled thousands of competitors in the evening hours. Lagori presented music that reflected modern Indian youth. There was a combination of Indian classical melodies and Rock music, resulting in an enchanting mix of soulful compositions.

Different competitions were categorized as music, fine arts, quiz, folk dances, choreography, face painting, mime, nukkad nataks, skits, and histrionics adopted diverse themes of awakening to sensitize the youth. For all competitions various teams from far and wide institutions had registered. Hundreds of sportsmen/women also competed. Engineering students accepted challenges for tech solutions, management students fought for case analyses and life style competitions brought forward Youth Vibe Roadies and models. Folk dances including kalbelia, bihu, jhoomar, bhangra, malwai giddha, kajri, choliya and more attracted the on looking students the most.