India, June 7 -- Maharashtra higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil on Saturday said the Yuva Sangam initiative under the Centre's Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (EBSB) programme is helping strengthen national integration by enabling young people to understand the cultural, historical and developmental strengths of different states.

Patil was interacting with a delegation of around 50 undergraduate and postgraduate students from Andhra Pradesh at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, the nodal institution for Maharashtra under Phase 6 of Yuva Sangam. The students, selected by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, are visiting Maharashtra from June 4 to 9 as part of the exchange p...