TNN | Jul 16, 2014

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who attended the BRICS summit in Brazil for the first time,pitched for a peaceful, balanced and stable world and told the leaders of the five-nation grouping that it should be driven by people-to-people contact led by the youth of the five nations."We must encourage engagement between our states, cities and other local bodies," he said, calling for BRICS to be driven by "people-to-people" contact and the youth should lead this."Popularizing our languages through dedicated BRICS language schools in all BRICS countries could be a beginning in this direction," he said, even suggesting they explore the idea of a BRICS University as well as cooperation in areas like health, education, agriculture, resource management and urban development and a young scientists' forum.