Youth Ki Awaaz

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Youth Ki Awaaz is an Indian Youth Media platform founded by Anshul Tewari, which is one of the largest youth Media Platform in India. [1]

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Anshul Tewari founded Youth Ki Awaaz [2] in 2008 when he was in high school. [3] He conceived the idea of Youth Ki Awaaz at the age of 14. [4] It was started in 2008 for doing quick response and result of frustration towards any fact which young people do not have enough stake in problems of the country. [5] Its readership is more than 2 million people per month and the website has more than 20,000 post since its creation. [6] In September 2015, Quintillion Media invested 4 crore rupees in Youth Ki Awaaz. [7] [8] Its main objective is to provide issue based platform in which young peoples from India can relate into. [9] [10]

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