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Jagriti Yatra is an initiative of Jagriti Sewa Sansthan, a non-governmental organization that promotes entrepreneurship. The initiative was launched in 2008. In Hindi, ''Jagriti Yatra'' means a journey of awakening, and as the name suggests it is a journey of social awakening. Youngsters, between the age group of 20 and 27, from India and overseas can apply to go on the ''yatra''. The journey is for 15 days in which, a distance of 8000 kilometers is covered,They visit 15 Role Models at 12 destination covering The Indian States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat in a train that transports only the ''yatris'' or travelers of the Jagriti Yatra. The individuals who go for the journey are supposed to live in the train for the span of 15–18 days and interact with their fellow travelers.〔 The Jagriti Yatra has the aim of exposing the Indian Youth to the concept of social entrepreneurship and social progress through enterprise led development.〔 ==Introduction== Jagriti Yatra is an annual train journey that takes highly motivated young Indians and a few young people from outside India between the ages of 20 and 27, on an 15 or 18 day national odyssey. A specially hired 18 wagon train takes 450 young men and women (a few of them are student entrepreneurs, a few more are rural entrepreneurs) competitively selected out of a pool of about 40,000 applications, to meet with and learn from exceptional entrepreneurs who are developing innovative solutions to India's challenges. Many of them are unsung heroes, and the Yatra encourages the young to unleash the hero within them. It has been executed successfully for the past three years in a row, and has established itself as a calendar national event that is a 'must go' for the young people. Through its activities that go on during the entire year, the participants get to participate in the community, and the programs that follow the Yatra including BizGyan Tree, which is a rural incubation camp and Jagriti Conclave, which is a gathering of entrepreneurs and Yatra alumni in a relatively smaller location around a suitable occasion such as the Independence Day of India. Jagriti Yatra is slowly developing into an eco-system to further the movement of enterprise-led-development among the youth in India. The overall aim is to awaken the spirit of entrepreneurship - both social and economic, in India's youth by exposing them to individuals and institutions that are developing unique solutions to India's challenges. Jagriti Yatra is known to claim that they will inspire young people to lead and develop institutions nationally (or internationally) and within their communities, and solve problems using their own enterprises. Currently, the alumni body of the Yatra is organized across the nation. The number of alumni has crossed 2000, and is likely to grow by 400 every year. CA Raj Deshmukh is one of the first yatri from Pune, who completed 2008 Jagriti Yatra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jagriti Yatra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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