The 17th National Youth Festival will be held at Mangalore in Karnataka from 12th to 16th January of the coming year. This was decided in a review meeting held at New Delhi.The meeting of the National Steering Committee also decided that ‘Celebrating Diversity in Unity” will be the theme for the upcoming National Youth Festival.The festival is organised annually by Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The festival starts every year on 12th January to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.