Amity University is proud to be Official University Partner of Global Citizen India.

British rock band Coldplay performed their much-awaited concert to a packed audience at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai on Saturday evening. It was organised as part of Global Citizen India festival, it was an effort aimed at spreading awareness about the United Nations’ sustainable goals of access to education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation for all. The build-up to the event started months in advance with people asked to map their ‘action journeys’ on the Global Citizen India website.

For the sanitation and hygiene category, for example, action journeys included educating participants on sanitation problems in India, administering quizzes, and sending petitions, posts on Twitter and starting online fundraising campaigns. All these actions counted as incentives for free tickets to the concert.

Around 50 Students from Amity University Mumbai were a part of Global Citizen Event. The students volunteered the Event where they got a wonderful opportunity to learn the event activities at such a big level. Amity Students helped out as volunteers in different aspects of the project. Not only did they make the most of the opportunity and learn a lot about the platform.

Event Flow :

Events started in the afternoon, with actors Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor declaring it open. Coldplay took the stage around 9 p.m. Lead singer Chris Martin, drummer Will Champion, guitarist Johnny Buckland and bass guitarist Guy Berryman performed crowd-pleasing classics such as Yellow, Fix You, and Clocks. In their list of around 20 songs, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall, Up and Up and In My Place featured as well.

Throughout the performance, Chris Martin was not only engaging but also took the time out to spread positive messages. He talked about how much he loved being in Mumbai 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Citizen festival :

As crowds gathered for India’s first Global Citizen Festival in Mumbai on Saturday with British Rock band Coldplay being the highlight, they were first greeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who addressed the crowd via video-conferencing and told them about his experience at the New York Global Citizen Festival back in 2014 and talked about Swacchh Bharat mission.

Talking about the Swachh Bharat mission, he said that the worst affected by malnutrition, unemployment, corruption and dirt are the poor and that the youth should be participating in cleansing the country in all senses.. The young people have taken the initiative of “Swacch Bharat Abhiyan” forward, be it for the country or black money,” he said.

“On the whole, I’m convinced that we can and we will build a Swachh Bharat free of all forms of filth within one generation. Deeply grateful to you for working shoulder to shoulder with me in this cleanliness drive and look forward that you continue to do so. India is a young country and our future is build on the choices you make and the actions you take; hope you too will seize the moment,” he said.