Kottayam: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday said there is a dire need to inculcate the spirit of service among the youth of this country, so children must be made to do community service at least two to three weeks.
The Vice President who delivered a speech at the 150th death anniversary of Saint Kuriakose at Mannanam in Kottayam said “Once this pandemic is behind us and normalcy returns, I would suggest that government schools, as well as those in the private sector, must make community service of at least two to three weeks compulsory for students.”
He said Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara had combined the spirit of the renaissance with the mission of charity and the noble Christian concept of universal brotherhood.
At the beginning of the 19th century, with a firm belief in inclusivity, Chavara started a Sanskrit school at Mannanam in 1846, which shows his open-mindedness of vision.
