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youth entrepreneurship. Emphasis was also placed
on fostering youth leadership and ensuring mean-
ingful youth participation in decision-making pro- Pandemics, climate disasters,
cesses. On this occasion, delegates participated in a and supply chain disruptions
tree-planting drive under the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ have demonstrated that in today’s
campaign—a symbolic gesture that bridged environ- interconnected world, no crisis
mental consciousness with emotional connection.
The New Delhi Declaration also acknowledged the remains confined to a single region.
roles of the BRICS Youth Council and the BRICS Youth Therefore, we have placed special
Summit, calling for increased youth engagement in emphasis on enhancing resilience
sectors such as education, skills, entrepreneurship, against crises within the BRICS
health, and the environment. Furthermore, progress group.
made on the BRICS Youth Cooperation Framework
was welcomed. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
Women’s Leadership: The BRICS Women Ministers’
meeting in Kochi focused on the vision of women-led This demonstration of youthful enthusiasm and
development, recognizing women as driving forces women’s leadership illustrates that, under India’s
behind economic growth and social transformation. presidency, BRICS evolved beyond a mere platform
The meeting welcomed the development of BRICS for diplomacy and economics; it reached out to the
guidelines for women’s digital capacity building. Ad- millions of people who represent the true future of
ditionally, around 200 women business leaders from the group.
India participated in the 2026 activities of the BRICS When four nations, including India, first en-
Women Business Alliance (WBA), an initiative aimed at visioned BRIC twenty years ago, few could have
improving access to finance, markets, technology, and imagined that the group would one day evolve into
skill development for women-led enterprises. a platform representing half the world’s population

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