MOT 2019: "Balance between Prose and Poetry" by Pooja Elangbam, ADC-IW, IAS

MitSna's MOT 2019: Streamlining Education for the Youth held on 14th of September, 2019 at GM Hall is a Massive Open Talk show organised MitSna, a non profit student based group. Speaker: Pooja Elangbam, ADC-IW, IAS Topic: Balance between Prose and Poetry Camera and Editor: Zonel Sougaijam Summary: In this 30 mins talk, Pooja Elangbam talks about the need to maintain a balance between various things in our lives. She shared her journey to become an IAS officer, also addressing other social issues thereby encouraging the youths to take up education as a mean to bring a positive change in our society. The Massive Open Talk envisioned as MitSna’s MOT is being organized with the vision to not only increase the employability of our youth, but also create a generation of employers and young entrepreneurs and over and ability above instill in them a sense of commitment to the society. Eminent Social Scientist Oja Dhanabir Laishram; Pooja Elangbam, ADC-IW, IAS; Thounaojam Brinda, ASP-NAB, MPS; Prof N Rajmuhon Singh, Professor of Chemistry & Dean, MU; Renedy Singh, Former Indian Football Captain; Roshnikumar Yambem, Founder, Globizs and Dr.Pibarel Meetei, Founder, Medilane spoke at the event. The event aimed to bring to light the following issues:- •The rigid and the outdated education system in the state and the need to adapt to the changing pace of technology. •The need to de-stigmatize nonacademic education and reinstate vocational training,sports, art, music and drama. •The issue of ‘Education for the sake of education’. •Institutionalization of institutions in Manipur turning education into a commodity. The video series of MitSna's MOT is owned by MitSna and no part of the video can be copied or tampered without prior permission from MitSna. To watch the series of the talks, please subscribe our YouTube Channel and hit the bell icon. To make a donation or contribute to MitSna, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]