Closing Ceremony of International Adolescent Summit 2020 held

The over a month-long 9th International Adolescent Summit, 2020: Life Skills, Health, Safety & School Wellbeing closed in a Valedictory function over a virtual event. Organised by Expressions India with National Book Trust, India as the Knowledge Partner, the event was inaugurated Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Minister of Education on December 18, 2020.

The summit aimed to understand and review the concept, needs and trends of School Mental Health and Life Skills and Values Education in the national as well as global perspectives. The summit also enabled an interactive dialogue on Good Practices Discussion on integration of school safety, sanitisation, nutrition, hygiene and mental health promotion program within the comprehensive school health education curriculum and life skills programming.

The summit witnessed active participation of nearly 14,000 students and teachers involving over 1,200 schools from all over India.