kanpur the vivekananda youth leadership convention organised by vivekanand samiti a body of iitkanpur students entered its third day on saturday the weeklong event is being organised in the institute to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of swami vivekananda and will conclude on january 16 amitabh thakur an ips officer and a known social activist while addressing the students and the faculty members of the institute stressed upon induction of transparency accountability and responsibility in the system he said selfsacrifice has to be made to transform the system and that the haves need to stand up for the rights of the havenots the second speaker on the day was ravi raj an advocate in allahabad high court ravi has trained and coached ias aspirants and is deeply inspired by swami vivekanandas teachings ravi raj spoke upon the importance of value education and said the focus needs to be on ethics rather than technical training he also emphasized on the importance of selfbelief he told the iitk students to inculcate values of sincerity honesty punctuality and humility in their daily lives he also spoke about vedanta philosophy and mentioned that only selfbelief can bring success to an individual earlier on the second day of the event dharamvir state election commissioner of haryana and an alumnus of iitkanpur and dr sandeep pandey a ramon magsaysay awardee were the key speakers during the convention held in the evening hours on the institute campus dharamvir discussed critical issues in public governance and social movements he said while india is doing great in terms of literacy economy and life expectancy there are several problems that have engulfed the country these problems include increasing population unfavourable investment conditions and lack of infrastructure naxalism terrorism corruption and poverty are other major issues he saidwe are getting more tolerant towards corruption day by day and this is a problem he added he exhorted iit students to contribute to nation not just materially but also socially culturally and politically sandeep pandey spoke on administrative machinery fed by corrupt black money while we raise a hue and cry about black money in swiss banks we are all oblivious about the black money in action inside our society in expenditure by political parties in corrupt real estate and other industries said pandey while lambasting at the black money congregation