Kathmandu, February 18, 2020: Glocal Pvt. Ltd. in collaboration with Embassy of India launched the second edition of Glocal Teen Hero India 2020.
Glocal Pvt. Ltd and CYDA (the India Partner) are pleased to announce the opening of Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India, 2020 to search the fantastic teen form India.
Glocal Teen Hero is an initiation of Glocal Khabar (a concern of Glocal Pvt. Ltd.) to bring out the teenagers who are doing something beyond their academics and are active to create a positive effect in their society. It is a platform for teenagers to share their initiation, creativity, and enthusiasm which will then motivate them and more of the other teenagers in the nation to develop entrepreneurial thinking.
Glocal Teen Hero is the first-ever program which has designed to recognize dedicated, passionate, and innovative teenagers. It also aims to take GTH to all the South Asian Countries by 2020. Likewise; India is the first country to host the Glocal Teen Hero franchise.
In 2019, Glocal Teen Hero – India was successful to recognize fantastic teenagers from India. The teenagers are Monishwaran Maheswaran (The first winner of GTH Hero from India) – a young innovator and a high school student who is interested in mathematics and computer science. Rupam Ghosh –a young entrepreneur and founder of GHOSH INVENTIVES. LakshyaChhabra – Co-founder of “Jhutpat Logistics” which is a student-led start-up which provides logistics solutions to people and their business, Kunal Chandiramani – a young innovator, TEDx Speaker and the CEO of “Kstar” and “COMPACADEMY”. Kaushal Gohil – a social activist and Garvita Gulhati -young Environmentalist and founder of “Why waste?”
Glocal Teen Hero India is a fully-funded program exclusively for Indian Teenagers which supports the teenager’s initiation and help in developing motivational factors to initiate more. The overall purpose of this program is to motivate and encourage teenagers to step out of their comfort zone, be creative and nurture entrepreneurial thinking. It also acts as a great platform for teenagers to network with delegates from various industries in India. It is an opportunity of a lifetime, not only to the winner, but all the applicants, finalists and other teenagers to develop themselves through networking, collaboration and pooling of opportunities.
In order to bring fantastic teenagers together; Glocal Pvt. Ltd has partnered with Wai Wai as a title sponsor and CYDA as an Indian Partner and Nepal Tourism Board as a promotional partner.
The 2nd Secretary, Commerce and Commercial Representative; Embassy of India, Mr.K.P Singh expressed his happiness upon initiation of such event for launching India as a franchise for the event with the vision to connect youngsters which has a great objective.
“We have come across to South Asia to find the exceptional teenagers and provide them with a platform to showcase their initiation so that they can be empowered and motivated to be the change-maker,” said Mr.Asish Thakur (Executive Director of Glocal Pvt. Ltd.
At first, Glocal’s 20 under 20 shall be announced from total applications through interview and document review. After that, the top 6 finalists will be shortlisted for the final round of the Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India based on initiation and the impact of their work, and then the finalist will be interviewed individually to measure their personality, domain knowledge, and vision.
Applications for Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India has already opened from January 07, 2020. The participants will be judged by a 3-members jury team comprising of Adv. Vandana Hemant Chavan, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; Mathew Matham, Secretary, CYDA, Pune and Prof. Ujjwal K. Chowdhary, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Adamas University.
The award ceremony of the Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero – India will be held on June 4 at Pune in the presence of 250+ personalities of India from different walks of life, such as diplomats, politicians, film stars, entrepreneurs, youth leaders and many more.
The application is free and can be filled online at https://india.glocalteenhero.com/. The deadline for the application is March 31st, 2020.
